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Vermont Goes Phishing
Phish is headed back to the old spawning ground.
The jam rockers will hold their two-day summer festival Aug. 14 and 15 on the grounds of Newport State Airport in the rural town of Coventry, Vermont.
The event marks the first time the Burlington-based quartet have played their home state since 1995, when they performed a pair of outdoor shows at Sugarbush.
The band announced the Phish fest, aptly named "Coventry," via their phish.com Website, and tickets went on sale online on Thursday. Based on the band's history, the concert is certain to draw huge crowds.
The inaugural Phish multiday bash, 1996's Clifford Ball, drew upwards of 100,000 to Plattsburgh Air Force Base in upstate New York. That was followed by 1997's Great Went and 1998's Lemonweek both at Maine's Loring Air Force Base, a 1999 summer show at Oswego County Airport in New York followed by the marathon millennium New Year's at Big Cypress Indian Reservation in the Florida Everglades, which drew 80,000. After a two-year hiatus, the band reconvened last year with the It Festival back at Limestone.
Like its predecessors, this summer's Phish camp in Vermont's Northeast Kingdom is expected to make Coventry the largest city in the state for that weekend, with some 80,000 expected.
Phish will play its usual three sets on Saturday and three more on Sunday with the now traditional post-midnight set likely squeezed in between. In the past, Phish has spent the wee hours jamming on a flatbed truck that cruised the campgrounds and playing from atop a control tower as acrobats rapelled off the sides.
The grounds will include the usual array of eclectic food booths (vegan choices included), psychedelic art exhibits and rides to keep the patchouli-soaked masses busy until Trey, Mike, Page and Jon take the stage again.
Considered one of the top touring acts around, the jam-happy Phish has never had a hit radio single but, like the Grateful Dead, has a huge devoted fan base.
The band has also pioneered Web-based distribution of its music, launching livephish.com in 2003 to allow fans to download clean digital copies of all Phish's shows within 48 hours of the concert. The group donates all profits from concert downloads to the non-profit Mockingbird Foundation, a charity founded by Phish fans to support music education for children.
While fans wait for the latest Phish fest, they can content themselves with Undermind, the group's first studio album in two years due June 15 from Elektra.
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