By the mid-1980s, they performed in small music venues across Ontario, and were signed to a management contract with Jake Gold and Allan Gregg in 1986. Gregg underwrote the cost of their eponymous EP The Tragically Hip , released in 1987. In late 1988, the band performed a showcase for then- MCA Vice President Bruce Dickinson at the Horseshoe Tavern in Toronto . They were then signed to a long-term record deal with MCA, and recorded 1989’s Up to Here . This album produced four singles, ” Blow at High Dough “, ” New Orleans Is Sinking “, ” Boots or Hearts “, and ” 38 Years Old “. All four of these songs found extensive rotation on modern rock radio play lists in Canada.
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