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Tag Archives: 2007
SETLIST: 2007-03-10 – Buffalo, NY
01: Family Band
02: New Orleans Is Sinking
03: The Drop Off
04: The Dire Wolf
05: In View
06: Ahead By A Century
07: Gift Shop
08: Fly
09: Fireworks
10: World Container
11: Fiddler’s Green
12: Luv (Sic)
13: At The 100th Meridian
14: It’s A Good Life If You Don’t Weaken
15: The Kids Don’t Get It
16: Wheat Kings
17: Yer Not The Ocean
18: My Music At Work
Encore
19: The Lonely End Of The Rink
20: COVER: “1979” by The Smashing Pumpkins
21: Fire In The Hole
SETLIST: 2007-03-09 – Buffalo, NY
Town Ballroom, Buffalo, NY
01: The Lonely End Of The Rink
02: Courage
03: The Drop Off
04: Boots Or Hearts
05: In View
06: Bobcaygeon
07: Last Night I Dreamed
08: Nautical Disaster
09: Pretend
10: Long Time Running
11: Luv (Sic)
12: At The 100th Meridian
13: 38 Years Old
14: The Kids Don’t Get It
15: Springtime In Vienna
16: Scared
17: Yer Not The Ocean
18: Blow At High Dough
19: Family Band
Encore:
20: COVER: “Can’t Explain” by The Who
21: Fully Completely
22: Little Bones
Review: Democrat & Chronicle on 2007-08-08 – Rochester, NY
Democrat
Concert review: Tragically Hip grab you, don’t let go
Jeff SpevakStaff music critic
(March 9, 2007) —
A rock band ripping on all cylinders in front of a beered-up crowd is an awesome sight. You’re not a spectator, you’re a participant. It’s like feeling the engines at Daytona, as hands-on as dissecting your first worm in biology class. It’s visceral.
That was the Tragically Hip on Thursday night, as the tall, multi-paned windows of the Harro East Ballroom frosted over with the breath of a sold-out crowd of 1,100. There was no showing of hands, but judging by the unusually high number of hockey jerseys, much of the crowd was likely Canadian, having made the trip here to get an intimate look at their fellow countrymen, who are a much bigger band on the other side of the lake.
Opening with “End of the Rink,” from their excellent new album World Container, every aspect of why the Tragically Hip remain one of the finest live bands touring after more than two decades was evident. It is loud: perhaps too loud for the room on this night, but as the night soars on, your ears grow comfortably numb, and the beer cups seem to get smaller with each round. The Hip is a basic, five-piece rock band, but it never resorts to tricks or gimmicks to augment its sound. It can groove, or lend “The Kids Don’t Get It” a circus-monkey parade beat. It’s like watching one of those clocks in the public square of a German town, with every piece always whirring and spinning, never pausing.
Each piece has been in place for virtually the entire life of the band, and they all look untouched by the journey: guitarists Rob Baker and Paul Langlois, bassist Gord Sinclair, drummer Johnny Fay. But the piece that refuses to let go of you is Gordon Downie, who is as interesting to watch as any front man in rock today. You think of R.E.M.’s Michael Stipe, with all of the posturing and dramatic cocking of the head. Or Coldplay’s Chris Martin, with all of that leaping about.
But no one is more manic, or more eccentric, than Downie. He looked like a beatnik in his black outfit, prancing, flipping the microphone about, uttering non sequiturs, dancing as though tuning in frequencies from another planet. “I remember you,” he exclaimed after reciting a handful of names. “That’s why I dance, to forget.”
With the soaring “Grace, Too,” the Hip was as good as it would get this night. A black bra was flung to the stage, and Downie snagged it and stared at it lovingly, as though this was the reason they had chosen to become rock stars. He stuffed it under his shirt for a few moments, then pranced about the stage, waving it in the air as though he were wrapped up in a private pagan lap dance.
“Sometimes when a bra comes up onstage,” he said after the song, “I think to myself, ‘We ought to do a couple more.’ “JSPEVAK@DemocratandChronicle.com
SETLIST: 2007-03-08 – Rochester, NY
Harro East Ballroom, Rochester, NY
01: The Lonely End Of The Rink
02: New Orleans Is Sinking
03: The Drop Off
04: Daredevil
05: In View
06: Ahead By A Century
07: Fly
08: Poets
09: World Container
10: Fiddler’s Green
11: Luv Sic
12: At The 100th Meridian
13: Pigeon Camera
14: Kids Don’t Get It
15: Grace, Too
16: Wheat Kings
17: Yer Not the Ocean
18: Blow at High Dough
19: Family Band
Encore:
20: Pretend
21: Escape Is At Hand For The Travellin’ Man
22: Fire in The Hole
WBER interview
WBER :: The Only Station That Matters
Listen to WBER this afternoon between 3:00 and 4:00 P.M. when The Hip stops by WBER for an interview with Cyclone in honor of their sold out WBER show tonight at the Harro East Ballroom!
Here’s the interview for those that missed it.
Miers on Music by Jeff Miers: Tragically Hip pre-game
Miers on Music by Jeff Miers: Tragically Hip pre-game
March 05, 2007
Tragically Hip pre-game
The Tragically Hip release “World Container” Stateside on Tuesday, and come to Buffalo for a two-night stand at the Town Ballroom, beginning Friday night. For fans of the band, every Hip show is a new experience, a chance to see Gordon Downie ride the crest of his creative genius in real time, and an opportunity to hear rarely-played songs, interesting covers, or even tunes getting their “in-concert” debut. So what makes a great Hip show? Are there songs you must hear? Others that interupt the flow of an otherwise great gig? Is there any one song the appearance of which early on in the set spells a great show to come? In Friday’s Gusto, which will feature my recent interview with Gord Downie, I’ll offer my fantasy Tragically Hip set-list. In the meantime, let’s hear about some of your own favorite past sets, and criteria for the “perfect” Hip set.
For a data-base of past Hip set-lists, visit www.Hipbase.com.
The Leafs and the Hip
The Leafs and the Hip
by Jody Vance
–mapleleafs.commentator
March 5, 2006
Certainly watching the Leafs in HD is reason enough to order LeafsTV but we are upping the ante in March. Make sure you are dialed in March 6th and 16th.
Both games feature one of the premier players in the game in Washington’s Alex Ovechkin but it’s also the debut of our much anticipated series titled “The Hip and Hockeyâ€.The Tragically Hip and The Toronto Maple Leafs finally come together officially on LeafsTV.
These two quintessential Canadian treasures are woven into the fabric of our Nation. Think about it, it would be tough to find a Canadian hockey fan who can’t sing a few lines from “50 Mission Cap†– the story of Bill Barilko – or any of the many hockey anthems penned by Gord Downie and company.The band lives for hockey and in our series they will share fantastic stories that prove their passion for the game. From the rink they built off of their studio in Kingston to the tale of their tour in Mexico when they twisted the arm of a bar owner to switch his satellite from soccer to the Leafs game. It is no surprise that this Kingston band have become synonymous with The Toronto Maple Leafs … rarely is the blue and white not represented en masse at Hip shows.When you watch “The Hip and Hockey†on LeafsTV you will see first hand just how much this game means to the band – PLUS you will hear from TML Players who feel the same way about The Hip. Late last year we had exclusive “all access†of the band’s sound check for their sold out show at The Phoenix. We rounded up a few boys from the Leafs to come along and of course the result was something special. Take Andrew Raycroft for example. Here’s a Bellville/Kingston boy who grew up on a steady diet of the Hip. Then consider this … Gord Downie, typically very camera shy, became a kid in a candy store when he met his idol in Andrew. Yes, Downie is a Bruins fanatic. (He is forgiven of this due to the fact that Harry Synden is Gord’s god-father). Suffice it to say Mr. Downie was just as in awe of Raycroft as the goalie was with the rock star.
Here is a “taste†of The Hip and Hockey coming soon to LeafsTV.
The Hip at The Calgary Exhibition (aka The Calgary Stampede!)
Ticketmaster and The Calgary Exhibition confirm that The Hip will be performing this year. Tickets go on sale Saturday, March 17.
thehip.com PreSale:
Start: Tue, 03/13/07 10:00 AM MDT
End: Wed, 03/14/07 10:00 PM MDT
Three More Days….
On March 6 World Container will be released in the US; as most/all of the really hard core US fans already have the album, it will be interesting to see how it sells (assuming that we can get some hard numbers).
As well, for any of our US readers, please post in the comments if you see World Container for sale at your local record shops; or if you see/hear any promotion for the record. (And of course feel free to post your reviews of the album in the comments.)