Bonx Trigwell grew up in the Crystal Palace area of south London UK and moved to Sussex in his mid-teens, where secondary school was boring and very uneventful.
At 15 the first band he joined, called ‘Anerley Park’ was based in South London and played a mixture of Jazz/rock fusion, inspired by trumpet player Miles Davis’s blending of many different styles of improvised instrumental music.
With his brother Dave Trigwell on drums and Paul Thomas on guitar they were regulars at the Tramshed theatre next to East Croydon station, where after gigs a quick trip to the Porter and Sorter pub was a regular port of call.
In later years Dave then started his own band ‘Karma’ with musicians from Sussex and did hundreds of gigs on the south coast circuit culminating in Bonx winning a silver cup for best contemporary musician at the Southampton Jazz festival.
Karma then carried on the tradition of playing gigs around the south coast circuit for many years and were very popular in Brighton and Hastings.
By 1990 Bonx decided to form his own band ‘Pump’ as he had been writing songs for Karma but wanted to branch out and became the singer as well as guitarist, and over the years and after many personnel changes Pump were regulars on the South London circuit and became very popular with the current ‘indie-pop’ label.
In 1995 he worked with seasoned producer Colin Thurston, who produced the ‘Rio’ album for Duran Duran amongst many other chart topping acts at the Roundhouse studios in Camden, London.
They recorded a tribute song called ‘Goodbye Johnny’ for the Evacuees of WW2, to which Bonx’s Mum was part of.
He was also active as a session musician/guitarist in two London studios, Clink Street, London bridge, and New world music in Fleet street/ Islington for several years.
In the summer of 1999 a concert was held in a country house garden in Sussex and 1,500 free tickets were printed for the event; and by the time Pump hit the stage there was almost 3,000 people dancing on the lawns and in the flowerbeds.
Also at the time he was playing in a fun covers band ‘The Bullfrogs’ which mainly did large venues, parties and functions. The highlight with the Bullfrogs was a new years eve gig in an old aircraft hanger on the Ashdown Forest in Sussex in 1999-2000, in front of a very large and very drunk crowd.
He was now also performing as a solo artist, playing his own songs at venues around Sussex.
In 2010 he began writing a series of books called Inner Silent Way.
Pump continued to perform on the London/Sussex gig circuit up until 2019, when as we all know, things took a turn for the worse.
Bonx continued to work on the idea of a series of books all linked together for a continuing story line that passes through time, called Inner Silent Way and has been interviewed on BBC Radio Sussex, Surrey and Kent about his writing escapades.
It was also previewed at the London Book fair at Earls Court in 2011 on their 40th anniversary.
He is also a prolific songwriter, having written over 50 songs to date; many of these are available to listen on the music page.
One of Bonx’s favourite quotes is…
'To be able to paint pictures with words and music gives so much deeper meaning and often an explanation to the ups and downs of life.'
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Inner Silent Way; Descriptive, eloquent and engaging. Vibrant characters, cracking humour and a superb author. A masterpiece, and an absolute gem.
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