We received over 300 entries for our Festival 8 giveaway and we’ve whittled down the massive list of entries to our favorite ten Phish-related costume ideas. This was a tough decision as there were about 30 fantastic ideas on our short list, so getting down to ten wasn’t easy. Now it’s your turn to decide who should win a pair of Festival 8 tickets.

Voting starts immediately and ends on October 8 at 11:59AM EDT. Whichever finalist gets the most votes wins a pair of Festival 8 tickets. As a reminder, Phish’s Festival 8 takes place at the Empire Polo Club in Indio, California on October 30 – November 1.

Here’s our ten finalists followed by your chance to vote…

#1. Sierra

“Very simple costume:

You duct-tape a bucket to your foot, and written on the bucket is 10/30/09.

Get it?

The Man Who Stepped Into Yesterday.”

READ ON for to find out who won our Joy Box giveaway, to read about the other nine finalists and to place your vote for your favorite costume…

#2. Peter

“I’m thinking of wearing an ape suit with pajamas, donning a nightcap, ala ‘Sleeping Monkey.’ ”

#3. Phorbesie

“Joy album cover: I am thinking (for a girl) a black dress, and cover a band across the front of it with marbles or some such thing…thickly clustered in the center and spreading outward just like on the Joy album cover. You could also write Joy on your forehead or something :)”

#4. Micah Whiteside

“In the words of George Costanza:

‘I would drape myself in velvet if it were socially acceptable.’

Well the time has come, the festival is located on the laid back left coast, it has to be socially acceptable to be covered in velvet at the ocho. Therefore, I will drape my body all in velvet and where chest high waders as I wade in the velvet sea…”

#5. Aaron

“A group of friends and I are going as ‘an angry mob of joggers coming up to knock her down’  “

#6. James Madsen

“My girl is ordering a Traffic Light Costume. I will be suited up like Mr. Slave from Southpark, complete with some black leather and a leash (but not too raunchy or uncomfortable!). Together, we make Slave to The Traffic Light.”

#7. Randy

“I’m going to pull off a cool pair of bell bottom wizard pants and some alistair crowley attire with a guitar and cello bow, some stationary, some pens and someone will write me,Jimmy Page, a letter!”

#8. Danfun

“I would re-wear a previous costume I made here is a image of it.

danfun

I guess you could say it is Mike Gordon costume. It also fits the theme of being in a desert.”

#9. Casey Ryback

If you give me the ticket I will dress up as Morgan Freeman, freckles and all. To make it Phish related I would wear a Phish shirt but with a blazer over it because Morgan Freeman is classy. I would take about Penguins and Andy Dufragne all night. “Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things.’ “

#10. Rick

Have a group costume here. “Boy, Man, God, shit” boy=childlike attire. Man=business suit. God=beard/robe. and shit=Mr. hankey custom. Gonna be SICK!!!!

Finally, we wanted to thank our loyal readers for putting in over 2,000 entries to our Phish Joy Box giveaway. We’re pleased to announce that entries from Bradford Elliott of Gansevoort, NY and Kyle Gilligan of New York, NY were picked at random. Congrats to Bradford and Kyle on each winning a copy of the Joy Box. Earlier today, our friends at Phish posted this video…

Scott Bernstein

Scott Bernstein co-founded Hidden Track in October 2006 and was managing editor until taking over as EiC in January 2008. Scotty also writes for Relix Magazine and curates YEMblog.com.

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