Hampton Phish Tickets – Cheap Phish Tickets!
After breaking up in 2004, Vermont based jam-band Phish will be reuniting in March 2009 for a three-night run at the Hampton Coliseum in Hampton, Va. The March 6, 7 and 8th shows will be the famed jam band’s first since its blowout farewell gigs in Coventry, Vt., more than four years ago.
According to the the official website, phish.com, there will be additional touring activity from guitarist/vocalist Trey Anastasio, bassist Mike Gordon, drummer Jon Fishman , and keyboardist Page McConnell all throughout 2009.
A small supply of tickets will be available directly through the band’s ticketing system, with the request period ending on October Eighth. Tickets go on sale to the general public Oct. 18 through HamptonPhishTickets.com
Although its music rarely intersected with the mainstream, Phish is one of the top touring acts of the past three decades. Since 1989, the act racked up a total of $175,541,923 in concert grosses, with 5,842,798 tickets sold to 475 shows reported to Billboard Boxscore.
Hampton Coliseum was a sentimental choice for the reunion shows, as it has previously played host to notable Phish moments. The band’s November 1998 run there was later released as the boxed set “Hampton Comes Alive,” and Phish journeyed to the venue for 3 shows following its year-end blowout on December 31, 2002, hiatus-breaking gig at New York’s Madison Square Garden.
“We’re very, very happy about this. It’s something very special,” Hampton Coliseum GM Joe Tsao tells Billboard. Asked how the shows came together, Tsao says, “It’s very simple: I got a call from the band saying we want to come back and I said ‘come on!’”
Tsao says Phish agent Chip Hooper at Paradigm called about two weeks ago “and I had to call him back because I was breathing so hard.”
Speculation about Phish reuniting reached critical mass this summer, with band members going on record saying that they’d begun discussing working together again, even going so far as to engage onetime producer Steve Lillywhite.
Three of the four members collaborated on stage at the Rothbury festival in Michigan over 4th of July weekend, and the full band reunited for a short set earlier this month during the wedding of former road manager Brad Sands. Phish also received a Lifetime Achievement award from the Jammy Awards this spring.
Since the breakup, Phish fans have found solace in frequent archival releases via the band’s own JEMP label and LivePhish.com. Next up is the Nov. 18 release of “At the Roxy,” an 8 disk box set drawn from an earlier Atlanta run in Feb. 1993
