Dead Polish Phish

Dead Polish Phish

United States · 2 upcoming shows

BassDowntempo & ExperimentalIndie & Alt Electronic

Heads up: this is a billing rather than a standalone act. 'Dead Polish Phish' is how the Nectar Lounge run is advertised, and it combines two separate side projects by The Polish Ambassador (David Sugalski, the Bay Area producer headlining both nights) - 'Dead Polish', which reworks the Grateful Dead catalogue, and 'Polish Phish', which does the same for Phish. Both take the source material into dance territory rather than jam-band territory, spanning disco, funk, drum and bass, deep house and dark trance while keeping the original lyrics; Polish Phish grew out of a Sugalski remix of 'Ghost' that pulled 300,000 views in a day, and he began programming the covers as separate shows so as not to crowd out his own productions. The 'Dead Polish, Vol. 1' album arrived in July 2025. The Seattle dates are the two Nectar Lounge nights on November 13 and 14.

Popularity

Unrated

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Top songs

  1. Shakedown Street
  2. Ripple
  3. Franklin's Tower
  4. China Cat Sunflower

Upcoming shows

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Sample data - the project is too new and too niche for a real body of opinion, and what exists is press rather than audience voice. Westword reported that three consecutive Polish Phish nights at Denver's Ophelia's Electric Soapbox each sold out inside 48 hours and called the shows 'wildly unique', and Grateful Web covered a sold-out Ophelia's date in January 2026. That is demand, not consensus. Neither 'Dead Polish Phish' nor The Polish Ambassador has a LiveRate page.

Gathered 2026-08-23 (low confidence) from thepolishambassador.bandcamp.com, westword.com, news.google.com, musicbrainz.org, liverate.com, thepolishambassador.com

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