At Transformation, Grace Too, Escape Is At Hand For The Travellin' Man, Man Machine Poem, Love Is A First, Gift Shop, Ahead By A Century, Streets Ahead, Flamenco, Poets, We Want To Be It, In View, Fully Completely, Bobcaygeon, NOIS > Nautical Disaster > NOIS, Blow At High Dough
Encore: My Music At Work, Fiddler's Green, At The Hundredth Meridian, Courage, Little Bones
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At Transformation, Grace Too, My Music At Work, It's A Good Life If You Don't Weaken, Love Is A First, Man Machine Poem, Gift Shop, Ahead By A Century, Poets, Long Time Running, In View, We Want To Be It, Fully Completely, Courage, Bobcaygeon, New Orleans Is Sinking
Encore: At The Hundredth Meridian, Streets Ahead, Thugs, Blow At High Dough
Notes:Good Life, Long Time Running & Thugs all made their first appearances of the summer. IAGLIYDW was played for the first time since 2013/02/01 Moncton, NB.
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At Transformation, Grace Too, Love Is A First, Man Machine Poem, Gift Shop, The Lookahead, Ahead By A Century, Streets Ahead, Poets, Daredevil, We Want To Be It, Fully Completely, Wheat Kings, New Orleans Is Sinking, Goodnight Attawapiskat, Fire In The Hole
Encore:
Blow At High Dough, At The Hundredth Meridian, Bobcaygeon, Courage, Little Bones
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At Transformation, Grace Too, New Orleans Is Sinking, Escape Is At Hand For The Travellin' Man, Man Machine Poem, Gift Shop, Streets Ahead, Ahead By A Century, Poets, We Want To Be It, In View, Fully Completely, Bobcaygeon, Nautical Disaster, Fire In The Hole, Blow At High Dough
Encore:
My Music At Work, At The Hundredth Meridian, Courage (For Hugh Maclennan), Little Bones
Notes: Tough setlist for those seeking rarities. Only 20 songs...
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At Transformation, Grace Too, Gift Shop, Man Machine Poem, In View, Ahead By A Century, Streets Ahead, At The Hundredth Meridian, Poets, We Want To Be It, Fully Completely, New Orleans Is Sinking, Nautical Disaster, Bobcaygeon, Little Bones
Encore:
My Music At Work, Wheat Kings, Courage, Blow At High Dough
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Tragically Hip fan Joshua Kloke has written about his experiences following the band around over the years in the form of a new book entitled "Escape Is At Hand - Tales Of A Boy And A Band".
Escape Is At Hand is the memoir of a young man’s twenty-year dedication to being a fan of The Tragically Hip and the world this band showed him. From dropping out of university to follow the band across Europe, to risking his health and sanity to ensure his footing in the front row is secure, Escape Is At Hand is sure to resonate not only with fans of The Tragically Hip, but with any passionate music fan.
There are no books available today dedicated solely to The Tragically Hip. With an extensive and intensely dedicated fanbase, this is the book that fans of one of Canada’s most recognizable musical institutions, The Tragically Hip, have been waiting for.
“Make no mistake, this is not a band biography, though the band plays a very large role in this book. This is a book written from the perspective of the other side of the stage. I wanted to give a voice to every fan that’s ever screamed as loud as they can, and simply had to be at the show.” – Joshua Kloke, author.
The book is now available for purchase through the publisher's website, Eternal Cavalier Press, and can also be purchased in person at the following locations:
Ordering online give the buyer and option to have the book personalized by the author, so that's something to keep in mind.
The launch party is taking place at Supermarket in Toronto's Kensington Market on June 24, 2013 at 7:30pm. (I know, Toronto gets all the good stuff, right?)
Hopefully if you're in Toronto you can make the time on Monday night to head down and support Joshua, have a couple and get your new book signed. Of course if you're like me and live no where close to The Big Smoke, an online purchase from HERE is the way you'll have to go.
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Setlist:
At Transformation, Grace Too, Escape Is At Hand For The Travellin' Man, Man Machine Poem, Gift Shop, Ahead By A Century, Streets Ahead, Flamenco, Poets, Daredevil, We Want To Be It, Fully Completely, Wheat Kings*, New Orleans Is Sinking > Nautical Disaster > New Orleans Is Sinking, Fire In The Hole, Goodnight Attawapiskat, Blow At High Dough
Encore:
My Music At Work, At The Hundredth Meridian, Bobcaygeon, Courage, Little Bones
*Gord Sinclair took a verse.
Notes: Tonight's setlist was a virtual clone of the 2013/01/23 Edmonton, AB show with Flamenco substituted for Eldorado and Daredevil taking the place of In View & The Kids Don't Get It. Daredevil was played for the first time since 2012/12/05 Spokane, WA which was also the last show where Ahead By A Century WASN'T played. Gord Sinclair took a verse of Wheat Kings.
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The HipTour Blog is proud to present our latest design offering in the "Fun With Songs" category: Hey There Coffee Girl. I know you know the song and the logo may be familiar to some of you. This design is done in the good-natured spirit of our previous releases for Cordelia, Little Bones, Something On and Pigeon Camera.
As always the t-shirts will be from the same manufacturer 'The Concert Tee' as the feedback I had received has been very positive. All shirts come pre-shrunk so bear that in mind when you order. The sizes are men's Tall, Grande, Venti and Trente. Of course that translates to medium, large, XL & XXL.
I don't normally stock women's sizes, but I may be able to work with you on this first order only. I have no plans to stock women's sizes at this point unless the demand becomes much more significant. These shirts are in 'pre-order' and I will pull the trigger fairly quickly on getting the first batch ordered and in here so that they can be shipped ASAP. Don't hesitate to contact me. I answer everything no matter how big or small and I manage the entire process.
Here's the logo in action on the shirt...
If you like the design any love you could give us on Facebook, Twitter & Google+ would be great... Maybe we can turn some coffee lovers onto the band we all love so much, eh? Cheers!
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The Tragically Hip are set to kick off their 2013 Summer Tour in a few weeks and while it's not as extensive as some tours past in terms of performance dates it is going to be extensive in total miles traveled. Currently there are 21 shows in 19 cities in 5 countries on 2 continents covering 24,240.6KM / 15,062.3MI as the crow flies from city to city. The average distance between shows is 1154.3KM and if you remove the one London, ENG show and 2 Vancouver, BC shows that are non-travel dates and the average distance jumps up to 1346.7KM between individual tour stops. Now it's not like all of this is packed into a month, but even at just under 3 months with down-time... that's fucking crazy. A travel agent's dream. A roadie's nightmare. I've followed bands on entire summer tours in the past and this one is pretty much undo-able from a fan perspective.
The 'Now For Plan A' Fall/Winter Tour was the least amount of touring off an album I can remember The Hip ever doing and this was coming off of two minimalist summer tour schedules in 2011 & 2012. There were only 39 shows for the entire tour that noticeably left out some major Canadian cities (Calgary, Ottawa, Vancouver, Quebec City & St. John's) and a good chunk of the US including the southeast, Florida & Texas. By comparison the 2009 'We Are The Same Tour' consisted of 88 shows including the European portion. Of course we've all heard of Gord dealing with his wife's breast cancer and who knows what else within the band's circles. Life happens to everybody. Also, the band is at a point where they can dictate their terms. They don't play for food & shelter.
So what are we going to see from the band this summer? Will it be a continuation of the type of setlists we saw this past fall/winter? Will it revert back to what happened over the past 2 summers of 2011 & 2012 which dare I say might have been the low point in the live concert careers of the band. The exact same uninspired setlist every night with little to no jamming, monologues and singing. I feel kind of bad for new Hip fans who just saw their first show either of the past 2 summers.
Blasphemy? No. Everything deserves to be compared to the entire body of work. The entire body of work in this case is the band's live career. I literally almost pulled the plug on this website when I saw replica setlists night after night. Seriously. Has there ever been a period in Hiphistory that you've ever seen anything like that? Even on off-touring years? And this all began a mere 5 years after the summer of 2006 which I thought might have been the band's strongest non-album touring period. Awesome setlist variety, net songs, a fresh order to things. Of course, as I mentioned above, there were circumstances at play which were playing out behind closed doors. It takes rehearsal time to carry around a large bag of tunes, even if you've been playing them for years and years.
I hope the summer of 2013 doesn't bring us what the past 2 summers have. Especially with the ticket prices that are being charged. These guys should be a 2 set band every night they play, but that's another topic altogether. What I'm hopeful of is that the cities in Canada that were denied a 'Now For Plan A' tour stop actually get a chance to see a deep cuts, solid Tragically Hip show as opposed to a festival/greatest hits setlist.
The NFPA Tour did go fairly deep. Not as deep as the WATS tour of 2009, but it was nice to see that the band could juggle a larger song rotation than they had been during the previous 2 summers. The shows were very solid. Gord sang the new songs.
Europe has always been an inspirational atmosphere for the band. I think a lot of bands feel like they can go over there and just let loose and throw a bit of caution into the wind and good results have usually followed. Dead '72. Phish '97. Hopefullt The Hip head back from their own European jaunt with some new inspiration... maybe a new song or two...
Montreal, Ottawa & Grand Falls run the biggest risks of getting the festival setlist treatment. I mean, Grand Falls for sure. The Hip have to open for another band in Canada that isn't The Stones or RUSH? I'd throw down all the hits, wind the crowd way up and say, "Follow that Eagles."
Most of the others could go either way. It's Vancouver that's the big question mark. The potential for a 3 day masterpiece is there. It's all going to depend on how the tour unfolds to that point. If they are dropping even 1 or 2 songs a night that are unique to that particular show on the summer tour they will roll into Vancouver with an arsenal of songs at the forefront of their consciousness that could lead to a pretty epic 3 night run at the gorgeous Orpheum Theatre.
If I'm writing setlists for a band with as deep a song catalog as The Hip and I know that a good chunk of the $100+/per ticket crowd will be there for the entire run there's no way I'm repeating a song at all. I mean it took Furthur 6 shows into their 9 show run at the Capitol in April before they repeated... The Hip can tear down the house at the Orpheum all three nights without repeating a song. I'll tell you what... we're going to design setlists to prove it. And we'll keep it realistic. We all know 'Highway Girl' ain't coming, so let's just put that one to bed. Stay tuned on this....
So what are you looking forward to this summer from The Hip? What shows are you going to? What do you want to hear that's old?... that's new? that's different? What do you love about The Hip concert experience? Hate? New fans - does the older catalog hold any cache with you? Old fans - are you down with the new stuff? What songs do you wish you could hear just one more time live?
There's a lot I'd like to see & hear from the band. We're go into making some fantasy setlists later and especially as we move towards the Vancouver shows. I'd really like to see them tour with a full time keyboardist. It bring more songs into the fold. Good songs. It also adds nice textures to some of the old song. I'd like more jamming too (and the keys would help with this too). I'm now talking jamband style here. Just a bit more of what got them here in the first place.
And Thirty-Eight Years Old. Like, just fucking play it. Why play Century or Bobcaygeon EVERY SINGLE NIGHT??? I mean, the fans love it....
SUMMER 2013 2013/06/20 Cobourg, ON 2013/06/22 Montreal, QC
2013/06/25 Antwerp, BE 2013/06/26 Utrecht, NL 2013/06/28 Hengelo, NL 2013/06/29 Amsterdam, NL 2013/07/01 London, ENG (FREE) 2013/07/02 London, ENG
2013/07/05 Cold Lake, AB 2013/07/06 Saskatoon, SK 2013/07/08 Estevan, SK 2013/07/11 Ottawa, ON 2013/07/13 Grand Falls, NFLD 2013/07/19 Buffalo, NY 2013/07/20 Aurora, IL 2013/07/25 London, ON 2013/09/06 Moose Jaw, SK 2013/09/07 Calgary, AB 2013/09/09 Vancouver, BC 2013/09/10 Vancouver, BC 2013/09/12 Vancouver, BC
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After a week off we are back with the 10th installment of our series of Tragically Hip Covers. The last 2 performances have featured soloists and this time we are back to an ensemble.
The Temps are a cover band out of Victoris, BC. Their home base seems to be the Irish Times Pub so if you like what you hear that's where you should head provided that you are in or have access to the city of Victoria.
The song itself is a pretty straightforward version. Nothing to crazy like some of the other covers that been featured. The singer has a nice voice and does add some of his own flair to the song which I think works well. I kinda wish Gord would go back to proper cadence when he sings most songs... especially if he's insistent on screaming as opposed to singing some of the older tunes. Anyway, it's nice to hear this song being sung for whatever that's worth.
I've included the band's contact info below the video. They have more videos up on YouTube so there may be some other cover songs that might interest you. As always, there's links to all of the past featured performances in 'The Hip Covers Project' and if you haven't seen them yet there's some good ones. Some are quite different than The Hip's original version. The 'Locked In The Trunk Of A Car' is still the acme for me, but who knows? Got a suggestion for a featured cover? Let me know. Want to do one yourself? Even better.
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