November 07, 1998
11 years ago
UIC Pavilion, University of Illinois
Set 1: My Soul, Mike's Song, Driver, Brian and Robert, The Wedge, Limb By Limb, Fikus, Billy Breathes, Beauty of My Dreams, Weekapaug Groove
Set 2: AC/DC Bag -> Ghost[1], Reba, Farmhouse
Encore: Guyute, While My Guitar Gently Weeps
[1] WMGGW teases.
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Final Night of Festival 8 Tonight marks the close of Festival 8. Follow along with up to the minute setlist updates here.
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Phish's Costume is EXILE; NYE is in Miami For tonight's second set, the band will perform the Rolling Stones' Exile on Main St. Playbills are already being distributed on site. The Phish.net song database is being populated with the new songs (Loving Cup and Sweet Virginia have been played previously), and complete song histories will be posted within the next week or so. The same Playbill also confirms that New Year's Eve will be in Miami, FL, as suspected by many since early June. The Exile set will reportedly feature Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings (horns).
2 Down, 6 To Go... The first two sets from Festival 8 are in the books (setlist here and available for download through LivePhish). Highlights included a first set "Stash" and strong versions of "DWD," "Piper," and "Hood" (complete with Open Burble) from the second set. Trey also announced that "David Bowie" provided a hint about Halloween's musical costume -- which, no doubt, means we can eliminate Hunky Dory as a possibility.
IndioReport: Camping Complaints We issued a call yesterday for anyone on site to file reports for stories about Indio - and fans on-site responded with a flood of complaints about the campgrounds. No doubt, things are improved in many ways over some previous festivals, especially the mess that was Coventry. However.... Folks in the Larks Tongues in Aspic camping section, for example, are livid. Although they were the first to be searched and directed to park, they still had no showers, sinks, or food/beverage vending after nearly 20 hours. Said one reporter, "The situation is getting testy with some of us who felt trapped in here today." That's particularly a problem because, as several have reported, that campsite is "a disproportionately far distance form the rest of the fest" - so the folks who moved in first have to walk the farthest and don't have any of the promised amenities. Hopefully someone official will get wind of this here - if they havent already heard enough of it on-site... Update: Despite several other complaints, most feedback has been overwhelmingly positive: no traffic once near the site, great art installations, kind (if excessively thorough) entrance staff, great vibes all around.
Reports from Indio So Far... Day parking will not be permitted until 4pm on Friday. ... Searches at the gate are heavy! Dogs, opening suitcases, searching under car hoods. Warnings against drug possesion are underscored, of course, but so are reminders about traffic: Unless the searches become less surgical, the backup tomorrow could be loooong. ... The sky is gorgeous. ... Are you on site? Want to report something more substantive, more specific, or in greater detail? We invite anyone in attendance to file a report, on damned near anything. We'll be compiling up-to-date stories on various aspects of the festival - art installations, campground layout and activities, festival grounds, traffic, etc. - and crediting those who've filed reports. (If you'd rather be anonymous, just say so.) For now, reports can be filed to ellis@phish.net.
NEW: mobile.phish.net Now you can check news, setlists, statistics, song histories and more from the comfort of your own mobile device, with a slimmed-down, cell-friendly version of Phish.net. Use either mobile.phish.net or m.phish.net. Plus, if you first visit phish.net and login, a cookie will be set on your device and log you in automatically when you return, and you'll see a new link on every setlist called Your Gap Chart (where "your" is your username) to show you the last time you saw each song from that show performed live. Check that during or throughout any show - such as from the festival grounds this weekend in Indio.
Mockingbird Grants $3,000 to Coachella Schools The Mockingbird Foundation has announced that it has mailed a $1,000 check to each of three schools near this weekend's Festival 8 site to support their music education programs: the Coachella Valley High School band, the Cahuilla Desert Academy (middle school) advanced band, and the Westside Elementary School after-school music program. The Foundation -- an all-volunteer 501c3 nonprofit founded by fans in 1997 -- has now made over $600,000 in grants nationwide, including an increasing number of grants targeted at those communities directly affected by Phish concerts and fans. The Foundation and Phish.net encourage you to support these programs, and music education programs in your own community, through financial donations, volunteer time, and other ways.... Update: Story in the Desert Sun.
New Phish Quiz: Halloween History Charlie Dirksen has written a fourth quiz about Phish history, drawing on the rich resources of the Phish.net setlists collection and the Mockingbird Foundation's Phish Companion. This one has 55 questions (!), all focused on the band's Halloween shows.
The Bunny Hijacks Jack-FM Arguably the most reliable and least annoying of SoCal radio stations "Jack-FM" (95.9 in Palm Springs / Bernandino, not 93.9 in Culver City / Los Angeles) has been hijacked by The Bunny, Phish's own festival radio. The campgrounds don't open for another 90 minutes, but the Bunny is already broadcasting, and will be until Monday at 10am. You can connect via the Jack landing page or direclty to any of three streams (WMP, iTunes/WinAmp, or RealPlayer); or, in iTunes, choose Advanced > Open Stream, and enter http://66.55.148.27:10046. You can also post requests at the Bunny's Facebook page - but don't push for Phish material, as there are already 6 hours scheduled for that: tonight 12:30-2a, Friday afternoon 2-4p, and Sunday 2:30-4:30p (all PST). Note that the stream appears to be 64K, whereas the stream to Sirius/XM Radio (offering a free one-week trial, and a free iPhone app) is 128K.
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