<P> On May 24, 2016, the band announced that Downie had been diagnosed with terminal brain cancer . The band also announced that, despite his condition, they would tour that summer . </P> <P> The Hip's thirteenth album, Man Machine Poem, was released on June 17, 2016 . </P> <P> 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 attended by Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau . The concert was aired by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation as a live cross-platform broadcast on CBC Television, CBC Radio One, CBC Radio 2, CBC Music, and YouTube . The concert featured 30 songs and three encore sets, with the band finishing with a performance of "Ahead by a Century". The CBC's broadcast and live streaming of the concert, uninterrupted by advertisements, was watched by 11.7 million people (roughly one - third of the Canadian population). </P> <P> On October 13, 2016, Downie gave an interview, his first since his cancer diagnosis, to 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 four albums worth of unreleased material in the vaults . </P>

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