Phish dominated the live music scene for most of 2009 with a much-hyped reunion spectacular and sold-out tour legs stretching from early spring through the year’s end. Now the iconic jam band has revealed a new slate of shows — along with some old ticketing restrictions — that will put them back on the road for summer 2010.
The 29-date itinerary opens with a June 11 event at Toyota Park in Bridgeview, IL, and stretches over the next two months with only a few weeks off in July. The Phish caravan will visit 18 concert markets during the jaunt, which closes with an August 17-18 block at the Nikon at Jones Beach Theater in Wantagh, NY.
The jam band’s calendar is riddled with two- and three-night stands, including June 19-20 at Saratoga Performing Arts Center in Saratoga Springs, NY; June 26-27 at Merriweather Post Pavilion in Columbia, MD; July 3-4 at Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre in Alpharetta, GA; and August 5-7 at Greek Theatre in Berkeley, CA.
As with Phish’s 2009 reunion dates, ticketing for the 2010 jaunt comes with a standing “zero tolerance” policy for those found to be reselling the tickets above face value. The band’s Phish Tickets site warns, “If you are found to be reselling, trading or brokering tickets that you purchased through our site for profit, Phish Tickets may at its discretion cancel your ticket order and all other pending orders in your name.”
In the event that tickets are cancelled due to suspected resale, Phish Tickets will refund the price of the order less the $7 processing fee and any applicable shipping charges.
While promising to actively root out any resellers, Phish also hopes to curb the consumer end of the secondary market as well. The band’s zero policy statement contains this warning to would-be ticket buyers: “We urge you not to purchase tickets through brokers or ‘scalpers.’ These tickets may be counterfeit in which case you will not only be overcharged but will also likely be denied entry into the show.”
A limited supply of presale tickets will be distributed to fans through an online lottery system run by Phish Tickets. Fans can submit request orders for shows of their choice through March 26, at which time requests will be selected at random and fulfilled.
After the presale allotment has been divvied up and doled out, public onsales for all tour markets will open over the course of April2 and 3. Ticket prices will be $50 for general admission and reserved tickets, where available. More ticketing and onsale information is available on the official Phish Web site.
Demand has been high for Phish tickets since the band announced its reunion in 2009 after a five-year hiatus from recording and touring. The veteran jam band’s calendar was replete with sold-out concert dates, from the early spring three-night opener in Hampton, VA, through the year-end Festival 8 and late fall tour leg.
Ticket sales for the band, while fast and hot, were also a contentious matter for dedicated Phish phans and ticket industry professionals alike — and not just for matters related to resale.
During the first Phish onsales of the year, heavy traffic on LiveNation.com froze the system, blocking many hopeful buyers from successfully completing an order. By the time some customers finally navigated the system without error, it was only to discover that tickets had already sold out.
Phans’ ticket-buying frenzies were further frustrated when a technical glitch released tickets to Ticketmaster.com customers more than a week before the scheduled onsale date. Ticketmaster quickly cancelled and refunded all orders resulting from the so-called “routine glitch,” and issued $50 gift certificates to those affected. But just as quickly, Phish openly criticized Ticketmaster, using the error as a chance to criticize the company and the industry as a whole for its “flaws.”
Phish itinerary:
(Dates are subject to change.)
June 11 | Bridgeview, IL | Toyota Park |
June 12 | Cuyahoga Falls, OH | Blossom Music Center |
June 13 | Hershey, PA | Hersheypark Stadium |
June 15 | Portsmouth, VA | Ntelos Wireless Pavilion |
June 17- 18 | Hartford, CT | Comcast Theatre |
June 19 – 20 | Saratoga Springs, NY | Saratoga Performing Arts Center |
June 22 | Mansfield, MA | Comcast Center |
June 24 – 25 | Camden, NJ | Susquehanna Bank Center |
June 26 – 27 | Columbia, MD | Merriweather Post Pavilion |
June 29 | Canandaigua, NY | Constellation Brands – Marvin Sands PAC (CMAC) |
July 1 | Raleigh, NC | Time Warner Cable Music Pavilion |
July 2 | Charlotte, NC | Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre |
July 3 – 4 | Alpharetta, GA | Verizon Wireless Amphitheater |
August 5 – 7 | Berkeley, CA | Greek Theatre |
August 9 – 10 | Telluride, CO | Telluride Town Park |
August 12 – 13 | Noblesville, IN | Verizon Wireless Music Center |
August 14 – 15 | East Troy, WI | Alpine Valley Music Theatre |
August 17 – 18 | Wantagh, NY | Nikon at Jones Beach Theater |
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ohhhhhh were so scared….cancel our orders……….your band is a joke… paperless…………good luck with half empty venues………ha ha ha
Phish were not complaining in the winter, when most of their dates were over bought by resellers. No complaints when fans were picking up some the best seats for way under face value. Phish were happy when resellers over bought their shows.
I want a better seat for the show for my dying Father, one of his last wishes !
All the good seats are gone must I call up and beg someone for a better seat and feel weird to ask everyone possible for thier good seat.
No I get them from a secondary Guy and sit where I want, and Pay what I want !
Whatever Phish
Way to think about your fans good show 🙁
I don’t know what’s funnier. This or Kings of Leon going paperless. Good luck this summer with half empty venues.
Your dying father’s last wish is to go to a Phish concert? Riiiiight…
Actually, the funniest one is Justin Bieber. The kid has never headlined a tour, and is doing a lot of small market shows. His better seats are listed as ‘paperless’, all the more reason not to bother buying them. At least Phish and Kings of Leon HAVE sold out shows before. What Ticketmaster is trying to do is force people to accept the paperless ticket scam for any show with any kind of demand, in hopes that this ripoff to the consumer will gain traction and acceptance. Someone should organize a campaign to state AG’s in any state where these paperless shows take place to have them investigate the legality of paperless tickets and restrictions on transferring tickets.
The Phish tour is nothing more than hype, they are their own biggest fan or is that TM/LN?? Way to create something over nothing. Why can’t the WORLD’S largest Promoter/Scalpers bring us somebody like Led Zeppelin?? Whatever happened to FREE concerts??….JOE PUBLIC.
Hey Phish, let’s see you TRY to fill a stadium like a REAL Super Group. I’d rather see and HEAR Spinal Tap!!!
There last tour was garbage….after the hype from there first year back and the Hampton show, hey TREY nobody cares anymore!! Dont flatter yourself. Remember the days of you touring in front of half a house and nobody gave a cr ap, those days are about to make a return.
They actually have the nerve to be charging $350 a ticket for the VIP experience for this little turd. He’s paperless this time, but let’s see what happens if there’s a second tour in a year or two. They’ll be begging for broker business — this kid is a flash in the pan. Last year he sings on youtube; now he thinks he’s king of the music business. Prick.
The only loser here is the Phish fans who relied on idiot Scalpers to buy up these tickets and sell them for 1/2 price, now Phish will probably be playing to half empty venues for most of their shows
Phish need to take a 5-year hiatus again. They need brokers to sell the places out. They a essentially a huge little band. They can sell-out a few tiny pockets of the US, but mostly not. Outside those pockets they are nobodies or mistaken for that Marillion singer of the similar sounding name.
That’s a very uneducated statement. Very. Phish has been the largest city in Maine… The biggest concert in North America… The biggest NYE Millennium concert, ahem, in the world… Fastest ever sell out at Merriweather. Phish rocks. And you know it.
HAHAHA! Phish overflowed Fenway, Dude
What’s funny is that this article was even written. Phish has had THE SAME clause on their website about scalping tickets for about 7 years now. this is not news! Man, i wish i was one of the paid writers on staff at King Don’s megapalace that got paid to write this dribble.
Sounds like you bought up a bunch of Alpine Lawns last summer and got burned.
Sucka
Keep your scalping restricted to the lady gaga scene
Look at some stats you moron. You’ve never seen a band who sells out tours as fast as Phish….hmm let’s see 14 minutes to sell out summer 09
11 minutes to sell out summer 2010
70,000 people for most of their festivals on the east coast (couldn’t fit in any “stadiums”
100,000 people for the milleneum festival in florida….
I could go on, but the point has been made, and that point is: “you, sir, have been PWNED” Idiot.
You really have no clue what you’re talking about. you are a mere child in an adult world, now go away.
ahem….your ignorance is showing.
Why in the eff would Phish play such a small venue in California and then offer no tour dates in the southwest? This is **** bullcrap! The berkeley shows sold out IMMEDIATELY. I tried but I had no chance of getting tickets so no chance of seeing Phish this summer. Even though 20,000 people saw them at Shoreline and 40,000 came to Indio, Phish is basically giving the finger to all their supporters in California who would’ve paid to go see them and playing in a small *** venue that holds less than half the number of people that would go. WTF??? Absolutely no love! So I would just like to say to the band, thanks for nothing! **** YOU PHISH!
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Phish has done nothing to stop tickets from being resold for $150-$1999. A simple google search will tell you that. All they had to do to prevent this was to book a venue that could hold everybody but, NOOO, they had to be ***** about it. Now 10,000 extra hippies without tickets are going to crash Berkeley’s campus hoping for a miracle and it’s going to be a total ***** **** SHOW! Man, effff this band! EFFF THEM IN THEIR LAME *****! …LET’S ALL GO TO BERKELEY AND TEAR THE PLACE APART!
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No complaints about price here. This worked out great for WCoast fans last summer. There were tickets ON The Ground in the parking lots. At Shoreline tickets were being sold for way less than face.
The fools where those who paid full price to Phish. The scalpers were anticipating the same draw as back in the late 90s. Eventually the scalpers will stop buying so many west coast tickets cause they cant make any money off of them. And as far as Berkley being small, thats fine, we just need more dates at these small venues. Play 4-5 small so-cal and west coast venues, they’ll sell-out. They prob is Phish is assuming everyone on the west coast will drive over 6 hours to see them. Not the case anymore, we got kids and jobs too. I cant find any other band as big as phish that plays such weirdly selective locations , just look at the balloon map on there site, lopsided by any measure.
All my friends are spending $$ and driving hours for Berkeley. I cant help but feel foolish if I join in.