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Welcome Sarah. You're lucky that you live in Toronto and get a lot of chances to see the Hip. Enjoy the hipbase.
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:welcome SARAH!!!!!!
:jump So glad you found us!
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Imagine a world before the "beginning was the word.”
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welcome, is it really mostly uphill?
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i was referring to the song thompson girl.
east coast canada may as well be on the other side of the world, for as close as i have ever come to it. you make it sound interesting.
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cool map chris, i tried kamloops to thompson and i'm actually closer than toronto! only 2,222 km. not bad... i'd drive it for a private hipbase and polar bears only show! :thumb:
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Trust me, Thompson is not worth the 8 hour drive north from Winnipeg... I have done it a few times... If you like fishing it might be worth it. Other then that it is just a northern town with a Nickel Stack.
I need 2 Kingston Tickets, please help.
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Sorry I keep hijacking things here, but as I was going back through the pages of this thread I happened to notice that there already is a thompson girl (thompson girl21) and her name happens to be Sarah! I didn't know that before I registered! Weird. Two Sarah's who both happen to choose thompson girl as their user name!
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Hello there, my name is Justin. I'm ashamed to say that although I'm a big Hip fan, I didn't know this community existed until crazykid directed me from another forum. I'm excited to dig through the achieves and get to know everyone around here a little better.
I was born and raised in Kingston, ON. I actually lived in a house for 4 years which was one of the closest to Millhaven Penitentiary (but I'm too young to have experienced the events of '73). I guess everyone from Kingston has some sort of "Hip" story. My grandmother, for example, used to babysit Downie. They're great ambassadors for the city. I can't recall the first time I experienced their music, as I grew up around it, but had never seen them live. Unfortunately because they rarely play Kingston anymore, I had been unable to attend a live show until I moved up to southwestern Ontario. I know, it's awful, but I have one Hip show under my belt as of June 18th in Guelph.
Needless to say, that show was quite surreal for me. It was everything I had come to expect from the band. It was great to hear some long lost songs that, by the sounds of things, were a rare treat. However, there were still songs that I'm sure get played often live that I'd like to hear (Grace, BobC, etc.)
I am happy to announce that I have tickets for the Ovation Festival in September and I'm looking forward to that show. Perhaps by then I won't be a complete stranger and I'll be able to introduce myself to a few of you who will also be attending the show. Although, by the looks of the pictures taken from the Guelph show, I was very close to the photographers. I actually took a few pictures of the Weakerthans for some guy behind me because I'm tall*... I wonder if he's from this board?
Anyways... ummm... Howdy! :thumb:
*:oops: I'm sorry for being in people's way. I wasn't the guy in the red shirt that everyone has been complaining about. But I was about 5 rows back, infront of Baker and I had a blue shirt on. On the plus side, I got that guy in the green hat (who pushed his way up to the front and continued to cause shit there) ejected for being an assclown. Not to mention I'm usually the one who gets smoked in the back of the head by crowdsurfers :x (I got my glasses knocked from my face at the Foos and ended up getting them trampled because of this!). SO... pardon me if I was blocking your view. Honestly...
