Grace Too, from 1995’s Day For Night, brought the familiar back into the house, Downie frantically prancing around the stage with that maniacal look in his eyes, a sure sign he’s ready to get down to serious business. The last, a more intimate show in a Minneapolis warehouse on the final day of November, out-shone this one, if only for the setting.īut Thunder Bay fans who ventured to the Gardens Tuesday night got more than their money’s worth, starting with At Transformation, the lead song off their latest disc, Now For Plan A, a fantastic album the Hip leaned heavily on throughout the night.
Turns out they weren’t really necessary, though the band did break out New Orleans is Sinking midway through their 23-song set, ironically a song they stopped playing for a spell after Hurricane Katrina slammed into the Big Easy a few years ago.Ī little self-disclosure here – this is the 11th time I’ve seen them live, the second time on this tour. The Hip put on a spectacle the crowd ate up, despite largely ignoring two of their most beloved albums, 1989’s Up To Here and Road Apples, its 1991 follow-up. It’s really good,” Downie said seven songs into the set. It was worth the wait, for both the band and the crowd that came to see them. They made their latest stop Tuesday night at a nearly sold-out Fort William Gardens, the first time in almost six years they’ve dropped in on Thunder Bay. It’s also why we fill arenas coast to coast whenever Gord Downie and company decide to tour. quintet have remained quintessentially Canadian, singing of hockey and Jacques Cartier, not giving a damn if Americans got them or not. Revered for 30 years north of the 49th parallel, the Kingston, Ont. For 30 years the Tragically Hip have criss-crossed Canada, documenting the country’s past, present and future in song.
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