Phish rolled into North Charleston Coliseum in North Charleston, South Carolina at about the halfway point of their Summer Tour. It’s a tour marked by some strong peaks, grab-bag setlists, and tougher-than-usual tickets at many venues. The secret is out: this band is pretty good.
It’s also a tour notable for being heavy on indoor shows for a Summer Tour. With climate change making our summers less predictable, this is probably going to be more common (look at what happened at Bonnaroo). As a New England Phish fan who has toughed it out through the chilly fog of Bangor, Maine, in 2019, waited an hour in the bowels of Fenway Park for a thunderstorm to pass that same summer, and was baked alive in Hartford in 2022, the move to indoor arenas for Summer Tour is very much welcome. And that’s before we get to the fact that indoor Phish, with all the Kuroda goodness that promises, is objectively better.
Before the band enters the back nine of their tour in favorite outdoor destinations such as the Pavilion at the Mann and SPAC (along with the band’s first trip to Forest Hills Stadium in New York City and a return to the indoor confines of the United Center in Chicago), they had to take care of business here, in the middle show of the North Charleston three-night run…