09/07/09: Centennial Concert Hall: Winnipeg, MB
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09/07/09: Centennial Concert Hall: Winnipeg, MB
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Re: 09/07/09: Centennial Concert Hall: Winnipeg, MB
One week to go - hope the boys are well rested and ready to rip a strip off the ole concert hall 
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Re: 09/07/09: Centennial Concert Hall: Winnipeg, MB
Any volunteers to text in a live setlist update? Also, Any volunteers to record the show (Video or Audio?) Last Winnipeg show had someone confirm they were taping, but no DVD was every released to the masses 
Let's make sure that doesn't happen again!
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Re: 09/07/09: Centennial Concert Hall: Winnipeg, MB
Gimmee, gimmee. Gimmee, gimmee, gimmmee! 
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Re: 09/07/09: Centennial Concert Hall: Winnipeg, MB
I volunteer to twitter/text somebody live setlist updates for a couple of the shows later in the week. I'm not going to this one but I'm going to the other 3.Shane Kroeker wrote:Any volunteers to text in a live setlist update? Also, Any volunteers to record the show (Video or Audio?) Last Winnipeg show had someone confirm they were taping, but no DVD was every released to the masses
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Re: 09/07/09: Centennial Concert Hall: Winnipeg, MB
Decent setlist, awesome preformance.
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Re: 09/07/09: Centennial Concert Hall: Winnipeg, MB
http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/breaki ... 67382.html
REVIEW: Tragically Hip play intimate show
By: Rob Williams
Even though it was Labour Day, the Tragically Hip were working in Winnipeg Monday night.
Or you could say it was their music at work, to steal a song title from the Kingston, Ont., quintet.
Canada’s unofficial band capped off the last long weekend of the summer with the first of a four-night stand at the Centennial Concert Hall in front of 2,100 fans who got a chance to see the iconic group play a more intimate show than normal.
With no fanfare, the unassuming band walked on stage, waved to the crowd and launched into the nine-and-a-half minute epic The Depression Suite, off their new album, We Are the Same, in front of a simple backdrop of LED lights and lighting rigs.
Not that they need any visual gimmickry to enhance their show. With a dozen albums and such devoted fans, they can just focus on the music. The Tragically Hip are always a dependable live band — having seen them many times over the past 20 years I have never seen them have an off night — and Monday’s show was no exception. It helps that they have frontman Gord Downie too. When he performs, he becomes possessed by the music, roaming the stage making spastic moves, crouching, jumping, pointing and kicking when he doesn’t have a guitar in his hand. He even helped wipe sweat off his bandmates.
With Downie in top form handling the moves and the between song banter — he was in a good mood and was very chatty between songs, asking the crowd if they were back at school, talking about polar bears in Churchill and saying how happy he was to be in the home of the Weakerthans, among other things — guitarists Rob Baker and Paul Langlois took care of the group’s distinctive riffs, while the rhythm section of bassist Gord Sinclair, the next most animated member of the band, and drummer Johnny Fay kept everyone locked into the groove. Ottawa singer-songwriter Jim Bryson handled keyboard duties.
The crowd remained seated for the opening number as Downie stalked the stage speaking and singing lyrics to the three-part song, but the entire audience rose for the next one, the classic New Orleans is Sinking, off the Hip’s 1989 breakthrough album, Up to Here, which features what must be one of the most recognizable guitar riffs in the Can-rock canon.
"Welcome to the old barn," Downie joked by way of an introduction before introducing Yer Not the Ocean with the amusingly cryptic: "Well Winnipeg, you’re not the ocean yet. Don’t despair."
Despair was something totally absent in the venue as the group performed two sets totaling more than two hours. The first hour featured a mix of hits and album cuts from most of their career with old favourites like Ahead By a Century, Poets and an extended At the Hundreth Meridian with new and more recent songs Morning Moon, Gus: the Polar Bear From Central Park, Family Band and Love is a First.
They took a 20-minute break an hour into the show and returned in an intimate semicircle with Baker, Langlois and Sinclair seated to run through a few mellow selections: the locally flavoured Thompson Girl, the new Coffee Girl and Wheat Kings, a song about the 1969 murder of Gail Miller and the wrongful conviction of David Milgaard.
After the subdued beginning to the second half, the guitarists and bassist rose for the anthemic Grace, Too, slowed things down again for The Last Recluse then had the audience members dancing in their seats for the keyboard driven In View and swaying for Bobcaygeon, which came just as press time did.
The Hip continue their Winnipeg stand with three more shows at the concert hall Wednesday, Thursday and Friday. They are playing a different set each night. There is no opening act.
REVIEW: Tragically Hip play intimate show
By: Rob Williams
Even though it was Labour Day, the Tragically Hip were working in Winnipeg Monday night.
Or you could say it was their music at work, to steal a song title from the Kingston, Ont., quintet.
Canada’s unofficial band capped off the last long weekend of the summer with the first of a four-night stand at the Centennial Concert Hall in front of 2,100 fans who got a chance to see the iconic group play a more intimate show than normal.
With no fanfare, the unassuming band walked on stage, waved to the crowd and launched into the nine-and-a-half minute epic The Depression Suite, off their new album, We Are the Same, in front of a simple backdrop of LED lights and lighting rigs.
Not that they need any visual gimmickry to enhance their show. With a dozen albums and such devoted fans, they can just focus on the music. The Tragically Hip are always a dependable live band — having seen them many times over the past 20 years I have never seen them have an off night — and Monday’s show was no exception. It helps that they have frontman Gord Downie too. When he performs, he becomes possessed by the music, roaming the stage making spastic moves, crouching, jumping, pointing and kicking when he doesn’t have a guitar in his hand. He even helped wipe sweat off his bandmates.
With Downie in top form handling the moves and the between song banter — he was in a good mood and was very chatty between songs, asking the crowd if they were back at school, talking about polar bears in Churchill and saying how happy he was to be in the home of the Weakerthans, among other things — guitarists Rob Baker and Paul Langlois took care of the group’s distinctive riffs, while the rhythm section of bassist Gord Sinclair, the next most animated member of the band, and drummer Johnny Fay kept everyone locked into the groove. Ottawa singer-songwriter Jim Bryson handled keyboard duties.
The crowd remained seated for the opening number as Downie stalked the stage speaking and singing lyrics to the three-part song, but the entire audience rose for the next one, the classic New Orleans is Sinking, off the Hip’s 1989 breakthrough album, Up to Here, which features what must be one of the most recognizable guitar riffs in the Can-rock canon.
"Welcome to the old barn," Downie joked by way of an introduction before introducing Yer Not the Ocean with the amusingly cryptic: "Well Winnipeg, you’re not the ocean yet. Don’t despair."
Despair was something totally absent in the venue as the group performed two sets totaling more than two hours. The first hour featured a mix of hits and album cuts from most of their career with old favourites like Ahead By a Century, Poets and an extended At the Hundreth Meridian with new and more recent songs Morning Moon, Gus: the Polar Bear From Central Park, Family Band and Love is a First.
They took a 20-minute break an hour into the show and returned in an intimate semicircle with Baker, Langlois and Sinclair seated to run through a few mellow selections: the locally flavoured Thompson Girl, the new Coffee Girl and Wheat Kings, a song about the 1969 murder of Gail Miller and the wrongful conviction of David Milgaard.
After the subdued beginning to the second half, the guitarists and bassist rose for the anthemic Grace, Too, slowed things down again for The Last Recluse then had the audience members dancing in their seats for the keyboard driven In View and swaying for Bobcaygeon, which came just as press time did.
The Hip continue their Winnipeg stand with three more shows at the concert hall Wednesday, Thursday and Friday. They are playing a different set each night. There is no opening act.
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Re: 09/07/09: Centennial Concert Hall: Winnipeg, MB
Centennial Concert Hall, Winnipeg - September 7, 2009
By LINDSEY WARD - Sun Media
WINNIPEG - Trust The Tragically Hip to turn a venue usually reserved for tutus and Beethoven into a sweaty haven for the beer guzzling set.
The Centennial Concert Hall - home to the Royal Winnipeg Ballet and the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra - hosted its messiest show since we don't know when on Monday night, as the Kingston, Ont., CanRockers went fully completely out for the first of four not-so-intimate local gigs.
Even frenetic frontman Gordon Downie couldn't tell the place apart from the late Winnipeg Arena.
"Welcome to the old barn," he joked after second track New Orleans is Sinking brought the mostly 25-plus crowd to their feet.
The 160-minute show got off to a deceptively mellow start, with an acoustic guitar-toting Downie and his bandmates - bassist Gord Sinclair, drummer Johnny Fay and guitarists Paul Langlois and Rob Baker - coasting through The Depression Suite. Coming in at nine and a half minutes, the track off The Hip's latest disc, We are the Same, was an interesting (if not lengthy) opening choice.
New tunes Morning Moon, Love is a First, Coffee Girl and That Exact Feeling also made their way on to the setlist - a mish-mash of lager-soaked rockers (At the Hundredth Meridian, Blow at High Dough), beloved ballads (Wheat Kings, Ahead By a Century) and obscure offbeat non-singles (The Dark Canuck).
Said setlist is, of course, subject to change throughout the week; after all, The Hip are still an off-book kinda band whose ringleader nearly gives himself whiplash every time he performs.
Dressed both up and down in a lumberjack-plaid shirt (which he later ditched for a black button-up) and black tailored vest and slacks, Downie, 45, literally monkeyed around with his mic (chimp noises, and all) and must have gone through about 50 handkerchiefs. Seriously, we're convinced one of his stage hands' sole duty is to throw him fresh hankies that he just as quickly tosses to fans - but not before using them to blot his face and famously bald head.
Yes, Downie is every bit the frantic, stumbling performer he's always been. And what he lacks in coordination, he makes up for in enthusiasm (and the odd animal impersonation), all while Sinclair, Fay, Langlois and Baker appear calm and zoned out.
Aside from being one of the Concert Hall's wilder shindigs; it was also one of its louder ones - perhaps even a smidge distorted at times. Though we really can't complain, because, even given a venue that's a fraction of their usual arena size, The Tragically Hip can always be counted on to bring the all-Canadian party - just as some of their fans can be counted on to fill the air with illegal aromas (you know who you are).
It's a good thing Gord was passing those hankies around, because clearly he wasn't the only one who needed them.
And with only one Hip show down - and three more soldout stints to go, from Wednesday through Friday - the Concert Hall's cleanup crew will have their work cut out for them.
Set List:
The Depression Suite
New Orleans is Sinking
Yer Not the Ocean
Ahead By a Century
Morning Moon
Poets
Gus: The Polar Bear from Central Park
At the Hundredth Meridian
Love is a First
Intermission
Thompson Girl
Coffee Girl
Wheat Kings
Grace, Too
The Last Recluse
In View
The Dark Canuck
Bobcaygeon
Courage
That Exact Feeling
Music at Work
Blow at High Dough
Encore:
Queen of the Furrows
Little Bones
By LINDSEY WARD - Sun Media
WINNIPEG - Trust The Tragically Hip to turn a venue usually reserved for tutus and Beethoven into a sweaty haven for the beer guzzling set.
The Centennial Concert Hall - home to the Royal Winnipeg Ballet and the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra - hosted its messiest show since we don't know when on Monday night, as the Kingston, Ont., CanRockers went fully completely out for the first of four not-so-intimate local gigs.
Even frenetic frontman Gordon Downie couldn't tell the place apart from the late Winnipeg Arena.
"Welcome to the old barn," he joked after second track New Orleans is Sinking brought the mostly 25-plus crowd to their feet.
The 160-minute show got off to a deceptively mellow start, with an acoustic guitar-toting Downie and his bandmates - bassist Gord Sinclair, drummer Johnny Fay and guitarists Paul Langlois and Rob Baker - coasting through The Depression Suite. Coming in at nine and a half minutes, the track off The Hip's latest disc, We are the Same, was an interesting (if not lengthy) opening choice.
New tunes Morning Moon, Love is a First, Coffee Girl and That Exact Feeling also made their way on to the setlist - a mish-mash of lager-soaked rockers (At the Hundredth Meridian, Blow at High Dough), beloved ballads (Wheat Kings, Ahead By a Century) and obscure offbeat non-singles (The Dark Canuck).
Said setlist is, of course, subject to change throughout the week; after all, The Hip are still an off-book kinda band whose ringleader nearly gives himself whiplash every time he performs.
Dressed both up and down in a lumberjack-plaid shirt (which he later ditched for a black button-up) and black tailored vest and slacks, Downie, 45, literally monkeyed around with his mic (chimp noises, and all) and must have gone through about 50 handkerchiefs. Seriously, we're convinced one of his stage hands' sole duty is to throw him fresh hankies that he just as quickly tosses to fans - but not before using them to blot his face and famously bald head.
Yes, Downie is every bit the frantic, stumbling performer he's always been. And what he lacks in coordination, he makes up for in enthusiasm (and the odd animal impersonation), all while Sinclair, Fay, Langlois and Baker appear calm and zoned out.
Aside from being one of the Concert Hall's wilder shindigs; it was also one of its louder ones - perhaps even a smidge distorted at times. Though we really can't complain, because, even given a venue that's a fraction of their usual arena size, The Tragically Hip can always be counted on to bring the all-Canadian party - just as some of their fans can be counted on to fill the air with illegal aromas (you know who you are).
It's a good thing Gord was passing those hankies around, because clearly he wasn't the only one who needed them.
And with only one Hip show down - and three more soldout stints to go, from Wednesday through Friday - the Concert Hall's cleanup crew will have their work cut out for them.
Set List:
The Depression Suite
New Orleans is Sinking
Yer Not the Ocean
Ahead By a Century
Morning Moon
Poets
Gus: The Polar Bear from Central Park
At the Hundredth Meridian
Love is a First
Intermission
Thompson Girl
Coffee Girl
Wheat Kings
Grace, Too
The Last Recluse
In View
The Dark Canuck
Bobcaygeon
Courage
That Exact Feeling
Music at Work
Blow at High Dough
Encore:
Queen of the Furrows
Little Bones
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Re: 09/07/09: Centennial Concert Hall: Winnipeg, MB
Is that setlist correct? 1st set seems a little short.
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Re: 09/07/09: Centennial Concert Hall: Winnipeg, MB
I copied and pasted it as is from the website... I was thinking the same thing actually...looks one or two songs short in the first set...Tthip wrote:Is that setlist correct? 1st set seems a little short.
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Re: 09/07/09: Centennial Concert Hall: Winnipeg, MB
Based on the first article, Family band was also played in the 1st set
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Re: 09/07/09: Centennial Concert Hall: Winnipeg, MB
C'mon fellow Peggers, you are making us look bad - lets get the full setlist up!!!
A Hip set list is like a box of chocolates..you never know which one you're going to get.
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laliber
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Re: 09/07/09: Centennial Concert Hall: Winnipeg, MB
They also played DWD in the first set...
It was a fantastic show, good mix of old, new and some gems
As the reviews note Depression Suit kicked off the show and then NOIS got everyone out of their seats. Big treat for me was hearing DWD and Dark Canuck for the first time and then Thompson Girl as part of the acoustic set ...a song about a 17 foot women who roams these parts... The band followed TG with Coffee Girl and all I could think was would they pull off the Trilogy and dust off Highway Girl for the final act of the acoustic set
(ah, no dice).
Grace had the crowd singing and Gord lead the Concert Hall through a Courage sing along. During the opening kick of Blow I made sure to turn around (was 3rd row centre) and watch as the crowd jumped and started rocking in unison. A few times Gord wandered into the first row and the 6th and 7th to let the crowd sing into the mic, tumbling at one point he asked a guy to “help a brother out”. The rest of the band held down the groove and a few times Bobby wondered past Johnny’s drums toward the rightwing and at one point Gord chased him back.
Finally, one sweet moment occurred during Bobcaygeon when Gord went out of his way to encourage a young fan. Over to my left in the front row throughout the show a women who had brought her daughter, was up and dancing/swaying to various songs and a few times motioned for her daughter to join her. The girl, who looked about 11 or 12, just shook her head in that, no way am I going to do that mom. Well Gord must have been aware of this because during Bob-C he went down to the girl with his Guitar and got her to strum it, even waiting while her mom took a picture. Sure enough, next song, the girl was up and dancing with her mom.
Can’t wait for Wed….
It was a fantastic show, good mix of old, new and some gems
As the reviews note Depression Suit kicked off the show and then NOIS got everyone out of their seats. Big treat for me was hearing DWD and Dark Canuck for the first time and then Thompson Girl as part of the acoustic set ...a song about a 17 foot women who roams these parts... The band followed TG with Coffee Girl and all I could think was would they pull off the Trilogy and dust off Highway Girl for the final act of the acoustic set
(ah, no dice).
Grace had the crowd singing and Gord lead the Concert Hall through a Courage sing along. During the opening kick of Blow I made sure to turn around (was 3rd row centre) and watch as the crowd jumped and started rocking in unison. A few times Gord wandered into the first row and the 6th and 7th to let the crowd sing into the mic, tumbling at one point he asked a guy to “help a brother out”. The rest of the band held down the groove and a few times Bobby wondered past Johnny’s drums toward the rightwing and at one point Gord chased him back.
Finally, one sweet moment occurred during Bobcaygeon when Gord went out of his way to encourage a young fan. Over to my left in the front row throughout the show a women who had brought her daughter, was up and dancing/swaying to various songs and a few times motioned for her daughter to join her. The girl, who looked about 11 or 12, just shook her head in that, no way am I going to do that mom. Well Gord must have been aware of this because during Bob-C he went down to the girl with his Guitar and got her to strum it, even waiting while her mom took a picture. Sure enough, next song, the girl was up and dancing with her mom.
Can’t wait for Wed….
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