Originally posted by AMLBONO:Living in Canada I have grown up as a huge Tragically Hip fan. For those not familiar with the band they are Canadian and have been around since 1984. The Hip have never made too big of a splash in the United States and the world so they have always been our own.
Recently, their lead singer Gordon Downie has been diagnosed with an incurable form of brain cancer named glioblastoma. So the band decided to group together this past summer and play 15 shows throughout Canada which I was lucky enough to catch their 2nd show in Toronto. The last concert was televised live on the CBC from their hometown of Kingston Ontario a couple of weeks ago.
The cool thing about the setlist for the shows is that they performed songs off seven (7) of their thirteen (13) albums each night grouped together as follows:
4 songs (Album 1)
4 songs (Album 2)
Intermission
4 songs (Album 3)
4 songs (Album 4)
Intermission
4 songs (Album 5)
3 songs (Album 6)
Intermission
2 songs (Album 7)
What would your setlist look like if U2 took to the stage in this fashion?
Originally posted by allad1nsane:[..]
Thanks so much for bringing attention to the Hip here. They are kind of the Canadian equivalent of the e-Street band, part of our DNA. Watching Downie tear through the THIRD encore was unreal. Calling it emotional does it a disservice, it was profound -- I think all of Canada was crying when he started to break down during Grace, Actually. It's a bummer they never caught fire internationally.... I think a lot of U2 fans would dig a good portion of their back catalog.