The Full Rundown on Mike Haggith's Eleventh #LockdownLive Concert, And More!!

Single topic post today, as local/Thompson, Manitoba alt-hard rock musician Mike Haggith hosted his eleventh #LockdownLive at-home concert yesterday on his Facebook page! Mike previewed the live-stream in this video an hour prior, where he announced that the theme was "Mike's Got You Covered", which would feature Mike's 12 favourite cover songs from the first 10 episodes, while also revealing that the share contest to determine a fan-requested cover song has indeed changed format, from the most shares to the Facebook share with the highest engagement (likes, comments, reactions, etc.) In this way, it alleviates spamming, and I presume this will be easier for Mike to determine a winner given how increasingly fast the shares were racking up. Plus, we get to see Artemis, and that's worth a watch alone! As for #LockdownLive XI proper, this is a somewhat shorter episode overall, only clocking in at 97 minutes, but it is heavy with songs we already heard.

After re-iterating the share contest changes and discussing some of the activity on his closed Facebook fan group, Mike begins his set with a cover of Death Cab For Cutie's "I Will Possess Your Heart" (from episode #7), before opening it up to viewers to determine rules for this week's drinking game. Next, Mike covers The Foo Fighters' "Times Like These" (from episodes #1 & 5), before tackling Tears For Fears' "Everybody Wants To Rule The World" (from episodes #4, 5, and 7), his troll cover of Lynyrd Skynyrd's "Free Bird" (from episodes #2, 4, and 7), and Simple Minds' "Don't You (Forget About Me)", which you previously heard on episodes #5 & 6. The first half ends with his share contest-dictated version of The Gourds' version of Snoop Doggy Dogg's "Gin & Juice", which memorably ended episode #9 two weeks ago.

Afterwards, Mike covers The Gin Blossoms' "Hey Jealousy" (from episode #5), Bruce Cockburn's "Lovers In A Dangerous Time" (from episodes #2, 4, and 6-7), The Barenaked Ladies' "The Old Apartment" (from episode #5), Tears For Fears' "Shout" (from episodes #2 & 5), and Prince & The Revolution's "Purple Rain" (from episode #7), before closing the cover portion with The Killers' "When We Were Young" from episode #5. Nice selection of covers overall, which will be very familiar for fans of Mike's past live-streams and concerts, especially #LockdownLive V: The Cover Story! Only three #LockdownLive installments weren't represented here, namely episodes #3, #8, and #10, which were solely based around original songs from his solo & band output, two share contest-dictated covers aside. Speaking of which, we're at that point of the show where Mike has to do his cover from the share contest, and beforehand, he does leave to put on his famed dragon onesie!

As you'll recall, Re:Born singer Elly McWatters won the share contest for a second straight week, and nominated Mike to cover "Sugar Daddy" from the musical Hedwig & The Angry Inch, as popularized for many by Neil Patrick Harris in the 2014 Broadway production. Fun cover as you'd expect, and look for another "Bob Dylan" cameo mid-song! Mike then wraps up the live-stream and encourages fans to check out the after-party in the private fan group. Time will tell when he publically announces the winner of the revamped share contest, but there's a lot of fun and familiar songs to take in via #LockdownLive XI, so check everything out below!



We'll close today with one more new video from Mike's Facebook page, namely a 5 minute compilation video of amusing "out of context" moments from the first 5 #LockdownLive episodes. Given that the theme is intentionally out-of-context clips, it'd be absolutely pointless to try and recap this one, but it is funny to watch, and that's the whole point! Give it a watch below, and look for one on episodes #6-10 in the future!



That's all for today, but stay tuned for more news and notes on the site this week! Thanks everyone!