Friday, August 23, 2019
Camping Cancelled At Phish Concert Due To Potential Plague Outbreak
www.ticketnews.com: Phish fans were hoping to camp out during the three-day concert in Colorado during Labor Day weekend, but officials cancelled camping at the show after news broke of a possible outbreak of the bubonic plague among the local prairie dog population.
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This is pretty typical for Phish festivals. More often than not, weather, time, and even the plague tend to spell doom for the band’s musical festival dreams. For a band that really pioneered the modern music festival format, Phish has been more or less striking out with them in the 21st century. Coventry was a muddy mess that saw the band break up for a number of years, Curveball was cancelled just a day in advance due to biblical flooding, and smaller endeavors like crushed by circumstances as wild as plague-infected prairie dogs. In the 90s, Phish reinvented the music festival scene, giving rise to the modern circuit of festivals as big as Bonaroo and Lolapalooza. What’s different, to this day, about Phish festivals, is that they are the only band performing at them. Phish’s one successful festival experience this century, Mondegreen, saw the band bring tens of thousands of fans to watch them play for four days straight, surrounded by insane festival attractions like an “Alice and Wonderland” area in the forest and a giant cardboard town hall made by festival goers. I think the way Phish puts on festivals is fascinating and I hope they continue to innovate in the space for years to come.
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