Phish concerts are alike.The beloved jam band, which has been rocking together since 1983, makes sure every live show is a brand new experience complete with spectacular guitar riffs, trippy stage design and the occasional improvised vacuum solo.Yes, really.And, since the group refuses to rest on their laurels, fans keep coming back for more.Phishheads travel far and wide to see guitarist Trey Anastasio, drummer/vacumm player Jon Fishman, bassist Mike Gordon and keyboardist Page McConnell innovate whenever they can whether it be their annual four-night end of the year residency at New York City’s Madison Square Garden or Las Vegas’ Sphere next April.“It’s not like anything you’ve ever seen because it’s never happened before,” NY-based comedian and proud Phan Max Fine told the New York Post.“Every show is special and unique because they don’t plan for it. You get to be whoever you want at a Phish show.”For a closer look into the Phish experience, here’s what Fine said about seeing the band live.“There’s no set list and no song HAS to be played a certain way,” Fine shared.“Most songs are jams, especially in the second set,” he continued.
KISS Says Farewell at Madison Square Garden, Before Passing the Torch to Band’s Avatar Successors: Concert Review
03.12.2023 - 17:59 / variety.com
A.D. Amorosi To paraphrase David Mamet’s caustic sales pitch from “Glengarry Glen Ross,” KISS has always been closing. That’s fine.
From the start of the band’s mega-success with 1975’s “Alive!” and its crunching live single, “Rock and Roll All Nite,” through to bassist/demon Gene Simmons’ sales campaigns moving KISS condoms and coffins, everything the quartet has done has been geared to move product in a fashion harder and faster than its way-contagious music. And like many of its fellow rock elders — the Who, Elton John, the Eagles, variations of the Grateful Dead — KISS has repeatedly sold (and stretched) the idea of a finale, starting with the 2019-commenced “End of the Road” tour. Co-founder Simmons has sworn on a veritable stack of bibles that this farewell is for real, giving it some extra weight by staging the finale where KISS was born, New York, with a week’s worth of events across the city before the group’s would-be last-ever show at Madison Square Garden Saturday night.
But for its 11 p.m. encore, the band found a way to sell itself to future generations of the KISS Army with the on-stage introduction of KISS avatars, created by Industrial Light & Magic in partnership with Pophouse Entertainment Group, the Swedish tech company behind ABBA’s “Voyage” avatar show in London. This will makes KISS the first U.S.-born band to go fully virtual and stage its own avatar show.
To be fair, Simmons did tell Rolling Stone in November that their Dec. 2 grand finale would be “the final KISS-in-makeup appearance,” but we all saw how that worked out when they took off their costumes in 1983. Not great.
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Here’s the latest in the race for Christmas Number One with Wham! facing off The Pogues and Sam Ryder
Wham! taking the lead for the peak position on the charts.The news follows a neck-and-neck race between the iconic ‘80s pop duo Wham! And Eurovision star Sam Ryder over the past week, with their respective songs ‘Last Christmas’ [1986] and ‘You’re Christmas To Me’ [2023].At the first look at the race last week, just 42 chart units stood between the two taking the top spot on the UK charts, however, this week it has been revealed by the Official Charts that Wham! are in pole position, and have widened the gap between Ryder’s Amazon Music original track – which remains at Number Two.However, it doesn’t seem likely that the charts will stay this way until Christmas, with Ryder set to play a fan-exclusive gig tonight (December 19) in Shoreditch, London, in a push to promote the song in time for Christmas Day.Similarly, today (December 19) The Pogues are sharing a special, limited-edition physical run of their own iconic Christmas song ‘Fairytale Of New York’ in a push to climb the charts.Originally released in 1988 and featuring Kirsty MacColl, the track is being reissued in memory of the band’s late singer Shane MacGowan, who died “peacefully” in hospital from pneumonia on November 30. He was 65 years old and his funeral took place in Nenagh, County Tipperary on December 8.All proceeds from the reissue will be donated to the Irish charity Dublin Simon Community, and the release also arrived alongside a fan campaign to get Fairytale of New York to Christmas Number 1 for the first time.The push for the top position on the charts has also been endorsed by Shane MacGowan’s widow, Victoria Mary Clarke.
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Gene Simmons says KISS virtual avatars will “get better”
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