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Phish To Resurface With 3 March Concerts

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The Tampa Tribune

Published: October 2, 2008

Those reunion rumors weren't just cut bait: Four years after disbanding, the time seems right to Phish.

The Vermont-bred foursome on Wednesday announced three concert dates next March in Hampton, Va., a longtime favorite venue for the band and its fiercely loyal fans. Other 2009 dates will be announced later, according to a notice posted on the band's Web site.

Ambrosia Healy, a spokeswoman for the band, confirmed in a news release the dates of March 6, March 7 and March 8 at the Hampton Coliseum. She said band members weren't available for interviews Wednesday.

After a more than 20-year run that saw its audience build from a few people in Burlington, Vt., bars to a Grateful Dead-style cult following, Phish called it quits in 2004. Though their fans continued to pack stadiums around the country that year, it was clear that fatigue and personal problems began to subtly erode the band's intricate and demanding live sound.

But in recent months, its members began to muse about a renewed appetite for the music, causing their well-connected fans to buzz that the reunion was all but a done deal.

"Sometimes you hear bands say 'We're breaking up' and a year or two later, they come back," said Jammy Awards co-founder Peter Shapiro, who brought the foursome together last May at the awards ceremony in New York. They did not perform at the appearance.

'Please - Just Don't Vote'

How do you get kids to vote? Just say no.

Leonardo DiCaprio, Halle Berry, Jennifer Aniston, Tobey Maguire, Eva Longoria Parker and other stars are using reverse psychology to get young people into voting booths on Election Day.

In a new public service announcement that hit YouTube and other online outlets Wednesday, DiCaprio says: "Please - just don't vote." Others echo his plea: "Don't vote."

But the stars soon twist the message: Voting is a civic duty and the only way to effect change.

"I mean, seriously, ... after this whole video - if you're not gonna vote, I don't even know what to say. ... You know you have to vote," says DiCaprio, who produced the PSA.

Also appearing: Ellen DeGeneres, Forest Whitaker, Dustin Hoffman, Demi Moore, Sarah Silverman, Jonah Hill, Ashton Kutcher, Courteney Cox, Laura Linney, Natalie Portman, Jamie Foxx, Usher, Kyra Sedgwick and will.i.am.

Leo Says Yes To Love

DiCaprio says his feelings about love have evolved. The 33-year-old "Revolutionary Road" star, who once boasted that he felt "few emotions," had "never been in love," and planned never to marry, is singing a new tune. "I want to get married and have children," DiCaprio tells Parade. "I realize I am contradicting everything I've said before."

DiCaprio, who says what he previously said now "sounds like the ignorance of youth," has been going steady with Israeli model Bar Refaeli, 23, for two years.

Today's Birthdays

Singer-songwriter Don McLean is 63. Photographer Annie Leibovitz is 59. Singer-actor Sting is 57. Actress Lorraine Bracco is 54. Rhythm-and-blues singer Freddie Jackson is 50. Singer-producer Robbie Nevil is 50. Retro-soul singer James Hunter is 46. Actress-talk show host Kelly Ripa is 38. Singer Tiffany is 37. Gospel singer Mandisa ("American Idol") is 32.

Source: The Associated Press

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