11/29/09: Ancienne Belgique: Brussels, Belgium

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Re: Review: 11/29/09: Ancienne Belgique: Brussels, Belgium

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President wrote:For those who speak Dutch... a review by the Belgian journal "De Morgen".
http://www.demorgen.be/dm/nl/1343/Recen ... ater.dhtml
Thanks for the link.
Here is Googles translation:

Surprisingly many Canadians found Sunday towards AB. Some even had a trans-Atlantic flight on their national pride The Tragically Hip. The group led by Gordon Downie signed in Brussels as usual for an overwhelming triumph, though the first hour but they were sputtering at cruising speed.

The Canadian indie heroes tasks however clever of land with the unbreakable "New Orleans is Sinking" and the three-part "Suite Depression". A savvy move, for which songs made the strengths of The Tragically Hip directly exposed. With riffs that The Great White North by shaking each other, vocal harmonies that sound as sweet as maple syrup tastes and guitar 's that glowing shine like the aurora borealis, this band around the brightest sign that Canada over the last two decades could wish.

Not least because The Hip is equally well suited for standing on a concert infallible reputation. The name unfortunately they defended so well during the first half of the show - the set was because no apparent reason split into two. During the first part functions "is a First Love" and "Morning Moon" appeared to be slightly off from parent material, such as a mandatory "It 'sa Good Life If You Don" t Weaken or a witty "Poets". The unguided mania frontman Gordon Downie created distance. The singer shows now more physical similarities with a balding clerk, but he behaved during his best songs in a span satyr. In the worst case fell into clownish mannerisms, which he even the fantastic "Courage" to help threatened to turn a corner.

Succulent cherry on the cake
What a difference with the second part, which Downie knew his place, the group came more into the foreground and an acoustic 'Fiddler' s Green "uncontrollable sent chills down your spine." Gift Shop "was then carefully built up a fierce guitar song . Downie saw you now diabolical grin watching his comrades. In "Music @ Work" he bounced back from the drumriser to the monitors. Eventually he emerged into the hall to the fans to sing along, or what we could go.

The succulent bisronde was the icing on the cake. With a grandiose "Grace, Too", a song that ever ended disappointingly enough, led the six-piece band for the ultimate apotheosis. This was a man past highlights like "Springtime in Vienna", "Bobcaygeon" or "Ahead by a Century" are almost forgotten. "It 's Sunday, right? Let 's see if we can make it more like a Tuesday night, "chuckled Downie just for" Fireworks ". We can point to anything he'd make time and space as the proposed meaningless. (Gunter Van Assche)
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Muziekfriek wrote:Review in Dutch at http://muziekfriek.wordpress.com

Review in Googleese:

There are not too many bands that we custom T-shirt over it, but for The Tragically Hip, we made an exception. The kapriolen of Gordon Downie and secure the class of the group no doubt justify this vestimentair buitenissigheidje. It also soon became clear that we were not the only ones who went beyond this.

Depending on the band longer exists, the public is becoming more diverse: among the gray (NDE) or bare (NDE) heads adorned here and there is still a lush head of hair. The straightforward rock of a band, any hype to the turn, his own course unperturbed momentum, new souls for themselves has always managed to win souls that always occur after a group devoted to the touch.

For a performance of The Tragically Hip show you not only for the music. This is entertainment: Downie played his audience once again as an accomplished actor, did the bump - something for the youngsters among us: a dance from the seventies with the butt against each other was also confronted - with his microphone stand, painted an imaginary canvas with his microphone or depicted the evolution of the gay sapiens in refined manner. Not to say there was plenty to see.

And then there was the music of course. The setlist spanned almost their whole, been pretty impressive career with songs from "Up To Here" (opener New Orleans Is Sinking, 1989), on successful album 'Fully Completely' (Courage and a very nervous one driven title song, 1992) and "Phantom Power "(a catchy shine and a nice blood Bobcaygeon, 1998) to the most recent album 'We Are The Same". And then we hit quite a few about.

The public was not immediately enthusiastic, however: only halfway through the first part of the twenty-two songs seemed to be some component set in motion the masses to come. But it was immediately hit with an exuberant Love Is A First mass was sent to drinks. Outlier in the first part was we believe a diverse Suite The Depression, the tape showed the box to perfection and still manage to dominate the passion.

The acoustic set that the second part of the concert was led by Thompson Girl deployed and went into a few songs later atmospheric Ahead By A Century, the frontman adapted to the world conditions and presented as "Behind By A Century". Eternal valve My Music At Work again put everything in his head, while Downie is halfway to the hall collapsed and gave everyone the chance to turn the chorus or singing. roar.

Perhaps it was light entertainment, but there was no man after the two encores with no one went home feeling satisfied. No wonder the most common sizes of T-shirts were sold at the merchandising stand. That can probably be spotting all the following actions.
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Re: 11/29/09: Ancienne Belgique: Brussels, Belgium

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sherpa wrote:
EPenguin10 wrote: Setlist (copied from someone who posted on last.fm):
> SETLIST
NEW ORLEANS IS SINKING (Up To Here, 1989)
THE DEPRESSION SUITE: (We Are The Same, 2009)
a) The Rock
b) New Orleans World
c) Don't You Wanna See How it Ends?
FIREWORKS (Phantom Power, 1998)
IT'S A GOOD LIFE IF YOU DON'T WEAKEN (In Violet Light, 2002)
COURAGE (Fully Completely, 1992)
MORNING MOON (We Are The Same, 2009)
FULLY COMPLETELY (Fully Completely, 1992)
COFFEE GIRL (We Are The Same, 2009)
POETS (Phantom Power, 1998)
LOVE IS A FIRST (We Are The Same, 2009)

THOMPSON GIRL (Phantom Power, 1998)**
THE LAST RECLUSE (We Are The Same, 2009)**
FIDDLER'S GREEN (Road Apples, 1991)**
GIFT SHOP (Trouble At The Henhouse, 1996)
AHEAD BY A CENTURY (Trouble At The Henhouse, 1996)
IN VIEW (World Container, 2007)
SPRINGTIME IN VIENNA (Trouble At The Henhouse, 1996)
BOBCAYGEON (Phantom Power, 1998)
NAUTICAL DISASTER (Day For Night, 1994)
MY MUSIC @ WORK (Music @ Work, 2000)
#encore:
FAMILY BAND (World Container, 2007)
GRACE, TOO (Day For Night, 1994)
Looks like 1 or 2 missing from the first set and one from the second set - the one from the second set is probably something from WATS
Since a week I am constantly thinking which songs are missing in the setlist above... :roll:
But no... they really played "only" 22 songs in Brussels, :nooooo
which is confirmed now by the setlist at www.thehip.com.
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