Hip Tour: June 2012

2012/06/28: Jackson Triggs Winery, NOTL - Setlist

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The Tragically Hip
Jackson Triggs Winery
Niagara-On-The-Lake, ON
2012/06/28

Via @OldManStevenson

Set I
At Transformation
Grace, too
Bobcaygeon
Love Is A Curse
Man Machine Poem
At the Hundredth Meridian
Ahead By A Century
In View
The Last of the Unplucked Gems
Gift Shop
Streets Ahead
Fireworks
Poets
Courage
It's A Good Life If You Don't Weaken
New Orleans Is Sinking
My Music At Work

Encore I
Wheat Kings
Attawapiskat
Little Bones

Encore II
Blow At High Dough

Here's the setlist from last night at the Jackson Triggs Winery in Niagara-on-the-Lake, ON. Another greatest hits show for the fan club...

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National Post Hip Week: Borderline Success

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Here's the latest article from the National Post's 'Tragically Hip Week' series... I hate this subject. It makes no sense & it doesn't matter. The Hip play to the size of crowds in The States that thousands of band would give their left nut to be able to play to...

Borderline Success
Ben Kaplan - National Post

Is there any other band today that screams Canadiana so much as The Tragically Hip? The Kingston-brewed rockers kick off their summer touring season June 28, and to mark the occasion we’re spending this week in Arts & Life looking at all things Hip. Today: Ben Kaplan on why the band never cracked the U.S. market.

Robert Christgau began writing about music for Esquire in 1967. Thanks to his work in Playboy, Village Voice and Rolling Stone, the writer has earned his place among the most esteemed music critics in the world. In 2000, Christgau listened to Music @ Work by The Tragically Hip. He began his critique with two words: “Blame Canada.”

It’s a response not uncommon amongst American rock fans.

“We have pockets in the States where there’s great support, but there’s also an element of ‘every country supports their own,’ ” says The Tragically Hip’s guitarist Rob Baker, adding that the group can tour with an English act such as Stereophonics and swap headlining spots based on which side of the pond they perform.

Continue to full article HERE.

What about Bob?

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National Post Hip Week: Kings Of This Town

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Kings Of This Town
Source: Jesse Kinos-Goodin, National Post

Is there any other band today that screams Canadiana so much as The Tragically Hip? The Kingston-brewed rockers kick off their summer touring season June 28, and to mark the occasion we’re spending this week in Arts & Life looking at all things Hip. Today: Jesse Kinos-Goodin on how Kingston, Ont., embraces its hometown heroes.

When Gord Downie sings “12 men broke loose in ‘73, from Millhaven maximum security,” during a Kingston, Ont., performance, the hometown crowd loses its collective mind. After the initial yells, glowing cellphones and lighters normally fill the air as The Tragically  Hip frontman continues to tell the fictional story of a jailbreak from a prison in Bath, the small town just outside Kingston where The Hip also have a recording studio.

Despite lyrics saying that “one of the dozen was a hometown shame,” 38 Years Old, from the 1989 album Up to Here, is still a local favourite, says Doug Elliot, who worked with the band countless times over the years when he was music director at Kingston’s K-Rock radio station. Elliot, who is now program director of Oshawa’s The Rock 94.9, calls the five-piece band, consisting of Downie, guitarists Paul Langlois and Rob Baker, bassist Gord Sinclair and drummer Johnny Fay, “part of the fabric” of Kingston, and while he means that figuratively, it could also be taken quite literally.

Continue to full article HERE.

38 Years Old - Digital Lyric Art

National Post: Tragically Hip Week

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One of Canada's national newspapers is running a series of articles relating to the Hip in some way throughout the week.

Here's links to the first 2...

Rural Alberta Advantage on why ‘These Guys are Living History’

Is there any other band today that screams Canadiana so much as The Tragically Hip? The Kingston-brewed rockers kick off their summer touring season June 28, and to mark the occasion we’re spending this week in Arts & Life looking at all things Hip. Today: Nils Edenloff, lead singer of The Rural Alberta Advantage, on how the Hip influenced a generation of CanCon rockers.

I was in Grade 10 when a friend and I skipped school and headed five hours from Fort McMurray to Edmonton to see The Tragically Hip. I was aware of them, of course. They’re ingrained in the Canadian identity, but it was my first time seeing them live. I thought: this is who I am.

Music had already been such a large part of my life since I was a kid learning piano, but this was different, a turning point. Maybe it had something to do with the band’s command of the audience or the yarns that Gord Downie spins, I don’t know. But, as a kid looking to find who I was, it made an impression. You just reach an age where you don’t want to listen to what your parents listen to or what your friends tell you to listen to — you want something that makes you you.

Continue to full article HERE.

A Mighty Stage

After The Tragically Hip play a concert, there’s a tradition they’ve followed since the band became big enough — or perhaps, being honest, old enough — to worry about such things. They don’t disperse and head off separately to their hotel rooms or their families, and they don’t hang out all night with their fans. Instead, they hop on the bus and spend the post-gig rush together privately, as friends.

Continue to full article HERE.

I will link up the other stories as they are published.

Cheers!

Gord Downie Playing At Harvest Picnic - Sept 1, 2012

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Feist,

Emmylou Harris,

Daniel Lanois with Brian Blade,

Gord Downie and the Sadies,

Sarah Harmer, Mix Master Mike, Jesse Cook,

Brady L. Blade, Sr. and the Hallelujah Train,

& more!!

Live at the 2012 Greenbelt Harvest Picnic

Saturday September 1, 2012

Gates at 11AM - Show at 12PM

Christie Lake Conservation Area

1002 Highway #5 West

Dundas, Ontario

Tickets

Adults $69.50

Youth (10-16) $19.50

Children 9 and under are free

Tickets will be available online at www.ticketmaster.ca, all Ticketmaster® outlets or by calling 1-855-872-5000 beginning Saturday May 26th at 11 AM.

Tickets available online at www.ticketmaster.ca, Ticketmaster outlets or by calling 1-855-872-5000 or at Picks and Sticks, 140 Locke Street South, Hamilton or

Tickets can also be purchased at Picks and Sticks (905-528-6058), located at 140 Locke Street South, Hamilton or Dr. Disc (905-523-1010), located at 20 Wilson Street, Hamilton.

Tickets will also be available at Christie Lake on show day only (subject to availability).

NOTES:

Ticket price does not include parking. Parking $10.00, for speedy access to conservation area please have cash ready.

Christie Lake Conservation Area is open only to ticket holders for Harvest Picnic on September 1st.

No Animals or Dogs permitted to the park on show day.

General Info

To make the most out of your picnic experience, here are some quick tips:

Christie Lake is closed to the general public, on Saturday September 1st. You must have an event ticket to enter Christie Lake.

Glass bottles and pets are not allowed on the concert field.

A $10.00 parking fee, is payable at the gate upon entry into Christie Lake.

A disabled parking area is available for those with special needs.

Remember this is an outdoor concert and event and seating is not provided, so please remember your picnic supplies. Items to consider, coolers/cooler bags, lawn chairs, blankets, sunscreen, water bottle canisters, swimming gear, fishing gear etc.

Food and Beverage vendors will be placed throughout the event. You can also bring your own picnic lunch in to the park for the day.

Wine and Beer will be sold on the show field at the beer and wine tent. Visitors are not permitted to bring alcohol into the park.

Camping is not available at Christie Lake, however Valens Conservation Area is located 15 minutes (drive) away at 1691 Regional Road 97 (RR#6), Flamborough, Ontario 905-525-2183 or 519-621-6029. You can also book online at www.conservationhamilton.ca

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At Transformation - Music Video

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Hey, if you haven't had a chance to check this one out, do it now... Give it a like and a follow, etc, etc... 'At Transformation', the first single off The Hip's upcoming album "Now For Plan A" (working title).

As Makeshift As We Are - Lyrics

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Last played: 2009/04/27 Kitchener, ON
Debut: 2003/10/27 Whistler, BC
Notes: Since the 2004 'In Between Evolution Tour', it has only been played 4 times. 3 times in 2006 & once in 2009.

You do the combat math, I'm the war artist
You can't take your shots back, I have to watch them miss
The basketball rim shook like a tambourine
not an unlikely event in a game that means nothing
in a game that means nothing
Makeshift we are
lead never leaves your system no matter who you are
Makeshift we are
as makeshift as we are

You're a complex dune, I'm a cloud of octopus ink
You're an elusive tune, I'm more ice sculpture than I think
You're the neutral tribe and I got the wrong openness
Here's where I slowly close my eyes and say, "I'm too drunk for this."
Yea I'm too drunk for this
Makeshift we are
"Weakling Make Trouble" you played on your guitar
Makeshift we are
as makeshift as we are

we are. we are. we are.

the loneliest buoys on dolphin property
you're as quiet as a fish, I only sing for the whole sea
From memory metal tension springs we were gunsmoke and the truth
let's shake some snow off of his shoulders let's shake some snow off of the roof
Let's shake some snow off of the roof
Makeshift we are
occurring to each other under the setup of the stars
Makeshift we are
we imagine us here and here we are
Makeshift we are
through half-squinted eyes becoming a mirage
Makeshift we are

Next song: Mean Streak
Previous song: You're Everywhere

You're Everywhere - Lyrics

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Last played: 2006/06/17 Lewiston, NY
Debut: 2003/08/01 Kelowna, BC
Notes: Only played 30 times in concert according to stats at thehip.com and only once since the 2004 'In Between Evolution' tour. I caught 2003/09/06 show in Barrie, ON and was pretty excited about this 'new' song that I believe was introduced as "Ballroom". Would like to see this one dusted off...

You are everywhere, within and without
where it don't matter what we used to do now
where I feed my people when I get behind the plow
when I write the tiger hanging on by his eyebrows
somehow where the gang in me
is being all that it can be
somehow part hope is a plan
and part vigilante streak

When I reel my Irish in
when I sleep on the train
in straight lines through shadows you're there
where the future lies
under no moon at night
at the ballroom hanging you're there

You are there when I stop writing things down
and when I forget about who I am now
forget about who's kissing her who's behind my plow
now it's time to drown all of that poetry out
somehow where democracy
is how we all learn to sleep
with ourselves drawing to ourselves
everything we can carry

When I reel my Irish in
when I sleep in the rain
in straight lines through shadows you're there
where the future lies
under no moon at night
at the ballroom hanging you're there

There's no escaping this dream
We're dancing with no distractions

When I reel my Irish in
when I sleep on the plane
in straight lines through shadows you're there
where the future lies
under no moon at night
at a ballroom hanging you're there
you're everywhere

You're there
you're everywhere
You're there
you're everywhere

Next song: As Makeshift As We Are
Previous Song: If New Orleans Is Beat

The Tragically Hip @ Jackson Triggs Winery

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Here's the info direct from the horse's mouth....

Hi Folks,

Summer is fast approaching, and we are getting excited to get back on the road. To kick off the summer, we will be playing an intimate registered users show on June 28th, at the Jackson Triggs Winery, in Niagara On The Lake.

Here are the details:
An Evening with The Tragically Hip
Thursday June 28, 2012 Jackson Triggs Winery
2145 Niagara Stone Road Niagara-on-the-Lake, ON
Doors at 7:00pm, Show at 8:45pm
All Ages – General Admission Amphitheatre Seating
Rain or Shine
Limit of 2 tickets per person
Tickets are $85 Service Charges
Tickets On-Sale Wednesday June 6th @ 10:00am ET

Tickets are only available to be purchased by Registered Users of thehip.com

Instructions: Registered Users who log onto www.thehip.com at 9:00am on Wednesday June 6th will see an icon on the right side of the homepage with a password and link to purchase tickets. Major credit cards are the only method of payment accepted.

Jackson Triggs will also be offering a wide array of gourmet concessions - ranging from sausages and wood oven pizza to grilled corn on the cob and the Jackson-Triggs Burger Bar, as well as premium VQA wines. To avoid the line-ups, we are offering you the change to pre-purchase $25 worth of tokens.

Tokens will be available for pick up at the entrance gate to the concert bowl. Additional tokens can be purchased the night of the concert.
Visit www.jacksontriggswinery.com for directions and venue information.

Please note, tickets for this show will NOT be available at the venue’s usual ticket locations.

IMPORTANT INFORMATION :

NO HARD TICKETS WILL BE SENT OUT PRIOR TO THE SHOW DATES.

YOU WILL NEED TO ARRIVE BETWEEN 7:00PM and 8:00PM TO PICK UP YOUR WRISTBAND(S) FOR THE SHOW.

ONLY THE INDIVIDUAL WHO PURCHASED THE WRISTBANDS CAN PICK THEM UP.

ONCE YOU HAVE YOUR WRISTBAND(S), YOU MUST ENTER THE VENUE.

PHOTO ID OF PURCHASER AND CREDIT CARD USED TO MAKE THE PURCHASE WILL BE REQUIRED TO CLAIM YOUR WRISTBAND(S).

THERE WILL BE NO EXCEPTIONS TO THIS RULE. THIS RULE IS INSTITUTED FOR YOU, THE FANS, SO THAT TICKETS/WRISTBANDS DO NOT END UP IN THE HANDS OF TICKET RESELLERS.

WRISTBANDS ARE NON-TRANSFERABLE, AND NON-REFUNDABLE.

ONLY THE INDIVIDUAL WHO PURCHASED THE WRISTBANDS CAN PICK THEM UP. THE PURCHASER MUST BE A CONCERT ATTENDEE.

We will also be participating in the (RED) RUSH TO ZERO campaign in their fight against AIDS. Starting today at Noon ET (June 1, 2012) until June 10, 2012 you can bid on 5 pairs of tickets to the Jackson Triggs show. These seats will be located in the 5th row and centre, and are the only reserved seats for purchase to this show. Each person will also be given a bottle of Jackson Triggs Delaine Vineyard Syrah Red wine, which will be signed by the band. To bid on these tickets, go here. All proceeds from these tickets will go to (RED).

The Hip

Yep. That's 85 fucking dollars... hard to figure...

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