The 3rd Annual Hangout Music Festival is on once again and the Gulf Coast beach fest will take place May 18-20, 2012 at the same Gulf Shores, AL locale. Last year’s lineup included Black Keys, My Morning Jacket, Widespread Panic, Flaming Lips and Foo Fighters and the initial major artist lineup announcement for the 2012 edition should be out in the coming weeks. At present the festival has not announced any artists but a limited amount of discounted early-bird tickets for $159 go on sale next Friday, November 18 at 10 a.m. CST. In addition, beach-front accommodations can be reserved now by going here.
There’s this tiny part of me that doesn’t actually want to post this, but I wouldn’t be doing any sort of job as an editor if I didn’t remind you to set your watches, text alerts and calendar reminders for the public on-sale for the Phish Fall Tour including the three-night Halloween run in Atlantic City. Sure, I want to better my chances to get tickets now that I’ve been officially rejected by Phish Tickets-by-Mail. And we’ve already made plans for wake-up calls at 6:30am Saturday morning on the West Coast to make sure me and our crew have a chance for the Halloween golden tickets. But we all deserve a fighting chance, so pay attention! Some dates go on sale starting tomorrow, but the Halloween shows are going on sale at 10am EDT Saturday. There, all of us are officially reminded once again. Come hang out with us starting tomorrow morning while we work our mojo to get tickets and best of luck out there, folks… READ MORE
The secondary ticket market is going nuts for our favorite band on tour at the moment: Phish. While your friendly editor lucked into mailorders for all three nights at the Greek, most folks that didn’t get tickets from their friends’ extras will be shelling out at least 3x the face value of the tickets to see the band on their only “extended” run of the tour announced so far. All signs are pointing to Berkeley being an absolute shit-show of fun that weekend and something worth traveling for from the heads across the country.
The top 10 most expensive Phish venues for this summer’s tour however, are topped by the Greek Theatre in Berkeley California, with an average transacted price of $170.04 for the three shows Phish is playing there on August 5-7. All three shows are sold ou
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It’s at this time that I’ll remind everyone to consider heading over to CashOrTrade.org before you consider buying from a secondary market scalper that’s allowed to mark up their ticket. They recently surpassed 5,000 members and we’ll hope to see that number continue to rise.
Now that the tickets for the Phish summer tour dates have been snatched up by everyone’s brother’s cousins, we’re pleased to help promote a diamond in the rough that is online ticket sales. Two long-time Phish fans from Vermont decided to help the community and build a site that helps fans exchange tickets for the tour with strict self-policed policies on what the tickets are allowed to sell for. No profiteering allowed. They call it CashOrTrade.org.
If you’re like us, you love the music, but dislike the ticket hassle. Whether you have supported the band for 15 years, or your a first time listener, your chances of obtaining a ticket can be extremely difficult and discouraging when sifting through the online scalpers. Either way we are all in this together.. and having a place online where the Phish community can ethically trade for tickets would be a dream, hence the launch of CashOrTrade.org.
We fully support the mission. Good work, guys!
I thought I’d make sure this got passed along today to get everyone on the ready for tomorrow’s public on-sale for Phish’s recently added third night at Jones Beach Theater in NY. Past that, Saturday morning is the on-sale date for the Fenway Park concert on May 31st. Get your friends online together to pull off a miracle. I have no doubt it that the effort will be worth it for those that get tickets. For the rest of us, hope you made other plans.
Tickets go on sale to the general public beginning tomorrow, April 17th at 10AM ET for Phish’s June 2nd date at Nikon at Jones Beach Theater in Wantagh, NY and Saturday, April 18th at 10AM ET for Phish’s May 31st concert at Boston’s historic Fenway Park.
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