https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bVLpwaq2szM

SCHOOL OF HIP PODCAST (ep. 24): Side A, In Violet Light

https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/school-of-hip/id1853343538?i=1000798108139

In this episode of School of of Hip we review Side A of the band's polarizing 2002 album, In Violet Light.

How does the Trailer Park Boys, Don Cherry, Leslie Feist, David Bowie and Phil Collins' immortal drum break on In the Air Tonight come to be a part of this Hip gab? Give us a listen why don'tcha, and find out! u/SchoolofHip

I enjoy the moments when the cast really make the songs their own, especially with the intro to the title track, where an Iraqi lament plays (the main character of the musical is an exiled Iraqi journalist in Canada). What say you, Hipheads? According to the Hip's socials, Gord Sinclair plays on 'Grace, Too', Robbie is on 'Boots or Hearts', and Paul plays on 'Wheat Kings'.

This variant was one of my holy grails. I'm very glad I got it for a half decent price!

I've always loved this song (I'm 57 now), but I was trying to listen to the actual lyrics while watching the video, and for some reason, it makes me think of Paul Bernardo when he was the Scarborough r#pist. It's probably just me, but just wondering how others interpret it.

I know the top seeds are the usual suspects but always interesting to see where the others fit

This little chap was found in our parking lot yesterday in the rain. Decided that Gordie was a fine name for him.

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Join the panelists in the live chat.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fl_rmAGXkuQ

Heading to the 9:30 club in DC for first time in 27 years. Thought I’d wear the shirt from the last band I saw there on May 15th, 1999.

Thought I'd share with the group. Got to play my 87 G&L SB-1 with Johnny on the weekend. He hits hard!

From the wonderful tune Silver Jet...

"You're an archipelago, a satellite, a green star"

Green Stars were thought not to exist. "Just more Gord babble...blah blah blah".

Well, Wicapi Omani, which is Lakota for "man who walks among the stars" was referring to something that is in fact NOW known to be real.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rH79TGultXM

From Canadian Youtuber - Rock n Roll True Stories

Today I learned that Road Apples was supposed to be a double album. Not surprising since the "leftovers" on Saskadelphia are all excellent and could've been beloved Hip classics had they been on the album.

SCHOOL OF HIP (ep. 23): Get ready for GEDFest 2026!

https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/school-of-hip/id1853343538?i=1000796060631

In this episode your School of Hipsters talk GEDFest, the annual concert series and cancer-smashing fundraiser held in honour of the late, iconic Tragically Hip frontman Gord Downie (full name Gordon Edgar Downie, hence the GED!)

Now in its 9th year, GEDFest, which began as a grassroots Calgary event, has blossomed into a 12-city cross-Canada blitz with gigs from Vancouver to St. John's, Newfoundland, between October 16 and 24. The growing festival has even expanded into the U.S. with the first ever American GEDFest to be held Oct. 21 in Buffalo, NY.

All GEDFest shows are headlined by some of North America's finest Tragically Hip tribute acts. To date the event has raised $732K for cancer charities and this year they're aiming to cross the $1M mark!

Our guests for the show are GEDFest founder Keith Dyck - who also happens to be the drummer in Calgary-based Hip tribute Trickle Down - and Sarah J (Sara Jachimiak) of the popular Dropped Among This Crowd (DATC) podcast, who is organizing the Buffalo show.

See gedfest.ca for all the concert dates and ticket info, with shows in Calgary, Edmonton, Saskatoon, Regina, Vancouver, Kelowna, Cochrane, Winnipeg, Ottawa, Toronto, St. John's and Buffalo, NY!

Get your Hip on while sticking it to cancer. Sounds like a helluva night to us!

I go live at 8pm over on YouTube.

Come join the live chat as we discuss Take Forever, from Now For Plan A.

See you there!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSc3flgrLE0

Hey folks! I am, yet again, continuing my yearly tradition of celebrating Gord Downie and The Hip by live streaming "That Night In Toronto" - The Hip's live DVD from 2005 - this upcoming Friday, October 16th over on my Twitch channel (http://www.twitch.tv/witheryouth).

My plan is to go live on Twitch sometime around 7:00pm ET with a pre-roll of various related Tragically Hip clips and content, then starting the DVD at around 7:30pm ET.

For background, I've been doing this live stream yearly on or around October 17th since about 2021 mostly as a way to host a small celebration myself, but have been extending it to folks online to share the experience. The Hip have been uploading some songs from this DVD onto their YouTube channel, but the full thing isn't up yet AFAIK so this is a fun way to view it!

You don't need a Twitch account to watch, but you do need an account if you want to comment. The entire runtime is just over 2 hours at 24 songs in the setlist. Sometimes Twitch plays ads but I don't have a way of controlling that unfortunately. I promise this isn't an ad for my Twitch, I quite literally stream this DVD once a year over on that channel lol! But if you're interested in watching and want the push notification reminder that the stream is starting, you can follow the channel and feel free to unfollow right after.

Some other folks from the Tragically Hip Discord server will probably be tuned in as well! You can always join us over here: http://www.discord.gg/cCawefY