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Pixies

Anyone else going to see the Pixies on their current tour (or seen them since they reformed)?

I'm going on Friday and I don't normally do the 'back together' tours.  Am I destined for disappointment or a pleasant surprise?
Mrs John Murphy

Tough call. Black Francis can't bellow like he used to.

Did you ever see them the first time round?
grrr

I saw them at Crystal Palace but it was a bit rubbish - they were a long way away.  

Brixton will be better from that perspective.  I find it a bit sad seeing pictures of bands Velvet Underground as middle aged rockers, I guess at least the Pixies never looked very young.
Spoo

Seen them a couple of times since they reformed at Move festival in Manchester just after the reformation and at a very cold, wet and windy Meadowbank during Edinburgh Festival a couple of years back.

I'm not old enough to have seen them originally so its great to get the chance, thought they were really good, MJMs right hes not quite got the same bellow but he gives it a good go.
grrr

thanks - I'm looking forward to it now!
cardinal guzman

T'Pixies were a favourite of my formative years behind the Stone Roses. Saw them loads first time round including Reading, Brixton and worst of all due to the rain - Crystal Palace.

I don't do come back tours, I've moved on plus I'd only go to a gig where I got a chair these days.
Morstar

cardinal guzman wrote:
T'Pixies were a favourite of my formative years behind the Stone Roses. Saw them loads first time round including Reading, Brixton and worst of all due to the rain - Crystal Palace.

I don't do come back tours, I've moved on plus I'd only go to a gig where I got a chair these days.

Never actually saw them. I was present and just about feeling human after some over indulgence at Reading. Spent the set somewhere near the back of the arena, flat on my back, staring at a beautiful starry sky.
Sounded good though.

As for gigs with seats. Going to my first gig with a seat soon. Green day of all bands!
Tempted to take a flask and blanket just to complete the oldest swinger in town affect.
maffy

probably still well worth seeing. i looked seriously at the first comeback tour, but they sold out really quickly and were really expensive.

saw them twice in't big smoke back in the day ('90), but missed out on more opportune seeings in toon in 88, 89 and 90. shame. they were good at the hammyodeon, and prolly better at the academy or wherever it was the following night that i remember not very much whatsoever about... always best not to remember much about the really good gigs. mmm seats. damn, there's a steve earle ticket. has any pixie released anything useful in the last couple of years?

plus, y'know, looking at pixies wasn't the point. apart from thinking "fairly normal looking people making unexpected noise"
Mrs John Murphy

My impression is that the Pixies aren't trying to reproduce the band that they were 20 years ago (unlike some), listening to them live now compared to then, most of the songs have been slowed down slightly.

Also, the Pixies were never a visual band in the way Nirvana were.

There were rumours he was into field hockey players
grrr

Mrs John Murphy wrote:
most of the songs have been slowed down slightly.


I know how they feel.

Mrs John Murphy wrote:
There were rumours he was into field hockey players


Really?  I'm amazed
Mrs John Murphy

He was gone the next day. He was gone. They were so quiet about it and then the next thing you know...
cardinal guzman

- the Pixies weren't even a visual band in the way Sonic Youth were.

I spent the entire peformance at Reading as the colonists would say 'making out' near the front assisted by ms Deal's bass rolling right through me. Best gig I never saw.

I am an andalusian dog.
Mrs John Murphy

I think the Pixies aren't trying to re-create 1990. Although I have resisted going to see them for fear of being disappointed.

Anyway


Link


They still seemed to have it in 2004. Fuck me though - how much weight has Black Francis put on?

CG - was your love, rice, beans and horses lard?
ventoux

5 star review in today's Guardian....

Quote:
The last time the Pixies came to Brixton it was for their run of tear-inducing 2004 reunion shows. Returning five years later for another four-night stint, this time they're celebrating the 20th birthday of Doolittle, the album that, following the uncompromising indie of Surfer Rosa, won them breakthrough success and sowed the seeds of the band's demise.

But tonight was more than just a slap on the back and quick wallow in nostalgia. Much of the crowd is younger than the album they're here to hear played in its entirety, and they watch a five-minute clip of Salvador Dalí and Luis Buñuel's 1929 surrealist classic Un Chien Andalou with unsettled awe.

The Pixies play B-sides Dancing the Mantra Ray and Weird At My School in the dark. "Some of these we've, like, played five times ever," Kim Deal says. Yet the songs are so fresh that when the lights come up for Doolittle's opening track Debaser, it's a shock to see four middle-aged figures on stage.

When they play, however, the years fall away. The raw shriek of Tame, the wired folk of Mr Grieves and the haunting emptiness of Silver are reminders of Doolittle's eclectic brevity. Throw in the anthemic Hey and Gouge Away, and the Pixies' third album starts to sound like a greatest hits package.

Footage of band members listening to Here Comes Your Man is a fun accompaniment to the live version. A slowed-down Wave of Mutilation proves a warm encore, but during Into the White, the dry-ice machine goes into overdrive, obscuring the band completely.

"We're not meant to be doing these!" protests Deal playfully when the band appear for a second encore. But the unholy trinity of Bone Machine, U-Mass and Gigantic provide a very special ending to a timeless revival.
grrr

eeeek - I'm all excited about tonight!

I'll have to see if I can post some shaky mobile phone footage with appaling sound quality at some point.
ventoux

grrr wrote:
eeeek - I'm all excited about tonight!

I'll have to see if I can post some shaky mobile phone footage with appaling sound quality at some point.


...and I'll make a mental note not to view it....  Wink
Mrs John Murphy

So how was it?
grrr

It was great.

It's only the second time I've been to one of these 'play a whole album' gigs and it was good to hear tracks that would usually be missing from a 'greatest hits' set.

It was worrying to know that my crush on Kim is so easily re-activated.  It seemed to me that she and David Lovering were having the most fun.

Downside for me was that we only had tickets for upstairs - pretty much where the person who shot this was standing:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FoYBFsKxQK0
Mrs John Murphy

It is pretty impressive that she can re-activate your crush from so far away.

No stage diving from you then?
grrr

Mrs John Murphy wrote:
It is pretty impressive that she can re-activate your crush from so far away.


Maybe the distance a pre-requisite.

I certainly look better from that kind of distance these days.

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