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Hi everybody and welcome to Attendance Bias. I am your host, Brian Weinstein. Before we get started with today’s episode, I just want to remind everyone that if you enjoy the podcast, you can show your support by leaving a rating and review of it wherever you get your podcasts. You can also visit www.buymeacoffee.com/attendancebias and donate anything you can to keep the podcast going. Now, onto today’s episode.

Today is a preview of a preview. Leading up to Phish’s summer tour last year, 2025, I thought it would be fun to do a deep dive into two new venues Phish was playing: Forest Hills Stadium in New York City, and Folsom Field in Boulder. I keep an eye on the online Phish community on Twitter, Bluesky, Facebook, Reddit, etc. and it seemed like fans had the most questions about those venues. I was lucky to find people who were willing to come on the show and pretty much answer a Q&A about each venue. It was kind of the same format as a regular Attendance Bias episode, except the episode was about a venue and not a particular show. Then, a friend recommended that I shouldn’t stop at Forest Hills and Folsom; I should record an episode for every venue on the 2025 tour. I loved doing it, and so that’s what happened. I was very proud of it, and by the end, I felt like I could hop on tour at any moment and know everything I needed to know about any given venue.

Once Phish announced their 2026 summer tour this past February, I felt that impulse to record another “Venue Preview” miniseries–you know when you feel that feeling that says: “This is going to be difficult, it’s going to take a lot of work, but I really, really, really want to do it?” Once I saw their tour, that’s the feeling I felt. I immediately went to work, contacting friends, working through a few false starts, and doing a ton of research of places I’ve never visited–sure, I could tell you the basics of seeing a show at Merriweather Post Pavilion, but the Enmarket Arena in Savannah, Georgia may as well be in Taiwan. Plus, I had to think of ways to preview the most familiar Phish venues: how exactly does one give a heads up about seeing Phish at Madison Square Garden or Deer Creek? I had my work cut out for me.

Regardless, the next 10 weeks of Attendance Bias episodes will sound like that: The 2026 Summer Tour Venue Preview Series. Now that the 3 weekends at the Sphere are done, here are Phish’s next stops, along with the guests who will help tell us about each venue and city:

*July 7 and 8 at the Kohl Center in Madison, Wisconsin with Mike Lancaster

*July 10, 11, and 12, at Deer Creek with Ben Karle

*July 14 and 15 at the Enmarket Arena in Savannah, GA with my friends Earth and Jessie

*July 17 at Walnut Creek in Raleigh, NC, with Bryan Rodgers

*July 18 and 19 at Merriweather Post Pavilion in Columbia, Maryland with Skinny and JW from the Stub Me Down podcast

*July 21 at the Lakeview Amphitheater in Syracuse, NY with Beth Ann Kempf

*July 22-29 at Madison Square Garden with Megan Glionna

*July 31 and August 1 at Fenway Park with Dave Hamilton

*Finally, September 4-6 at Dick’s with Stacie Ledden

Whether or not you’re seeing a show at any given venue on the tour, I would recommend listening to each episode. It gives you a flavor of what it’s like to see Phish at that venue and what it’s like to be in that city. I loved it.

I do what to take a moment to thank every guest I just named for being generous with their time and their knowledge. Want to know what to do if you arrive in Madison a day early or end up staying a day late? Are you a barbecue fiend and want to know the best place to stop in Raleigh? Need to know how tight security is i

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