10-14-2010, 12:53 PM
10-14-2010, 02:46 PM
I'm gonna be there!!
Me and my buddy are in the fourth row seats 1 and 2. It's my first time seeing a Gord solo show and my buddie's first time seeing him at all (he's never seen the Hip live). We're super pumped! Anyone gonna be taking a live setlist? I'd be willing.
Me and my buddy are in the fourth row seats 1 and 2. It's my first time seeing a Gord solo show and my buddie's first time seeing him at all (he's never seen the Hip live). We're super pumped! Anyone gonna be taking a live setlist? I'd be willing.
10-16-2010, 09:58 AM
What a fucking show.
The atmosphere of a GD & TCOM vs The Hip is completely different. Just the stage presence that Gord and is members put on. He using a projector to create pictures for a background with cut and shapes and food colouring (it appeared to be). It was just so rocking.
(I got Gord's set and ill take a picture of it as it has already made it to our concert wall of fame)
Was the show taped, audio or video?
Good see people from the base last night. Darren, Rory and Devin (I saw you grease your way over to Gord in the crowd). Such a blast. No one was sitting front row all night so during second set all my friends sat front, behind us being second.
The atmosphere of a GD & TCOM vs The Hip is completely different. Just the stage presence that Gord and is members put on. He using a projector to create pictures for a background with cut and shapes and food colouring (it appeared to be). It was just so rocking.
(I got Gord's set and ill take a picture of it as it has already made it to our concert wall of fame)
Was the show taped, audio or video?
Good see people from the base last night. Darren, Rory and Devin (I saw you grease your way over to Gord in the crowd). Such a blast. No one was sitting front row all night so during second set all my friends sat front, behind us being second.
10-16-2010, 10:44 AM
I nabbed a setlist as well but there were a few tracks in the encore that didn't make it to the physical setlist.
Starpainters
Vancouver Divorce
The Dance and It's Disappearance
Moon Over Glenora
Yellow Days
Gone
Going, Going, Gone (Dylan)
Canada Geese
East Wind (Gord solo)
Hard Canadian
Night is Forgetting
Trick Rider
11th Fret
Drowning Machine
Steeplechase (Gord projected an image of a plane flying into the World Trade which created an eerie feel)
Figment
Yer Possesed
encore:
Ventilator Blues (Rolling Stones)
Moonslow Yer Lashes (first time live? It was kinda sketchy)
Christmastime in Toronto
Insomniacs of the World Goodnight
Starpainters
Vancouver Divorce
The Dance and It's Disappearance
Moon Over Glenora
Yellow Days
Gone
Going, Going, Gone (Dylan)
Canada Geese
East Wind (Gord solo)
Hard Canadian
Night is Forgetting
Trick Rider
11th Fret
Drowning Machine
Steeplechase (Gord projected an image of a plane flying into the World Trade which created an eerie feel)
Figment
Yer Possesed
encore:
Ventilator Blues (Rolling Stones)
Moonslow Yer Lashes (first time live? It was kinda sketchy)
Christmastime in Toronto
Insomniacs of the World Goodnight
10-17-2010, 07:20 AM
Are there any videos on youtube for Going, Going, Gone (from any show)? That would be great.
10-17-2010, 10:15 AM
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Downie sparks up show with sonics, sights
N.B.'s Julie Doiron romps with Hip frontman at Cohn
By STEPHEN COOKE Entertainment Reporter
When Gord Downie said in an interview this week that his recent shows had been a blur of colour and sound, he wasn't kidding.
On sabbatical from Canrock heroes the Tragically Hip, Downie and his band the Country of Miracles came to the Rebecca Cohn Auditorium on Friday night with a different kind of spectacle with a broad range of sonics and sights. As the musicians swapped instruments, the singer provided his own light show, using an overhead projector to manipulate transparencies and create striking tableaux to augment the tunes taken from his three solo recordings. (On Tuesday night the show moves on to Glace Bay’s Savoy Theatre.)
With a more intimate feel and conversational vibe than an arena show, Downie gave the evening some shape by beginning and ending with the night-flavoured poems that bookend his debut Coke Machine Glow, but there was no rigid structure in place as he broke down onstage barriers, chatting with band members, who also engaged the audience with a cheerful bonhomie that drew everyone in a little closer.
Playing guitar most of the night, Downie was less inclined to indulge in freeform flights of fancy in his songs than at a Hip show, and felt more integrated into the band, which includes Skydiggers' Josh Finlayson on acoustic guitar and bass and The Dinner Is Ruined's Doctor Pee (John Press), Dale Morningstar and Dave Clark (also an ex-Rheostatic) on keyboards, guitar and drums, respectively.
But his main foil for the evening was New Brunswick's own Julie Doiron, still getting over a broken ankle suffered at August's Sappyfest. That didn't stop her from moving about the stage, frequently going from guitar to bass and back again, or playing Olivia Newton John to Downie's John Travolta on Moon Over Glenora from his current disc The Grand Bounce. Hopping on her left foot, Doiron joined him in striking high school musical poses while singing “This ocean is dead,” to a jaunty melody about a relationship that’s literally hit rough seas.
Later she’d play Tammy Wynette to Downie’s George Jones on 11th Fret, from 2003’s Battle of the Nudes, about a relationship where going through the motions is better than nothing at all, with Morningstar’s eerie country slide sounds taking it to the dark side of Nashville.
The Grand Bounce’s Gone has the gusto of a Hip song, but in the hands of the Country of Miracles it comes off a bit more frayed at the edges, with Doiron’s twangy chords on one hand and Morningstar making electronic whale songs on a theremin on the other. Downie capped the song by taking a box of tissues into the audience for a concertgoer spotted with his fingers in his ears.
Chances are the man in question was just trying to pick Downie’s impressionistic lyrics out of a mix that occasionally made them incomprehensible, but Downie grinned and explained, “I’m an insecure sensitive musician,” worried that someone might not be having an optimal experience at his show.
The loose feel of the evening didn’t deter the Country of Miracles from turning on the heat where required, like the churning two-chord rocker Canada Geese or a deeply soulful cover of Bob Dylan’s Going, Going Gone with Downie summoning up his inner Otis Redding and Doiron adding a palpable undercurrent of ache in her harmonies as Morningstar inserted a sharp dagger of blues into the proceedings.
Rather than seem like a gimmick, Downie’s blown up images on the screen at the back of the stage served to enhance the tunes, like the big C that also seemed like an angry mouth on The Hard Canadian, a portrait of a tough-minded, small town cynic that practically reeks of smokes and Tim’s.
Most chilling was the scene he assembled for Steeplechase, a black cityscape with a towering monolith, soon threatened by an incoming plane and eventually consumed by watery smoke and red dye flames. “It’s the sound coming down,” sang Downie with both fear and sadness as the band decrescendoed to absolute quiet.
The set proper ended with the art school circus two-step of Yer Possessed, with Clark on euphonium and Morningstar on mandolin, and Downie leading the band off the stage and up the aisle, to sit on a few laps as the crowd of about 1,000 enthusiastically clapped along.
After a hardy standing ovation most people were already on their feet clapping along and trying to catch a glimpse of the band’s antics — the Country of Miracles marched back out to tear through a hard, furious, and gloriously ragged Ventilator Blues, a Rolling Stones tune off its finest hour, Exile on Main St. Then came one of Downie’s fiercest vocal performances of the night, Christmastime in Toronto, inspired by “pumpkin-headed politicians” from the West who have it in for Canada’s largest city.
The tune’s savage beauty segued perfectly into Downie’s coda, Insomniacs of the World, Good Night, with a lit backdrop of the moon. All that was missing was for the Friendly Giant’s cow to fly over it.
Downie sparks up show with sonics, sights
N.B.'s Julie Doiron romps with Hip frontman at Cohn
By STEPHEN COOKE Entertainment Reporter
When Gord Downie said in an interview this week that his recent shows had been a blur of colour and sound, he wasn't kidding.
On sabbatical from Canrock heroes the Tragically Hip, Downie and his band the Country of Miracles came to the Rebecca Cohn Auditorium on Friday night with a different kind of spectacle with a broad range of sonics and sights. As the musicians swapped instruments, the singer provided his own light show, using an overhead projector to manipulate transparencies and create striking tableaux to augment the tunes taken from his three solo recordings. (On Tuesday night the show moves on to Glace Bay’s Savoy Theatre.)
With a more intimate feel and conversational vibe than an arena show, Downie gave the evening some shape by beginning and ending with the night-flavoured poems that bookend his debut Coke Machine Glow, but there was no rigid structure in place as he broke down onstage barriers, chatting with band members, who also engaged the audience with a cheerful bonhomie that drew everyone in a little closer.
Playing guitar most of the night, Downie was less inclined to indulge in freeform flights of fancy in his songs than at a Hip show, and felt more integrated into the band, which includes Skydiggers' Josh Finlayson on acoustic guitar and bass and The Dinner Is Ruined's Doctor Pee (John Press), Dale Morningstar and Dave Clark (also an ex-Rheostatic) on keyboards, guitar and drums, respectively.
But his main foil for the evening was New Brunswick's own Julie Doiron, still getting over a broken ankle suffered at August's Sappyfest. That didn't stop her from moving about the stage, frequently going from guitar to bass and back again, or playing Olivia Newton John to Downie's John Travolta on Moon Over Glenora from his current disc The Grand Bounce. Hopping on her left foot, Doiron joined him in striking high school musical poses while singing “This ocean is dead,” to a jaunty melody about a relationship that’s literally hit rough seas.
Later she’d play Tammy Wynette to Downie’s George Jones on 11th Fret, from 2003’s Battle of the Nudes, about a relationship where going through the motions is better than nothing at all, with Morningstar’s eerie country slide sounds taking it to the dark side of Nashville.
The Grand Bounce’s Gone has the gusto of a Hip song, but in the hands of the Country of Miracles it comes off a bit more frayed at the edges, with Doiron’s twangy chords on one hand and Morningstar making electronic whale songs on a theremin on the other. Downie capped the song by taking a box of tissues into the audience for a concertgoer spotted with his fingers in his ears.
Chances are the man in question was just trying to pick Downie’s impressionistic lyrics out of a mix that occasionally made them incomprehensible, but Downie grinned and explained, “I’m an insecure sensitive musician,” worried that someone might not be having an optimal experience at his show.
The loose feel of the evening didn’t deter the Country of Miracles from turning on the heat where required, like the churning two-chord rocker Canada Geese or a deeply soulful cover of Bob Dylan’s Going, Going Gone with Downie summoning up his inner Otis Redding and Doiron adding a palpable undercurrent of ache in her harmonies as Morningstar inserted a sharp dagger of blues into the proceedings.
Rather than seem like a gimmick, Downie’s blown up images on the screen at the back of the stage served to enhance the tunes, like the big C that also seemed like an angry mouth on The Hard Canadian, a portrait of a tough-minded, small town cynic that practically reeks of smokes and Tim’s.
Most chilling was the scene he assembled for Steeplechase, a black cityscape with a towering monolith, soon threatened by an incoming plane and eventually consumed by watery smoke and red dye flames. “It’s the sound coming down,” sang Downie with both fear and sadness as the band decrescendoed to absolute quiet.
The set proper ended with the art school circus two-step of Yer Possessed, with Clark on euphonium and Morningstar on mandolin, and Downie leading the band off the stage and up the aisle, to sit on a few laps as the crowd of about 1,000 enthusiastically clapped along.
After a hardy standing ovation most people were already on their feet clapping along and trying to catch a glimpse of the band’s antics — the Country of Miracles marched back out to tear through a hard, furious, and gloriously ragged Ventilator Blues, a Rolling Stones tune off its finest hour, Exile on Main St. Then came one of Downie’s fiercest vocal performances of the night, Christmastime in Toronto, inspired by “pumpkin-headed politicians” from the West who have it in for Canada’s largest city.
The tune’s savage beauty segued perfectly into Downie’s coda, Insomniacs of the World, Good Night, with a lit backdrop of the moon. All that was missing was for the Friendly Giant’s cow to fly over it.
10-18-2010, 10:36 PM
Ahahahaa Brent! Yea for some reason my friend met up with someone he knew who had the entire 5th? (I think) row to himself because his other guests did not show so we sat up closer for the 2nd set. When Gord sat on buddies lap I did grease my way over and that sets my personal record for distance from Downie lol, hopeful to break it one day with a hug or a high five haha. Im glad you caught that Brent.
Anyways that was my first time seeing Downie solo and it was amazing if he had any closer Maritime shows I'd be there and Im sorry for missing the show in Guelph while I was home!
Anyways that was my first time seeing Downie solo and it was amazing if he had any closer Maritime shows I'd be there and Im sorry for missing the show in Guelph while I was home!
10-18-2010, 10:39 PM
38Mike Wrote:Steeplechase (Gord projected an image of a plane flying into the World Trade which created an eerie feel)
Agreed