From The Ottawa Citizen

OTTAWA – Tragically Hip fans may think their next opportunity to see the band play live in Ottawa is at Bluesfest in July. Wrong.

Though fans can see the Hip play their annual Bluesfest date in July, the Citizen has learned that the Kingston band’s next public performance in the city will be next Saturday night, May 3, in Southam Hall of the National Arts Centre. The Hip are among the recipients at the Governor General’s Performing Arts Awards – the annual gala to honour some of the nation’s great artists – and sources say the legendary Canadian band will perform during the show.

This is uncommon. Most musical recipients at the awards do not perform. Typically, another musician will perform one of the recipient’s songs. For example, k. d. lang was a recipient in 2005 and did not perform, but one of her songs was performed by a rising young Canadian singer named Leslie Feist. One act that did perform was the Guess Who, honoured in 2002.

Recipients at this year’s gala include Eugene Levy, Anton Kuerti, Michel Pagliaro and others. Tickets for the gala are available through ticketmaster.ca, or at the NAC box office.

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Name: TTH: 2004-09-23 – Syracuse, NY
Size: 555.55 MB
Category: SHN/FLAC: Concerts
Uploaded by: chrisk

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The Tragically Hip

09/23/2004
Landmark Theater – Syracuse NY

Source: Sony ECM-DS70P Stereo Electret Condenser Mic on a Cap… -> Sony Net MD MZ-NF810 LP2
Conversion: Sony Net MD MZ-NF810 Line Out -> Audigy 2 Line In -> Vegas 4.0 WAV 16bits 44.1 kHz -> FLAC
Taped by Slacker17

Disc 1:
01. Vaccination Scar (3:04)
02. Grace Too (6:19)
03. Fireworks (4:10)
04. It’s a Good Life if you Don’t Weaken (5:04)
05. Summer’s Killing Us (4:08)
06. Courage (4:49)
07. As Makeshift As We Are (3:35)
08. Giftshop (5:15)
09. One night in Copenhagen (2:38)
10. It Can’t Be Nashville Every Night (3:18) Remember that Syracuse…
11. 100th Meridian (5:06) Because that was the deal…
12. If New Orleans is Beat (3:41)
13. Poets (5:20)
14. Meanstreak (3:57)
15. Fully Completely (3:59)
16. Nautical Disaster (4:42)
17. Heaven is a Better Place Today (3:09)

Disc 2:
18. Music @ Work (4:16)
19. New Orleans is Sinking (5:45) Encores
20. Gus (The Polar Bear from Central Park) (4:00)
21. Blow at High Dough (6:04)
22. Ahead by a Century (5:58)

Review: Man do I miss the good old days when 100th Meridian lasted for 20 minutes… Anyway, good show all in all. I was feeling weird all day, maybe it’s the US… We’ll see in Burlington!

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You can use the URL below to download the torrent (you may have to login).

http://www.thehiptracker.com/details.php?id=126&hit=1

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The fan forum at Hipbase.com has just completed an upgrade to phpbb3! Check it out now, and enjoy the new forum smell while it lasts.

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Name: Hipfans Grab Bag DVD :: Volume 1
Size: 3.47 GB
Category: DVD – Other
Uploaded by: chris

Description:
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Hipfans.com
Grab Bag DVD
Volume 1
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DVD Production:
Chris Kirkpatrick

Special Thanks to:
TLB – Tony The Lost Barilko
Moorthy – Bill Andrews
Shannon Warner
Disc Contents
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The Hip covering Limelight by Rush
1991 – Road Apples Promo
2004-11-21 – Grey Cup Halftime Performance
2004-11-22 – CBC Newsworld interview with Gord Downie
2004-12-08 – eTalk Daily interview with Gord Downie
2005-01-13 – Canada For Asia performances by The Hip & Rush

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Name: Hipfans Grab Bag DVD :: Volume 2
Size: 3.28 GB
Category: DVD – Other
Uploaded by: chris

Description:
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Hipfans.com
Grab Bag DVD
Volume 2
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Clip Assembly & DVD Production:
Chris Kirkpatrick

Special Thanks to:
Bill Andrews (Moorthy) – 2005 Juno’s footage
Scott Becker (srb) – SNL, New Music

Disc Contents
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1995 Saturday Night Live performance
1995 The New Music special
2005-04-02 – Juno’s performance

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Name: TTH: Hipfans.com Grab Bag Vol. III
Size: 3.73 GB
Category: DVD – Other
Uploaded by: moderator

Description:
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Hipfans.com
Grab Bag DVD
Volume 3
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Clip Assembly & DVD Production:
Chris Kirkpatrick

Special Thanks to:
Scott Becker (srb) – Ottawa footage
Keith Wilson – London footage

DVD Contents
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1988-07-01 – Ottawa, ON
1989-07-01 – Harris Park, London, ON

DVD ROM Contents
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1989-07-01 – London AUDIO FLAC format

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The Tragically Hip
Hipfans Grab Bag 4

A very special thanks to Jeff (rocketsan22) from the Hipbase, who mailed me a total of 5 vhs tapes, to transfer
to dvd. With the exception of the Fully Completely Promo, all other videos presented here were taken from his
tapes. The Fully Completely Promo was transferred from an original MCA Video vhs promo tape.

From Jeff’s tapes, 3 were compilation videos, 1 was a full concert, and the fifth had been a full concert at
one point, but had been taped over, leaving only the last 20 minutes available. I decided to include that
footage in this compilation, but if anyone has the full video for 2000-12-20 Buffalo, NY, I’m sure everybody
would love to see it shared

These videos are what have not been circulated on the hipTracker via the other grab-bag dvds, and present a great
look back to the early 90s when the band was quickly rising in popularity.

Enjoy, and keep sharing!

Cheers!

srb
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Lineage: ?gen vhs > Canopus advc300 > iMovie HD > iDVD [same lineage for all clips]

01. Video Hits 1990

This CBC show is a mixture of live footage, and interviews.
Parts of the following songs appear live in the video:

Three Pistols
She Didn’t Know
Blow At High Dough
When The Weight Comes Down
She’s Got What Takes
Everytime You Go
Another Midnight
New Orleans Is Sinking
Last American Exit
Smalltown Bringdown
Trickle Down
Gloria
All Canadian Surf Club (End Credits)

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02. Fully Completely Promo Video

Mixture of Interview & Live material.

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03. 1993-xx-xx (Juno Awards, Live via Satellite, Australia)

Locked In The Trunk Of A Car
People’s choice awards

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04. 1993-xx-xx (Rock’n Roll Summer)

Pro-shot Video from Another Roadside Attraction.

Courage (montage)
50 Mission Cap
Pigeon Camera
Fully Completely

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05. 2000-12-20 (Buffalo, NY)

Was only able to recover the last 20 minutes of the concert, which was a shame as it’s an excellent video.
Should anybody happen to have the full show, please share!

Nautical Disaster (cut-in)
Fire In The Hole
Bobcaygeon
Little Bones

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Name: Hipfans Grab Bag DVD :: Volume 5
Size: 4.14 GB
Category: DVD – Other
Uploaded by: chris

Description:
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Hipfans.com
Grab Bag DVD
Volume 5
Released May 2007

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Clip Assembly & DVD Production:
Chris Kirkpatrick

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Special Thanks to:
Corby Hart – www.uniquemotel.com
Scott Becker – scott.hipfans.com
Adrian Burden – www.onegeeksopinion.com

Disc Contents
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Corner Gas cameo (CTV)
2005 Junos (CTV)
Make Poverty History commercial
The Hour (CBC)
NUTV interview with Rob & Paul
The Q interview with Gord Downie
LeafsTV teaser
102.1 The Edge interview with Gord Downie
2007 Junos (CTV)
CNN interview with Gord Downie

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From: Canoe.ca
By KAREN BLISS — For JAM! Music
In many ways, Damhnait Doyle‘s new covers album is a riskier release than writing originals and putting them out there for all to judge. “Lights Down Low” takes precious songs such as The Tragically Hip’s “Bobcageon” and Cheap Tricks’ “I Want You To Want Me” and dares to mess with them.

“I know,” laughs Doyle, who had that exact conversation with her producer, Danny Michel, before embarking on the project.

“I love ‘Bobcaygeon’ and I think that Gord [Downie, The Tragically Hip's singer] is an incredible poet. His lyrics have so many levels and there is so much depth to them that they deserve an opportunity to live on in different incarnations,” says Doyle, who reworked the song into a lazy, lounge-y tale.

“Our fear was the hardcore Hip fans going, ‘What in the hell have you done?’ [laughs], but the best emails that I received on Facebook and MySpace are the ones going, ‘I’m the biggest Tragically Hip fan and I couldn’t believe you did ‘Bobcaygeon’ and then I listened to it and I liked it,’ and then by the third listen, they’re like, ‘Oh my God, I love this!’”

Of her quirky music-box-based arrangement and pained vocal of “I Want You To Want Me,” the Newfoundland native says, “That song I loved in high school. I remember just dancing around listening to that song, but when Danny and I got into making this record, I just thought about the vulnerability in that lyric. That’s just a sad, vulnerable song, and what he’s actually saying is so raw and it gets overpowered by the production in the original, so we just wanted to slow it down and strip it back to the lyric and the melody, and then Danny came up with this incredible music box thing.”

The key to Doyle and Michel’s success with the10 songs on “Lights Down Low” — including Foo Fighters’ “Everlong,” Bob Marley’s “Is This Love” and Roxy Music’s “More Than This” — is they do not sound like something you’d hear in a karaoke bar, at a Holiday Inn, or by an Idol contestant, and it takes a certain understanding of a song and a comfort with your own style to pull that off.

“We had a list of songs — I’d say half of the choices were mine and half of the choices were Danny’s — in terms of the initial suggestions,” says Doyle, who recorded it in Toronto where she lives. “There were some that we had to convince the other person to try, but once we decided to try a song, they all worked, every one.”

“Lights Down Low” is a low-key release. Distributed by Newfoundland’s Landwash Distribution because the bulk of the sales her manager, Sheri Jones, feels will be where Doyle is from, and using Toronto’s Adrian Strong at DMD Promo to work the ABBA cover, “Gimme Gimme Gimme (A Man After Midnight),” to radio, Doyle doesn’t have any grand plans to sell the album.

She performed a handful of the covers during the East Coast Music Awards earlier this year, and her booking agents, Richard Mills and Tom Kemp at S. L. Feldman & Associates, are looking at setting up some shows, but nothing is confirmed yet.

“Sheri’s more the person to talk to about how to sell this,” says Doyle. “The state of the industry right now, everything has completely changed. For me, it seems like everything is on the Internet, but I just made the album. I don’t really know what the best game plan is to sell anything. I just wanted to make something that was purely for fun, and something that I loved, and get a game plan after it was done.”

With the enormous career boost such artists as Jose Gonzalez received when his cover of The Knife’s “Heartbeats” was selected as the soundtrack to a Sony Bravia commercial and was spread virally around the world, Jones isn’t ruling out the possibility of something unexpected happening with any one of these covers.

“The thing is, you do everything you can with every record you put out, but the difference between this one and most is while we have a physical distributor, the emphasis for us with this record is on the Internet,” says Jones. “It was an affordable record to make, so it’s a bit of an experiment for us. We’re putting it everywhere we can online. We have a couple of online marketing people working with us and we’ll see if that really is a viable way to sell a record right now.

“A great song is a great song,” she adds. “So no matter how you interpret it, it’s still a great song and it’s a bonus what this is. Half of the people who hear it will feel an affinity for it because those songs were songs that they experienced as hits and other people will discover the songs. They will never have heard them. So we’ll see how many of those people we can connect with online.”

Doyle, who has been plenty busy writing for other artists the past six years, placing songs with Canadian Idol winners and finalists Brian Melo, Eva Avila, Rex Goudie and television show Instant Star’s Alexz Johnson, as well as working with her own group Shaye with Kim Stockwood, is finally getting back to writing for herself.

“I’m playing this solo record, and a couple of songs have made me really inspired,” she says. “I know I have a record inside of me of songs that I’ve written just by myself. I’m just focusing right now, and not writing so much for other people but just secluding myself and writing songs for myself for the first time in six years.

“When Kim and I do another record in the next couple of years,” Doyle adds, “I think that will be really be East Coast inspired. We’ll probably take a Stan Rogers song and a Ron Hynes song and maybe we’ll write a couple.”

As for The Hip song, the only Canadian cover on “Lights Down Low,” has she heard from the band regarding her version?

“I don’t think they’ve heard it,” she says. “It’s my intention to send it to them or to send it to Patrick [Sambrook], their manager, but I just haven’t gotten around to doing it yet. I told [drummer] Johnny Fay that I was going to do it. I said, ‘Wow, I can’t wait to hear it.’ They’re all nice guys. I’m sure even if they don’t like it. I think that they’ll pretend that they do, and that’s good enough for me [laughs].”

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