The Disco Biscuits made history this past week with their and the Ardmore Music Hall‘s first-ever sold-out six-night run. To celebrate the hometown heroes from neighboring Philadelphia, the Ardmore, PA venue raised a banner to the rafters commemorating the Bisco Sixer.
The Bisco Sixer was a crowning achievement for both the band and the venue. The Biscuits had never played six shows in six nights at the same venue, while the Ardmore Music Hall had never had a band sell out four nights before, let alone six, selling 3,600 tickets from August 19th to 24th. Prior to last week’s run, The Disco Biscuits had only played the Ardmore three times, staging a two-night run in February 2021 to a socially-distanced audience of 25 fans a night, followed by a fan-less, pre-recorded stream that aired on April 20th, 2021. But after the Bisco Sixer, the Ardmore will forever have a place in Bisco lore and vice versa.
To go along with the six nights of concerts, the band partnered with local popsicle maker Frios Gourmet Pops to create a unique flavor for each night of the run. As for the setlists, while The Biscuits may have split songs with one half appearing one night and the other half another, not a single song was repeated. If that (plus the banner) sounds a little phishy, we may as well address the big red donut in the room. This was not Phish‘s Baker’s Dozen. This was the Bisco Sixer, a celebration of 30 years of The Disco Biscuits at a beloved local venue a few miles from where the band started at the University of Pennsylvania. It was a crowning achievement for yet another band that forged its own path, pioneered a style, and navigated its share of trials and tribulations to arrive at a third act that can rival their early years. Sorry if you don’t.
Now that that’s out of the way, let’s dig into the sets. The Disco Biscuits reached deep into their songbook to deliver six no-repeat nights, playing “You and I” for the first time since December 26th, 2011 (564 shows ago), for the longest bust-out of the run. Behind that, “Spectacle”, “Rivers”, and “Remember When” all got their first airing since 2023. To accompany the old favorites, on August 23rd, The Disco Biscuits debuted the new song “Dream Journal“, which the band previewed in the jam of “Spacebirdmatingcall” the night prior.
With plenty of time to stretch out over six nights, the band dug in deep for some particularly long jams. When the dust settled following Sunday’s closer, the “Crickets” from Saturday, August 23rd reigned supreme as the residency’s longest continuous song, clocking in at 32 minutes on nugs. Behind “Crickets” came the “Basis for a Day” that opened Friday, August 22nd’s show and ran for 27 minutes, followed by 26-minute readings of the “Spectacle” bust-out and “Country Royal” from Wednesday, August 20th and Tuesday the 19th, respectively.
To finish off the run, The Disco Biscuits called up another Philly favorite, guitarist Tom Hamilton. Having served alongside Biscuits keyboardist Aron Magner and bassist Marc Brownstein in jamtronic supergroup Electron, Hamilton was well-suited to help bring the Bisco Sixer home. The Joe Russo’s Almost Dead guitarist slid in beside Jon “Barber” Gutwillig in Sunday’s second set, adding his strings to a nearly hour-long sequence of “Caves of the East” > “Shelby Rose” > “Freeze”. During “Caves of the East”, Magner employed a sample of the Cheers theme song “Where Everybody Knows Your Name” and took a moment to thank the venue and the fans.
“This venue here is in the neighborhood that I live in,” Magner said. “And every time I come here, I literally know everybody that works here, from the bartenders to the ticketing people out front to the security guys to everybody that books us here to the people that clean up afterwards, and it literally feels like everybody knows each other’s name. And it feels wonderful to have all of you guys here in my neighborhood to celebrate the sixer with us.”
After Hamilton left and Magner gave his speech, The Biscuits buttoned up the sixer by closing out some still open-ended jams on “Spraypaint” and “Morphy Dusseldorf” that had been started earlier in the week. Finally, for the night six encore, the band donned “Kitchen Mits” before transitioning into the ending of the “Helicopters” that opened the run on night one, making the entire six-show stand one giant “Helicopters” sandwich. Ballgame, Biscuits take the series in six.
Click below to check out select videos and audio from The Disco Biscuits’ Bisco Sixer at Ardmore Music Hall, and scroll down for the detailed setlists. The entire residency is available to stream on nugs on demand. [Editor’s note: Live For Live Music is a nugs affiliate. Ordering your subscription via the links on this page helps to support our work covering the world of live music. Thank you for reading!]
The Disco Biscuits — Ardmore Music Hall — Ardmore, PA — 8/19/25 — First Set Preview
Setlist: The Disco Biscuits | Ardmore Music Hall | Ardmore, PA | 8/19/25
VIP: Svenghali, Triumph
Set One: Helicopters[1] → Pilin It Higher → Risky Business → Voices Insane → Caterpillar[2]
Set Two: Rivers[3] → Country Royale → Voices Insane, Caterpillar[2] → To Be Continued…
Encore: Dino Baby → And The Ladies Were The Rest Of The Night[4]
[1] Unfinished
[2] Dyslexic
[3] LTP 3/31/2023 (189 show gap)
[4] Ending only
Setlist: The Disco Biscuits | Ardmore Music Hall | Ardmore, PA | 8/20/25
VIP: Shadow → Stars In The Sky
Set One: Munchkin Invasion → 7-11 (inverted) → Park Ave[1] → Munchkin Invasion, Twisted In The Road
Set Two: Spectacle[2] → The Deal → Confrontation[3], Bazaar Escape → Better In Doses[3] → Run Like Hell[3]
Encore: 42
[1] LTP 11/08/2024 (68 show gap)
[2] LTP 03/10/2023 (197 show gap)
[3] Ending only
Setlist: The Disco Biscuits | Ardmore Music Hall | Ardmore, PA | 8/21/25
VIP: Another Plan Of Attack, Kitchen Mitts
Set One: And The Ladies Were The Rest Of The Night[1] → Confrontation[2] → Tourists (Rocket Ship) → Svenghali (inverted) → Postcard → Basis For A Day[3]
Set Two: Save The Robots → Fire Will Exchange[4] → Digital Buddha → You And I[5] → Digital Buddha[6] → Fire Will Exchange[4] → Save The Robots
Encore: Under Ur Spell → Better In Doses[2] → Under Ur Spell
[1] Beginning only; Dyslexically completes 8/19 version
[2] Beginning only; Dyslexically completes 8/20 version
[3] Ending only
[4] Dyslexic
[5] LTP 12/26/11 (564 show gap)
[6] with Moshi-Fameus Jam
Setlist: The Disco Biscuits | Ardmore Music Hall | Ardmore, PA | 8/22/25
VIP: Frog Legs, Falling
Set One: Basis For A Day[1] → Pimp Blue Rikki → Spacebirdmatingcall[2] → The Wormhole → Spacebirdmatingcall
Set Two: Nughuffer → Reactor (inverted) → Shocked![3] → Run Like Hell[4] → Buy The Time → Nughuffer
Encore: Photograph → Tempest → Spraypaint[5]
[1] Dyslexically completes 8/21 version
[2] with “Dream Journal” (The Disco Biscuits) Jam
[3] Unfinished
[4] Dyslexically completes 8/20 version
[5] Ending only
Setlist: The Disco Biscuits | Ardmore Music Hall | Ardmore, PA | 8/23/25
VIP: House Dog Party Favor, Little Lai
Set One: I Remember When[1], Rock Candy → Dream Journal[2] → Mindless Dribble → Rock Candy
Set Two: Crickets[3] → Ring The Doorbell Twice → Above The Waves (inverted) → No Recollection → Little Shimmy In A Conga Line[4]
Encore: Astronaut
[1] LTP 8/12/23 (158 show gap)
[2] FTP; New Original
[3] Unfinished
[4] Ending Only
Setlist: The Disco Biscuits | Ardmore Music Hall | Ardmore, PA | 8/24/25
VIP: Mr. Don → Times Square → Mr. Don
Set One: Little Shimmy In A Conga Line[1] → Bombs → Tamarin Alley[2] → Stars In The Sky → Scars Of The Brave (inverted) → We Like To Party[3]
Set Two: We Like To Party[3] → Caves Of The East[4][5] → Shelby Rose (inverted)[5] → Freeze[5] → Spraypaint[6] → Morphy Dusseldorf[7]
Encore: Kitchen Mitts → Helicopters[8]
[1] Beginning only; Dyslexically completes 8/23 version
[2] LTP 4/12/24 (108 show gap)
[3] Dyslexic
[4] Unfinished; with “Theme from Cheers (Where Everybody Knows Your Name)” (Gary Portnoy) samples
[5] with Tom Hamilton Jr. on guitar
[6] Beginning only; Dyslexically completes 8/22 version
[7] Ending only
[8] Ending only; Completes 8/19 version