Bassist Gord Sinclair, left, drummer Johnny Fay and filmmaker Mike Downie in the Q green room in Toronto.
Filmmaker Mike Downie and band members Gord Sinclair and Johnny Fay sit down with Q’s Tom Power to talk about their new four-part docuseries, The Tragically Hip: No Dress Rehearsal. 5 takeaways from the Tragically Hip's revealing new docuseries
While it's not the first documentary ever made about the iconic Canadian band, it may be the most comprehensive on-screen look into their history and legacy. Director and producer Mike Downie — brother of the band's late singer Gord Downie — interweaves never-before-seen archival footage with new interviews, covering everything from The Hip's rise to fame to the power dynamics within the band.
"Gord was just a lifelong note taker, so he always had a moleskin in his jean jacket pocket or back pocket," Downie says. "There were a few times he would start writing in diary form, but it's pretty rare and mostly it was just these little moments…. I don't want to stretch it by saying I kind of felt a little bit inside his head, but you can definitely see the kind of things that were occurring to him.
"The two hours that you're on stage every night, that's the fun part," he says. "But the real work is the footage of us doing our laundry at the laundromat — the real glamour stuff…. You're not really a band until you've done the van drive to get out of Ontario for the first time. If you can survive that, you can survive just about anything.
"What I really see is the complexity of staying together in this group that was formed as youth," he says."We did have tons of squabbles, small and large over the years, but we always kind of kissed and made up," Sinclair says. "We never would take the baggage on stage with us…. You pack it away, as you do, because we were not super big on holding grudges with each other. We would always remind ourselves that we were brothers first and foremost.
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