Use it up
New Orleans
Fully Conmpletely
Bobcageyon
Nautical Disaster
Silver Jet
Daredevil
It's a good life
At the 100th meridian
Springtime in vienna
Dark Canuck
Poets
All tore up
Locked in a trunk of a car
Wheat Kings
Little bones

Encore 1:
And Grace too
Are you ready

Encore 2
Blow the high dough


great show at tivoli, 2nd time i saw the hip live. Somebody with the setlist? Also i'm looking voor some live shows. I've been to paradiso in Amsterdam in june 2000 and last night in Tivoli...For both shows i'm looking for a good bootleg recording. Dont have hip to trade but lost of springsteen and some Neil Young too... if interested in some trading, contact me, check my tradelist at
http://home.tiscali.nl/janhoekstra/Brucecollection.htm

thanx
Jan


Hey there,

Nice site! Here's some input from holland, hope you like it.

Last sunday I wend to another great Hip show and I was standing about 50 cm from the stage, surrounded by Canadians, ('cos hardly anybody knows the Hip around here...)

Anyway I was lucky enough to grab the setlist straight after the show. Which you will see attached.

I wonder the following: "Tele" is probably the telecaster guitar, but what are "TOB", "Sun" and "AC"?? Thanx in advance.

Another question: Last tour (The Tivoli, Utrecht, Netherlands  May 11th, 1997 ) I got an autograph of GD halfway during the show. While he was signing (the Day for Night inlay), he started talking to me, someting like "I'm signing this guy's tuition fee....etc.etc" (Can't really remember what he said) After the song he had some more remarks and jokes.

If you ever listen to that tape again and you come by that part, could you please write out what he's saying? (Maybe you have the possibility to put it on MP3 even...)

Thanking you in advance,

Best regards,
Eric Maree,
Baarn, Netherlands
<maree_e@dds.nl>

Hello,

First of all, thanks for your most excellent Tragically Hip page. I think you've put a lot of work into all the info there and they're a great band, so it should be worth it.

Second: I think there should be a really good, detailed review of the Tivoli show on your page. So I'm gonna write it, here goes. If you don't want to use it, that's OK, I'm sending it as a description to my friends and family back home.

This was the show in Utrecht, Sunday, Nov. 10, 2002. The Tivoli is a cool venue, an old cinema that is now a club in the heart of Utrecht along the city's old canal. It fits about 1,000 people, or fewer, which
makes it the smallest Hip show I've ever seen. Being from Toronto, I'm used to seeing them in hockey arenas and concert parks.

I was right up front: a hands-on-the-stage experience. The opening act, Jeff Trott, was pretty good and I
think the crowd was pretty respectful to him. The Hip got on the stage about 9:15 or so and played until
about 11:15.

Someone has already posted the set list here, so I won't get into it in detail. They played New Orleans
is Sinking second, which was kinda early in the show and it didn't have the same sort of energy I usually
associate with that song. I figure they wanted to get it out of the way. Other than that the show had a lot
of energy.

They mixed a surprising amount of old material in with the new, the last couple tours I've seen from them
relied much more heavily on their latest album. I thought the new stuff sounded great live, especially
the guitars in Silver Jet. The band played a high-speed, slightly manic version of 100th Meridian with an interlude, which was one of the high points of the night.

A couple comments about Gord Downie: He was having a bit too much fun with his microphone stand, using it as a horse; tipping it over and then bring it back up again until, at one point, it actually fell right
over. He picked it up and started yelling at it. All I could decipher was something like "You're a
microphone, MI-CRO-PHONE. I'm never listening to you again."

He also sweats a lot. I knew that from the fact that this is my 10th or 11th Hip show (I've lost count
and, even from the greys in Maple Leaf Gardens you can see the sweat flying off the tip of his nose. However, I never realized just how much that man sweats on stage until I was two feet away. His shirt was soaked right through and dripping on to his pants. I wanted to throw him my absorbant jacket to dry him off a bit. I know he works hard for the crowd so I'm not complaining.

The crowd at the Tivoli was great. There were a surprising number of Dutch people there. I would say
more than half -- much more than half. Apparantly the Hip have a big cult following in the Netherlands. I
talked to a guy who had seen them 50 times. The girls around me were all wearing Hip T-shirts and knew the words to all the songs. That contrasted with the Canadians, who were all wearing Canadian t-shirts
(myself included) and yelling things like "go Leafs go."

The band came out for two encores, which, if I'm not mistaken, they haven't been doing that much on this
tour. (The Brussels show I saw they only did one.) Although they skipped a song in the first encore and
came out to sing it in the second. Somehow the band switched Music at Work for Blow at High Dough as their final song. Not sure why, but it rocked anyway and the crowd was definitely having a good time with that old favourite.

All in all, it was an excellent show. Sometimes I forget how good that band is and why I love to see
them live. It becomes a bit addictive and I've had to restrain myself to seeing only two shows on this tour.
My bank account just won't allow it.

Another note: I talked to some Canadians at the show who had bumped in the band in Utrecht earlier that
day. They didn't have tickets and asked the band if it was possible to get some tickets to the sold out show. The band said sure. Nice guys. I love that.

Cheers,
Tammy
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