For those of you who may have missed the news;  the HIP are in
the middle of a full-fledged tour of small venues in the NE area
of Canada.

On Wednesday, May 9, 1996 they preferormed in Barrymore's Music
Hall.  I was in attendance and am now quite inebrieated... so if
some of the typing is a little off please forgive me.

I didn't catch the name of the openers.. they were from K-town
and were masterful... the bassist was reminiscient of shaggy from
scooby-doo and the sound was sort of a PRIMUS thing (primus
sucks!!!), anyways, back to my story...

The opening band rocked... and then the HIP came on stage... the
set list was as follows:  (I am transcribbing b/c I managed to
rip off the list)
        "Gift"shop
        "Coconut" ...
        "Grace,"  too
        "Let's stay" engaged
        "Flamenco"
        "Spring" ...?
        "Nautical" Disaster
        "Put It Off"
        100th "Meridian"