Back in February, Phish announced that their 11th festival, Curveball, would be headed to Watkins Glen International in New York from August 17th to 19th. At many of Phish’s past multi-day festivals, the band has hosted 5K races, and Curveball will be no different. Today, Curveball has announced the return of the JEMP Records Store, which will carry a “vast array of vinyl releases from the band’s catalog from years past including Billy Breathes, A Live One, The White Tape, Junta, Lawn Boy, Rift, A Picture of Nectar and side project pressings.”
In addition to Phish’s previously released work, the JEMP Records Store will also feature an exclusive vinyl release of the band’s 1997 live album Slip, Stitch and Pass. The record will be available on vinyl for the first time at Curveball, pressed on two color splatter (blue and purple), foil numbered LPs. Each vinyl will come with a Limited Edition “Slip, Stitch and Pass” screen print by Drew Millward. If there are any left at the end of Curveball, the remainder of the limited Slip, Stitch and Pass LPs will be made available at Phish Dry Goods and in stores (though stores won’t have colored vinyl) later this year.
Furthermore, the JEMP Records Store will be equipped with vinyl listening stations and copies to pick up, open, read, feel and “smell (they mostly smell waxy)”. Though, if you are worried about having wax at a festival in New York state in the middle of August, the announcement says, “Fear not! We will have a cold-storage merch check like we did at Magnaball to keep your vinyl records in air conditioning all weekend.”
For more information on Curveball, which is scheduled for August 17th to 19th in Watkins Glen, NY, head to the festival’s website here. Check out the full announcement below: