22-20s

22-20s
Live Glastonbury Festival 2004
Background information
Origin	Sleaford, Lincolnshire, England
Genres	Rock, blues rock, indie rock
Years active	2002–2005, 2008–2013
Labels	Heavenly/EMI Astralwerks, TBD (US) Yoshimoto R and C (Japan)
Associated acts	Crossfire, Martin Trimble & Outside Help, The Martin Trimble Band, The Infidels, Supergrass, The Jubilees, Charly Coombes and The New Breed, Dead Man Boys Choir
Past members	Martin Trimble Glen Bartup James Irving Dan Hare Charly Coombes Mark Barrett Mick Nelson

22-20s were an English blues rock band, formed in 2002 in Sleaford, Lincolnshire. The band originally disbanded in December 2005 before reforming in 2008 and releasing Shake/Shiver/Moan in 2010 and Got It If You Want It in 2012. They disbanded for a second time in early 2013.

Their song "Devil in Me" was regularly heard in the UK following their split on the Vauxhall Astra television advertisement, and the band have also featured on a number of high-profile soundtracks, including the Guy Ritchie film, RocknRolla,London Boulevard, Cry Wolf and One Tree Hill. The band took a sabbatical from spring 2013, subsequently confirming a year later that they would not be reforming.

Fourteen miles apart in the English county of Lincolnshire, Martin Trimble grew up in Heckington, and Glen Bartup, Fulbeck, and met at Carre's Grammar School, Sleaford. In 1997 aged 14, they bought their first guitars together from a shop owned by Trimble's uncle who would come to visit at Christmas and bring with him blues records. The pair immersed themselves in blues artists such as Muddy Waters and Buddy Guy and later Bob Dylan, The Rolling Stones and T. Rex.

The duo began playing across Lincolnshire and the north of England together on the blues circuit in Crossfire, who later changed their name to Martin Trimble & Outside Help. The band also featured bassist Dave Wheeldon and a number of drummers including Rob Flanagan, Dave Raeburn of The Hoax and Mark Barrett of The Hoax who joined the band in July 2000. Their sets were composed primarily of blues covers, and they toured the country and regularly performed at blues festivals in Maryport, Colne and on the continent in Germany, Belgium and the Netherlands, before splitting in November 2001. Trimble then formed The Infidels with Natasha Allan and local session musician Gary Rudd, and The Martin Trimble band with former Outside Help/The Hoax drummer Mark Barrett and Bartup on bass, who had previously played guitar. Trimble would also occasionally perform acoustic solo gigs and as duo with Bartup.