The famous Phish Halloween extravaganza starts tonight on the grounds of Coachella! If you’re a hardcore Phish fan, you’re probably already there!
However, if you are missing it and not already passed out when the festivities actually start, we have good news! According to Examiner.com, you can stream the entire event through Sirus/XM! We’ve also got a few other details for you after the jump!
Ever since Phish announced their fall tour dates earlier this month it has been like a ticking clock for Phish fans. According to Syracuse, fans stood in line at the Onondaga County War Memorial in Syracuse, NY this morning, as early as 11 a.m. Thursday, waiting to get ticket’s to Phish’s November 22 show in Syracuse.
6,800 tickets went on sale via Ticketmaster and over the phone, but the dedicated fans from the band’s hometown weren’t risking their chance to get Phish tickets. According to some of those standing in-line this morning, waiting in line guarantees you a Phish ticket for a decent price as opposed to buying them over the phone or internet.
Phish fans were treated to a welcome announcement Friday: the band is heading out on tour this fall, kicking-off November 18 at Detroit’s Cobo Hall. A tour highlight will no doubt be a three-night stand at New York City’s Madison Square Garden in December.
The band’s official announcement came via a video on Phish’s website.
Check below for tour dates.
Phish are kicking it up a notch by turning it down a bit with their first-ever, full-length acoustic set.
Phish, the unplugged version, will be a noontime performance on the Sunday during the Vermont band’s very own Phish Festival 8, which will run from October 30 through November 1 at the Empire Polo Club in Indio, California, the same location as Coachella.
Phish are actually playing eight sets of music over the course of the three-day, Halloween weekend event, which includes a cover set of one full album by another artist.
After teasing fans on their site to “save the date” for a three day festival, tickets for Phish‘s 3-day Halloween bash have officially gone on sale. Taking place on the Coachella grounds in Indio, California, Phish will be performing a total of eight sets throughout the three days and nights from October 30th to November 1st.
They’ve named the event Festival 8, mainly because this is their 8th festival since 1996. Phish recently put an awesome set on at Bonnaroo, but this will be their first festival out of many years on the West coast and reviving this Halloween tradition for the first time since 1998.
In case you weren’t lucky enough to catch Phish live at the Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival in Manchester, TN last night, we have a little sneak peek on what they played and some video of their performance. In case you were wondering, they rocked the mud-soaked audience with an impressive 3 hour set which included beloved hits, new songs and their first cover of AC/DC’s Highway to Hell in over 12 years.
Check out the songs they played and video of them performing below…
Bonnaroo 2009 has some of the biggest names in music at the head of its lineup this year, including the reunited Phish, Beastie Boys, Wilco, Snoop Dogg, Nine Inch Nails, Grizzly Bear, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, The Mars Volta, Animal Collective, Femi Kuti and Bruce Springsteen.
“If there was such a thing as a recession-proof lineup this year, this had to be it,” said Ashley Capps, the co-founder of Bonnaroo and president of AC Entertainment.
Enticing fans to pay $250 to $300 for tickets to the festival is no easy task, and its producers have definitely played it safe, with over 100 must-see bands spread out across six stages.
After a five-year hiatus, Phish returned to the road Sunday night at sold-out Fenway Park in Boston for the first show of their summer tour.
The four band members (Trey Anastasio, Mike Gordon, Page McConnell, and Jon Fishman) opened the night by singing, a cappella style(!), the national anthem at the pitcher’s mound wearing Red Sox jerseys. From there it was a rockin’, two-set, three hours and 20 minute performance that delighted the 30,000 die-hard Phish fans in attendance — and set the stage for what should be a phenomenal summer tour.
Phish got back together for the first time in almost five years for a three-night celebration this past weekend. The police in Hampton, Virginia, site of the Phish festivities, realized that a Phish outdoor concert was the easiest place ever to make a bunch of arrests and seizures and to make it into national headlines, so they searched everyone who entered the concert grounds and arrested 194 of them, while seizing $1.2 million worth of illegal drugs and $68,000 in cash. What makes things even worse is that Phish had to pay for the presence of the police officers who oversaw the event, thereby attacking their own fans.
