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 Nova Scotia born and Toronto based, melodic rock band The Trews have certainly made waves on the Canadian music scene. With three studio albums now under their belts, the band has been touring all over Europe performing their trade mark rock n’ roll that combines charisma with savage guitar riffs and bluesy keyboard tricks. It would make sense, then, that this hard-rocking band should make an appearance at the Canada Day celebrations in Trafalgar square.
Lead singer and guitarist Colin MacDonald said: “It’s so good to be apart of this festival. It’s certainly a historic location. We’re looking forward to it – there will be a sh*t-load of Canadians there. This is probably our fourth or fifth time in London. We’ve played the Borderline, the Metro and the Barfly, so we’ve played around London. We’ve also played Manchester, Brighton, Glasgow and a pretty extensive tour of Germany and France when we supported Status Quo. It’s important for us to get our name out here, so we keep coming back.”
It would seem that all the efforts on the part of The Trews to get their name around Europe proved successful. Even some of the, shall we say, elderly crowd that came out
for the celebrations were rockin’ out to the melodies of Canada’s biggest up and coming rock band. “Old ladies in Canada don’t like rock n’ roll, but there were old ladies during sound-check who wanted to know who we were. People were listening really intently”
This was the band’s first time out of the country on Canada Day, but they were no less surrounded by their fellow country-men as the whole of Trafalgar Square packed out to see their performance. Admittedly, it was refreshing to meet a Canadian music act that wasn’t trying to badly replicate the song-stylings of Celine Dion or Avril Lavigne.
“Just because that music is popular doesn’t mean that it represents the country,” said drummer Sean Dalton. “There’s a ton of bands in Canada just like any other country. There’s a lot of really fantastic bands that people may never hear of, and some of the best bands are ones you have to dig around and look for instead of having them put in front of you.” Colin added: “A lot of the bigger artists tend to be more mainstream, but we don’t only think of the Spicegirls when we think of England, it’s just one of many that we think of.”
Inspired by British musicians such as The Beatles, Humble Pie and the Rolling Stones, The Trews regard the UK music scene as a source of inspiration. “When we first started we did a lot of Oasis covers. Some of the best song writing in rock n’ roll happens on this side of the pond so we’re always keeping an ear on it.”
So what is it that The Trews are wanting to say to the world through their music? “Love one another, all you need is love, and be love.”
Beatles fans indeed.
-Lindsay Thomas
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