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Hey guys, I always like to post my shows on this board cause I'm a huge hip fan. We're coming out east from Saskatoon. Check out our band at myspace.com/deepdarkwoods.



1 Mar 2008 22:00
Irene’s Ottawa, Ontario
2 Mar 2008 22:00
some British Pub in Kingston (forget the name)(I'll post it later)
3 Mar 2008 22:00
Dakota Tavern w/ Shuyler Jansen Toronto, Ontario
4 Mar 2008 22:00
Dakota Tavern w/ Shuyler Jansen Toronto, Ontario
6 Mar 2008 23:00
Canadian Music Week - Dakota Tavern Toronto, Ontario
7 Mar 2008 21:30
London Music Club w/ Shuyler Jansen London, Ontario
9 Mar 2008 20:00
The Livingroom New York, New York
13 Mar 2008 21:00
The Townhouse w/ Said The Whale & Shuyler Jansen Sudbury, Ontario
15 Mar 2008 20:00
The Cavern w/ Shuyler Jansen Winnipeg, Manitoba
22 Mar 2008 22:00
Amigos Cantina w/ Mayor Matt Allen Saskatoon, Saskatchewan


cheers,
Chris

Hey all, captured a few videos and will get them on youtube ASAP


the full intro and Lonely End Of The Rink:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1mohzniP6Bs

Ahead By A Century:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9JBG4eR-lQw


I also have Fully Completely and about half of Pigeon Camera (security made me stop video recording during PC) ... i'll get those up soon, til then, enjoy! :thumb:

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BOB LOVELACE TO SERVE SIX MONTHS IN JAIL: Press release: Christian Peacemaker Teams Canada

Where Is The Justice?
Kingston, Ontario
February 15, 2008

Kingston Regional Police took Bob Lovelace away from the courthouse in handcuffs this morning to serve a six month sentence on a contempt of court charge handed down by Justice Douglas Cunningham. Lovelace, age fifty-nine, is an ex-chief and spokesperson for the Ardoch Algonquin First Nation (AAFN). He is also father to seven children and an instructor at Queen's University and Sir Sandford Fleming Community College. Justice Cunningham imposed a fine of $25,000 on Lovelace and $10,000 on his community.

Lovelace said "I am in a dilemma. I want to obey Canadian law but Algonquin law instructs me that I must preserve Creation. I must follow Algonquin law." Judge Cunningham in his sentencing said, "There can only be one law - the law of Canada as expressed in this court."

Co-chief Paula Sherman and Honorary Chief Harold Perry agreed to abide by the terms of an injunction which forbids them from blocking Frontenac Ventures Ltd from drilling test holes on the site or encouraging others to do so. In this way they avoided Bob Lovelace's fate. "I want to be with Bob" said Harold "but my community does not want me to do this". Perry is age seventy-eight and has heart problems while Paula Sherman is a single parent.

Earlier in the hearing Chief Doreen Davis and Earl Badour of the Shabot Obaadjiwan First Nation agreed to abide by the terms of the injunction of September 27, 2007. They must reappear in court on March 18, 2008.

Chris Reid, lawyer for AAFN, noted that there were other options available to the involved parties which would have prevented this outcome. The Province of Ontario could have removed the claimed land from the lands available to be staked and explored. Further, he observed "The Supreme Court of Canada has ruled that all provinces have a duty to consult with First Nations who have even a weak claim on land before they permit any development. Ontario has not consulted with any Algonquin band about this claim".

Ardoch Algonquin First Nation is a federally-unrecognized community and so does not receive funding from any government. They urgently need support for costs related to Bob's defence. They are asking supporters to please send donations, made out to: "Chris Reid, in trust for the Ardoch Algonquin First Nation" at the address below:

Christopher M. Reid
Barrister & Solicitor
154 Monarch Park Ave.
Toronto, ON M4J 4R6
Tel: (416) 466-9928

THIS IRATES ME...
I know Bob, he's truly one of the most peaceful souls ever....
Wow, something has to happen to get him out!!!
tina

This is an unofficial torrent of the artists that will be featured at the 2008 South by Southwest music festival in Austin, TX. There is one song from every artist, all in one convenient free download!

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My cube is going to be rockin next week :jump

In today's Whig:

Quote:Hip up for first concert
Posted By Greg Burliuk

If Rob Baker could choose, it would be Diana Krall and not his band opening the K-Rock Centre as a concert venue tonight.

"I didn't want us to be the opener," says the guitarist for The Tragically Hip.

"It helps foster this ill-begotten notion that this whole thing has been a self-serving promotion for The Hip. They'll look at us playing there and say it's for nothing but a bunch of stoned rock bands making a lot of noise.

"But if you had Diana Krall or Norah Jones or Celine Dion, people could see no reason against it. They'd have a fabulous evening and leave satisfied."

People don't seem unhappy with Kingston's native sons - Baker, Gord Downie, Gord Sinclair, Johnny Faye and Paul Langlois - being the baptizers of the new venue, since all 6,800 seats were snapped up immediately when tickets went on sale in December.

Of all the members of the celebrated band, Baker was the most public about supporting a new arena, appearing several times to publicly endorse it.

He doesn't, however, have any sense of personal triumph now.

"I don't take it personally," Baker says.

"I think my involvement was over-blown. I did feel like my neck was being stuck out. And I still wake up thinking that they'll just absorb the cost and not open it."

A few weeks ago, Baker had a tour of the new centre and came away impressed.

"From outside, it's not a gigantic imposing building, but it all fits," he says.

"I was pleasantly surprised. ... I thought 'how ever are they going to shoe horn it into the space?' but it seems really big and open and spacious. I'm just so glad to see it get done."

Baker has even done some glad-handing for the new venue.

"I know people in this industry from different management companies and some of them manage major acts," he says. "And I've certainly mentioned to them that there's now a place in Kingston for the Diana Kralls and the Norah Joneses to play."

For The Hip, the concert comes in the middle of a hiatus from performing. The band had been promoting its latest disc, World Container, which produced the radio hit In View.

"We were out for a year and a half and the touring ended in early November," he says.

To get in performance mode, the band played a concert for its fan club members Thursday night at the Brockville Arts Centre. It was a small crowd of just 760 diehard fans.

The last time the band played in Kingston was at the Across The Causeway concert on the grounds of Royal Military College in September 2004.

Before that, their last major gig in Kingston had been at the Memorial Centre way back in 1995.

For that reason, The Hip aren't planning on playing any brand new material.

"We haven't been able to play our show here for a long, long time," Baker says.

"That'll be enough. It's going to be a special night for that alone. There'll be a core of songs that people will expect to hear, for the casual fans. And then there'll be the songs for the hardcore fans, a few of the unplugged gems."

Asked what specific songs the casual fans could expect to hear Baker said, "Just flip the radio dial in Kingston."

And, yes, people can expect to see more frequent performances by The Hip here in the future.

"Kingston's back on the map as far as the band's touring goes," Baker says.

"Physically, we couldn't bring the show to the Memorial Centre anymore. We like to tour during the winter in Canada. We get a better deal on trucks and crew. You can get your dream crew then, whereas it's hard to get the people you want in summer during the outdoor-concert season. Canadians need it the most in the winter.

"Plus, we don't want to be inside a shed in the middle of August," he says of the industry term for "arena."

Almost like clockwork, the band has released a CD at least every two years since its first full-length album, Up To Here, in 1989.

With World Container being released in 2006, that would mean a new album is due this year.

And that is the plan.

"Our hope is to get one out by the end of the year," Baker says.

"Some time in the spring, we should start that process. We're working a little differently these days. Before, we'd take five weeks and record an album. Now, we'll record five songs and and then sit on it for a month and record five more. We're ever adjusting the process."

Ace veteran producer Bob Rock will once again be at the helm. Last time, the band spent two sessions in Vancouver with him and another at his studio in Hawaii.

"This time, we're hoping we can persuade him to come to our studio [in Bath]," Baker says.

The Hip's one and only live album was Live Between Us in 1997, recorded in Detroit's Cobo Hall.

Might Kingston be the venue for a future live album?

It's certainly possible.

"We've taped every show for the last 15 years," he says.

Back in 1989, Baker said in an interview with the Whig-Standard that playing before hometown fans made him nervous. Almost 20 years later, he still feels the same way.

"If we rolled into Kansas City, we'd have no idea what to expect," he says. "You judge yourself on internal criteria and you do what you can.

"But it elevates expectations when you look out and there's a sea of faces that you know. It's a lot harder."

Baker and his family have always made their home in Kingston and a Rob Baker sighting is not uncommon in Kingston, whether it be at his son's soccer or hockey games, a sporting event such as a Golden Gaels football game, or even at the grocery store.

"Basically, when I'm home, I'm a glorified chauffeur," he says.

"I don't believe in hiding. I don't want to become some crazy recluse.

"For the most part, people come up and say nice things about my job and that's a really nice feeling. But some will also come up and say 'Your band sucks.' You can't please everyone."

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Whig-Standard Entertainment Reporter

Hip discography

ø The Tragically Hip EP - 1987

ø Up to Here - 1989

ø Road Apples - 1991

ø Fully Completely - 1992

ø Day For Night - 1994

ø Trouble at the Henhouse - 1996

ø Live Between Us - 1997

ø Phantom Power - 1998

ø Music@Work - 2000

ø In Violet Light - 2002

ø In Between Evolution - 2004

ø World Container - 2006

Who: The Tragically Hip perform the inaugural concert at the K-Rock Centre, 1 Barrack St., Saturday at 8 p.m. The 6,800 seats are sold out.

Does anyone have any suggestions of good parking lots/locations in Kingston? ie. ones that will not be crazy busy and slow to get out of after the show? I would rather have to walk a bit than for it to take forever...

I saw no mention of it in the review section. Carry on.

Democrats Dug In For Retreat
By Charles Krauthammer
Friday, February 22, 2008; Page A23

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"No one can spend some 10 days visiting the battlefields in Iraq without seeing major progress in every area. . . . If the U.S. provides sustained support to the Iraqi government -- in security, governance, and development -- there is now a very real chance that Iraq will emerge as a secure and stable state."

-- Anthony Cordesman,

"The Situation in Iraq: A Briefing From the Battlefield," Feb. 13, 2008

This from a man who was a severe critic of the postwar occupation of Iraq and who, as author Peter Wehner points out, is no wide-eyed optimist. In fact, in May 2006 Cordesman had written that "no one can argue that the prospects for stability in Iraq are good." Now, however, there is simply no denying the remarkable improvements in Iraq since the surge began a year ago.

Unless you're a Democrat. As Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) put it, "Democrats have remained emotionally invested in a narrative of defeat and retreat in Iraq." Their Senate leader, Harry Reid, declares the war already lost. Their presidential candidates (eight of them at the time) unanimously oppose the surge. Then the evidence begins trickling in.

We get news of the Anbar Awakening, which has now spread to other Sunni areas and Baghdad. The sectarian civil strife that the Democrats insisted was the reason for us to leave dwindles to the point of near disappearance. Much of Baghdad is returning to normal. There are 90,000 neighborhood volunteers -- ordinary citizens who act as auxiliary police and vital informants on terrorist activity -- starkly symbolizing the insurgency's loss of popular support. Captured letters of al-Qaeda leaders reveal despair as they are driven -- mostly by Iraqi Sunnis, their own Arab co-religionists -- to flight and into hiding.

After agonizing years of searching for the right strategy and the right general, we are winning. How do Democrats react? From Nancy Pelosi to Barack Obama, the talking point is the same: Sure, there is military progress. We could have predicted that. (They in fact had predicted the opposite, but no matter.) But it's all pointless unless you get national reconciliation.

"National" is a way to ignore what is taking place at the local and provincial level, such as Shiite cleric Ammar al-Hakim, scion of the family that dominates the largest Shiite party in Iraq, traveling last October to Anbar in an unprecedented gesture of reconciliation with the Sunni sheiks.

Doesn't count, you see. Democrats demand nothing less than federal-level reconciliation, and it has to be expressed in actual legislation.

The objection was not only highly legalistic but also politically convenient: Very few (including me) thought this would be possible under the Maliki government. Then last week, indeed on the day Cordesman published his report, it happened. Mirabile dictu, the Iraqi parliament approved three very significant pieces of legislation.

First, a provincial powers law that turns Iraq into arguably the most federal state in the entire Arab world. The provinces get not only power but also elections by Oct. 1. U.S. Ambassador Ryan Crocker has long been calling this the most crucial step to political stability. It will allow, for example, the pro-American Anbar sheiks to become the legitimate rulers of their province, exercise regional autonomy and forge official relations with the Shiite-dominated central government.

Second, parliament passed a partial amnesty for prisoners, 80 percent of whom are Sunni. Finally, it approved a $48 billion national budget that allocates government revenue -- about 85 percent of which is from oil -- to the provinces. Kurdistan, for example, gets one-sixth.

What will the Democrats say now? They will complain that there is still no oil distribution law. True. But oil revenue is being distributed to the provinces in the national budget. The fact that parliament could not agree on a permanent formula for the future simply means that it will be allocating oil revenue year by year as part of the budget process. Is that a reason to abandon Iraq to al-Qaeda and Iran?

Despite all the progress, military and political, the Democrats remain unwavering in their commitment to withdrawal on an artificial timetable that inherently jeopardizes our "very real chance that Iraq will emerge as a secure and stable state."

Why? Imagine the transformative effects in the region, and indeed in the entire Muslim world, of achieving a secure and stable Iraq, friendly to the United States and victorious over al-Qaeda. Are the Democrats so intent on denying George Bush retroactive vindication for a war they insist is his that they would deny their own country a now-achievable victory?

Where's NegPhil? He's slacking on his Whig postings! :lol:

Quote:The Tragically Hip rock Brockville; Exclusive gig for members of the band's fan club serves as warm-up for Kingston show
Posted By Michael Jiggins

In 150 years, the Brockville Arts Centre has never been rocked like it was last night.

A crowd of 760 people from across North America jammed the historic downtown concert hall for a rare intimate performance by Kingston's The Tragically Hip.

Arts centre administrator Peter Dunn said Harry Connick Jr., who played in Brockville four years ago, was probably a bigger international star.

"But as far as rock and roll shows go, yeah, this is the biggest by far," said Dunn.

"To have a band that normally plays to 15,000 or 20,000 perform at the Brockville Arts Centre is a great thing for this facility and the town, too," he added.

The show, only announced earlier this month, was an exclusive gig for members of the band's fan club and also served as a warm-up for The Hip's concert tomorrow night at Kingston's K-Rock Centre.

Doors to the hall opened at 7 p.m. and the band didn't take the stage until 8:15. But ,by a few minutes past 6 p.m., a lineup of fans braving minus 8 C temperatures was beginning to stretch around the block.

"It's a bit cold outside but it's worth the wait for a big show with Gord and the boys. We're pretty excited about tonight. It'll be a small, intimate gathering," said Steve Tapp of Kingston after getting inside the arts centre with his buddy Kevin Fenech of Ottawa.

Between them, they've seen 36 Hip concerts - but never in a venue like this.

"We thought it would be nice to see them play in a different place," said Fenech.

Dunn said American fans came in from as far away as San Jose, Calif., Dallas, Tex., Fort Lauderdale, Fla., while Canadians arrived from Winnipeg, Greenwood, N.S. and Port Coquitlam, B.C.

Aside from the music, of course, a common thread in what brought fans yesterday was the chance to see The Hip in a setting that returned the band to its roots before arena and stadium venues became their norm.

"It's going to be a little more intimate than usual. I've seen them at the Air Canada Centre and that was 20,000 people, or so. This will be a lot more intimate and probably a little better," said Adam Johnston of Oakville.

The band arrived at the arts centre around 4 p.m. and quickly did a sound check, said Dunn.

Although they were not available for an interview prior to the show, the Hip "love the theatre," according to their road manager Michael Chipper of Eggplant Productions.

They opened the two-hour show with The Lonely End of the Rink followed by New Orleans is Sinking and Fully, Completely.

The band's massive sound was flawless in the small venue.

Dunn admitted prior to the show he was a bit nervous with all the lights and equipment that started getting plugged in when a stage crew of 32 got to work at 6:30 a.m. yesterday.

"This is by far the biggest PA system we've ever had in the theatre. If someone plugs in a toaster we're going to go down," he chuckled. Tickets were sold exclusively through the band's website and had to be picked up with photo identification just an hour before the show. To prevent scalping, no one was allowed out after picking up their tickets.

"I've been to a ton of concerts but never to one where they're crazy about keeping the tickets like this," said Julie Lukus of Ottawa.

But she didn't mind the hassle or the extended wait.

"The Hip is always worthwhile," said Lukus.

Dunn, meanwhile, praised his staff and volunteers for what appeared to be a flawless ticket distribution with everyone inside prior to the start of the show.