Phish to end its two-year hiatus on New Year’s Eve
The popular jam band Phish, which has been on hiatus since October of 2000, will get back into action on New Year’s Eve with a show at New York’s Madison Square Garden.
The popular jam band Phish, which has been on hiatus since October of 2000, will get back into action on New Year’s Eve with a show at New York’s Madison Square Garden.
After the New Year’s Eve gig--which will feature three sets--the band will perform at Hampton Coliseum in Hampton, Va., on January 2, 3 and 4, 2003.
According to an announcement posted on the Phish’s official website, “the band plans to schedule additional tour dates later in 2003 and will likely record an album sometime next year as well.”
A limited number of tickets for all shows will be available through Phish’s ticketing system beginning on Sept. 5; visit the band’s website for more details.
General ticket on-sales for the New Year’s Eve show are scheduled to begin on Sept. 20 at 10 a.m. Eastern Time, and tickets for the Hampton shows will go on sale on Sept. 21 at 10 a.m. Eastern Time. Tickets will be available via local Ticketmaster charge-by-phone numbers and ticketmaster.com only, and won’t be sold at outlets.
In other Phish news, the group will release the next four albums of its “Live Phish” series on Oct. 29. “Live Phish Volumes 13-16” cover the band’s Halloween shows from 1994, 1995, 1996 and 1998. At each of the four three-set shows, the band covered a classic album during the middle set: The Beatles’ “White Album”, The Who’s “Quadrophenia”, Talking Heads’ “Remain in Light”, and The Velvet Underground’s “Loaded,” respectively.
The group has also announced plans to release its first concert DVD, dubbed “Phish: Live in Vegas,” on Nov. 12. The DVD was recorded on Sept. 30, 2000 at the Thomas & Mack Center in Las Vegas.
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