[Rye]

I live in Winnipeg and have tickets for the Fargo show. If this setlist sticks all tour I will strongly consider skipping the Winnipeg show when the eventually come to Canada (especially if it's at the Arena and especially if tickets are $80+ as they have been the past few tours). Take note of this Hip, this is coming from someone that has been seeing your shows and buying your albums on the release date since I was 13 yrs old in 1996.

And this is why the Hip couldn't give less of a shit about this sentiment....

After all of the NFPA stuff this week, I actually was surprised that they played so many "hits", but I guess they knew what this crowd was there for - I was asking a couple of girls what they thought of the new album, and they said they've never heard it, and hoped they didn't play any of it tonight. :roll:

In Canada 95% of the people who attend Hip shows, and still attend enough to sell out almost every show they play in this country, ONLY want to hear 10 or 11 certain songs. As a result that's what will always be played in addition to a hand full from the newest album. Die hards be damned. I can guarantee the setlists will be more diverse in the States because they know the diehards will make the trip down there so there's a little appeasement, and most of the Americans in the crowd will have no idea what most of the songs are anyways.

Sounds like the show was still highly entertaining though, which most shows usually are. You can always count on the energy level being full bore.

And this is exactly my problem with Hip shows the last couple years; they'd rather cater to people that have no interest in supporting their new work as opposed to those of us who have supported them for years.