Phish Festival 8 Day Two Setlist, Photos, Latest News, Download the Show

SET ONE
Sample in a Jar, The Divided Sky, *Lawn Boy, Kill Devil Falls, Bathtub Gin, Squirming Coil, Runaway Jim, Possum, Run Like an Antelope

MUSICAL COSTUME
Exile on Main Street
Rocks Off, Rip This Joint, Shake Your Hips, Casino Boogie, Tumbling Dice, Sweet Virginia, Torn and Frayed, Sweet Black Angel, Loving Cup, Happy, Turd On The Run, Ventilator Blues ->, I Just Want To See His Face, Let It Loose, All Down The Line, Stop Breaking Down, Shine A Light, Soul Survivor

SET THREE
Backwards Down the Number Line -> Fluffhead, Ghost, When the Circus Comes, You Enjoy Myself

ENCORE
Suzy Greenberg -> Ghost Jam/Suzy reprise

SHOW NOTES
*Trey says, "This would be a good time for us to acknowledge this beautiful venue. It's been a long time since we played on grass. So, let's have Page play a love song now for the grass you are standing on. Page, what do you say?"

BREAKING NEWS
Phish to play four shows in Miami (where I grew up -- see everyone there!) at the American Airlines Arena, site of the 2003 NYE fest, Dec. 28-31, 2009. The poster to the right came inside the handbill for today's show. Stay tuned for on sale dates.

FESTIVAL 8 SET LIST, DAY TWO
Welcome to Day Two of Festival 8. Musical Costume confirmed = The Rolling Stones' Exile on Main Street, which was my initial guess when they first announced this thing, but I kept changing my mind. D'oh!

Check out the Burble that hovered over the crowd last night during Harry Hood.

Today's Set Times: 3PM - Set One, 7:30PM - Halloween Set, 10:30PM - Third set

Click here for streaming photos and live audio.

PHOTOS
Thumbs Up
Look hard and you can see the Moon above the stage
Squirming Coil
Preventing Wook Flu
Awesome slide show
The Roach
Human Whoopie Cushion
Stage Right
Divided Sky the Wind Blows High
Top Secret Box
Exactly what is this costume supposed to be?
Time Turns Elastic Sweatpants
Waiting for the gates to open
Live feed of photos from Festival 8
Where the Wild Phish Are
Free Phish Food ice cream tent
Fairywings
Resorts now occupied by heads
Down front, Fishman's side
Down front, Page's side ... what's up with the tarps?
The walk in

LATEST NEWS & OTHER LINKS
Jambands.com calls Festival 8 "the perfect festival" (Jambands.com)
Festival 8 Day One Review (FestivalCrashers.com)
More than music, Festival 8 is feast for eyes (The Desert Sun)
Phish fans sing praises of Indio site (The Desert Sun - they seem to be going all out on coverage of Festival 8)
HippieShop to give away classic VW Bus at Phish concert Nov. 1 (The Progress)
Driving to Phish Festival 8 in a 2010 Ford Fusion Hybrid (Gas 2.0)
Phish Festival 8 kicks off this Halloween weekend (BeatCrave.com)
Before you go: a guide to Phish-speak (The Desert Sun)
Jambase coverage of Festival 8 (Jambase.com)
Festival 8 at Empire Polo Club (InstantRiverside.com)
Phish Festival 8 kicks off with new surprises (Thaindian.com)
Schools benefit from Phish fans (The Desert Sun)
Phish aims to set the standard for "green" concert events (The Desert Sun)
VIDEO: Festival 8 Views & Grounds
VIDEO: Trey talks Big Cypress on Jam On
Festival 8 on Facebook

LISTEN TO FESTIVAL 8 LIVE & WHERE TO DOWNLOAD THE SHOW
Click here to download the show once it's over, thanks to "No Spoilers" from PhishThoughts.com
Join the live chat room at Hidden Track.
Click here to listen to the show live via Phish's own on-site FM radio station The Bunny through LivePhish.com, or click here to listen to the show via Jam On on Sirius Satellite Radio. It's free, but you have to sign up to listen. Sound quality is better through LivePhish.com but it cuts out from time to time while the Jam On feed does not drop out.

Official download from LivePhish.com

Phish 10/31/09 Festival 8, Indio, CA Click below to preview tracks from this show DOWNLOAD THIS SHOW

Phish Festival 8 Day One & Soundcheck Setlists, Latest News, Photos, and Links to Download the Show

FESTIVAL 8 SET LIST, DAY ONE
Bag it and tag it -- Day One is a wrap! Scroll down for photos, news and more. By the way ... at the beginning of David Bowie, Trey said, "We're going to give you a little hint about the Halloween album now." So, it looks like they are going to play Hunky Dory!

SET ONE
Party Time, Chalk Dust Torture, The Moma Dance, NICU, Stealing Time from the Faulty Plan, Stash, I Didn't Know*, Poor Heart, Cavern, Beauty of a Broken Heart, Ocelot, Time Turns Elastic

SET TWO
Punch You in the Eye, Down with Disease -> Jam -> Prince Caspian -> Wolfman's Brother -> Spacey Jam -> Piper -> Jam -> Joy, David Bowie** -> Harry Hood -> Golgi Apparatus

ENCORE
Character Zero

SHOW NOTES
*Trey said, "Ladies and gentlemen, Henrietta will now, for the first time in recorded human history, simultaneously suck and blow into a vacuum cleaner that's in the shape of an 8."; **During the song's intro, Trey said, "We're going to give you a little hint about the Halloween album now."

LISTEN TO FESTIVAL 8 LIVE & WHERE TO DOWNLOAD THE SHOW
Click here to download the show once it's over, thanks to "No Spoilers" from PhishThoughts.com
Join the live chat room at Hidden Track.
Click here to listen to the show live via Phish's own on-site FM radio station The Bunny through LivePhish.com, or click here to listen to the show via Jam On on Sirius Satellite Radio. It's free, but you have to sign up to listen. Sound quality is better through LivePhish.com but it cuts out from time to time while the Jam On feed does not drop out.

THURSDAY'S SOUNDCHECK SET LIST
Back on the Train*, Let Me Lie*, Jam, Undermind -> Devil With a Blue Dress Jam, Starship Trooper Jam, Gone, Liquid Time

*acoustic

Download Thursday's soundcheck here.

Stay tuned to The Wagger throughout the weekend for real-time setlists, photos, downloads and news from Indio. By the way, the only albums that have not been killed off yet are Exile on Main Street (The Rolling Stones), Hunky Dory (David Bowie), Electric Ladyland (The Jimi Hendrix Experience), The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway (Genesis), and MGMT. My original guess was that they would play Exile on Main Street. Check out the last albums left alive here. Hold your breath -- Phish's Musical Costume is close to being revealed!!!

Official download from LivePhish.com

Phish 10/30/09 Festival 8, Indio, CA Click below to preview tracks from this show DOWNLOAD THIS SHOW

PHOTOS FROM FESTIVAL 8
The main entrance
Inside the Empire Polo Grounds
Another photo from inside
Halloween masks created by Jim Pollack
Slide show from inside Festival 8
Here's a map with directions to the show
The main concert grounds
The Ferris Wheel at Festival 8
Art inside the festival
Sunset at Festival 8
Couple getting married at Festival 8
Stage within a stage
Vending booths inside Festival 8
Inside the House of Live Phish tent
Silhouette of more art at Festival 8
View of the back of the concert grounds at night
Shots from set one of tonight's show
Back of the concert field at night
During Harry Hood
Trey feelin' it

LATEST NEWS & OTHER LINKS
DAY ONE REVIEW: Phish on Friday Proves a Tasty Treat (The Desert Sun)
Follow Jambase's Coverage from Festival 8 (Jambase.com) Tons of photos.
Reunited Phish living a more serene band life now (San Jose Mercury News)
The Elite 8 (Jambands.com)
Phish surprises fans with soundcheck broadcast at Festival 8 (Spinner.com)
A survival guide to Phish's Festival 8 (Los Angeles Times)
UC Irvine cheerleaders salute Phish on Tonight Show (Jambands.com)
School of Phish: What you need to know about this weekend's festival (The Desert Sun)
Phish Festival 8 Soundcheck Setlist, Extended Recap and Audio (Hidden Track)
Phish Near Halloween Set, "Purple Rain," MGMT Still Contenders (Rolling Stone)
Phish Festival 8 Goes Down This Weekend (Consequence of Sound)
Thursday's Earful: Festival 8 (Earvolution)
Gone Phishing at Empire Polo Club (The Desert Sun)
Indio Police Offer Tips to Avoid Phish Fest Traffic (The Press Enterprise)
Phish fest to alter traffic (The Desert Sun)
Valley hotels hook plenty of Phish fans for three-day music festival (The Desert Sun)
Phish Scale Back the Backstage Party (KWTX.com)
Talk the Phish Talk, Walk the Phish Walk (The Desert Sun)
Survive Phish Festival with Common Sense, These Tips (The Desert Sun)
Cops: Leave the Weed at Home, Phish Fans (NBC Los Angeles)
The Goods: Phish Festival 8 (WNYMedia.net)

Phish 2009 Fall Tour Dates, Tickets and Other News

Phish posted a wild-ass video message on their website (is there some sort of hint about the Halloween album in there? Trees = Joshua Tree? Read below for more on this ...), finally announcing the 2009 Fall Tour dates, which pretty much coincide with the dates published here at The Wagger, and other blogs, several weeks ago. Still no word on a New Years Run, but rumor still has it the boys are playing Miami's American Airlines Arena, site of the 2003 New Year's Run, Dec. 28-31. Stay tuned ...

Here are the official 2009 Fall Tour dates (excluding Festival 8):

11/18 - Detroit, MI Cobo Arena
11/20 - Cincinnati, OH U.S. Bank Arena
11/21 - Cincinnati, OH U.S. Bank Arena
11/22 - Syracuse, NY War Memorial at Oncenter
11/24 - Philadelphia, PA Wachovia Center
11/25 - Philadelphia, PA Wachovia Center
11/27 - Albany, NY Times Union Center
11/28 - Albany, NY Times Union Center
11/29 - Portland, ME Cumberland County Civic Center
12/2 - New York, NY Madison Square Garden
12/3 - New York, NY Madison Square Garden
12/4 - New York, NY Madison Square Garden
12/5 - Charlottesville, VA John Paul Jones Arena (expect Dave Matthews to sit in for this one)

Public on sale dates for Phish's three-night Madison Square Garden run, and two-night Cincinnati run, have changed. Tickets for all three MSG shows will now go on sale Friday, October 23rd at 11am EST, and both Cincinnati shows will go on sale Saturday, October 24th at 11am EST.

Of course, a limited number of tickets for all 2009 Fall Tour dates are available directly through Phish's online ticketing system at http://phish.portals.musictoday.com. The ticket request period is currently underway and will end tomorrow, Friday, October 16th at 5:00pm EST.

Tickets finally cracked the $50 mark. Geez. I remember my first show was like $8 or something back in 1993.

The three nights at Madison Square Garden mark the longest run the band ever has played at the storied venue, believe it or not.

Also, on a side note, I've been thinking about Festival 8, the Musical Costume and the acoustic set. Does anyone else think that the acoustic set may be the Musical Costume set? Then again, tickets for Festival 8 have a joshua tree printed on them, leading to speculation that the U2 album of the same name, which appears on the list of possible albums at Phish.com, will be the Musical Costume that night ... And I guess there are no acoustic albums appearing on the list, but you never know what these guys will do. It would be hilarious to see Phish do something like come out and perform Metallica's Master of Puppets acoustically. Stay tuned ...

In other news, Trey has been appearing on satellite radio's Jam On channel promoting Festival 8 by playing clips from prior Phish festivals. Honestly, I can't believe they actually feel like they have to put effort into promoting the shows. That is a first, for sure, but with the economy and the fact that they selected a venue about as far away from the region where most of their fan base resides (the East Coast and particularly the Northeast) I guess it was inevitable. From what I am hearing ticket sales are nowhere near what they expected, and wanted, so it will be interesting to see what the turnout is like later this month.

Just the fact that there are still tickets on sale is a first for the band -- at least, I'm pretty sure all previous festivals sold out, with the possible exception of The Clifford Ball. Anyone know if this is correct or not?