Phish will kick off its first
summer tour in five years with a concert at Boston's historic Fenway Park on May 31st. The band has also added
a third date (June 2nd) at the Nikon at Jones Beach Theater in Wantagh, NY. An online ticket request period is
currently underway for the two newly announced shows at
http://phish.portals.musictoday.com/ and will end April 12th at 11:59 p.m. ET.
Tickets will go on sale to the general public
at 10:00 a.m. ET on Friday, April 17th, for the Jones Beach
show and at 10:00 a.m. ET on Saturday, April 18th, for the Fenway Park show.
The
band will play the Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival on June 12th and 14th.
Tickets are still available for the festival as are a limited number of seats
for the band's August 11th date at Toyota Park
in Chicago, IL. The rest of the group's previously
announced shows are sold out. See below for a full itinerary. For information on
where to purchase tickets, visit http://www.phish.com/tourdates.
The
group has already recorded demos of 20 new songs and entered the studio last
week with Steve Lillywhite (U2, Rolling Stones, Dave Matthews Band) to begin
work on Phish's first new studio
album in five years. Lillywhite produced
Phish's 1996 album, Billy
Breathes. The Clifford
Ball, a seven-DVD box set from JEMP Records/Rhino capturing the
band's entire performance at this landmark 1996 festival, recently debuted at
No. 1 on Billboard's Top Music
Video chart.
Phish
received stellar reviews for its recent three-night stand at Hampton Coliseum in
Hampton, VA. The
New York Times ran two features on the concerts and noted: "as the
opening passage of the anthem 'Fluffhead' enveloped the room, the eruption of
exultation was not merely for the band itself but also for the millions in the
Phish diaspora who make up perhaps the most fervent fandom in pop music" while
USA Today praised the group for
"expertly navigating hairpin changes." "Over a massive, four-hour set, guitarist
Trey Anastasio, bassist Mike Gordon, drummer Jon Fishman and keyboardist Page
McConnell ripped through dozens of crowd-favorites," said rollingstone.com.
"They kicked things off with some of their most compositionally complex tunes,
from the knotted prog-funk of 'Fluffhead' to 'Divided Sky,' where the group's
quiet, mellifluous interplay of guitar, drums, bass and keys suggests they're as
well-oiled of a machine as they've ever been."
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