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By the beginning of 2010, the Trews were feeling a little uncertain.
The band had been on an upwardly mobile streak since “Not Ready to Go” first came pumping out of Canadian radio back in 2003. They wasted no time piling success on top of success, watching their stature grow with multiple hit singles and an incomparable live show, courting exhaustion while they fanned out across the world and carved an eccentric and stubborn path through an industry demanding that they always “compete.”
The tensions were audible on 2008’s No Time for Later. The band’s third album was its most accomplished and satisfying. But as a formal exercise in broadening their songwriting chops while making a hermetically perfect studio recording – all while shoveling enough hits into the mouth of the beast – it emerged uptight and dark, maybe even a little claustrophobic. Not insignificantly, the second single was called “Paranoid Freak”.
As the first leg of touring wrapped up on their sidelong 2009 Acoustic – Friends & Total Strangers retrospective, for the first time in years the Trews found themselves facing time off and a blank canvas. As Colin MacDonald bluntly puts it, “We didn’t really know what to do.” The rest of the tour was months away. The band had forward momentum but nowhere to go.
Enter Gord Sinclair. The Tragically Hip bassist surfaced amidst this rare period of suspended animation and offered the Trews a little shelter at the Hip’s fabled Bathouse Recording Studio. He said they could cool their jets, make some demos.
The band had been on an upwardly mobile streak since “Not Ready to Go” first came pumping out of Canadian radio back in 2003. They wasted no time piling success on top of success, watching their stature grow with multiple hit singles and an incomparable live show, courting exhaustion while they fanned out across the world and carved an eccentric and stubborn path through an industry demanding that they always “compete.”
The tensions were audible on 2008’s No Time for Later. The band’s third album was its most accomplished and satisfying. But as a formal exercise in broadening their songwriting chops while making a hermetically perfect studio recording – all while shoveling enough hits into the mouth of the beast – it emerged uptight and dark, maybe even a little claustrophobic. Not insignificantly, the second single was called “Paranoid Freak”.
As the first leg of touring wrapped up on their sidelong 2009 Acoustic – Friends & Total Strangers retrospective, for the first time in years the Trews found themselves facing time off and a blank canvas. As Colin MacDonald bluntly puts it, “We didn’t really know what to do.” The rest of the tour was months away. The band had forward momentum but nowhere to go.
Enter Gord Sinclair. The Tragically Hip bassist surfaced amidst this rare period of suspended animation and offered the Trews a little shelter at the Hip’s fabled Bathouse Recording Studio. He said they could cool their jets, make some demos.
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No Time For Later
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Emmalene1987 I love The Trews!
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fortric new album - awesome :)
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Dr_LOVEcat la la la))))!
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prizefyter !!! Vancouver April 26th !!!
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Hope & Ruin :)
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demoncleaner77 I once heard a goat getting raped by a farmer and it sounded better than this band. The only thing worse is Our Lady Peace.
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qwerty_34 They'v got amazing songs :>> You're so Sober :)))))))))))))))))))
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i like their new song:P Highway of Heroes.
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Hockeyfest
Brant Park, Brantford, Canada
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Beaverfest
Riverfront Festival Plaza, Windsor, Detroit, Canada
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- Jun 22 Stroke 9 Brother'S Lounge, Cleveland, OH, Cleveland, United States
News
US Tour Dates and Contest
3 May 2012 | from www.thetrewsmusic.com
Hey Trews Fans!! The guys are headed back down to the US for
another week and a half of shows and we’ll be hosting a Twitter
contest to give away tickets and M&G for each show! To enter to
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- So long Levon. 19 Apr 2012 | from www.thetrewsmusic.com
- East Coast Music Awards 13 Apr 2012 | from www.thetrewsmusic.com
- Contest for US Tour 12 Apr 2012 | from www.thetrewsmusic.com
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