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2011-07-07 - Shaw Park - Winnipeg, Manitoba

Posted: Thu May 05, 2011 12:19 am
by sean.bonner
Post your review.

Re: 2011-07-07 - Shaw Park - Winnipeg, Manitoba

Posted: Tue Jun 21, 2011 3:13 pm
by sean.bonner
Johnny's birthday.

Re: 2011-07-07 - Shaw Park - Winnipeg, Manitoba

Posted: Tue Jun 28, 2011 8:48 pm
by Shane Kroeker
So do the doors open at 5:30, or does the concert start at 5:30?
i.e. what time would Hey Rosetta! take the stage?

Re: 2011-07-07 - Shaw Park - Winnipeg, Manitoba

Posted: Mon Jul 04, 2011 12:33 pm
by ewallman
I'll venture a guess that the Hip play 50 Mission Cap with the "Jets" substituted for the "Leafs". Gord has done this before in Winnipeg so at the very least he will talk about it.

Few days away, weather is looking good.

Re: 2011-07-07 - Shaw Park - Winnipeg, Manitoba

Posted: Tue Jul 05, 2011 10:28 pm
by Shane Kroeker
Is anyone planning on recording the concert?

Re: 2011-07-07 - Shaw Park - Winnipeg, Manitoba

Posted: Thu Jul 07, 2011 4:02 pm
by ewallman
Not recording but one of my regular Hip gang just bowed out due to a death in the family so I am bringing my niece to her first Hip concert, she is a fan but she is used to Hillary Duff concerts so it will be fun to watch her see a real show.

Re: 2011-07-07 - Shaw Park - Winnipeg, Manitoba

Posted: Thu Jul 07, 2011 10:12 pm
by thefivehole
ewallman wrote:Not recording but one of my regular Hip gang just bowed out due to a death in the family so I am bringing my niece to her first Hip concert, she is a fan but she is used to Hillary Duff concerts so it will be fun to watch her see a real show.
LOL that's so awesome about your niece! Hope she enjoys true rock and roll.

Re: 2011-07-07 - Shaw Park - Winnipeg, Manitoba

Posted: Thu Jul 07, 2011 11:04 pm
by ikky99
It's 10pm in YWG. Anyone?

Re: 2011-07-07 - Shaw Park - Winnipeg, Manitoba

Posted: Fri Jul 08, 2011 1:09 am
by hefner
BSS @ shaw park July 7th 

Lover's Spit (doug and the slugs-makin' it work outro)
Forced to Love
Texico Bitches
7/4 Shoreline
Fire eyed boy
Cause=Time (weird intro)
Stars & Sons
Superconnected (modest mouse outro)
World sick
Meet me in the basement

The Tragically Hip @ Shaw Park July 7th 

Rink
Grace
Love is a First
Streets Ahead (new song)
It's a Good Life
In View
Drip Drip (new song)
Gift shop
Poets (swim!)
ABAC
Transformation (new song)
Happy birthday to Johnny
100th Meridian
Fiddler's Green (dedicated to York Regional Police Constable Garrett Styles)
Fully
Courage
Bobcageon
Nolis (nautical)
Little Bones

Blow
WheatKings
Music@Work

Pretty drunk, but that's pretty close I think. Cheers!!

Re: 2011-07-07 - Shaw Park - Winnipeg, Manitoba

Posted: Fri Jul 08, 2011 1:31 am
by ewallman
hefner wrote:BSS @ shaw park July 7th 

Lover's Spit (doug and the slugs-makin it work outro)
Forced to Love
Texico Bitches
7/4 Shoreline
Fire eyed boy
Cause=Time (weird intro)

Superconnected (modest mouse outro)
World sick
Meet me in the basement

Rink
Grace
Love is a curse
*new song
It's a goodlife
That new single I hated
Drip (new song)
Gift shop
Poets (swim!)
ABAC
New song
Happy birthday to Johnny
100th Meridian
Fiddler's Green (dedicated to
Fallen Ont cop)
Fully
Locked
Courage
Bobcageon
Nolis (nautical)

Blow
WheatKings
Music@Work

Pretty drunk, but that's pretty close I think. Cheers!!
Don't recall hearing Locked, someone who wrote the set list down can verify. Little Bones was the closer before the encore. Also View was in the set. Kind of a slow start but the last half of the show absolutely kicked ass..it was smoking...Gord was quite interactive, band was totally into it, crowd was pumped for the classics, especially Fiddlers Green. I am not really a fan of outdoor shows because the sound can drift and get a bit distorted but once dusk set in the sound seemed to hold nicely in the park. Gord said 'who do I have to blow to do an encore', pretty funny.

Hey Rosetta was a descent band but our group felt Social Scene was somewhat of a muddled mix of sound, too many players and not really any melodies to catch the ear.

Re: 2011-07-07 - Shaw Park - Winnipeg, Manitoba

Posted: Fri Jul 08, 2011 1:41 am
by Graham
Lonely End of the Rink
Grace, Too
Love is a Curse
Streets Ahead
IAGLIYDW
In View
Drip Drip Drip
Gift Shop
Poets
ABAC
Transformer
"Happy Birthday Johnny"
Transformer
100th Meridian
Fiddlers Green
Fully
Courage
BobC
NOIS-Nautical-NOIS
Little Bones

Blow
Wheat Kings
M@W

Best Winnipeg crowd I've ever been a part of.

It seemed like a lame-duck crowd till about Gift Shop. Then each song built the crowd up a little more. And a little more. By the time we got to "Happy birthday Johnny" the crowd was freakin' pumped and all they wanted was more rock. It reached epic proportions of crowd energy during Nautical Disaster, as if it were the greatest rock song ever created.

I was a little worried, it seems some of the shows in the past couple weeks have been a little off, or the venue sucked, or even the band seemed uninspired? Not so at all tonight...Gord's voice was fantastic, and yeah, it was mostly singles, but we got Lonely End of the Rink, the three new tracks...I'm not complaining at all, the crowd made the show, compared to 2009 where most people here sat on their hands like pansies.

Winnipeg came ready to party and rock out tonight. It was GREAT.

I just don't care for BSS. Half of them seemed bored out of their minds, like it was some kind of incredible effort to get up on stage and play a short set. No Julie Penner, which dissapointed me, as she's an ex-pat of these parts. I'm not totally sure who the woman was on stage with them, but being at that show seemed like the last place she wanted to be.

Re: 2011-07-07 - Shaw Park - Winnipeg, Manitoba

Posted: Fri Jul 08, 2011 8:45 am
by Shane Kroeker
Very nice show all in all. I was quite disappointed due to the seating arrangement, and I am sure that ticketmaster will get an absolute earfull from fans, as no one knew where there seats were, due to the split row numbers.
My highlight was certainly "The Last Spike" rant during the intro to ABAC. Gord had "the most annoying sound in the world go off in his ear piece, and quickly linked the dying battery packs' spike in volume, to the final spike on the railroad driven by Pierre Berton himself stright into Gord's skull.
I hope there is a recording of that out there!

Re: 2011-07-07 - Shaw Park - Winnipeg, Manitoba

Posted: Fri Jul 08, 2011 9:17 am
by ewallman
Shane Kroeker wrote:Very nice show all in all. I was quite disappointed due to the seating arrangement, and I am sure that ticketmaster will get an absolute earfull from fans, as no one knew where there seats were, due to the split row numbers.
My highlight was certainly "The Last Spike" rant during the intro to ABAC. Gord had "the most annoying sound in the world go off in his ear piece, and quickly linked the dying battery packs' spike in volume, to the final spike on the railroad driven by Pierre Berton himself stright into Gord's skull.
I hope there is a recording of that out there!

And to follow up on that piece, the Winnipeg Sun reporter noted:

He is the only performer I’ve seen who can use the process of changing a battery pack as the basis for a poetic monologue

Re: 2011-07-07 - Shaw Park - Winnipeg, Manitoba

Posted: Fri Jul 08, 2011 12:13 pm
by direwolf74
Do I dare ask about the VIP section? Was it any better than what's been reported at the previous shows on this tour?

Re: 2011-07-07 - Shaw Park - Winnipeg, Manitoba

Posted: Fri Jul 08, 2011 1:06 pm
by fingernailsonhull
direwolf74 wrote:Do I dare ask about the VIP section? Was it any better than what's been reported at the previous shows on this tour?
You're nervous about Edmonton, eh? ;)