By Brady Lang

Headstones frontman ready to hit Gold Eagle stage

Nov 20, 2018 | 9:17 AM

One Album certified platinum, and two more certified gold.

For 25 years, the Headstones have been making their own brand of rock and roll.

The band, who formed over 30 years ago, are currently on their tour which marks the 25-year anniversary of their critically acclaimed debut album, Picture of Health. The tour is making stops all across the country and dipping down into the United States for a total of 24 shows.

The album includes remastered versions of 13 original tracks, plus four bonus songs, which are demos of their hits “Sweetpea”, “When something stands for nothing”, “Cemetery” and newly re-recorded “Skin Me Alive”.

The Headstones will be back in North Battleford on Nov. 28 at the Gold Eagle Casino, and lead singer Hugh Dillon says it’s passion that has kept them going all of these years.

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“Every gig it goes off, we don’t phone it in,” he said. “We’re pretty passionate about the music we play and you have to see it, to believe it.”

Dillon, who is originally from Kingston, Ontario, has seen the development of the rock and roll genre over the years, especially in his own backyard. With the Tragically Hip and now the Glorious Sons making waves across the charts, he has an interesting idea of why the city has become a hotbed for the music industry.

“When I grew up it was me and the guys in the Hip,” he said. “David Usher went to the same high school. It is a town that lends itself to that kind of thing. It’s close to the American border, it has all of those penitentiaries. It’s isolated in its own way, but there’s an artistic kind of community there with the University that allows that kind of tradition of rock and roll, and storytelling, and music.”

Dillon himself has ventured off into different entertainment circles as well. He starred in many hit Canadian shows throughout the years as an actor, but he keeps his music background continuously in his back pocket. Throughout his time in shows such as Flashpoint and Durham County.

“I’ve always been a songwriter,” he said. “If you look at any of the work I’ve done, my music’s in it. That’s how I got into acting; it all comes down to songwriting. Songwriting is the most important art form that there is.”

Tickets are $40 to the Headstones show at the Gold Eagle Casino on Nov. 28, and Dillon has one promise for everyone that walks through the doors that night, and sees the show.

“An authentic rock and roll extravaganza,” he said.

brady.lang@jpbg.ca

Twitter: @BradyLangCJNB