Barenaked Ladies Finish Fourth Installment Of Their Cruise

Barenaked Ladies, a rock/alternative band from Toronto, recently finished the fourth installment of their cruise called "Ships & Dip 4". The band started doing the cruise four years ago, and they do it every other year. This is the first cruise they did without founding member Steven Page. He was the co-lead singer of the band, up until February 2009 when he parted ways with Barenaked Ladies following a cocaine bust. The whole cruise was extremely successful, and was almost completely sold out. This year's cruise featured artists such as Guster, Jason Plumb, Ben Kweller, and Boothby Graffoe, and of course the host Barenaked Ladies. The cruise went out from Miami, and traveled to Cozumel and Costa Maya. The basic theme of "Ships & Dip" is music. Barenaked Ladies are the host, and during the cruise they do 5 main shows. They also have the other bands play, of which you can go to there concerts for free as you please. They also do special shows where fans can ask the band questions, make requests, ect. The biggest tradition of "Ships & Dip" is the "Naked Photo". This is where the whole cruise (bands included), all stand in a crowd in robes, then drop their robes and have a photo of the huge crowd taken. On each of BNL's earlier albums, they would record one song from it completely naked, and call it the "Naked Track". Once they stopped doing that in 2003, Ed Robertson (lead singer of BNL) said the idea of the "Naked Photo" was made as an ode to the "Naked Track". On the last day of the cruise, the band sold all the shows recorded on the cruise on a USB stick for fans to purchase. Ed Robertson posted on the website that this cruise was the funnest one he'd experienced yet, he also added "See everyone in 2013!", indicating the next cruise.