fredag 3 Aug 2012, 22:09
Fri 27 Jul – Hillside Festival
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I was going to write an extensive review of this event, but I really don't have the time and it's probably sufficient to say that it was the best festival I've ever attended and I had a great time all around. Excellent music, great food, relatively good organization, environmental friendliness, and no thunderstorms even though they were predicted on 2/3 days! All in all, it was a smashing success.
Best Set: Rich Aucoin by a landslide. A landslide he probably caused himself by inciting an entire tent full of people to dance in a flurry of reckless abandon. I heartily recommend his live show to anyone who has a pulse. Those who do not have pulses are also encouraged to attend, as he just might kickstart your heart.
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Best Workshop: Ohbijou & The Wooden Sky played a bunch of fun covers (including The Tragically Hip's Bobcaygeon), not to mention some great originals. It was a nice, interactive workshop too, where the bands seemed to jam together instead of just going back and forth from song to song. Honourable mention goes to Cold Specks and Great Lake Swimmers, if only for their spontaneous cover of The Fresh Prince of Bel Air Theme. Yeah, that is a thing that happened.
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And now, for a bunch of setlists!
Empty Threat
Chameleon/Comedian
Asking For Flowers
Six O'Clock News
Going To Hell
Mercury
Change The Sheets
Sidecar
A Soft Place To Land
Back To Me
For The Record
12 Bellevue
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Adam Cohen, Tony Dekker, Bry Webb, and Selena Martin workshop
So Long Maryanne (Cohen)
Nothing Compares 2 U (Cohen)
God Is Gay (Webb)
The Spirit of Radio (Martin)
Dublin Blues (Dekker)
Never Cut My Hair
Weighted Sin
I Changed My Name
Poisonous Heads
Burning Photographs
Heavy Stones
Unknown (Oh my my sister)
Do Not Fear
Peace Is On The Rise
Unknown (Running through spider silk/I feel evil)
Release This High
Freedom For A Policeman
Rabid Bits Of Time
Cold Specks and Great Lake Swimmers workshop
The Knife
When The City Lights Dim
Fields Of Progeny
Winter Solstice
A Song For You
Reeling The Liars In
Moving Pictures, Silent Films
Fresh Prince Of Bel Air Theme
Send Your Youth
Think You Might Be Wrong
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Child Of The Valley
(Bit Part)
It Gets Old To Be Alone
Angels
City Of Light
Bald, Naked An Red
Take Me Out
New Song (Baby It's No Secret)
The Late King Henry
Oh My God
Oslo
Something Hiding For Us In The Night
I've Got A Secret (Didn't We Shake Sugaree; Fred Neil)
The Mark
All Flesh Is Grass
Blank Maps
Peace In The Valley (Traditional)
Winter Solstice
Heavy Hands
Hector
Elephant Head
Send Your Youth
Holland
Steady
Old Stepstone (Abbreviated)
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Think You Might Be Wrong
The Great Exhale
Still
Changes With The Wind
Changing Colours
Palmistry
Ballad of a Fisherman's Wife
Your Rocky Spine
Everything Is Moving So Fast
Pulling On A Line
New Wild Everywhere
Easy Come, Easy Go
I Am Part Of A Large Family
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Down The Khyber
North Star
Deny, Deny, Deny
You're Mine
Heartless, Heartless, Heartless
Lightning Bolt
Rollin', Rollin', Rollin'
Work Out Fine (Reggae Megamix including bits of I came to deliver shimmy and shake, rain rain go away, oh what a night, do wop ditty, cupid draw back your bow, etc.)
Nowhere With You
Extraordinary (If You've Got The Money jam)
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Harbour Boys (Acoustic)
Come On Teacher
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And now, as Mr. Plaskett said, I gotta turn off that monkey.