But it’s not on the menu – it’ll be rocking the stage at local restaurant Thursday
By Jennifer Eisenbart
Staff Writer
As far as band names go, Enter The Haggis is probably one of the more unusual ones you will see.
Member Trevor Lewington said the name sprang from trying to come up with an analogy of “bringing together a disparate bunch of musical styles into something palatable.”
“Unfortunately, haggis isn’t palatable to a lot of people,” he quipped. “We probably should have called ourselves ‘Enter The Cheesecake’ instead.”
Neither are exactly a menu item at Lucky Star Restaurant, where the band will perform for free tonight starting at 7 p.m. The group offered a free concert for the Burlington High School radio station, WBSD, because of the amount of radio time they’ve gotten on the station.
“Thanks to (Tom Gilding’s) enthusiasm, we were the most heavily played artist on the station a couple of weeks ago,” Lewington said. “Offering a free show in conjunction with the station is the least we can do.”
Gilding has been promoting the group’s new release, Whitelake. The five-member group is a Canadian Indie/Scottish/Folk Rock band, and will play at IrishFest this weekend.
“They love us,” said Gilding, whose station has been the starting point of a number of artists over the past few years, gaining national (and in the case of Enter The Haggis, international) acclaim.
“We’ve been spinning them, talking about them,” Gilding added. “It’s what we do.”
Gilding was at Lucky Star – one of the station’s sponsors – recently, when they hit on the idea of having a concert at the restaurant.
“We’re like, this would be a nice place to have singers come in,” Gilding said. “(Owner) Jesse (Aguirre) said he’d be open to that.”
The group will perform in the back section of the restaurant, the remodeled area that hosts the bar.
Into that space will fit a piper from Scotland, a fiddler from Canada who competed Canadian Old Time fiddle while studying classical violin and piano, plus a drummer, a bass player and Lewington.
“We all have a love of rock music, too,” said Lewington.
The group is in the midst of a tour, but will return to Toronto to record a concept album. All the songs on the album will be based on articles from one day in a Toronto-based newspaper, and the album will be released exactly one day after that edition is printed.
In the meantime, Lewington said, the group just hopes to “keep on doing what we love, only making way more money and touring less.
“And world peace, of course,” he added.
Gilding is just hoping to keep new and interesting groups coming to the Burlington area.
“We keep trying things here and there,” Gilding said. “We have wonderful sponsors like Lucky Star. We just want to keep this kind of stuff going.
“It just steamrolls,” he added.
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