[This post is courtesy of Brian Weinstein, host of the Attendance Bias Podcast. Thank you, Brian! -Ed.]

As the host of the Attendance Bias Podcast, I’ve spoken with literally hundreds of fans who have told personal, meaningful, important, and downright silly stories about Phish. Embedded within those personal tales are descriptions of venues, neighborhoods, cities, and entire regions. Since context is everything, there’s only so much you can understand about a Phish show until you know about the venue and the neighborhood in which it sits. With this in mind, I interviewed someone about every venue Phish is playing on their 2025 summer tour; 23 dates in 10 venues. Each person was able to give a detailed description of his/her hometown venue, and we broke down Phish’s history in that city. The first episode about SHNU Arena in Manchester, NH is available today!

If Attendance Bias episodes are meant to give the listener a first-person perspective on what it was like to be at any given Phish show, then this series is meant to give listeners some background on each venue Phish is playing this summer. Each episode also provides context about the area surrounding each venue, and the band’s history at each stop on the tour. I tried my best to find guests who are native to each city, or who have a history there. By the end of the interviews, I felt like I could jump on tour tomorrow and be fully prepared for what to expect at each stop from New Hampshire through Saratoga Springs.

Read more...