[Sam]

It still surprises me that a Canadian publishing house hasn't jumped at the idea of a Hip biography.

Canadian publishers are incredibly conservative about publishing anything that hasn't got a proven market in the US or UK. Most Canadian authors (particularly of fiction) need to get published somewhere else first. Research texts can get published a bit more easily, because the university presses take care of them, but they're not exactly marketed to the general public.

I'd love to see a book like U2's recent release U2 on U2. It's basically a big picture book but the stories and memories from the band members are really cool. If they could find a publisher, I'd love to see something like that from the Hip. Actually, I kind of expected some sort of retrospective picture when the Hip were inducted into the Music Hall of Fame. That seemed like an opportune moment.