Verizon Wireless Arena

Manchester, NH, USA

Top Rated Shows

Highest rated shows at this venue by Phish.net users:

Date Rating
2010-10-26 383 votes 4.5196/5
2025-06-22 652 votes 4.4463/5
2025-06-21 391 votes 4.1458/5
2025-06-20 392 votes 3.9337/5

Top Reviews

Highest-rated reviews from shows at this venue:

2010-10-26 by waxbanks 27
Superb close to a strong week of shows! Phish will never be a reggae band, but the Gregory Isaacs tribute is just one of three reggae tunes in this show (if you count Trey's doofy original, Makisupa Policeman), and Night Nurse is probably the strongest pure reggae rhythm work the band has done....
2010-10-26 by ColForbin 14
VERY old-school vibe in the room, felt like I was back in 1998 at times...still feeling the post show buzz in a way I haven't since IT or maybe even Cypress. HIGH energy from the band. You've all seen the setlist, the randomness of which was as awesome to hear live as it looks on paper....
2025-06-22 by DownWithSteam 10
Yes, this show is THAT good. Couch toured and wow wow wow. First set is pristine stuff all the way thru with sick song choice and good playing. 2nd set are u kidding how a bout a fun ass tweezer thon??? inspired playing all night this is the kind of show you pray you catch live, theres been alot...
2010-10-26 by bigc236 10
BEST SHOW I'VE EVER SEEN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! EVER!!!!
2010-10-26 by pquiles24 7
ok im going to put this short and sweet, Better than my ufo, I liked it , I really liked it!!!!!!!"
2025-06-22 by ForgeTheCoin 6
Yet again I leave a show thinking “There’s really nothing else I could have asked for.” An absolutely top shelf experience. The massive Tweezer sandwich set felt reminiscent to me of 12/30/19 - very exploratory - there were so many moments of searching, and then coalescing around a solid musical...
2010-10-26 by Mr_Miner 6
Amazing concert and one of the best Phish shows that I have ever been to. Right from the opening bell with After Midnight a Blazing Sloth and Alumni > LTJP > Alumni.....it felt like 1989. They could have played chopsticks for the rest of the night and I would have been happy.....lucky for us...
2025-06-22 by Phan3123 5
Wow just got home after witnessing this fantastic show. Just a tidbit my first show ever was 15 years ago to the day in Mansfield. So needless to say 6/22 holds a dear place in my heart. I spent the day reflecting on how far I have come and what has changed in my life over these 15 years and the...
2010-10-26 by n00b100 5
Set 1: A very nice combination of typical 3.0 1st set songs and some rarities (Llama, The Sloth, AB > LTJP > AB, After Midnight), all played with a quite exciting intensity, which helps when a first set goes long (90 minutes!). Nothing is quite as mindblowing as, say, the 8/7/09 Sally or 7/14/13...
2025-06-22 by ajcmixer 3
Simply a spectacular show by any metric used. After the “made for tv” version of Runaway Jim and what felt like one of the chillest versions of Oblivion I can recall hearing since it’s debut, boys started getting down and dirty with The Curtain With which jazzed up the assembled a lot. Llama...

Notable Jam Chart Performances

Individual jam chart entries from this venue:

2010-10-26 The Curtain With (14:00) Set 1 Noteworthy
The Curtain bristles with crisp energy and is tightly rendered, with Mike and Fish seeming to propel the opening section. The animated jam in With also seems to bound along at a slighly quicker clip than the usual, more languid pace. Again, Fish and Mike drive the tempo, while Trey offers inspired and rapid-fire melodies. A high octane version.
2025-06-22 The Wedge (7:07) Set 1
The return of Fish's intro affords a welcome old-school vibe, pleasantly offset by the band's latter-day spacious, breezy sound. Check out 2/3/93; 2/9/93; 2/12/93; 8/20/93; and 6/7/95 as a means to explore the song's fantastic history and evidence of a workingman's band "writing" on stage.
2025-06-22 Tweezer (21:07) Set 2
The first leg of a three-part "Tweezer" begins with a playful, bouncy groove buoyed by chunky bass and chugs along in an easy-going manner until briefly slowing as it transitions back to minor for more typical "Tweezer" riffing. After 12:45 the jamming steadily gains traction with a new direction as an excellent rocking theme is developed and driven home with great aplomb until it dissolves > "Mercury".
2025-06-22 Mercury (15:03) Set 2
> from a big-time "Tweezer". The jam stays mostly within the bounds of the song until Trey finds a riff he likes. The rest of the band follows along and a bliss jam appears. Trey remains aggressive the entire way, all the way until he signals that it's going to be a "Tweezer-fest" and abruptly > back into "Tweezer".
2025-06-22 Tweezer (7:50) Set 2
> from a strong "Mercury" as the second leg of a three-part "Tweezer" bonanza. This section is largely "Type I" but with plenty of synthy flourishes and adds in a splash of ambience in the finals minutes before > "Pillow Jets".
> from "Tweezer" in a wild and wacky Tweezer-fest. The band sludges through some dark jamming before returning to the "Conjurers of thunder" refrain and ever so slowly, Trey finds his way back to > into more "Tweezer".
2025-06-22 Tweezer (13:07) Set 2
Slowly emerges > from "Pillow Jets" for the third and final time in a "Tweezer"-dominated set, and is quickly reduced to an eerie hush. Creepy effects are gradually added to the mix as the off-kilter energy builds until eventually Fish kicks back in and the riff returns to usher in a climactic finale, after which it dwindles in the old-fashioned way to put a capper on a collective 42 minutes of "Tweezer" action.
2025-06-21 Reba (14:01) Set 1
The first in a set of strong Summer '25 versions begins with a bouncing, plucky opening which gives way to more fluid play as it builds to a glimmering, multipart peak.
Quickly turns up the heat on the standard outro and soon becomes a ripping torrent. Short, sweet, devastating.
2025-06-21 Stash (16:41) Set 1
Takes the form of a gradual, stunning sunrise. The jam starts in a minor mode, contemplative and soft in a pre-dawn dark. Patience and group listening creates space for every voice. Fishman pushes the gentle ascent, Mike soars around 7:00, then Page and Trey take turns delicately opening the hose. The mood brightens until a bright-but-not-blinding daybreak erupts around 14:00, bringing the warmth of dawn. Evocative, emotional bliss reigns until a return to theme ends the journey without a wasted moment.
2025-06-21 Carini (23:46) Set 2
Hazy, phase-y psychedelia breaks early on for ebullient, sunny grooves as Trey's crystalline Koa 1.5 tone shines brightly. A bit of minor darkness briefly creeps in, as the textural palette then expands exponentially into more space-y, synth dense pastures. The jam finds its "je ne sais quoi" here as a minimalist, hypnotic world opens up, anchored rhythmically by Page's insistent clavinet work. The music then forms up behind Trey's insistent, scratchy rhythm playing and Fishman's relentlessness, remaining wholly psychedelic before finally winding down and > "A Wave of Hope".
Mike and Fish maintain an aggressive bounce that provides a foundation for a quasi-psychic back and forth between Trey and Page who exchange shimmering melodies that build toward a peak that takes a brief and gritty detour into more exploratory ground before returning to the more customary close.
After two Set 2 openers for the price of one ("Bouncing" followed by "Sample"), the band gets down to business with the longest "LSG" to date. They take a minute to find their footing, but Mike takes the reins around 9:30 and things take off. Excellent, melodic play from Trey at 14:50 gives way to a full band onslaught. The jam winds its way to its ending and > into "Twist".
2025-06-20 Twist (18:17) Set 2
While remaining in "Twist" territory, the band slows the pace out of the gate. Straddling the line between "type one" and a wavering tonal drift for several minutes, a curious examination of the moment dominates. Little time is wasted before effects layer in, amplifying the mystique that helps to inform Summer 2025's sound. Momentarily, a juicy rhythmic section overlays the mist before this sound breaks for more sustain, "Get More Down" samples, percussive jolts of chaos, and a satisfactory climb into Trey-led rock whose quiet drop > into "Piper".
2010-10-26 Llama (4:34) Set 1
Solid Set I version of "Llama" with some great Page and an unusual refrain between Page's and Trey's sections.


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