Oct 29, 2002
PORK TORNADO PLAY'S PORTLAND'S MUSIC MILLENIUM AT 4 PM ON HALLOWEEN
Pork Tornado will deliver a rare instore performance on the stage of
Music Millenium, a great independent record store in Portland,
Oregon. The band will play beginning at 4 PM on Thursday, October 31
(HALLOWEEN). The store info is as follows:

Music Millennium
801 NW 23rd
Portland, OR
503-248-0163

Aug 08, 2002
Pork Tornado Debut Album in Stores October 1
We've been talking about the recording of the Pork Tornado album for quite some time in these pages. As the mystics say, good pork takes time, roasting for days (and in this case years) on a turning spit. Well, strap on your bibs. The self-titled debut album comes out on Rykodisc this fall, in record stores on October 1. The album was produced by Jon Fishman and Dan Archer, features studio versions of many classics from their live repertoire, and manages to plant its hind quarters all over the genre map, from traditional country and bar blues to raucous funk to more experimental explorations. Pork Tornado features Jon Fishman on drums, Dan Archer on guitar, Aaron Hersey on bass, Phil Abair on keyboards and Joe Moore on sax.

We'll be launching a site in the coming weeks with an 'album player' so you can sample the goods for yourself. In the meantime, we're taking preorders for the album on the Phish Dry Goods site at http://www.phish.com/drygoods

Those who preorder the album are eligible to win the "Boss Hogg" or one of five Piglet prizes. Winning the "Boss Hogg" gets you four tickets to the Pork show of his or her choice and 2 lbs of choice smoked pork loin ribs (void where prohibited by law)! The five piglets will each win one pair of tickets to the Pork show of their choice. Winners will be selected at random from all customers who place preorders for Pork Tornado from Phish Dry Goods before October 1.

Aug 08, 2002
U.S. Tornado Tour Hits The Road October 9
Switching metaphors here, the 'Tornado sweeps across the country like a giant cyclonic inferno for twenty-nine shows in October and November.

Tickets for all shows are available NOW via our online ticketing system at http://porktornadotickets.rlc.net. As this is a club tour, for MOST shows we are able to offer you the option of picking up your tickets at the venue box office the night of the show. This allows you to save the $8 FedEx fee charged for hard tickets. Tickets will be available on this site up to a week before each individual show, at which point they're only available through traditional outlets. Full tourdate information can be found on the tourdates page at http://www.phish.com/tourdates/

We're pleased to announce that fellow Vermonters the Seth Yacovone Band will be opening up the first eight dates of the tour (10/9 through 10/17) and the last three dates (11/12 through 11/14).

Other opening acts are likely to be added to some of the tourdates.

The dates are as follows:

10/9 Pearl Street Northampton MA
10/10 Paradise Boston MA
10/11 Lupo's Providence RI
10/12 Bowery Ballroom New York NY
10/13 Theatre of Living Arts Philadelphia PA
10/15 Water Street Music Hall Rochester NY
10/16 Odeon Cleveland OH
10/17 Bogarts Cincinnati OH
10/18 Blind Pig Ann Arbor MI
10/19 Double Door Chicago IL
10/21 First Avenue Minneapolis MN
10/23 Mississippi Nights St. Louis MO
10/24 Blue Note Columbia MO
10/25 Bottleneck Lawrence KS
10/26 Fox Theatre Boulder CO
10/28 Harry O's Park City UT
10/30 Showbox Seattle WA
10/31 Roseland Portland OR
11/1 Slim's San Francisco CA
11/2 Roxy Los Angeles CA
11/3 House of Blues Las Vegas NV
11/6 Trees Dallas TX
11/7 La Zona Rosa Austin TX
11/8 Tipitina's New Orleans LA
11/9 Variety Playhouse Atlanta GA
11/10 The Orange Peel Asheville NC
11/12 Starr Hill Music Hall Charlottesville VA
11/13 9:30 Club Washington DC
11/14 Northern Lights Albany NY