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Oct 06, 11:03 AMNew Album Out Today & Gibson Guitar ContestOur new album and DVD is now available nationwide online and instores. For fans living outside of Canada, you can get it on the iTunes store, order a copy directly from out store or pick up a digital copy here.
We are also excited to announce a contest (for our Canadian fans) where you can win an autographed Gibson Hummingbird guitar. Get all the details at www.thetrewsmusic.com".
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Oct 05, 12:23 PMFriends & Total Strangers Is Upon UsDear Friends (& Total Strangers),
The hour is upon us. We are moments away from our first acoustic release and our first ever DVD release. If you've pre-ordered it then thank you! If you haven't, there's still a few hours left to do so here. And for those of you who are old fashion (like ourselves) it'll be on the shelves of record store everywhere tomorrow!
Please tell everyone you know to rush out and buy a copy, heck buy two and give one away - you know how those suits like to see a high chart position on week one!
Also, you can help get The Trews acoustic on the airwaves by requesting it at your local radio station, MuchMusic and MuchMoreMusic. Click here for a complete list of stations in your area.
Thanks again for your early support and we can't wait to get out and see each and everyone of you on the road.
Love,
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Sep 30, 12:04 PMPre-Sale Still Going StrongHey Everyone,
Just a reminder that there's still plenty of time to pre-order "Friends & Total Strangers" directly from our website or if you live in Canada, you can get a "deluxe" version from iTunes.
For anyone you know who has not yet taken advantage of this opportunity, tell them we'll continue to take orders until street date or to rush out to their favorite local record shop (hopefully you still have a favorite local record shop) and pick up a copy on October 6. We can't wait to get out and tour this material acoustically. Check out the tour dates for a show near you.
Until next time,
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Sep 15, 12:12 PMPre-Sale, New Video & Acoustic Tour DatesHey Everybody,
To coincide with the upcoming release of our acoustic album, Friends & Total Strangers, we're offering you access to a pre-sale where you can order bundles that include the new album, digital downloads of the full concert & album, the DVD and an exclusive t-shirt. As a special treat, we've also got some exclusive goodies - 2 bonus videos and 3 bonus songs that are not available on the CD or DVD. Check it out our new home page for all the details - http://www.thetrewsmusic.com
Surf around, go listen to the entire new album, check out new acoustic tour dates and the video for our new single, Sing Your Heart Out.
Enjoy
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Sep 09, 10:50 AMSing Your Heart OutDear Trewbees,
Our new single Sing Your Heart Out is now available for purchase from iTunes. Those of you who have seen us live over the past few months will recognize this song from the set but this particular version (pulled from our Trews Acoustic - Friends and Total Strangers album due out October 6th) I'm particularly fond of as it was re-mixed by our good buddy Mike Fraser (who's credentials are too plentiful to list...Google him...)
Anyway, I hope you enjoy it as much as we do. For those of you living outside of Canada, you can still get in on the action by purchasing our new single directly from our website www.thetrewsmusic.com . Enjoy.
See you on the road.
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Sep 04, 05:05 PMNew Single Now At RadioHey folks,
Colin here, I'm writing to let you know that as of today we're releasing a new single to radio called 'Sing Your Heart Out'. This song was written for some acoustic shows we did at the beginning of the year.
Before I go any further let me start with a bit of back story. Last November we took a trip to Japan with some other Canadian acts to showcase for the Japanese music industry. In the planning stages we realized that it would be way to expensive to ship all of our gear halfway across the world, so instead we decided to strip it down and just bring two acoustic guitars, a bass, a hand drum and our four voices.
And now for some way back story. When we first started playing all those years ago in Niagara Falls we used to busk as an acoustic four piece to make extra money, we would always make a couple hundred bucks for a an hour or two of playing, so we figured we had something good going on.
Back to the back story....we went over to Tokyo and played at the Oscar Peterson Theatre in the Canadian Embassy and it went over smashingly!! A lot of the Canadians in the audience even mentioned that they preferred us acoustically. It felt great and given the positive response we figured we should let our Canadian fans in on the action.
When we came back to Canada we immediately started planning for a couple of shows in January at the Glenn Gould Studio in Toronto, ON. Luckily, around the same time, our manager was in contact with Tim Martin at Frame Blender, a multi media company and asked if he was interested in doing a live concert shoot of our band. We told him about our plans for upcoming acoustic shows and we both thought this would be great content for a DVD. We figured since we were going to make a CD, we might as well shoot it for a potential live DVD. After a couple of very special nights at the Glenn Gould Studio, we felt we had something really cool.
So that brings me to today. Next month we will be releasing a live 15 song acoustic CD, that features highlights from those two special nights. This CD will be accompanied by a live DVD which will have the full 23 song set list as well as some cool documentary footage and some bonus features. We think this is really cool and we hope all you awesome Trews fans will dig the hell out of it!!
Oh and if any of you beautiful people get a chance to call your local radio station and request the latest single, Sing Your Heart Out, it would be greatly appreciated!!
Peace
Colin -
Apr 07, 02:20 PMNo Time For Later OUT NOW! in America
Hey folks,
Colin here writing to you from just outside Fort Collins, Colorado. We've been having a good time here in the US of A, the crowds have been small but appreciative, we're hoping they'll tell two friends then those friends will tell two friends and then those friends will tell two friends and so on and so on.....you get it.
We've been riding in style on the Gibson tour bus which has definitely been a bonus. We drove eighteen hours from San Francisco to do a show in Vail, Colorado only to find out about an hour outside of Vail that the mountain road into town was closed due to weather. Fortunately it opened later that afternoon and we made the gig. Denver was a lot of fun, we played a cool little bar called the Walnut room.
Today is the official release of No Time For Later in America. Calling all American Trews fans head down to your local record store and pick up a copy. See you on the road!!!
Colin
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Feb 23, 02:07 PMParanoid Freak WidgetWe have a fancy new widget to promote our US single, Paranoid Freak, which will be released tomorrow on iTunes. Our album, No Time For Later, will be available in the US on April 07, 2009. Help us out and share this widget with your friends, post it on your blog, MySpace and Facebook pages.
Speaking of the US, we'll be heading out a mini tour soon. If you have friends living in these tour markets, let them know that we're coming their way soon.
ColinYou can grab the code at http://www.clearspring.com/widgets/499ac11fe28f93e9
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Feb 14, 07:23 AMIndie Music Awards...we are feeling very...well... nominated! We are pleased to announce that we lead the pack of nominees for the 9th annual Independent Music Awards with 4 nominations!
We got the nod for Favourite Album, Favourite Single (Hold Me In Your Arms), Favourite Video (Hold Me In Your Arms), and Favourite Live Artist/Group.
We are seriously humbled by all this critical acclaim coming our way and quite frankly are not used to it!
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Feb 04, 06:21 AMTwo Juno Nominations!We'd like to thank all of the fans who made it out to our acoustic shows this past week. Thank you to the Hamilton and Peterborough fans for filling the bars on such short notice, you guys were great!!
As for the Toronto fans, thank you for giving us two amazing nights in a fantastic venue. The Glenn Gould theater is something else, the acoustics are superb and the vibe is really cool. Hope you guys enjoyed the ambiance as much as we did. We're going to edit together audio and video from both nights and we hope to have something for you guys in the near future.
In other news we just found out this morning that we are nominated for two Juno Awards!! Our album is nominated for Rock Album of the Year and we got nominated for Group of the Year. We are thrilled with this news, we've always been very proud of this album and we're very happy that it's getting recognized.
Once again, we can't thank you guys enough for the loyalty and support!!! Until next time...
Colin
