He has been playing at Ray Bar in Ansan on the weekends for the last few years. He joined the band Nabi in March of 2007, and played his first show with them on March 31st. The band had booked studio time in Seoul for April 7th and decided it was time to move on from the accoustic duo to a full band, so Terry called him up and enlisted him. About a month earlier he got his cousin Tyler to help him make a more mobile bottle kit, so may do some junk playing in Korea.
In August of 2002 he joined a band called Next of Seven which released one cd before he joined and one, called Rocksteady with him. The songs on Rocksteady can be heard on the N.O.S. website which is linked above. Trevor hitchhiked to Montreal in order to record the cd, which was the result of 11 days of non stop rehearsing and recording on average about 8 hours a day. Next of Seven performed in Montreal, Fredericton and Sackville when Trevor was in the band. Geographically it was a tough band to be in, since at the time members lived in Montreal, Fredericton and Moncton.
Trevor also did some performing on different occaisions with Israel Okeafor, playing Doundoun as well as his homemade drumkit. Israel, origionally from Africa, performs traditional African music. He owns a drum and clothing shop at 192 Kent St in Charlottetown, P.E.I. called "Tribes Art & Decor" which deals in authentic African drums and other African instruments, artwork, jewelry, and Reggae and World Beat Music. Israel recently opened a second store in Halifax, N.S. that is located on Quinpool. As well as performing his music he also teaches hand drumming. He can be reached for info on lessons or drum repairs at Asafo2001@yahoo.ca To hear samples of his music from his album "Passionate Rhythms of Nature", to purchase the cd or to learn more about him go to his cdbaby site by clicking on his name above.
He played drums in a rock band called King Groov for about four years, up until April 2002, when the guitarist left the band. This problem was further compounded when the band's bassist had his bass stolen. There are still a few CD's available. If you're interested in hearing samples or purchasing the album, "Doggie Style", check out this cdbaby link.
Trevor is a big fan of Tolkien, and King Groov recorded a song called Homage to Greatness, which is a tribute to Tolkien's Lord of the Rings. Other bands he's played in include the rock band Red Letter Day and the blues outfit, bluesolution, which were both based in P.E.I..Homage is actually an old Red Letter Day tune. A former incarnation of King Groov, Ruthy's Groovs saw Trevor making a TV appearance on ASN's Breakfast Television.
For about three years, primarily in the summer months off from University, Trevor worked the streets . . . as a busker. In the beginning, he make some extra cash by busking on his homemade water bottle drum kit. When he realized he was making alot more money performing trashcan percussion on the streets than his summer job in a screen printing sweatshop, he quit his job and became a full time busker. You may have seen him if you were in Moncton, Halifax, Fredericton, Montreal or P.E.I. from 2000 to 2003. He occaisonally goes out to busk these days, but not fulltime anymore. He was also on the front page of the Times & Transcript once and appeared on the TV news a few times. He also lived in his van for a little while and wrote and voiced a CBC radio spot on it for the program Outfront entitled Thoreau on a Tight Budget. The show aired on January 10, 2001.
He has an ongoing project called "Trevor Clements and the Shoot First Poetry Beat", in which he performs poetry set to music, also playing drums in the group. Shoot First has appeared at The International Tea House several times over the years, the 1996 National Milton Acorn Festival (of which Trevor was also assistant coodinator), and the occasional all-ages show in Charlottetown, PEI, and shows at Mount Allison University. His musically backed poetry has been heard on CBC radio a few times, the most recent thanks to the Milton Acorn Festival. Shoot First has had many different musicians contribute to it live, including Mike Robicheau, Chris Gooding, Robbie Holland (of Flush), Derek Vokey, Randy McKenna, and Daniel Currie (formerly of Red Letter Day, currently with Eyes For Telescopes). He is presently working on recording a CD of his poetry set to music. No set release date for this yet, "I'm taking my sweet-ass time to do this right", he comments. "Not to mention I have had to work around a busy schedule of busking for a living, coordinating recording time with many musicians from four different provinces", and now with his teaching duties in South Korea. He seems to take a zen approach to it all, with a it will be done when it is done philosophy.
Random stuff about Trevor: He like sThe Simpsons. His favorite actors include DeNiro and Pacino. Some of his musical influences include Tom Waits, Zeppelin, Billy Cobbham, Frank Zappa, Santana, The Doors Pink Floyd and BB King. When asked about his role models in life he said, "My personal hero has always been my grandfather, Joseph Lowell Clements (aka Gunga), who passed away in May of 2000. I got a tattoo on my chest to commemorate his life."
Another interest of his is acting. "I started off rather badly. In grade two I was supposed to be the frog in "The Frog and the Princess" but didn't memorize my lines. I got pushed out on stage anyway, crying. Since the frog was a pretty big role in the whole production the show bombed and the grade four audience got sent back to class early. In my second year of grade two I was a bit better as Santa, but I still needed my lines taped to a podium. At least I finished the show." He left acting for many years after that until the fall of 1999, when he faced his shady acting past and redeemed himself as Samual Peek in Decima Mitchell's "Hold up" at Mount Allison's Windsor Theatre. Also for Decima he performed as Baskell Caskett in her short film Synesthia which was shown during the 2001 Sackville Movie Project at the Vogue Cinema. He has also acted, played music, and served food (hell they even made him dance in Beatlemania) for the dinner theatre shows, "U-Pick", and "Beatlemania" with Live Bait Theatre during their 2001 summer season. He also played in the pit band for Live Bait's "Elvis is Alive and Well and Living in Sackville". He remembers one time shortly after the run with Live Bait being recognized in the Champlain mall as 'Billybob' the backwater hick role from 'U-Pick'. "It was a small role with not many lines, but everybody in the audience really took to the character and it kind of stole the show, hell I even got recognized in the mall one day. The woman didn't say, 'hey, you're Trevor Clements', but rather 'hey you're Billy-bob' and that was a great compliment to me".
