Chris LeDrew Cory the honour was mine bud…you slayed it big time…let’s tour the world :) 18 August 2017.
During some down time from Alan Doyle and The Beautiful Gypsies, Cory Tetford played two concerts at home in St. John’s, Newfoundland with friends and fellow musicians Chris LeDrew and Paul Lamb. From the social media posts I read both the musicians and fans who went to these concerts had a fabulous time.
The first concert was at The Rooms in St. John’s on 17 August, 2017 with fellow musician Chris LeDrew. Some nice photographs and few bootlegged videos were circulated of Cory and Chris performing against a spectacular background of the St. John’s harbour. There was also a great short video taken and circulated on a Facebook page by The Rooms which I really enjoyed. I have enclosed a copy of a screenshot of the post from Facebook. The video was still available at the time of the publishing of this post.
Cory Tetford @corytetford Can’t wait to play some Crush tunes at Iceberg Alley with @paullambmusic @krismacdrum and #ronaldhynes on the 17th. Rehearsals are awesome! 6 September, 2017.
Paul Lamb @paullambmusic Agreed. Can’t wait. 7 September, 2017.
Cory Tetford @corytetford So much fun!! @paullambmusic let’s do it again soon!!! 19 September, 2017.
Cory Tetford’s second concert was a reunion with his former band Crush at the Iceberg Gallery Concerts series on September 17, 2017 in St. John’s. Again there were some nice photographs and a couple of short bootleg videos made and circulated through official sources. I have circulated a copy of one of the bootleg videos on my Google + page for those fans interested. I hope you enjoy it as much as I did.
Prior to the concert Cory Tetford and his fellow friend and musician Paul Lamb gave an interview with the Newfoundland Herald about their Crush reunion and what makes a successful band like Crush go their separate ways.
The full interview has been edited for copyright reasons and can be found online. No copyright infringement intended.
Music Spotlight Crush by Dillion Collins 21 September, 2017 in the Newfoundland Herald.
“Hit-makers of the early millennium, Cory Tetford and Paul Lamb give the fans what they want, reuniting after 12 years as Crush.
King For A Day. Bad Enough. Justified. Each of these were radio hits for Newfoundland rock duo Crush during the early to mid 2000s. Their potentially game-changing album Face in the Crowd propelled the pairing of Cory Tetford and Paul Lamb to must-watch prospect status and a national breakout seemed inevitable as the decade neared the halfway mark. Then, quietly and almost without warning, Crush vanished. Sure, Tetford and Lamb have never ceased to perform – both are tireless and well-travelled artisans – but the machine that had many calling the duo the next breakout act of Newfoundland and Labrador had all but been shuttered.
Some 12 years later and Tetford and Lamb are set to reunite under the Crush banner for the Iceberg Alley Performance Tent on September 17. In their first interview together with The Herald in over a decade, Tetford keenly recalls the final time Crush performed – October 16, 2004, closing out their Arts and Culture Centre Tour in St. John’s. Safe to say that this reunion has been a long time coming.
“Lambey and I had been talking about this for quite some time. Literally over the last bunch of years we’ve been saying ok, let’s do this,” Tetford began. “We still play together a fair amount. Whenever I’m home we’re playing together, but it’s just me and him with our acoustic guitars. We haven’t gone out and toured and played a Crush show, but we still play together, we’re still best buds. We just haven’t been able to put a Crush show together until now. We’ve been talking about this for at least five or seven years.”
“Even though we’re not an active band playing or haven’t put an album out in a long, long time, we both felt there’s probably enough of a fan base out there where we could at least play once a year, maybe in St. John’s and Halifax and do a show and have it be successful.”…
…Have there been previous talks, previous points where Crush have been on the brink of reformation? Both say yes to that claim, though there has been apprehension that the Crush brand would be greeted with crickets. That thought can largely be dispelled now thanks to early rabid anticipation for the reunion showcase, though the two men front and center on stage that night will be, arguably, the most excited of the bunch.
“I know that Paul and I have played together better now than we ever have. We’re more mature, we listen to each other, have played with each other for 24 years. We’re better, individually, I do believe. I mean that by after you get experience you find your voice more and we found our voice. Together I think we sound even greater, our harmonies are tighter,” Tetford says. “There will be a lot of smiles because we’re playing these songs that were written years ago when we were younger men and we’re now playing them with a little more maturity. I think it will be more satisfying for me and Paul.”
