Tragically Hip fans cross their fingers for their favourites at Saturday’s big show
TORONTO — You can’t always get what you want — but fans of the Tragically Hip looking forward to Saturday’s big show in Kingston, Ont., certainly have a list of what they’d like to hear.
There are huge expectations for the final show of the Hip’s “Man Machine Poem” tour, which will be aired live on CBC across the country to both diehards and casual fans.
With frontman Gord Downie battling incurable brain cancer, many fans expected this tour was their last opportunity to say goodbye to the singer and hear the songs they love most.
But with 14 studio albums to the band’s name, and only two-and-half hours of airtime to play with, it’s inevitable some fans will end up feeling their favourite song was slighted.