Tragically Hip @ Metropolis

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The Hip have played a pair of shows at Montreal's Metropolis. Both came in November of 2006 on back-to-back nights near the beginning of the World Container tour. As such, WC songs were in heavy rotation. What is of note is the inclusion of 38 Years Old on the final night. This was the song's forth appearance since awakening a few months earlier at Historic Fort York on June 24th, from its 13 year slumber that began at the Markham Fairgrounds in 1993.

Metropolis holds approx. 2300 people and has a grand old theatre atmosphere complete with chandeliers and tiered seating creating a feeling of intimacy and connection between the band and the audience. The stage has been graced by the likes of David Bowie, The White Stripes, Coldplay, Bjork, Beck and Green Day to name but a few.

I wish I had The Luxury of seeing the Quebec shows. See past Metropolis setlists below...



11/09/2006

The Lonely End Of The Rink
New Orleans Is Sinking
In View
Don't Wake Daddy
The Drop-Off
Ahead By A Century
Fly
Poets
Fiddler's Green
World Container
Luv (Sic)
At The Hundredth Meridian
It's A Good Life If You Don't Weaken
The Kids Don't Get It
Grace, Too
Wheat Kings
Yer Not The Ocean
Locked In The Trunk Of A Car
Family Band
Escape Is At Hand For The Travelin' Man
Pretend
On The Verge

11/10/2006

Family Band
Courage
Yer Not The Ocean
Boots Or Hearts
The Drop-Off
Bobcaygeon
Fly
Nautical Disaster
Pretend
Long Time Running
Last Night I Dreamed You Didn't Love Me
Fully Completely
Thirty-Eight Years Old
The Kids Don't Get It
Springtime In Vienna
Scared
In View
Blow At High Dough
The Lonely End Of The Rink
My Music At Work
World Container
Little Bones

Centre In The Square - Kitchener, ON 04/29/2009

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The Tragically Hip
Centre In The Square
04/29/09
Kitchener, ON

Set I
Honey, Please
Morning Moon
Gift Shop
Something On
Ahead By A Century
The Dire Wolf
Speed River*
Greasy Jungle
World Container
Yer Not The Ocean
Love Is A First

Set II
Boots Or Hearts @
Fiddler's Green @
Lake Fever @
The Last Recluse
Poets
Save The Planet
Coffee Girl
Escape Is At Hand For The Travelin' Man
Grace, Too
Country Day
Don't Wake Daddy
Three Pistols

Encore
Now The Struggle Has A Name
New Orleans Is Sinking

*First Time Played
@ = Acoustic
Bold = Tour Breakout

Tonight brought us 13 more tour breakouts spanning 9 albums. One of those breakouts was the concert debut of Speed River. This brings the band up to 60 different songs in the current rotation, a number that is undoubtedly going to rise. Tomorrow is an off-day before hitting the province of Quebec for three shows beginning in Montreal at Metropolis on May 1st & 2nd followed by a May 3rd date at Le Capitole in Quebec City. Will we shake our Little Bones? Will there be a Nautical Disaster along the Saint Lawrence River?

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Center In The Square - Kitchener, ON 04/28/2009

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The Tragically Hip
Center In The Square
04/28/2009
Kitchener, ON

Set I
Love Is A First
Poets
Goodnight Josephine
Ahead By A Century
The Depression Suite
It Cant Be Nashville Every Night
Morning Moon
Fully Completely
The Last Recluse
Courage
Springtime In Vienna


Set II
Thompson Girl @
Flamenco @
Music@Work @
Now The Struggle Has A Name
Queen Of The Furrows*
In View
Eldorado
Bobcaygeon
The Dark Canuck
Family Band
Blow At High Dough

Encore
Throwing Off Glass
Fifty Mission Cap


*First Time Played
@ = Acoustic
Bold = Tour Breakout

The boys continue to juggle the setlists with 10 tour breakouts occurring tonight. This show also saw the first live tour performance of Queen of the Furrows. 48 different songs have been played from The Hip catalog thus far.

Centre In The Square - Kitchener, ON 04/27/2009

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The Tragically Hip
Center In The Square
04/27/2009
Kitchener, ON

Set I
The Depression Suite
In View
Coffee Girl
Twist My Arm
Morning Moon
It's A Good Life If You Don't Weaken
Escape Is At Hand For The Travelin' Man
Honey, Please
Tiger The Lion
At the Hundredth Meridian
Love Is A First*

Set II
The Bear@
Wheat Kings@
Fireworks@
The Last Recluse
Poets
As Makeshift As We Are
Inevitability Of Death
Yawning or Snarling
Flamenco
Puttin' Down
Now The Struggle Has A Name*
Locked In The Trunk Of A Car


Encore
The Exact Feeling
On The Verge

* = Frist Time Played
@ = Acoustic
Bold = Tour Breakout

2 More Tragically Hip Shows Announced

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The Tragically Hip have announced 2 more shows to their 2009 tour calendar, both coming in August.

The first takes place on Aug 1, 2009 in North Bay, ON as part of the North Bay Waterfront Festival. The $50 one day pass will get you in to see The Hip headline the Saturday show along with opening acts Skydiggers and Attack In Black. This show will be one set and not in the format of "An Evening With...".

Info from www.thehip.com:

Saturday August 1st
The Tragically Hip
with special guests Skydiggers and Attack In Black
North Bay Waterfront
North Bay ON
Doors at 4pm

Tickets are $50.00 for a day pass, or $80 for a three day weekend pass.
Note: Festival line up for Friday July 31 and Saturday August 2 to be announced May 22. The Hip will perform on Sat Aug 1 only.

Fan Club Presale will run Tues April 28 at 9am thru Thurs Apr 30 at 9pm

Fox Radio and Big Daddy Radio Presales – Wed April 29 at 9am – Thurs April 30 9pm

Public on sale:
Tickets go on sale Fri May 1st at 9am. Get your tickets online at www.Ticketbreak.com or visit Music City (North Bay), Erma’s Variety (North Bay) and Records On Wheels (Sudbury).


The 2nd show takes place on Aug 7, 2009 at the South Okanagan Events Centre in Penticton, BC. This will be "An Evening With..." show. Registered members at www.thehip.com get get in on the pre-sale April 28, 2009 with radio pre-sale beginning on April 29th and a public on sale date of May 2nd.

Author's note: If you have any interest in seeing this band and are not a member of their website, do yourself a favor and sign up. To not do so is just retarded. Just saying...

Hip to Rock the Rock

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The Tragically Hip have announced a concert date in St John's, Newfoundland.

July 2nd, 2009 at Mile One Centre.

More Atlantic Canada dates will be announced soon.

The Music Hall - Toronto, ON 04/24/2009

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The Tragically Hip
The Music Hall
04/24/2009
Toronto, ON

Set I

The Depression Suite*
In View
Fireworks
Coffee Girl*
Eldorado
New Orleans is Sinking
Honey, Please*
Stay
Lonely End of the Rink
Grace, Too
Country Day*


Set II

The Bear* @
Titanic Terrarium @
Ahead By A Century @
Morning Moon*
Poets
Pigeon Camera
It Can't Be Nashville Every Night
The Exact Feeling*
Fully Completely
The Last Recluse*
Family Band
My Music @ Work


Encore

Escape Is At Hand For The Traveling Man
Tiger the Lion


* = First Time Played
@ = Acoustic
Bold = Tour Breakout

We Are the Same #1 at HMV

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The following is HMV Canada's top 10 CDs based on national sales for the week ending April 7.

CDs

1 We Are the Same - The Tragically Hip


2 Sentiments Humains - Pierre Lapointe

3 Fantasies - Metric

4 Quiet Nights - Diana Krall

5 R.O.O.T.S. - Flo Rida

6 Defying Gravity - Keith Urban

7 Live in London - Leonard Cohen

8 The Fame - Lady GaGa

9 Fork in the Road - Neil Young

10 Unstoppable - Rascal Flatts

Tragically Hip: Live at the Bathouse - Review

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by mrjackstraw


We battled the harsh April weather on a cold blustery Monday night to go and see The Tragically Hip's live HD presentation from their famed Bathouse studio in Bath, Ontario. Somehow it seemed appropriate. Fans from across the nation were invited into The Hip's digs for the first time to see where and how it all goes down. George Stroumboulopoulos facilitated the interaction between the band and us fans who were nestled into theatres across Canada and, speaking for myself, happily buzzed and excited at the possibilities.

The band opened the show standing facing each other in a small front room with The Depression Suite: The Rock, NewOrleansWorld, Don't You Want to See How it Ends?
a track that measures 9+ minutes on the new album made up of the above listed three sections. Keyboardist Jim Bryson joined the band as he will on their upcoming tour. After a welcome from George and the band we were treated to the beautiful opening track Morning Moon.

The cameras began to move through the house and George had a few words with the on site sound engineer as the band members came one by one into this room. Gord went on to relate to those of us in the Movie-aters just what the house meant to him and the band and how they had over time build this nest in which to create.

The opening strums from Thompson Girl could be heard in the background and Gord led the cameras into the Kitchen where they had originally worked out the arrangement for the song. The instruments were stripped, especially the drum kit allowing for a more back-to-the-basics approach to working through songs. As if to demonstrate this The Hip played an acoustic version of Music@Work that I hope they keep. Or at least never let us know what version we might get.

Strombo interviewed the rhythm section of Johnny Fay and Gord Sinclair and they went into how they learned together and what an honor it was to be playing together all these years. Gord also talked about the importance of making each show a stand alone event and how diverse setlists were needed. Thank you Gord Sinclair! I could not agree more and am currently even more excited for the upcoming tour. There was also a huge chalk board on the wall with a list of chores, hotels where people were staying and Jimmy O's phone number. I wonder if anyone called him? Anyways, I think every kitchen should have one of these. Household organization baby!

George Stroumboulopoulos led the camera up the stairs and past a lot of original art pieces from various Tragically Hip albums. There was a huge wall hanging of the Fully Completely cover and the charcoal drawing from Day for Night were in the upstairs hallway. I remember thinking of the old house across from the Ford's Theater in Washington, DC where they brought Abraham Lincoln to die in peace after he was shot. I was there less than a month ago and it was preserved just as it was for all of us today to see. Will the Bathouse ever be a tourist attraction? Preserved as it is today to become one of those wacky Canadian culture landmarks? Aah weed.

Along with bedrooms upstairs for whoever needs to crash, there is also a cozy pool/snooker room. George was in there with Robby, Paul and Gord aka The Three Strings. They shot the shit about band life, working together for all these years and the difficulties of a being in a long term relationship. It was during this point that the first random audience request came in. With just two acoustic guitars and Gord in the room I was thinking the randomness had to be limited to a song like...Bobcaygeon. And so it was. What made this version unique was that Gord sand it while shooting snooker with Strombo. He sat. He stood. He shot. He made a combo shot! All while singing. The game wasn't even close. Strombo got killed. The guitarists had to duck out of the way as they played to accommodate the shooters. Good stuff.

Next we were introduced to a guy who wrote the band as a fan and asked for a job. I should have done that. He's seen everything they've done since 1992 and wears many hats. Fans rarely get to see the so-called support staff of their favorite bands. You gotta feel that along the way these people have influenced little things here and there having an impact on the evolution process. Rock and Roll: You know what I'm saying! I didn't get his name so feel free to let me know.

Above the garage is a new area to the Bathouse that the band refers to as The Loft with lots of space for the band to throw down. The band plays Coffee Girl followed by The Last Recluse and both sounded great and should have nice careers inside the Hip's cannon. Back we go to audience requests and the call come in for Escape Is At Hand For The Traveling Man. Giddy up! Feel free to play this one whenever I'm in attendance. That's 3 from Phantom Power if you're keeping score at home. Love Is A First comes next and from my point of view is poised to become a live monster.

Another random fan request is honored in the way of Courage. Strombo mentions that this is his and the crew's request as well causing me to raise an eyebrow as to the randomness of these random requests. Whatever. It's out of my hands. If it was in my hands they would have played The Luxury. Ho ho. Gordie mentions a store in Kensington Market here in Toronto called "Courage My Love" but says he couldn't say that so he changed it to "Courage, my word".

My favorite song came next. Track 5 on We Are the Same: Now the Struggle Has a Name. This one's a keeper in my books. Beautiful, beautiful song. At the end of the song Gord looks out the window and the camera pans back to the outdoor fire pit depicted on the album cover. We are done. As the credits roll the band goes into another song. I'm not sure which one.

Thanks to the band for giving us, the fans, a little glimpse of your world. It's like we finally made it into the secret clubhouse. The 2009 tour should be fantastic. There is some great new material here that the boys will be working with and the addition of a touring keyboardist will bring more textures to the music and allow for some new arrangements to some older material keeping it fresh for us and them.

Live From the Bathouse - Setlist:

The Depression Suite
Morning Moon
Thompson Girl
Music@Work
Bobcaygeon
Coffee Girl
Last Recluse
Escape Is At Hand For the Traveling Man
Love Is A First
Courage
Now the Struggle Has a Name




"Don't you want to see how it ends? The door is just starting to open."

New Tragically Hip Dates Announced

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The Tragically Hip have announced some additional dates for their 2009 tour.

May 19 Toronto, On Massey Hall
June 19 Victoria, BC Save-On-Foods Memorial Centre
Sept 13 Edmonton, Ab Northern Alberta Jubilee Auditorium
Sept 30 Hamilton, On Hamilton Place
Oct 2 Hamilton, On Hamilton Place

For registered users on www.thehip.com, tickets go on sale at 10am local time April 6, 2009. General public on sale date is April 9, 2009. The same parameters apply.

Buffalo News - We Are The Same Review

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The Buffalo News' Jeff Miers penned a nice review of The Tragically Hip's new album: We Are the Same. Obviously Buffalo is one of the American hotbeds for The Hip who regularly sell out arena sized shows like they do here in Canada.

I have a similar view to Jeff in that this is a band I have watched evolve album to album over the years and while it may not have always been better, it was always an effort not to rest on their laurels or to recreate a recipe that worked for them in the past. Just as a hockey player gets better with time so has The Hip and now in Bob Rock they have what's akin to Scotty Bowman guiding them towards the promised land.

Here's a bit from the review...

If “World Container” at the very least reached the high watermark left by the group’s previous best – say “Road Apples,” “Fully Completely” and “Trouble At the Hen House,” or pick your own favorites, if you must –it also suggested that there was much good work left to be done. An optimist might have felt the twinge of new beginnings, even if the more rational mind insisted that the Hip had nothing to prove, and could simply rewrite “New Orleans Is Sinking” once or twice per album for the rest of its days without offending anyone.

“We Are the Same” blows all of this conjecture out of the water. It’s more than a brave record from a band that could easily coast from today ‘til retirement –it’s a necessary record, one that goes above and beyond.


To read the full article go here.
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