A Very Hip Week

This week was a busy one in NYC for The Tragically Hip, who are in the midst of a U.S. tour in support of their tremendous new album 'World Container'. On Monday I escorted Gord Downie to interviews at WNYC, Extra, and Bloomberg Radio. Here is Gord with Producer/reporter/ Hip afficianado Paul Goguen of Bloomberg.

Gord is one of the most fascinating musicians I've spent time with- over the course of the day we talked about everything from Mid-20th century Eastern European literature to global warming to bike riding, to little tricks you can do with a pen, like flipping it around your thumb (a habit we both share, it turns out).

Tuesday, Aliza Rabinoff took Gord to CNN for an interview with Shannon Cook that aired on their online video service CNN Pipeline. Later that night, the guys put on a cracking, 2-hour, sold-out show at Irving Plaza.



Afterwards, Gord stopped to say hi to Shannon Cook and CBS Tech Reporter Daniel Sieberg...


...while Shore Fire's Mark Satlof and Mike Mettler of Sound & Vision (a veteran of over 150 Hip shows) played it cool.