The Fugitives

Sunday May 4, 2025, 1:00pm

MERA Schoolhouse, McDonald's Corners

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Adrian Glynn and Brendan McLeod are mature songwriters with wide interests. The lyrics in their second last album “Trench Songs” (2020) were actually written by front line solders during WW1. Essentially protest songs, often parodies of well know tunes, Adrian and Brendan wrote new melodies and arrangements to these lyrics that more readily access their emotional content. The Fugitives most recent album “No Help Coming” takes a curiously upbeat look at many of our personal preoccupations such as fraught friendships, career changes, coping mecha­nisms and romance with a subtext of creeping environmental disaster.

No Help Coming

Released in 2023

On The Fugitives' "No Help Coming" the JUNO nominated folk four-piece tie the complexities of families, partners and friendships into the climate emergency's ever present priority.
"It was really important to us that it sounded personal," says Brendan McLeod, who, alongside Adrian Glynn, wrote all the songs on the recording. The group are rounded out by violinist Carly Frey (The Coal Porters) and banjo player Chris Suen (Viper Central). Producer Tom Dobrzanski rounds out the recording team.
"'No Help Coming', to us, isn't a negative," says Glynn. "It means humanity's alone in this, but we're alone in this together."

Trench Songs

Released in 2020
Trench songs were written by frontline soldiers during WW1. Essentially protest songs, they were often parodies of well-known tunes. We’ve rewritten new melodies and music for these words in order to more readily access the emotional content of the lyrics, and to continue folk music’s long tradition of reshaping songs over time -- the same way soldiers reshaped these songs in the trenches. The album’s dedicated to all WW1 soldiers who wrote, played, and sang these songs. We think of them when we sing, and hope you do too.