Wednesday, October 1, 2008

Old news to Rothbury crowds, but Phish is back

by mholland
October 01, 2008

Shake the moths off the hippie poncho and toss out the soap -- Phish is back. For real this time. Groovy.

The band announced this morning it will perform as a full unit for the first time since 2004.

The band is booked for a three-night stand, March 6-8 of next year at the Hampton Coliseum in Hampton, Va., a site already well-known to Phish fans. It is unclear whether they will play separate shows or merely solo continuously throughout the entire weekend. OK, I'm joking, it's three shows, with more apparently to follow.

Phish's reunion will come as little surprise to anybody who went to Rothbury and saw three-quarters of the band on stage together, or to anybody who read about the festival, perhaps on my blog, which initially broke the story, thank you very much.

So maybe Rothbury 2009 will feature a full-on show by those masters of instrumental horseplay themselves. That's assuming Rothbury 2009 actually happens, which is a whole different ball of wax.

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