2015-04-14 - Kingston, Ontario

[sean.bonner]

Rogers K-Rock Centre

"I stole this from a hockey card,
I keeped tucked up under"

[carebread]

Little early, but I'm heading up for this show. Maybe we should have a pre-show drink downtown? I didn't think to meet any Hipbasers at the Danforth show.

[blacksox12]

I'll be there for it as well - looking forward to it based on what I've read of the w/u show.

[thecompletist]

Bringing my daughter to her 5th show, we're sitting center and close and I will be "STREAMING LIVE" using the new APP - Periscope - sorry its an ios app only right now
but it is in the Twitter family and I can tweet out as I choose what songs I will do - account is https://twitter.com/concertaholics

I've seen footage from Halifax tonight from 2 people and it was decent quality, I also saw 2 separate shows - (2-3 songs) from Fleetwood Mac in Oakland and LA and I was listening on headphones and the audio was very good.

Battery, LTE Connection etc.. will all play a factor ...regardless I do plan to do a minimum of a few songs... so check the twitter feed between before the show as we check in and from 9-11

[carebread]

Bringing my daughter to her 5th show, we're sitting center and close and I will be "STREAMING LIVE" using the new APP - Periscope - sorry its an ios app only right now
but it is in the Twitter family and I can tweet out as I choose what songs I will do - account is https://twitter.com/concertaholics

I've seen footage from Halifax tonight from 2 people and it was decent quality, I also saw 2 separate shows - (2-3 songs) from Fleetwood Mac in Oakland and LA and I was listening on headphones and the audio was very good.

Battery, LTE Connection etc.. will all play a factor ...regardless I do plan to do a minimum of a few songs... so check the twitter feed between before the show as we check in and from 9-11

Whereabouts? I'm in row 6.

[thecompletist]

We'll be in town early as well, try and hit a few "Hip" spots

Row 1

Regarding LIVE STREAMING from "Periscope"
So Apparently if I tweet out when i go live you can click and see on a desktop, you will not see the conversation of people typing comments , but that maybe even better in some cases given the chat covers up some of the video...

Twitter.com/Concertaholics is where to find streams or Facebook as well look up Concertaholics

[blacksox12]

Will be there as well. Coming in from out of town. Any suggestions for a pre-show drink?

[SRK]

Driving in to my hometown to see my hometown band play my favourite album of theirs. Given how uninspiring the *last* time I saw them at the KROQpot was...I'm oddly excited for this one.

[NWOntario]

Grace, Too
My Music at Work
In View
Ahead by a Century
New Orleans is Sinking

Fully Completely

At Transformation
Twist My Arm
Fiddler's Green
Poets
Blow at High Dough

[carebread]

I only got a couple videos, here's one.

[edgoffin]

Good show -- this was my 2nd of the tour. Burlington VT set list hit a lot of high marks for me, but this was a solid hometown show. Did not go too far into deep cuts, but great performance. Few highlights:
* I like the slightly extended ending to Courage -- maybe only 30 seconds, but rocking end. Same with Blow, a few minutes of extra jamming at the end
* Fiddlers -- towards the end of the set list, and Gord sang this maybe better then I have ever heard him sing. Maybe it's no guitar, maybe better paced set of dates, focusing on signing, but he really nailed it. Said numerous times in threads, but vocally very strong.
* I'm getting up towards 100 shows, and have seen NOIS and Blow way more times than I need to, but when they play those songs and the crowd noise swells nothing better
* Gord and Paul onstage -- over the past few years, Gord seems to have really ramped up the "annoy Paul" stage moves -- had some great driving with Paul mines where Paul then took a few steps back.

I'll likely catch one more show on this tour. Getting to the stage where every tour, I wonder if this one will be the last. Likely reading way too much into it, but the set list was a bit more on the hits side then some other shows, Gord seemed to stay on the stage a bit longer and the end of the show and really take in the crowd and show his appreciation.....likely just me dreading the end.

[SRK]

Really enjoyed this show. Was 6 rows back, right in front of Paul, which meant it seemed like Gord was looking right at me every time he came over our way. The fully portion was fantastic, and I liked the little tweaks to the old warhorses, like the slower wheat kings (a la the album version), Gord saying 'hengelo', instead of tokyo, which I can't even remember the last time he did...nice to hear the rest of the fully songs I hadn't heard before, and especially enjoyed the clips of the 51 final on the screen during fifty mission cap. As a leafs fan, I'll take what I can get right now. The setlist otherwise was a little blah, but seeing Gord sing "fiddler's green" in front of his (and the rest of the band's) family*** will never not give me chills.

***There was a group of the band's family (and friends, I assume) off to the side of the stage near where the roadie stands. A lot of playing to them during the night.

[Dagger]

Gord used to get very emotional when singing Fiddler's Green - I have seen him blow kisses to the sky at the nd of the song in the past and there was quite a while where they did not even play it live. I know the song has something to do with a death in the family many years ago - does anyone know the whole story on derivation of the song?? AS previously mentioned he did sing it very well last night - and the green lighting over Rob's solo was a nice touch.

[ikky99]

Gord used to get very emotional when singing Fiddler's Green - I have seen him blow kisses to the sky at the nd of the song in the past and there was quite a while where they did not even play it live. I know the song has something to do with a death in the family many years ago - does anyone know the whole story on derivation of the song?? AS previously mentioned he did sing it very well last night - and the green lighting over Rob's solo was a nice touch.

Searching the interwebs is easy you know:

http://www.hipmuseum.com/fiddlers.html

Fiddler's Green references

"...September Seventeen
For a girl I know it's Mother's Day
Her son has gone alee
And that's where he will stay"

From Have Not Been The Same: The Can-Rock Revolution: "The album's most moving image was saved for the acoustic vignette "Fiddler's Green," written as a tribute to Downie's young nephew Charles Gillespie who had died of a heart ailment the previous September."

"...Tearing blue eyes sailor-mean
As Falstaff sings a sorrowful refrain
For a boy in Fiddler's Green"

The song itself is a lament-in-lyric for a mother, related to Downie, who has lost her son. It is an elegiac, mournful and beautiful farewell and reassurance all at once. Falstaff, another reference to a Shakespearian character within Hip lyrics, is a comic creation who appears as relief in four of Shakespeare's plays. His presence here sheds light on just how sad this moment is, as even the legendary literary clown is moved and reticent. Falstaff is perhaps portrayed here in contrast. His best known line comes from Henry IV (Part 1) and suggests that discretion is the better part of valour.

Fiddler's Green is a kind of Celtic Heaven for men lost at Sea. It is said to be "...the happy land imagined by sailors where there is perpetual mirth, a fiddle that never stops playing for dancers who never tire."

Due to the personal nature of the song, it remained famously unplayed for fifteen years. There were no known instances of "Fiddler's Green" being played live until October 28, 2006 in Calgary, Alberta.