NEW GLASGOW – One of the Jubilee’s headliners is looking to mellow out the crowd and give them a different experience.
The Trews are going to be playing an acoustic set as Friday night’s headliner act.
Lead guitarist for the band, John-Angus MacDonald, said they did an acoustic tour across Canada but only had four nights in Halifax for the East Coast portion of it, so they’re hoping to give fans something they haven’t heard before from the Trews.
For the set they will be pulling from all their albums for acoustic material.
The New Glasgow date will bring them close to their hometown.
“It’s great to go to Antigonish,” said MacDonald.
They will arrive a couple days early to spend time with family and hit the beach.
The Trews are becoming known for their work ethic, as a band that seems to be perpetually on tour.
“We don’t like standing still for too long,” said MacDonald. "We don’t stop touring a lot. We like doing it.”
He said the longest breaks they take are for a month or two.
Right now the band is working on their fourth album, which MacDonald said is about halfway done. They are recording in at the Bathhouse Studio in Ontario, which was founded by the Tragically Hip.
“It’s more organic than ‘No Time for Later,’ said MacDonald
The album was cut live, which is something they had not done prior to this.
Most recently, the Trews released Highway of Heroes, a song in memory of the many Canadian soldiers who have lost their lives in Afghanistan. Captain Nichola Goddard of Antigonish, who died in battle in Afghanistan in 2006, inspired the song.
The Trews have been around since 1997 when they formed in Antigonish and still have all their original members. They were originally called One I’d Trouser.
They’ve put out four albums in seven years, have had 10, top 10 singles and have opened for rock music heavyweights such as the Rolling Stones, Robert Plant, Guns N’ Roses, Nickelback and KISS.
