The Trews

Axtech · Post by **Axtech** » 9/3/2003, 3:41 pm

I just saw their video "Every Inambition" (no, not a spelling error. at least not on my part).

It was pretty good. Granted, I've only seen this once, so I really can't yet judge, but it seemed pretty good on first listen.

I'll have to check out some other stuff before I give a definate judgement on them, but it should be worth checking out.

www.thetrewsmusic.com

teelow · Post by **teelow** » 9/3/2003, 11:02 pm

I liked the song Confessions. Petty coool...

Tat Guy got really bad teeth though.
Real bad.

Axtech · Post by **Axtech** » 9/10/2003, 5:34 pm

Confessions is one of my favourites from the album, which I just bought.

The only one I don't like thus far is When You Leave.

Hopeless is really cool.

Axtech · Post by **Axtech** » 9/11/2003, 5:55 am

Are you people ignoring me?

Go download Confessions now. Cool song.

AnnieDreams · Post by **AnnieDreams** » 9/11/2003, 6:13 pm

woah.. The old guidance counsellor from my school, his son is er, one of them.. Last Name Dalton. he came into our class one time last year during language and played a video, It was pretty cool

Axtech · Post by **Axtech** » 9/11/2003, 7:11 pm

Woah!

Sean Dalton, drummer. :nod:

Guy in the back.

That's cool.

For those of you who are actually reading this thread and might want to know...

[L-R] Colin Macdonald lead vocals, rhythm guitar, keys; Sean Dalton drums and percussion, back-up vocals; Jack Syperek bass, back-up vocals; John-Angus Macdonald (related to Colin...?) lead guitar (amazing at times), back-up vocals.

AnnieDreams · Post by **AnnieDreams** » 9/13/2003, 9:04 am

yeah.. Are they all from Newfoundland? I thought he said they were but that was a year ago.. apparently they were originally called The Trousers but some other band got mad at them for having the same name so they switched it to The Trews, which I think is Gaelic for it or something? Not sure. Too bad Dalton's guidance counsellor at a different school this year

Susan · Post by **Susan** » 9/13/2003, 9:17 am

My friend said they were kinda like Sloan. I'll give them a spin.

Axtech · Post by **Axtech** » 9/13/2003, 4:09 pm

Little heavier than Sloan, methinks. But definately have some fun songs.

Annie... They're (mostly) from Niagra Falls, according to their hillarious bio...

The Trews Biography wrote:Niagara Falls is an unnecessary city situated at the fundum of Canada’s southern border. It has, over the years, produced a tragic assortment of killers, scam artists, and petty-thieves – as well as providing, for most tourists, a perfect contrast between the majesty of nature let loose and the ignominy of bad-taste let-looser. This is also the city that the Trews call home, in its thriving crack district, where demented rats sometimes three feet in length feast on the cadavers of American tourists unprepared for the potency of Canadian narcotics.

They are Niagara’s second wonder.

Jesus Christ. The Trews piss me right off. For one thing they’re younger than everyone else I know and for another they don’t appreciate how much God loves them. While the rest of us are consumed with earthly troubles like eating, sleeping, and fixing our credit history - the Trews blithely fart about, dripping talent and blowing the rest of us off the stage. How many girlfriends do they have to steal before somebody finally takes a machine gun to these feckless little satyrs? What proof does one need that the universe is a hostile, random and brutish place, other than four saucer-eyed and clueless pixies behaving as if it isn’t – and getting away with it.

Take singer and keyboardist Colin, for instance – he’s like a fairy-tale character…or a magical eunuch who floats in and out some somnambulant trance to unleash a voice marked by its fathomless beauty and sense of joy. His band-mates are apparently afraid to look at him for too long, lest his spooky gifts evaporate or worse, kill them.

Meanwhile, John-Angus MacDonald wields his guitar with the certainty that it will at least save his life and at most save the world itself. In a corrupt and savage century it is incumbent on each and every one of us, striving towards any kind of rationality while the air around us conspires to bring death and sorrow, to protect, cherish and foster John-Angus MacDonald. His kind is rarer than miracles.

Bassist Jack Syperek is like a forty-foot boner squeezed into Montgomery Clift’s haircut. He plays like a sixty-minute man and acts like a homeless and barely sentient enigma who can chew the glass off a long-neck beer in a bar fight. Or a dime-a-dance kinda pretty boy all lost and beautiful, out of some anthropological survey of Times Square back in the days of Toilet Dating.

As if that’s not enough, you also have Sean Dalton, whooping it up on the drums with nary a thought for the rest of us who have to practice for half our goddamn lives only to discover that it will never matter. This kid is so fast that I actually saw him finish a song before he even started it. Fittingly, he was both the first and the last member to join the Trews, starting the band long before the others were born and then showing up late. Such are his inexplicable time-keeping skills.

And the music? Well it hardly seems to matter now does it? But, for the record, it’s perfect, seamless, blue-eyed soul that buggers off into chunky rock and back again with a tightness found only in nature, like an un-neutered bulldog observed from behind. Swinging, braying, good-time stuff that makes you wanna start your own band. Then you do and it’s terrible and difficult and you realize with the kind of certainty that makes suicidal madmen out of French poets that some people just have it, and you don’t.

Sadly, there are laws out there to protect the likes of the Trews. So, breaking fingers and smashing their heads in is not an option. Better to get on board and love them now so that when they’re bigger than the country that spawned them, and I have finally found some measure of peace in the cold, cold ground, you can run around and tell people that I was right all along.

-Adrian Mack
April 2003

Susan · Post by **Susan** » 9/13/2003, 11:38 pm

Finally, someone having fun with a band bio.

Axtech · Post by **Axtech** » 9/14/2003, 8:39 am

Bassist Jack Syperek is like a forty-foot boner squeezed into Montgomery Clift’s haircut.

Axtech · Post by **Axtech** » 9/21/2003, 8:03 pm

You people are ignoring me again, aren't you?

A sample song's lyrics that I like:

Confessions

you try to think of a human civilization
and everybody's crying,
"how are we to explain things?"
easy, easy
neurotic, psychotic and anxious,
has a dream about human language
and finally find the words to say,
easy, easy

confessions kill you over time
confess your love, leave me behind

keep me up all night
like a saint in the twilight hour
I don't need no one
I just want someone
to lie

maybe in my tomb I'll evade the madness,
reinvent and sculpt and package
find a luminary plain
easy, easy
confused by the blandness
and the trials of hurt and sadness
and not knowing anything
easy, easy

confessions kill you over time
confess your love, leave me behind

keep me up all night
like a saint in the twilight hour
I don't need no one
I just want someone
to lie

try to think of a human civilization
and everybody's crying,
"how are we to explain things?"
easy, easy
neurotic, psychotic and anxious,
I had a dream about human baggage
and finally throws it all away,

keep me up all night
like a saint in the twilight hour
I don't need no one
I just want someone
to lie

Susan · Post by **Susan** » 9/21/2003, 8:49 pm

I remember that song.
I heard it on the radio and always wondered who it was by. It's fun.

Reyna · Post by **Reyna** » 9/22/2003, 6:52 pm

is it just me, or does the guys voice sound slightly like old matt good?

Axtech · Post by **Axtech** » 9/22/2003, 7:36 pm

Maybe a little...

I find one defining characteristic of this band is "fun". While keeping the music intelligent and without stupidity, they're able to keep it fun. :nod:

teelow · Post by **teelow** » 9/23/2003, 6:08 pm

Yeah, those are pretty damn good lyrics. And I know, because mine all suck!

Guy still needs oral work though...braces or something...

Axtech · Post by **Axtech** » 9/23/2003, 6:20 pm

olp_gravity · Post by **olp_gravity** » 10/14/2003, 10:53 am

alright, some trews fans!

i got hooked on these guys at the end of the summer and have seen them twice, they're live show is awesome, lots of energy

their guitarist (John-Angus Macdonald) is amazing, as is the rest of the band

they like to play covers too if they headline their own shows, they played some zeppelin when i saw them here in Ottawa in september

they will be playing Kingston November 20th and Ottawa November 21st
and they're currently going out west to tour with Big Sugar, so check these guys out while they're playing small clubs, it's worth it

Axtech · Post by **Axtech** » 10/14/2003, 3:16 pm

Kingston on Nov 20th?!? Shit! I gotta find out where they're playing!

Axtech · Post by **Axtech** » 10/14/2003, 3:28 pm

Okay, they're playing at the Elixir. Now I just need to find out if there's an age restriction. I know the Cocamo is 19+, so I wouldn't be surprised if the Elixir was the same.