The Disco Biscuits Add Live Debut and Track Revival to Three-Set Gather Outdoors Performance
Over the weekend, The Disco Biscuits hiked to Stratton, Vt. to headline the inaugural Gather Outdoors. Onstage at Stratton Mountain’s base, the livetronica pioneers led the ski, music & arts festival with three sets that ran the range of their artistic inclinations, comprising one straight-ahead show and a second that was split between their Powered Down acoustic format and TRACTORBEAM trance-oriented electronic side-project.
On Saturday, April 11, The Disco Biscuits began their weekend on the slopes with a single set at sunset. Early in night one’s programming, the band set off their performance with an unexpected return to “Pat and Dex,” the tripartite centerpiece of their 1996 debut studio album, which they’d played last in April 2024 used as a show opener last back in 1998. The rest of their first frame was a non-stop thrill ride, including core cuts like “Spray Paint,” “Sound One” and “Lunar Pursuit” before a resounding last note with “One Chance To Save The World.”
The Disco Biscuits doubled the scope of Saturday’s kickoff on the following evening. The quartet stepped into the spotlight for an intimate acoustic set with “The Overture,” then turned in fine-tuned adaptations of “Once the Fiddler Paid,” “Shelby Rose,” “Abraxas,” “House Dog Party Favor” and the always crowd-pleasing “Little Shimmy in a Conga Line.” After a brief intermission, they pivoted hard into the electrifying TRACTORBEAM concept, interspersing selections from their repertoire with the hallmarks of EDM DJ sets and current hits from that genre. After an opener of the rarer original “Quad D,” the band put their spin on Chris Lorenzo and Kah-Lo’s “In This Bih’,” Charlotte de Witte’s “Hymn,” Max Dean, Luke Dean & Locky’s “Can’t Decide” and a live debut of Mau P’s 2026 house hit “Neck.” ”I Saw You Dancing, ” an unreleased DJ Brownie x Tractorbeam production, closed out the show.
The Disco Biscuits’ Gather Outdoors performances doubled as the outset for the next lap on their 2026 live itinerary, which will take them to San Diego, Calif.’s North Park Observatory next on April 16. They’ll proceed through 23 further stops before capping off their summer with a headline set at the Telluride Jazz Festival. Find tickets and more information at discobiscuits.com.
