Pace on Earth

Hip Hop Hooray

So the big news in Freddy this week was the announcement that The Tragically Hip are returning to Fredericton after a 14 year absence. They will be playing a show at the Aitken Center on September 11. I have seen the Hip somewhere around 8 or 9 times; I've seen them in Moncton, Saint John, Montreal, New York and New Hampshire, but never in Freddy so this will be fun. I'm shaving my head, letting my stubble grow and getting my picture with Gord. And possibly introducing myself as him...

So in honour of this big announcement I am trying to arrange a celebratory trip to see the Hip, well, somewhere else. They are playing next weekend at the Hampton Beach Casino Ballroom in New Hampshire. This is the same venue we saw them play on the Phantom Power tour. It's a much smaller venue then anything they would play in Canada and tickets are only $20. This is how Canadians can actually take advantage of American's apathy towards the band. This is also how I can find a way to put this picture on the web:I love two the way the pirate flag flies so proudly in this picture. I also love that somewhere on the beach in the background a German tourist named Jurgen was excited to export "raise the roof" to Munich. But I digress...

Back to the issue at hand...mid-September in Freddy is also Havest time and, in fact, the Hip are basically opening the Blues Festival a day early. It's going to be a crazy week of music in town with the folks at Harvest recently announcing that Gov't Mule will be playing the big tent on Thursday night, Dr. John will be playing on Saturday and rumours that Matt Mays and El Torpedo will be playing an Afterburner. So for any of you who are away you should consider making your travel plans home around that week. Of course, year to year, you should consider doing that anyways...but again, I digress.

So while I'm off topic, let me digress one last time. The title of this post came to my mind for obvious reasons. But it also reminded me of my love for Naughty By Nature. OPP is one of the all time great rap songs and probably turned thousands of horny young boys into adulturous pricks. Thank you. So in honour of Naughty By Nature is is their Youtube compendium:
OPP - http://youtube.com/watch?v=rvQ9-cZoQP8
Hip Hop Hooray - http://youtube.com/watch?v=7XQ5Q84qepQ
Holiday - http://youtube.com/watch?v=9fiFn0FoVs4

In Gord we trust

posted by Vitamin S @ 5:43 p.m.