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Some quick wikipedia stats tell me that there’s only 50, 535 people in the New Brunswick provincial capital of Fredericton (according to the 2005 census). (Incidentally – again, according to wikipedia - their most famous statue is of a chap named Lord Beaverbrook! Tough handle and come on, Freddy, I’m sure you have more culture than that!) I digress. Freddy has 50, 535 people in its city walls. On Friday night: a) all of them were at our show (seriously, it was jam packed) or b) renting a hotel in the greater Fredericton area which is why we had a jesus of time finding a damned room. Had it not been for Cams friend who has a position of influence in the Delta hotel chain, we’d have been buggered. Instead, we found ourselves with a presidential suite and an adjacent room for a very, very reasonable sum of money. As if that didn’t make us the envy of the other 25, 000 people in the hotel (well, probably 2500 as there’s at least 10 good hotels in the Fredericton area), I’m quite certain the rest of the tale would have.
The scene is as follows: a somewhat fatigued, somewhat road weary rock and roll band strolls into a high end hotel with their co-manager (who favours a black, leather Ramone’s jacket, black jeans, black sneakers and a shaved head). As they head to the front desk, they have to wade through scurrying bell hops, well-to-do business men and a sea of young lads carting hockey equipment trailed by mothers and fathers on cell phones trying to look cool. The motley crew arrives at the front desk and a young lady says, “May I help you?” And Cam says, “Yes, there’s a reservation for us under Carpenter.” The young woman scans a
computer and quickly confirms there is such a reservation. “Yes, Mr. Carpenter! I see that you have one of our presidential suites and there was also a package left for you here at the desk. Let me just grab it for you.” Now, the mention of the presidential suite was enough to turn a few adult heads, but the rest of them snap around when they hear the unmistakable ‘clink, clink, clink’ of three bags of high end booze rubbing happily together as they’re handed across the desk to Cam. “Thank you,” he coolly replies. And he turns to leave with the band following him across the lobby (along with 100 sets of eyes). He waits thoughtfully for the elevator and just as the door slides open and the band walks in Cam says, “Huh. This is a Tragically Hip song just waiting to happen, isn’t it?”
The show itself (at the Capital) was fantastic. It’s a cool, little room that’s only open from 10pm to 2am. Drinks are cheap and the sweaty, intimate stage and surrounding area clearly say that this room is made for sharing music in. The opening act was a new outfit from Montreal called the Steve Broccoli Experiment. Actually, I made that up. He was so soft spoken and easy going that it was tough to be sure what his name was. I think he said his name was Steve Broccoli. Really cool, alt-country trio with incredible dynamics and some really pretty tunes. We couldn’t have felt better about our own set. An unbelievably captive audience (and 25, 000 of them in a relatively small room!) and we really felt that we hit our stride on this tour from the top (‘We All Come Together’) to the bottom (a soulful, let loose version of ‘Weeds’) of our show. And what can you say about the headliner? Playing with Telfer is always a pleasure for us; to watch, to listen, to be on the bill with. They are another of those rare Canadian acts (see our good friends, Vacuity) that define generosity, kindness, talent and entertaining. They’re just a few good breaks from opening for Ben Harper, Dave Matthews or Jason Mraz. And they’d better damned well get us back stage passes when they do.
It was one of those nights that you don’t really want to end. So we decided against ending it. Telfer came back to our ‘suite’ and we decided to dip into some of the ‘gifts’ that Corby’s had bestowed upon us via Cam. It seemed like a great idea at 2 am but apparently the hockey moms next door did not think it was a great idea @ 4:30 when the security came to our door and insisted we “shut it down.” They were a little more terse than that but I can’t really blame them. They weren’t half in the bag and having a great time in the presidential suite. We were.
Regardless, we wound it down (quickly) and called it a morning. But I need to go on record here. Hockey moms everywhere – the next time you’re in a hotel and you see some strange, ragged looking men carrying instruments and bottles of booze take one of two actions. 1) Approach the front desk and ensure you are nowhere near the room that they’re staying in. 2) Approach the band, shake hands, drop a phone number or ask for a room number and invite yourself to the inevitable party that’s occurring later on. We're typically a friendly sort. It’s a great excuse to miss the early, early hockey game and be well rested and in tip-top shape for the afternoon game. Smarten up.
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