....East Coast rock band The Trews achieved some measure of success
with their last album Den of Thieves, but they're hoping their new
album No Time For Later takes things a few steps further.

"There's been a lot of changes in our world since the last
one," guitarist John-Angus MacDonald says with two of his band mates
over a late lunch in downtown Toronto. "We had a couple of new
producers and we also had a new partnership with Universal. There are
definitely a lot of new things going on in the world of The Trews but I
don't know if you'd call them chances."

The group, consisting of brothers John-Angus and singer Colin
MacDonald, bassist Jack Syperek and drummer Sean Dalton, perform a
sold-out show tomorrow at The Mod Club to celebrate the new album's
release.

John-Angus says the band went right to work on No Time For
Later, spending about three or four months in a rehearsal space
amassing material before paring the 30 to 40 songs down to the final
track listing.

He also says the producing tandem of Gus Van Go and Werner F. helped in separating the musical wheat from the chaff.

"I think what's more difficult than knowing when to let go is
being objective and being willing to sacrifice a few of your babies for
the good of the project," he says. "Everybody is creative and everybody
writes and brings something to the table so it's good to have an
objective fifth part in the studio to help us kill our babies, if you
will."

As for No Time For Later, the band runs the gamut from a
bagpipe intro on the galloping I Can't Stop Laughing to the John
Fogerty-ish title track, a song singer Simon Wilcox helped out with.

"It was one of those songs that came at the tail end of the
session because she was asking if we could knock off soon and get to
the song later," John-Angus says. "Colin said there's no time for
later, we'll finish the song. She was like, 'No, let's work on that
song.' He said, 'What song?' She said, 'The line you just said.' He
wrote the verse and the chorus in about five minutes."

Another track worthy of attention is Gun Control, a song
created following the Virginia Tech massacre last April and bound to
strike a nerve after last week's tragic events at Northern Illinois
University.

"We were sitting around the apartment and watching all the
coverage from CNN and Fox," John-Angus says. "It just seemed so
blatantly obvious they were beating around the bush. The problem was
how did this kid have a gun in the first place? It's a personal and
political view from us. One of the great things about this job is that
you get to put those feelings into words."

The band will support former KISS guitarist Ace Frehley on a
North American tour this spring before mounting their own headlining
Canadian tour in April. The Trews are also taking time off this summer
so Syperek can tie the knot with his girlfriend back in Nova Scotia.

But the band intend on spreading their music in different regions, including the U.S. and Europe.

"We're comfortable in doing a lot of the leg work because we've
done it once before," John-Angus says. "Going in and doing it in
another country, you just change the name of the country and radio
station you're at."