The band and the tour are the subjects of Jennifer Baichwal and Nicholas de Pencier ‘s documentary film Long Time Running , which premiered at the 2017 Toronto International Film Festival . It was slated to have its television premiere in November 2017 on CTV , but following Downie’s death…
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On December 22, 2016, Downie was selected as The Canadian Press ‘ Canadian Newsmaker of the Year and was the first entertainer ever selected for the title.
Downie released his fifth solo album, Secret Path on October 18, 2016. The album is a concept album about Chanie Wenjack , a First Nations boy who escaped from a Canadian Indian residential school in 1966 and died while attempting to make the 600 km walk back to his home.
On October 13, 2016, Downie gave an interview, his first since his cancer diagnosis, to the CBC’s Peter Mansbridge , in which he reported experiencing memory loss. Downie also told Mansbridge that he was working with the Tragically Hip on new studio material, and that the band have up to…
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The final concert of the Man Machine Poem tour was held at the Rogers K-Rock Centre in the band’s hometown of Kingston on August 20, 2016. The concert was aired by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation as a live cross-platform broadcast on CBC Television , CBC Radio One , CBC Radio…
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The Hip’s thirteenth album, Man Machine Poem , was released on June 17, 2016. The album featured songs such as “In a World Possessed by the Human Mind”, “In Sarnia”, and “Machine”.
In December 2015, Downie was diagnosed with glioblastoma , a terminal form of brain cancer . The band announced his diagnosis on May 24, 2016. The band also announced that, despite his condition, they would tour that summer.
The Tragically Hip re-entered their studio in July 2014 to begin work on a new album. The following October, Fully Completely was re-released as a remastered deluxe edition, including two bonus tracks, a vinyl edition and a recording of a live show. To celebrate and promote the re-release, the band…
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Single ” At Transformation ” was released in May 2012 ahead of the band’s twelfth studio album, Now for Plan A . A second single, “Streets Ahead” came out in August that year, and the album followed in October.
On January 22, 2010, the band performed “Fiddler’s Green” at the “Canada for Haiti” telethon to aid earthquake victims in that country. This was broadcast nationally on all three of Canada’s main networks ( CBC , Global , and CTV ).