Attendance Bias

2025 Venue Preview: The Petersen Events Center, Pittsburgh, PA w/ Emily Bush


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Hi everybody and welcome to Attendance Bias. I am your host Brian Weinstein. We are fully on tour by now, having visited Manchester, New Hampshire and now on the 9-and-a-half-hour drive to the Pete–that is the Petersen Events Center, on the University of Pittsburgh campus–in Pittsburgh, PA. For whatever reason, the band decided to skip Star Lake in Burgettstown in favor of this modest-size collegiate arena that has played host to Phish twice in recent memory. 

But if you’re on tour and decide to skip Pittsburgh because it’s out of the way, you’re missing out on a whole lot. Today’s guest, Emily Bush, bleeds black and gold. With deep family roots in Pittsburgh, and an understanding of the city’s amenities and history, she offers an insider’s guide to what Phish fans should see, do, eat, drink, and expect for the first single-night stop of the tour.

Although I don’t think a visit to Pittsburgh is in the cards for me this summer, there were points during today’s conversation, when I wanted to suggest to my wife that we move to the Steel City. After I got off the call with Emily I started to Google some of the apartment complexes and neighborhoods she mentions, and although I’m staying in New York for the foreseeable future, moving to Pittsburgh is not a 0% option, regardless of how Phish plays this summer.

So let’s get excited for the second stop of the tour: June 24, as Emily gives us the low down on The Petersen Events Center, and Pittsburgh as a whole in today’s episode.

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