It's official: Phish will resume its tradition of Halloween thrills this year, as the band will be bringing its famed act to Indio, California this October 30-November 1 for a three-day music festival. America's most celebrated jam band will play eight sets during the three-day festival during Halloween weekend, sure to be packing the house at the Empire Polo Club, where the noted Coachella and Stagecoach music festivals take place every spring and summer. Word of Phish's Festival 8 involvement was announced last week, and phans with Phish tickets are already phlocking to get tickets to the big event. The announcement of Phish's Festival 8 resumes a deeply-rooted tradition with the band to dress in musical costume on Halloween night and cover another band's album, as the holiday entertainment began on Halloween in 1994 and continued up to Phish's hiatus in 1998. It will be an utter surprise to Phish phans in Indio which album the band will choose to cover on Halloween in 2009, as nothing has been announced yet concerning the material. There has, though, been speculation of Phish covering Michael Jackson's Thriller, which the band was rumored to have considered playing one year before instead playing the Who's Quadrophenia. This is all hearsay, however, as dozens more albums have been brought up as ones that would suit the jam band to play this upcoming Halloween. While nothing yet is nailed down for Halloween 2009, the venue is the one thing that will be for certain, as, "We are pleased to support this event," Indio City Manager Glenn Southard recently said. "It will bring thousands of visitors to the City of Indio and to the Coachella Valley and will provide a much-needed boost to our local economy. We look forward to a great event!" Phish's Halloween tradition began in 1994, when the band played an October 31 show dressed up in true Halloween fashion while covering the entirety of the Beatles' The White Album. In the successive years leading up to 1998, the band's last Halloween gig to date, the group has covered the Who's Quadrophenia, Talking Heads' Remain in Light and the Velvet Underground's Loaded. At this year's Festival 8, Phish will reserve an October 31 set for this self-proclaimed Halloween ritual, also playing several more sets over the course of the weekend to make for one slammin' musical festival. Aside from the cover album shenanigans, Phish will also likely cover many songs from its newest album Joy, which will drop on September 8, 2009. Festival 8 will mark Phish's first West Coast festival ever, and the three-day event is sure to be the ultimate crowd-pleaser of the year, especially with the rumor that the band will play a secret set sometime during the weekend. Tickets to this fall's Festival 8 (named because it will be the band's eighth music festival since 1996) are on sale starting Monday, July 27 at 10 a.m. PST, and the much sought-after tickets are sure to sell out in an instant. Tickets to this Phish festival and other Phish concerts are available online, so join the Phish party and get tickets before they're gone!
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