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THE TREWS
WITH SPECIAL GUEST
MOBILE
THURSDAY,
DECEMBER 18, 2008
THE PHOENIX CONCERT THEATRE - TORONTO
Doors
8:00pm Show 9:00pm
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You can hear it in the first four bars
of the album. A meaty, beaty, big and bouncy drum fill, followed by
a glistening guitar line that could have been ripped from an old Rockpile
album, and a breathy Hammond B3 so beautifully captured that it seems
to conjure the dimensions of the room it sits in. It’s huge, but intimate.
Heavy, but airborne. And the hook is strong enough that you could hang
a whale from it.
The Trews’ reputation is built
on buffed and visceral rock songs, but on No Time for Later they cohere
like never before. The structures are more compelling, the playing is
more articulate, and the results more nourishing. If it’s the shrewd
marriage of new and classic rock that accounts for the Trews’ remarkable
multi-generational appeal – meaning they’re as welcome on MuchMusic
as they are inside the pages of the UK’s Classic Rock magazine –
then No Time for Later finds the band expanding at both ends of the
spectrum.
In total, No Time for Later represents
a major graduation for the band, right down to the Ralph Steadman-by-way-of-Warhol
cover art designed by Syperek. Incredibly, it was the counter-intuitive
approach of producers Gus Van Go and Werner F that the Trews
credit for the breakthrough. The first thing the team did was take one
of the best live rock acts on the planet, break it down to its constituent
parts, and record each member separately in a painstaking exercise that
band only half-jokingly describes as “our Rumours.â€
For more information on The
Trews and their album No Time For Later, please visit thetrewsmusic.com.
Come celebrate with
The Trews at the Phoenix Concert Theatre on Thursday, December 18th
part of The Edge Electric Christmas
series!