Just got home from the show...It was certainly kick ass!!! They played 2 encores. The crowd was really great. They got rid of a few idiots before the show started but once it did they just blew everyone away.

Here's a setlist in no order...just songs I remember

Use It Up
Dire Wolf
Dark Canuck
Good Life
Silver Jet
Are You Ready (1st Encore)
NOIS
Blow at High Dough
Fully Completely
Courage
Wheat Kings (Lighters came out, this was played first on the 2nd encore)
100th Meridian (Great middle...improv's galore!!!)
Little Bones!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (Last Song)
Three Pistols!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (1st Encore)
Poets (Gord was going totally nuts!!!!) Jumping everywhere!!!!!
Putting Down
Lake Fever (1st Encore)
Ahead by a Century
Gift Shop
IOD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I think there was a couple more. Round 2 tomorrow night!!!!!!

-Jamie I.



Setlist, in order

Use It Up
New O
Chagrin (with a great great Grace tease before hand...really cool intro
Fully
Bob C
Silver Jet
Courage (Gord thought it was suppose to be IOD... really funny)
IOD
Good Life
Poets
Puttin' Down
Dark Canuck
Meridian (something about Forgetting... something new perhaps?)
ABAC
Dire Wolf
Gift
Blow

E#1
Fever
Are You Ready
Pistols

E#2
Wheat
Bones

Quite the enjoyable show.Ý Only one song from Day For Night, surprisingly. This should make for a very interesting night two.

As well, before the first encore something was crossed out on Gord's setlist and Paul's guitar was re-tunned.Ý Wonder what was suppose to be played.

Usual fare on some of the extras.Ý Bring out your dead was heard in Poets, as was the Swim/Big Red Canoe outro.Ý As well, Gord started singing Pink Moon at the end of ABAC.

That's all for tonight.Ý Never ever riding the street car to that venue again!

Cheers,

PB



Rory,

It's late, 1:21 am, just got home from the amazing TO show at the Molson ampitheatre @ Ontario Place. I had enough beer, you had to on a humid night like this in Toronto! Needless to say I never can remember to much about the show, except that the "HIP" never fail to please! Unlike other shows I have reviewed on your site, Gordie had the gutar in his hands for the first song. The whole band put on a great show, and Gordie was on with his voice and some antics. He can be a little more wild and I expect that at tomorrows show. He seemed to have a sheepish grin on his face alot of the time, it made me chuckle! I had 20th row left, but there was a "very tame" general admission pit in front. It was the tamest G.A. I have ever seen, and I'm pushing close to 30 shows.I have the setlist in exact order for your fans, and a little prelude, I wanted to hear one song in particular before I entered after folowing the setlists through the tour so far, and 3 pistols was it, and boy did they come through for me! The stelist was great but I have seen better, also I think it might have been the first time I haven't heard one of my favs, grace too at a show! Anyways, I will supply you with the complete setlist in exact order, and this one was special, there was an extra encore I haven't seen as of yet on the tour, there was so much energy in the house as there always is in the grand Ol' city of Toronto! Cheers Rory, and your followers, I hope someone taped this show, I would love to hear it again, apart from the tidbits I phoned in to my cellphone voicemail. I also took some photos,lets hope they turned out so I can send some for the "coolist website" Great show Lads, here's the setlist
 

1. USE IT UP
2. NEW ORLEANS
3. CHAGRIN FALLS
4. FULLY COMPLETELY
5. BOBCAYGEON
6. SILVER JET
7. COURAGE
8. I.O.D.
9. GOOD LIFE
10. POETS
11. PUTTIN DOWN
12. DARK CANUCK
13. 100TH MERIDIAN ( SHORT RANT/ BROKE BACK IN FAST TEMPO )
14. A.B.A.C.
15. DIRE WOLF
16. GIFT SHOP
17. BLOW AT HIGH DOUGH (EXCELLENT)

ENCORE #1

18. LAKE FEVER
19. ARE U READY
20. *3 PISTOLS*

ENCORE #2(CROWD CHANTING INSANELY HIP, HIP, HIP, AS USUAL (LOUS AS HELL)

21. WHEAT KINGS
22. LITTLE BONES ( GORDIE LAY DOWN ON STAGE AT THE END, I WAS OUT OF FILM, SHIT!)

Looking forward to maybe pigeon camera, long time, and some other gems off up to here and road apples on friday night, take into con\sideration if you read this boys! (38 yrs. old)

Mike Dorricott



Phew... I'm exhausted... it's a long drive back to K/W, and I've got to (or rather, GET to) do it all again tomorrow....

A couple of people have already posted the setlist... seemed very similar to the Boston #1 show (except for the addition of a second encore!)... with the same energy from the band, but the extra 15,000 people listening to the band certainly made a difference... there were easily 4 or 5 different songs where the crowd drowned out Gord's singing...

PB mentioned the tease for Grace, Too before Chagrin... totally fooled me, then I heard the Chagrin riff coming out, and I still wasn't sure... I'm not a big fan of Chagrin normally, but it totally sucked me in, and Johnny's drumming was awesome (I'm really getting into that recently!)....

Bobcaygeon got the obligatory cheer for "... that night in Toronto".Ý You could see the band bracing themselves for the roar from the crowd.Ý Cool effect here with the backdrop (which had been pitch black to this point) lighting up like a night sky full of stars.Ý It came back during Giftshop & others...

Weaken was great... the crowd seemed really into it, except for the guy next to me giving Gord the thumbs down the entire song.

Dark Canuck came off well... I love seeing Gord all nice & calm for the first half of the song, and then start to spasm as part 2 kicks in.Ý Gord actually sat down at the edge of the stage on one of the monitors to sing one of the choruses (chori?) during the first part....

Meridian... awesome as always... Johnny kicking in the drums doubletime after "I remember every single f***ing thing I know....", and then into the "forget" jam that PB mentioned earlier.Ý I made a special point to remember some of the words - but they elude me now.Ý "Just forget..." was common... I remember "Just forget everything"... but there was more... it sounds like it's coming along nicely....

Loved hearing Lake Fever in the encore.Ý I'm surprised that song doesn't get a bigger reaction (but I want to hear The Completist anyways).... but they closed with 3 Pistols again!Ý Awesome!Ý I'm loving that they've added this song to the setlist... It's about time!Ý Just kidding...

And then the second encore... which may be the first of the tour?Ý I honestly thought they'd cap it off with Wheat Kings... but they launched into Little Bones, and Gord went nuts!Ý Towards the end of the song, he was singing, sprawled out on the floor... he went down to the floor quickly - sort of slow motion fall - Gord S. looked genuinely worried that he had hurt himself!

Awesome show... looking forward to tomorrow... I'm just wondering what there's left to play!

Got lots of pics from tonight's show... I'll get them up somewhere... Oh, and I've already found out that my pictures from Boston are linked to from the Hip's website!Ý Totally cool!Ý I know that happened thru the henhouse mailing list here... so thanks!

Ian



Friday, August 2, 2002

                                                       The band was Hip

                                                                By JANE STEVENSON -- Toronto Sun

                                                       TRAGICALLY HIP
                                                       Molson Amphitheatre. Toronto
                                                       Thursday, August 1, 2002
 

                                                          TORONTO -- It's hard to believe after 15 years of making
                                                       music out of Kingston, Ont., that last night was The Tragically
                                                       Hip's first appearance at the Molson Amphitheatre.

                                                       This helps to explain why the veteran Can-rock outfit's two
                                                       back-to-back shows at the lakeside shed this week sold out so
                                                       quickly.

                                                      That and the fact that the fearlessly patriotic fivesome -- who
                                                       inspire people to bring Maple Leaf flags to their concerts --
                                                       continue to be just so darn popular.

                                                       Now if they only could do something about their fans.

                                                       Let me be specific -- the obnoxious foursome of completely
                                                       uninterested people that I had the misfortune of having in front
                                                       of me last night.

                                                       They arrived late. They talked non-stop. They repeatedly got
                                                       up from their seats. They blocked the aisle. They laughed. They
                                                       smoked. They made out. They drank beer. They dry-humped
                                                       each other. They hi-fived.

                                                       The one thing they didn't do was actually listen to the music that
                                                       they had supposedly come to hear.

                                                       It was like they were at a party with The Hip in the background.

                                                       Even my friend's pleas to an usher to corral the behaviour of
                                                       these idiotic people fell on deaf ears.

                                                       And given the men were well in their forties while their dates
                                                       looked about half their ages, the excuse of reckless youth wasn't
                                                       available.

                                                       Mid-life crisis maybe.

                                                       Now that I have that off my chest -- because frankly, it's the
                                                       first time I've ever been at a Hip show and couldn't wait to leave
                                                       -- let me tell you about the band.

                                                       Touring in support of their latest album, In Violet Light, the
                                                       group -- led by charismatic frontman Gord Downie -- took about
                                                       three songs to find solid footing and a good sound mix.

                                                       And when they did, with the old chesnut Fully Completely, it was
                                                       like a bomb went off in the audience, who responded by jumping
                                                       to their feet and engaging in a full-volume singalong.

                                                       Material-wise, several new songs like Use It Up -- which turned
                                                       out to be a great up-tempo choice to kick off the
                                                       hour-and-45-minute show -- along with Silver Jet, It's A Good
                                                       Life If You Don't Weaken , The Dark Canuck and The Dire
                                                       Wolf stood up nicely alongside older fan favourites.

                                                       Still, set standouts proved to be such older barn burners as
                                                       Bobcaygeon, Courage, Poets, Putting Down , Ahead By A
                                                       Century and At The 100th Meridian.

                                                       The use of a starry-night background during some songs was also
                                                       a nice folksy touch.

                                                       Meanwhile, Downie, with guitarist and backing vocalist Paul
                                                       Langlois on one side of him and bassist Gord Sinclair and guitarist
                                                       Rob Baker on the other -- with drummer Johnny Fay keeping
                                                       the beat in the background -- was his usual entertaining self.

                                                       He's definitely restricted by the ever-growing presence of an
                                                       acoustic guitar but when he's free to move, few frontman can
                                                       match him in the interpretive dance department.



What a great show, most has already been said so I will be brief.ÝÝ I would just like to thank Highway Girl for giving me the ticket for the show, great seats.

I thought the dears were pretty good, I have a feeling that they would be a better album band or smaller venue.ÝÝ They really have a lot going on, 2 keyboardists, and then later on one of them played the cello, but it was hard to hear in that size venue.Ý I will definetly check them out.

Good to see The Watchmen again, they alway put on great show.Ý That is one band that needs a Greatest Hits Package.Ý They have a lot of great songs, and everybody knows them, they just dont own them on Disc.

The Hip were great, I finally got to hear Dark Canuck and it lived up to my expectations. Just reinforces my theory that they always put there best song as the last one on the album (Put it Off, Emperor Penguin,....etc.)Ý I was disapointed that nobody else was really into the song, perhaps nobody has got past the 5th track.Ý At the end when he said "everybody hands up" me and about 3 other people put up their hands.

The two cute red heads sitting in front of us had to be the best people to have in front of you for a concert.ÝÝ Good sense of humour, we joked around the entire show.Ý Kept making fun of Captain Canada up front.Ý Thanks for a great time Trish and Lisa, see you at n'sync.

Thanks again to Highway girl, enjoy the show tonight guys and gals.

Newport



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