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  Plaskett Tour

Posted by: Ryan2
03-30-2006, 11:51 PM
Forum: Non Tragically Hip Discussion
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Fri. May 5 Richards On Richards Vancouver, BC Tickets on Sale Now Available at <!-- w --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.ticketmaster.com">www.ticketmaster.com</a><!-- w -->, Zulu Records and Scratch Records
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Sat. May 6 Central Bar & Grill Victoria, BC Tickets on Sale April 05 Available at Rickles Pub & Grill Tel. 403.851.4986
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Tue. May 9 HiFi Calgary, AB Tickets on Sale March 27 at Megatunes and Sloth Records
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Wed. May 10 Rickles Pub & Grub Cochrane, AB Tickets available on site
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Thu. May 11 Tongue & Groove Lethbridge, AB
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Fri. May 12 New City Likwid Lounge Edmonton, AB
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Sat. May 13 HiFi Calgary, AB Tickets on sale March 27 at Megatunes and Sloth Records
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Mon. May 15 Amigos Saskatoon, SK Tickets on Sale April 1 Available at Amigos, The Vinyl Exchange and The Vinyl Diner
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Tue. May 16 The Distrikt Regina, SK Tickets on Sale Now Available at World of Trout, Boston billards and all cob outlets - 306.525.9999
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Wed. May 17 West End Cultural Centre Winnipeg, MB Tickets on Sale Now 204.780.3333 or at: <!-- w --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.ticketmaster.ca">www.ticketmaster.ca</a><!-- w --> WECC 204.783.6918
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Tue. May 23 The Casbah Hamilton, ON
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Thu. May 25 The Phoenix Toronto,ON Tickets On Sale Now Available at Ticketmaster, Rotate This, Soundscapes & Horse Shoe Box Office
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Fri. May 26 Capital Music Hall Ottawa, ON Tickets available at Ticket Master <!-- w --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.ticketmaster.ca/event/10003c78D9484B36">www.ticketmaster.ca/event/10003c78D9484B36</a><!-- w --> OR 613.775.1111 and at End Hits <!-- w --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.endhits.ca">www.endhits.ca</a><!-- w -->
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Sat. May 27 The Main Hall Montreal, PQ Tickets on Sale Friday March 31 Available at Green Room, Atom Heart, L'Oblique and Cheap Thrills
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  Spades/Sadies Side Project in Hamilton & Kingston

Posted by: Ryan2
03-30-2006, 11:49 PM
Forum: Non Tragically Hip Discussion
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The Spades are playing a couple gigs and in addition to a full Spades show they will be joining forces with The Sadies Travis Good for a set in a side project of sorts called "The Rising Sons", so far these are the two confirmed dates with more possibly being added . Currently The Spades are working with Gord Sinclair on their next album ...........

Friday April 21st
Hamilton
Pepper Jack Cafe
$6 19+ Doors@9pm

Saturday April 22nd
Kingston
Merchant Tap House
FREE 19+

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  New LiveDownloads ?

Posted by: omahahip
03-30-2006, 08:52 PM
Forum: Tragically Hip Discussion
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I heard a rumour today that more shows would be released on Live Downloads in the near future, starting with 2004.12.03 (because apparently it was one of, if not the best of the 2004 tour). Can anybody confirm or deny this?

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  Spring break gone wrong...

Posted by: PortlandCarbo
03-30-2006, 08:52 PM
Forum: Non Tragically Hip Discussion
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Fraternity raising money to help injured brother return home

01:27 PM PST on Wednesday, March 29, 2006
By RAY LANE / KING 5 News

SEATTLE - For a group of University of Washington students and good friends on spring break in Costa Rica, Flamingo Beach was the place to spend last Thursday.

But for 22-year old Larry Busch, a swim at the beach turned tragic that day. His friend and fraternity brother Stuart Faris saw what happened.

"Unfortunately he caught a bad wave, got tossed over, came down behind it in a patch where the water was low. Came down on his head and shattered his C-5 vertebrae," said Faris.

Busch knew right away something was terribly wrong. He lost feeling from his chest down and his arms began to swell.

He could not airlifted out. He had to be driven on Costa Rica's treacherous and extremely bumpy roads some six hours to a hospital in San Jose, where he's still being cared for.
Now his fraternity at UW, Zeta PSI, is rallying to help him during his time of need.

"You know, he's a really good friend,” said Chad Ashby. “Not even a month ago, I went snowboarding with him, meeting his parents and things. It's just really tough to see one of your friends go through something like this."

They will focus their efforts on raising money to help pay for the skyrocketing medical costs.

The first step is selling purple bracelets with Busch’s initials “LTB” on them and the word “STRENGTH.”

"With the neurosurgery down there he's already received and now the Medivac costs to fly with the medical staff as required is astronomical. Most of it is not covered by insurance since it happened outside the country," said Faris.

It could cost up to $80,000 to have Larry flown back to Seattle with a medical team.

His prognosis is still unclear, though he has regained some feeling and movement in his hands.

You can make a contribution to the Larry Busch Fund at any Bank of America branch.

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  Gord history question

Posted by: Wheat_King
03-30-2006, 08:18 PM
Forum: Tragically Hip Discussion
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I was told by my brother that Gord graduated from a University with a degree in literature or something of the sort, can someone fill me in. Did Gord ever even attend a post-secondary school? Just curious.

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  Kathleen Parker, you're my hero.

Posted by: The Horrible Esthete
03-30-2006, 06:02 PM
Forum: Non Tragically Hip Discussion
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When illegal is right, what is wrong?
by Kathleen Parker
Published March 29
Copyright © 2006, Orlando Sentinel

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There's nothing like the sight of 500,000 protesters on U.S. turf, demanding rights in Spanish while waving Mexican flags, to stir Americans from their siestas.

In Los Angeles, the iconic phrase may be "Si se puede," but in Muncie, it's "What the . . . ?"

Suddenly, in the flash of a newscast, polite political debate about guest-worker programs visually morphed into what seemed like a full-blown invasion.

Demonstrations have the desired effect of focusing attention on an idea -- and television cameras can tighten that focus so that a slow drip looks like a tsunami. But the same imagery can backfire. I suspect that the sight of so many people demanding rights to which they have no legal claim will not help the cause of illegals in this country, even if it motivates politicians to act, well, politically.

Let's just say that convincing others of one's desire to become an American citizen would be more effective if one were to do so in English -- while waving an American flag. Just imagine how welcome 500,000 Bubbas waving American flags and chanting, "Hell no, we won't go," would be in Mexico City.

Now before I'm accused of being biased against Latinos, let me be clear. Yo quiero a los latinos. I could go on in Espanol, but when in America, I always say, do as the Americans do. Speak English. Otherwise, I'm over-the-top pro-Latino and pro-immigrant.

I grew up in Florida with Cubans as my closest friends, and my stepfather is Mexican -- a legal immigrant who came to this country at age 16 to attend medical school.

I am, in other words, an unapologetic Hispanophile.

But, like a majority of Americans who think Congress should secure our borders, I'm a fan of laws and of those who respect them -- even though I occasionally turn right on red when the sign says not to.

The question of what to do with some 11 million to 20 million illegal immigrants already living and working in this country may be too problematic for mere politicians. The issue is exacerbated by our refusal to speak plain, non-PC English about what's what. Illegal immigrants are not "undocumented workers." They're illegal. And, if we're to use the legal language accurately, they're "aliens."

Then again, when we talk about illegal aliens, it is useful to remind ourselves that we're also talking about human beings. To see television images of shadows crossing the desert into the U.S. is to see criminals intent on misdeeds rather than poor people, hundreds of whom die each year in the process, trying to find jobs and plenty to eat.

As we've been told hundreds of times, these people do the work Americans won't do, which is both true and not true. It is true that Americans don't want to work for the low wages that illegal workers gratefully earn, but not necessarily true that no American would do those jobs under any circumstances.

Steven Camarota, research director for the Center for Immigration Studies (cis.org), says that unemployment figures tell the truer story of how native workers are being crowded out of the market by cheap labor: 11 percent of American construction workers are unemployed, as are 9 percent of workers in food processing and 11 percent in cleaning and maintenance.

"The least educated Americans are getting hurt," he says.

Standing around a Washington, D.C., Metro station the other day, I watched a Latino sweeping the tiled floor. He was one of those people you barely notice -- an invisible soul, dignified, unobtrusive -- but plainly attentive to his job. I don't know if he's here legally, but I do know the floor was spotless. I tried to imagine any other American doing the same job. A college student? Another minority? Is there really an involuntarily unemployed American citizen keeping warm on a street grate because this small brown man is sweeping the floor of an underground tunnel?

Before I bleed to death or start writing poetry, let me balance this romantic view of the illegal immigrant with another nugget: About 27 percent of all inmates in the federal prison system are criminal aliens, according to government figures. Then again, millions of illegals who are otherwise law-abiding people have lived here for 10 to 20 years, buying houses, attending parent-teacher meetings and giving birth to native-born Americans.

Although there seems no simple solution to such a complex issue, two nagging thoughts persist: 1) The right to protest was a gift from America's Founding Fathers to the nation's citizens, ergo, non-citizens should protest in their own countries; and 2) the purpose of the legislative branch of government is to pass laws that serve the best interests of the nation's citizens.

Which may mean, No se puede.

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  Hanson Brothers Tour

Posted by: bauer
03-30-2006, 05:11 PM
Forum: Non Tragically Hip Discussion
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Great news! The Hanson Brothers are touring western Canada in April. For those that don't know this is an alternate of the band nomeansno. Here are the dates so far.
HANSON BROTHERS TOUR DATES: April 2006
thur. 13 LANGLEY
fri. 14 VANCOUVER
sat. 15 NELSON
sun. 16 ????
mon. 17 ?????
tue. 18 CALGARY
wed. 19 INISFAILL
thu. 20 SASKATOON
fri. 21 EDMONTON
sat. 22 LETHBRIDGE
sun. 23 RED DEER

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  Bootlegs 1985-1995 torrent

Posted by: adam23
03-30-2006, 02:59 PM
Forum: Download & Trading Central
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Hi everyone, I just found this site today after I made a torrent of hip bootlegs and was looking for places to post it too. It`s great to see so many other obsessed Hip fans out there 8)

Anyways, I come with an ambitious plan, to collect as many old hip shows as I can and put them in one easy large torrent for everyone. I think it would be much easier to keep 1 file seeding then 100s of smaller files. My first release is all the stuff I have from 1985 to the end of 1995. I`m sure it is not complete and probably has mistakes in it, but it`s a start. (let me know if you find mislabeled songs or have stuff I didn`t and can help me out).

Well, what`s everyone thoughts on this? Does it sound like a plan or a waste of time for me? (took a long time to tidy up all the files and make sure the song names were in the filename, lol). Also how many people are mad at me for using .mp3s rather then the huge (but better quality) uncompressed files? ...And, would having all the hip shows backed up in one torrent take all the fun out of collecting every show for the new comers? Tongue

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  Help!!!I need to get tickets

Posted by: Ledpipe
03-30-2006, 12:42 PM
Forum: FAQ / Getting Started / Forum News
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Hey everyone I am new at this.I want to buy tickets for the show in Guelph Ontario. On the HIp website it says that there is a presale for that show but I cant find it...can someone help..

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  Good Luck this weekend Will

Posted by: MAverick
03-30-2006, 10:59 AM
Forum: Tragically Hip Discussion
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Will Ruocco, creator of most of the TTH posters and much of the Box Set art is heading out east for the Junos this weekend. Good luck Will!!

MAv.

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