10-17-2002, 08:42 AM
Review: Tuesday October 15th, 2002
Venue: Hummingbird Centre, Toronto Ontario
Set list:
1 Use It Up
2 Music at Work
3 New Orleans is Sinking
4 Grace, Too
5 Escape is at Hand…
6 Courage
7 Silver Jet
8 Putting Down
9 Good Life…
10 Poets
11 IOD
12 Beautiful Thing
13 100th Meridian
14 Locked in the Trunk of a Car
15 Ahead by a Century
16 Germs/The Dire Wolf
17 Little Bones
18 Lake Fever
19 Are You Ready
20 Fire in the Hole
Well I rushed home from work to pick up my 2 buddies for the show. We headed to the Dublin Pub before the show and had a couple pints. They were playing Day For Night cranked pretty loud and the place was just packed. I didn’t see any henhousers I recognized but I did see a lot of hip shirts and people most likely heading to the show. We left Dublin around 720ish to head over to see Sammy. We went into Hummingbird and the place is just outstanding. It’s mostly use for ballets and opera and stuff like that but who cares, thehip are here and it’s time to party. We took a look at the merchandise table and my buddy bought the IVL toque and my other friend bought the tour shirt with the elephants on the front. I kept telling them, “Buy them off the website through thehipclub because it’s cheaper but they wouldn’t listen. Anyways, we got the stuff and headed down to our seats, ROW CC 1-3 I might add………WE WERE SOOOOO CLOSE IT WAS JUST AMAZING!!!!!!!!! Sean Eaggs was actually sitting right behind us so we introduced ourselves and chatted a little bit before the show. Sammy came on and he once again had the crowd going nuts. People were on their feet for a few songs and he kept thanking thehip for this awesome tour. Sammy was rolling all over the floor on the last song and they had the crowd going pretty good. Probably the best Sam Roberts performance I’ve seen on the tour.
SHOWTIME:
Now I’ve seen a whole lot of hip shows but I’ve never seen Gord rant and dance more then this show. I think every song had at least some ranting, maybe except for Good Life but at the end of every song, it had me looking at my friends and Sean with my jaw dropped thinking, “I hope this recording turns out because this is best show EVER EVER!!!!!!!!!!!” My buddy Scott (hipbond) was dancing around like a madman like he does at every show. At one point I elbowed him right in the nose but life went on because thehip were playing and we can’t pay attention to pain when there’s a show to be watched. Once again Gord was wearing has famous green shirt and by the end of the show the thing was plastered right to his body because of all the sweat. A few highlights for me were IOD, Escape, Gems into Dire Wolf, Locked, Poets rant where he sat on the stage and sang to someone front row and the Meridian “forgetting” rant is really evolving and is really sticking in my head that I’m every singing everything he says and lastly Fire in the Hole to end the show. I’m going to thank thehipclub for this show because without it, I most likely wouldn’t have been able to sit pretty much on the stage, HAHA!! Welp….and so ends another hip show…..BUT not just another hip show. This for me was the show of all shows. If there’s one recording you should get a hold of, it’s this night. Gord must have said the F word about 20 times during the show and he was probably the most in tune with the music then I’ve ever seen him. Just an outstanding performance!! If tomorrow night is half as good, I’ll be darn happy.
Jamie Innes
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Venue: Hummingbird Centre, Toronto Ontario
Set list:
1 Use It Up
2 Music at Work
3 New Orleans is Sinking
4 Grace, Too
5 Escape is at Hand…
6 Courage
7 Silver Jet
8 Putting Down
9 Good Life…
10 Poets
11 IOD
12 Beautiful Thing
13 100th Meridian
14 Locked in the Trunk of a Car
15 Ahead by a Century
16 Germs/The Dire Wolf
17 Little Bones
18 Lake Fever
19 Are You Ready
20 Fire in the Hole
Well I rushed home from work to pick up my 2 buddies for the show. We headed to the Dublin Pub before the show and had a couple pints. They were playing Day For Night cranked pretty loud and the place was just packed. I didn’t see any henhousers I recognized but I did see a lot of hip shirts and people most likely heading to the show. We left Dublin around 720ish to head over to see Sammy. We went into Hummingbird and the place is just outstanding. It’s mostly use for ballets and opera and stuff like that but who cares, thehip are here and it’s time to party. We took a look at the merchandise table and my buddy bought the IVL toque and my other friend bought the tour shirt with the elephants on the front. I kept telling them, “Buy them off the website through thehipclub because it’s cheaper but they wouldn’t listen. Anyways, we got the stuff and headed down to our seats, ROW CC 1-3 I might add………WE WERE SOOOOO CLOSE IT WAS JUST AMAZING!!!!!!!!! Sean Eaggs was actually sitting right behind us so we introduced ourselves and chatted a little bit before the show. Sammy came on and he once again had the crowd going nuts. People were on their feet for a few songs and he kept thanking thehip for this awesome tour. Sammy was rolling all over the floor on the last song and they had the crowd going pretty good. Probably the best Sam Roberts performance I’ve seen on the tour.
SHOWTIME:
Now I’ve seen a whole lot of hip shows but I’ve never seen Gord rant and dance more then this show. I think every song had at least some ranting, maybe except for Good Life but at the end of every song, it had me looking at my friends and Sean with my jaw dropped thinking, “I hope this recording turns out because this is best show EVER EVER!!!!!!!!!!!” My buddy Scott (hipbond) was dancing around like a madman like he does at every show. At one point I elbowed him right in the nose but life went on because thehip were playing and we can’t pay attention to pain when there’s a show to be watched. Once again Gord was wearing has famous green shirt and by the end of the show the thing was plastered right to his body because of all the sweat. A few highlights for me were IOD, Escape, Gems into Dire Wolf, Locked, Poets rant where he sat on the stage and sang to someone front row and the Meridian “forgetting” rant is really evolving and is really sticking in my head that I’m every singing everything he says and lastly Fire in the Hole to end the show. I’m going to thank thehipclub for this show because without it, I most likely wouldn’t have been able to sit pretty much on the stage, HAHA!! Welp….and so ends another hip show…..BUT not just another hip show. This for me was the show of all shows. If there’s one recording you should get a hold of, it’s this night. Gord must have said the F word about 20 times during the show and he was probably the most in tune with the music then I’ve ever seen him. Just an outstanding performance!! If tomorrow night is half as good, I’ll be darn happy.
Jamie Innes
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