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To tell the story of Skydiggers is to tell the story of a thriving musical collaboration that was born in friendship and has abided with trust. Over the course of 15 studio albums and countless miles on the road, Skydiggers have grown from enthusiastic youngsters into husbands, fathers, and mentors. And while band members have changed over the decades, Josh Finlayson and Andy Maize remain its beating heart. With new collaborators bringing their unique musical histories into the circle, the sound of Skydiggers continues to evolve.

Their newest work, Hide Your Light , Bide Your Time , was recorded over a three-month span in 2022 at Baker Studios in Saanich, British Columbia. To be released as two six song collections on Latent Recordings, Hide Your Light launched on June 9, 2023 and Bide Your Time will be available in full on November 1, 2023.

When Paul Langlois was asked to play the closing ceremonies of the Canada Summer Games in Niagara Falls in August of 2022, the last thing on his mind was making a new record. A few months later, however, Guess What, The Paul Langlois Band’s debut on Pheromone Recordings was in the can, and Langlois began a new and exciting phase of his musical journey.

Across the ten songs on Guess What , Langlois finds himself ruminating on time – not just on how it passes, but the moments that stand still and stand out, from the highs of finding the ‘Will To Fight’ and just rocking out on ‘Peels Is Sleep Backwards’ to the lows of finding yourself on the receiving end of ‘Desperation Calling.’ And perhaps nowhere more poignantly on the plaintive and raw ‘Don’t Leave Me, Brother’ a revealing take on loss that, while rooted in Gord Downie’s untimely passing, is sure to be a comfort to anyone suffering grief of any kind.

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The Tragically Hip guitarist Paul Langlois talks about life after Gord Downie — and the odds of reviving the Hip

"When he died, the rest of the guys in the band, myself included, just went into a fog. As we all know, grief is a monster that is in control. You don’t control it."

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Guitarist Paul Langlois is best known as the rock-solid rhythm guitarist and gruff-voiced background singer of The Tragically Hip, the legendary Can-rock outfit that lost their enigmatic singer, Gord Downie, when he died of brain cancer in 2017.

The Tragically Hip guitarist Paul Langlois talks about life after Gord Downie — and the odds of reviving the Hip Back to video

Langlois and Downie were best buds for decades, and Langlois said he went into a fog after the death of his bandmate. Then came the pandemic. Gradually he found his way back to music, as he explains in this interview, and began writing songs, including one stormy, squalling track called Don’t Leave Me Brother.

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Langlois is now performing with a band made up of musical friends from the Kingston area, and touring as part of a double bill with Skydiggers. A handful of Ontario shows are planned.

In this lightly edited interview from his home in Kingston, Langlois also shared some memories of Downie during the final Hip tour, and weighed the chances of reviving the band with a new singer.

Q: You wrote and released Guess What, your first solo album in a decade, last year. Where did the inspiration for that come from? 

A: Well, it took inspiration because it certainly wasn’t on my mind at all. I got offered a gig a couple of years ago by this guy I kinda know who needed a band. I hemmed and hawed but I decided to do it. It was August 2022, and I had my (Kingston) buddies in the band and it went well. We had a lot of fun so I thought I would take a couple of months to write. I had to set a deadline because that’s the only way I can write songs. With a deadline.

Q: What was going through your mind when you were writing the songs? 

A: Everything that goes through the head of a 58-year-old man. It was the passing of time, Gord (Downie) dying, kids growing up and moving away. And some hints of relationship commitment, and sticking to it. I’ve been married 33 years this June. I’ll be 60 this year. 

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Q: The song, Don’t Leave Me Brother, is about your relationship with Gord. Tell me about that one. 

A: I ended up helping look after Gord in the months prior to the tour, and the song is about how everything fell away. I walked in one night in the winter — I hadn’t seen him in two months since his diagnosis and he’d had a couple of brain surgeries and he had a big beard — and we were both kind of a revelation to each other. I stayed because he wanted me to, and I was happy to. It was a real gift. You’re really in the present when you’re looking after someone who’s so ill. 

Q: That was before the final tour. How did he manage to bounce back enough to perform? 

A: He really wanted to do the tour so I called the other guys and told them. It was starting from scratch, but we found out he could still sing. He couldn’t remember names or lyrics, which was sad for him because that was his thing, he remembered everyone’s name. But we came up with a fix: We got a bunch of teleprompters on stage. He could hang a melody and he had the phrasing. That didn’t leave him. It was amazing that he recovered enough to be at his best during the tour, and that’s just because he was able to take four treatments of this drug that stopped the tumour for a month and a half. Then he had a good year, getting the Secret Path (album) done, doing a couple of shows with them and doing so much with the Downie-Wenjack Fund. He was so wanting to do that. 

Q: How did his death affect you? 

A: When he died, the rest of the guys in the band, myself included, just went into a fog. As we all know, grief is a monster that is in control. You don’t control it. We didn’t really go through it together. None of us had any enthusiasm whatsoever for the band. I didn’t have any enthusiasm for doing anything because our great big vehicle was gone. That lasted a couple of years, and then gradually everyone came back to it.

Q: Are you in touch with the others now?

A: Yeah, we found each other a few years ago and we’re in pretty consistent communication. Everyone does their own thing musically, but there’s lots of Hip stuff, like re-releases and finding old recordings, so that keeps us going. For the box sets, we’ve been finding the extra songs that never made it to the albums, sending them around and everyone listens. Jonny (Fay, drummer) takes the lead on that because he’s in Toronto and that’s where most of the old tapes live. 

Q: Can you imagine a point where the Hip might carry on with a new singer? 

A: Um, I don’t think so. We did two songs (with other singers), one with Feist at the Junos, and another with William Prince for Buffy Sainte-Marie’s 80th birthday. They were two very unique opportunities. One might even think the four of us could do an instrumental record, but I think everyone is pretty okay with not doing that. With Gord, there was always consensus. Now everyone is like ‘Never say never,’ but at the same time, doing it at any sort of big scale makes everyone feel icky. We had 30-plus years with the same guys, and everyone is comfortable with riding along our path because that path was very special to all of us. It was just a pile of luck and commitment and hard times and really great times and we all worked hard at it, so it feels like, ‘Let’s leave that back there.” For now anyway. 

Q: What’s next for the Paul Langlois Band? Are you back in the music biz? 

A: We’re not going away. We will make another record at some point in the next year or two, and we’re going to keep playing. Festivals are my favourite. We really enjoyed the festivals we did last summer so we’ll keep trying to get on those bills. 

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‘So far, we’re kind of lost without him.’ For Tragically Hip’s Paul Langlois, life goes on, but not easily

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Paul Langlois, left, and Gord Downie of The Tragically Hip perform on Aug. 10, 2016, in Toronto. Arthur Mola/Invision/AP

Will Ry Cooder sing Gord Downie’s eulogy? Will anyone?

More than 15 months after the revered Tragically Hip frontman died of brain cancer, a significant celebration in his honour has yet to happen, or even reach the planning stages. Not that there is a rush. It bears noting that the recent Chris Cornell tribute concert at the Forum in Los Angeles took place 19 months after the Soundgarden singer’s 2017 passing.

As for Downie, on 1992’s At the Hundredth Meridian he laid out his in-memoriam wishes in a verse that explicitly called for Cooder-sung praise and no “acts of enormity.” Despite Downie’s decree, at least one of his bandmates is completely unsure about how to proceed with a posthumous salute.

“It has come up as an idea,” Tragically Hip rhythm guitarist Paul Langlois says, speaking from Kingston. “So far, we’re kind of lost without him, though. We were a consensus sort of band, and he was obviously a strong part of that decision-making. Ultimately, I think it’s just been too heavy a thing to consider.”

The grief and aftereffects of Downie’s death were never going to dissipate quickly for a band that first grouped in high school. Langlois, who joined later, feels as if he’s been with the Hip “my whole life.”

Life goes on, as does Langlois. On Feb. 7, he will appear with John McDermott for the first of the Celtic tenor’s three shows at Hugh’s Room Live in Toronto. Langlois has performed a handful of times since Downie’s death. “I’m not sure I’ve adjusted yet," he says. “It wasn’t our plan – our plan was to just keep doing it.”

Paul Langlois performs on guitar at The Fillmore Detroit in Detroit, Mich. Gene Schilling/THE CANADIAN PRESS

According to the guitarist, Downie was upset that his eventual death would cause the end of the band. He even suggested replacement singers that could take his place. Last summer, though, lead guitarist Rob Baker dashed any notion that the band would perform without their inimitable frontman. “The Hip,” he declared, "has played their last time.”

Langlois concurs. “We’re not a band any more, but we keep in touch. We’re friends." He says he bumps into Baker in Kingston and drummer Johnny Fay in Toronto. And bass player Gord Sinclair? Langlois curls with him on Wednesdays.

Although the members are no longer together as a performing entity, the band has not dissolved legally or commercially. Downie is still a member in that sense; his share of Hip revenue goes to his children. “We’re still doing little things," Langlois says, “but nothing musical.”

On the one-year anniversary of Downie’s death, the band announced a partnership with Ontario-based cannabis producer Newstrike for a brand of medical herb, Up Cannabis. The names of the various weed strains involved take inspiration from Tragically Hip tunes Morning Moon, Eldorado and others.

On the song Bobcaygeon , Downie mused that it “could’a been the Willie Nelson, could’a been the wine.” The invoking of Nelson’s name is a reference to marijuana, the recreational drug of choice of the country singer and, clearly, the Tragically Hip.

For the wine, a few years ago the band joined forces with Stoney Ridge Estate Winery to develop a red and a chardonnay. According to the band’s website, the former (Fully Completely) has a finish that is “long and velvety, featuring juicy red fruit and menthol." Perhaps an oenophile can assure us that these are desirable, complementary nuances.

Other commercial interests include the Bathouse Recording Studio, a band-owned money-generating facility in Bath, Ont. “It’s tough to get in there,” Langlois says about the busy studio. “I booked it for a session this March and I was just bumped by a paying customer.”

Langlois is attempting to write material for an album of his own. “The only songs I have right now are songs that I rejected from my last two solo records,” he says. “I’m not going to start there.”

The band is no longer together as a performing entity after Downie's death, however the remaining members continue to see each other in their free time. Arthur Mola/Invision/AP

The guitarist has done his own tributes to Downie since the singer’s death. At a benefit for Lake Ontario Waterkeeper last year, he performed Trick Rider with Josh Finlayson and Andy Maize of the Skydiggers. “It’s one of my favourites of his,” Langlois says about the song off the Downie solo album Coke Machine Glow . “It didn’t seem to be a stretch for me to sing it.”

After the coming one-off concert with McDermott, the future for Langlois is unclear. During the Tragically Hip’s final tour in 2016, the terminally ill singer drew Langlois aside.

Downie: “I’m expecting big things from you, man.”

Langlois: “But that’s what we just did for the last 30 years – the big things.”

Downie: “That not what I mean, man.”

So, what did he mean? “He never did tell me,” Langlois says.

As for a Downie celebration, there’s no guarantee it will happen. Or maybe it already did, in the form of the band’s emotional final show at Kingston’s K-Rock Centre on Aug. 16, 2016. Broadcast nationally and streamed worldwide, the concert galvanized a nation. “On that tour, the whole country was saying goodbye to him,” Langlois says. "And he said goodbye to every arena.”

What Downie actually said was "Let’s just see what the morning brings.” So we wait.

Paul Langlois plays with John McDermott at Hugh’s Room Live, in Toronto, Feb. 7 ( hughsroomlive.com ).

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The Paul Langlois Band released a new album, ‘Guess What’ on July 14, 2023 via Pheromone Recordings / Cadence Music Group.

The band is led by Paul Langlois, who is familiar to fans as guitarist for the legendary Canadian Rock act, The Tragically Hip.

SWOMP’s Dana Haggith caught up with Langlois for an interview a few days before the release of the album.

When Langlois was asked to play the closing ceremonies of the Canada Summer Games in Niagara Falls in August of 2022, the gig got him playing again and rekindled his love for songwriting.

From there, the collection of songs that became ‘Guess What’ emerged, and represents an exciting new phase of the band’s musical journey and its debut on Pheromone Recordings/ Cadence Music Group.

“It Matters To Me” is a laid-back rocker that sets the tone for an album and plays out like an often raucous meditation on our relationship with time; what you make of it, who you spend it with, and why.

“I think I started with picturing myself in a precarious, possibly life-threatening situation as a teenager, which obviously happens to a lot of us at that age and stage” says Langlois.

“Then I just went from there thinking about my life and growth since then, and some of the things that became important to me over time I guess.”

The title track itself – which closes out the record – is an expression of Langlois’ surprise that one gig could lead to the formation of a new band and a full record.

“We started rehearsing for that show, and then it was like, well, I guess I’m gonna start writing,” says Langlois.

Across the 10 songs on Guess What, Langlois finds himself ruminating on time – not just on how it passes, but the moments that stand still and stand out, from the highs of finding the “Will To Fight” and just rocking out on “Peels Is Sleep Backwards” to the lows of finding yourself on the receiving end of “Desperation Calling.”

And perhaps nowhere more poignantly on the plaintive and raw “Don’t Leave Me, Brother” a revealing take on loss that, while rooted in Gord Downie’s untimely passing, is sure to be a comfort to anyone suffering grief of any kind.

Recorded over eight days and nights in November 2022, with a bare minimum of overdubs, and co-produced by Langlois, the band, and engineer Niles Spencer, ‘Guess What’ is fuelled by the kind of immediacy and energy that comes from making a band-based record.

Chock full of subtle vocal and instrumental hooks that stick with you long after the album finishes, it’s a testament to what a tight group of talented musicians can accomplish in relatively short order.

“It was more a live experience, recording live off the floor until we got the takes we wanted and having a blast playing together,” says Langlois.

That immediacy comes across on every track, in Langlois’ growing comfort in the role of frontman, Ball’s urgent backing vocals, Carscallen’s blazing and beautifully phrased leads, and Mulvihill and Anglin’s deep connection and rock-solid grooves.

If there’s one thing he’ll take from this experience, Langlois says: “I think it’s the support. It was very much a group effort, and in The Hip, it felt like that, too, except I wasn’t front and centre.”

Langlois has done plenty of songwriting over time, both with The Hip and for two previous solo albums, Fix This Head (2012) and Not Guilty (2014).

His work with The Tragically Hip has earned him a number of achievements including 17 JUNO Awards, a SOCAN National Achievement Award, a coveted placement on Canada’s Walk Of Fame, and an appointment to the Order of Canada.

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It Matters To Me Desperation Calling Will To Fight Been Waiting The Face Of Time Don’t Leave Me Brother 638 Main I Feel Real Yo Peels Is Sleep Backwards Guess What

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A friendship between the two bands was quickly struck and now, 34 springs later, the Hip’s Paul Langlois and his band will be joining Skydiggers for a four-concert mini-tour of southern Ontario, including one in Kingston on Friday.

“We all have very fond memories of watching them and knowing them, running into them and playing together. I have so many friends that are just like Greg and me — they’ve loved Skydiggers since they started, so it’s just very special,” said Langlois while seated beside bandmate Greg Ball during a Zoom call Monday afternoon with Skydiggers’ Andy Maize and Josh Finlayson.

Maize, Finlayson and Langlois belonged to the same social circle — and played hockey together in a regular Monday morning musicians’ game — back when Langlois lived in Toronto.

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“We had a similar experience (being musicians), so it’s been easy to relate to each other,” Langlois said.

When asked if a particular Skydiggers story comes to mind, Langlois said he can remember Hip drummer Johnny Fay being impressed, and even a little intimidated, when Skydiggers released the song “A Penny More” (which, as it turns out, was the first song Ball performed in public, during at a high school talent show). The Hip were in the studio recording “Fully Completely” at the time and “Johnny was like, ‘This (song) is just too good,’” Langlois recalled.

“I think it turned out all right for you guys,” joked Maize.

Maize, meanwhile, said the Hip taught Skydiggers a few things during their many shows together.

“The Hip were so inclusive,” he recalled. “They were so good at bringing together people and it was never, ‘You’re the opening act,’ sort of thing. It was always, ‘We bring our friends on the road and we treat them the way we would like to be treated,’ and that was a lesson that we have taken forward, hopefully, in our own career.”

Langlois and Skydiggers have performed a few times together in the past, including a fundraiser for Hospice Kingston at the Isabel Bader Centre back in 2017, and also played a few shows together in 2019.

While the next year’s pandemic paused their playing live, Finlayson and Maize used the time to write and record a pair of EPs, “Hide Your Light” and “Bide Your Time.”

The genesis of the new EPs dates back to June 2020, when Maize and Finlayson finally reunited in Finlayson’s backyard.

“We hadn’t played together in three months and that’s the longest time in 35 years we’ve gone without being together,” said Maize. “I think that started the process of the next album. For me, it really got the creative juices flowing again.”

They also created their own podcast in order to talk about the new numbers.

“It was a way for us to be proactive about getting the new songs out and trying to connect with our audience,” Finlayson said.

Langlois, meanwhile, formed a new band — with Ball, guitarist Joe Carscallen, bassist Matt Mulvihill and drummer Billy Anglin — and released a new record, “Guess What,” in July.

The Paul Langlois Band played a few festivals last year and Skydiggers had their “best (touring) year in a long time,” said Maize, and both agreed that it was nice to play in front of crowds again and that it reminded them of the old days.

So it made perfect sense that the two bands should do a reunion tour of sorts.

“We thought, ‘Well, since we both have new records out, why don’t we do some shows together?’” recalled Maize.

The upcoming four-show tour will see each band perform their own sets — Langlois will headline the Belleville (March 26) and Kingston (March 29) shows, Skydiggers the Peterborough (March 27) and Ottawa (March 30) ones — and then play some songs together. The bands will play together again in May in Toronto.

Langlois and Ball, who were both in Toronto Monday afternoon, were planning to head over to the “woodshed” to join Finlayson and Maize to learn and rehearse some songs for their shows.

“I’m really happy about these gigs with these guys, because everyone wants to play and we’re old friends, so it’s easy,” Langlois said.

“It’s just going to be great to see them again.”

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Saturday 30 March 2024

Paul Langlois Band and Skydiggers

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211 Bronson Avenue K1R 6H5 Ottawa, ON, Canada

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Doors open: 19:00

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