A Look Back at Coventry
By Mitchell Parrish:
Today marks the 10 year anniversary of Phish’s last show before their 2004 breakup. For Phish fans, anytime the word Coventry is uttered it conjures up great memories and sad goodbyes. Coventry was originally intended to be just another Festival– the One after IT (if you will). However, shortly before the 2004 summer tour a note was posted on the Phish website signed by only Trey announcing that this tour would, in fact, be the band’s last.
After the band’s return in 2009, most of the raw emotion and tension from those two fateful nights in Coventry, VT has transformed into nostalgic recollections of how the band “used to be.” Putting the 1.0, 2.0, 3.0 comparisons aside, this documentary captures the raw emotion of a bittersweet occasion through the eyes of the fans. It’s documentaries like these that help “phans” like me catch a glimpse of one of the most significant, and sad, moments in Phish history. The lore of Coventry will live on, and, by the grace of someone with more power than me, so will Phish.
special thanks to Mike McKinley