Whats the Coventry Festival?
These are the final Phish shows, August 14-15, 2004, at an airport in Vermont. (To the right is a satellite view, which another fan found from TerraServer.) It might get a different name later (such as The Other Side of the Shark Festival, hah). But “coventry” means a state of ostracism or exile. It comes from Coventry, England, where Parliamentarian’s sent and held Royalist prisoners during the English Civil War. To send to Coventry is to exclude from society; to shut out from social intercourse, as for ungentlemanly conduct. Perhaps a bad omen, the city walls of Coventry were demolished in 1662.
