Pete Trewavas
BANDS
Marillion, Transatlantic, Kino, Edison’s Children, Acoustic Industry
BIO
Pete Trewavas is a writer and bass player with Marillion. Other related bands include Transatlantic, Kino, Edison’s Children And Acoustic Industry. Instruments include, bass, guitar, vocals, piano and keyboards, Drums and drum and keyboard programming.
ARTIST GEAR
Trewavas is also a member of the progressive rock supergroup Transatlantic. In 2004, he co-founded another group called Kino, with John Mitchell (Arena), John Beck (It Bites) and Chris Maitland (ex-Porcupine Tree).
In 2011, Pete Trewavas joined up with his longtime friend Eric Blackwood to form the duo Edison's Children. The new project was designed to be a creative outlet for Pete Trewavas (who has traditionally recorded in a “band” or “group” format on bass and acoustic guitar), in which he could also play lead guitar, lead vocals, drum programming and keyboards as well as have full creative control over the writing and producing of the record with. The 72-minute concept album In The Last Waking Moments… about a man fighting to understand if a recent bizarre happening was reality or a descent into madness, was released on 11.11.11.
The Edison's Children project would result in the release of the single “A Million Miles Away (I Wish I Had A Time Machine)”. The song debuted on American Commercial Radio in June 2012 and by September it had reached the FMQB U.S. Commercial Radio Top 40 where it remained for 10 weeks (and stayed in the top 100 for 25 weeks) peaking at No. 32.