How good are the Pixies????

[Guest TK-421]

No chance. I'm a soul boy - always have been, always will be.

 

Well if it's soul you're after maybe give The Constantines a whirl. They describe their own (rock) music as soul because it gets you; right there.

 

*clenches fist and pumps it against heart*

Edited October 16, 2008 by TK421

[hamstrung]

Arcade Fire always remind me of Talking Heads too.

[Soleilrouge]

Just heard the pixies are gonna tour this year. Tickets out Friday for a gig in dublin in October. Last time they played Dublin I was getting married that day and could not attend - a bad day all round then. For the few uninitiated please see linko below for the greatets rock and roll band that the planet has seen.

 

[rondeco]

It's to mark the 20th anniversary of Dolittle. Great album but possibly not their best!

[Yerma'satexan!]

YES!!!!!!!! I just got me a ticket, face value £25, for the Pixies in Brixton on 9th October. Get in! Seen them 4 years ago at Leeds Festival, this will be a bit more special with just a few thousand people.

[rondeco]

Their dublin gigs sold out in 4 minutes.

[Thants]

Was going to go but was 2 days late.

[Xherdan]

Their dublin gigs sold out in 4 minutes.

 

 

 

Remind me what dates the dublin gigs are mate.

[INTORRESTING]

saw them at V in 2004 and they were amazing, the line up in 2004 was mental

[The Golden Eel]

One of my mates was going to have "Gigantic" played as the first song at his wedding - doh!

[Soleilrouge]

two tickets to the gig on wednesday have just een placed in my hand

 

does life get any better than this I ask you

 

Oh yeah - I'm taking Rosie Webster to dinner tonight

[Faustus]

Bump.

 

I was mooching around in HMV the other day and spotted a gem of a bargain. Picked up a copy of the book 'Fool The World' for £3. Basically, it's a history of the band with input from the four members and those closest to them. I'm properly engrossed in it. I wasn't keen on the structure at first, because it's block upon block of various people having their say at different parts of the book and it takes a bit of getting used to, but it's a great read once you get into it.

 

What an amazing band. I've got the urge to blast them out through my speakers.

[WaltonRed]

I personally dont get them one bit

[Fugitive]

Will have to have a look for that book. I absolutely love them.

[razor]

I'll have a go on that book, too. Great, great band, and one of the few bands I'm interested in reading about due to the members being, well, interesting.

[Faustus]

Link to the book on amazon, lads:

 

Fool the World: The Oral History of a Band Called "Pixies": Amazon.co.uk: Josh Frank, Caryn Ganz: Books

[Guest ian garro]

Being an artistic sort of a swine, I was flicking through the TV Guide thingy, on the goldmine that is Sky Arts 1, last night, before I went to bed, when I saw The Pixies Acoustic at the Newport Folk Festival, was on at 3am this morning. So, it got Sky +d, and it's fucking ace. Absolutely brilliant.

 

There's one on tonight at 9pm, The Pixies live at Eurockeenes.

 

You're welcome.

[King Emlyn]

Very

[King Emlyn]

Arcade Fire always remind me of Talking Heads too.

As well they might, some of their stuff is a virtual carbon copy.

[Fugitive]

It's times like these that I regret fucking Sky off.

[King Emlyn]

Goddamn pies got to the lovely Kim in a big way.

[Guest ian garro]

She has a touch of the Claire Short, about her.

 

For that reason, I'm out

[Vincent Vega]

Something to look forward to. Let's hope Frank Black has been storing up some belters.

 

The Pixies set to record new material | Music | guardian.co.uk

 

The Pixies set to record new material

 

Once current tour finishes, two decades after the release of their last album, 'it'll be time', says guitarist

 

Sean Michaels guardian.co.uk,

Monday 2 May 2011 11.22 BST

Article history

 

When their tour is finished, the Pixies want to make a new album. "We gotta plan to make something new," drummer David Lovering explained in a recent interview. Two decades after the release of their album Trompe Le Monde, the rock legends have fans who weren't even born the last time they released a record. "We're gonna wear out our welcome soon enough," Lovering said. Besides, even Bono is hassling them.

 

The Pixies split in 1993 and reunited in 2004, and the past seven years have been marked by constant gigging. "We were happy to just tour, and it's been non-stop because people want to see us," Lovering told Spinner. Although the band have been talking about a new album "for years", Lovering admitted, "nothing's come to fruition" – allegedly due to the reluctance of bassist Kim Deal.

 

But things seem to be changing. When this tour is finished, suggested guitarist Joey Santiago, "it'll be time". "Making a record will be in the forefront ... We've definitely gelled as a unit and hopefully when we can all bury the hatchet – and we have – maybe we'll go in there and hope for the best."

 

The Pixies still have "friction", Santiago acknowledged, though he and Lovering aren't really the problem. "If there were two people to pick ... it would probably be the other two [laughs]." But the musicians claim that even Kim Deal and Frank Black can probably be convinced. "Who knows once we get in there?" Santiago said. "I think that makes good music. [The Kinks'] Ray Davies, you know, beating up his little brother, [laughs] that friction, we've always kind of used it. Like, 'Oh yeah? Screw you, we're gonna play'. That little angst, it's good."

 

Besides, it isn't just 18-year-old fans clamouring for a sixth LP: the frontman of U2 has been tugging at the Pixies' sleeves. "Bono even asked," Santiago said. "Remember that? He's like, 'Please make a record!' Goddamn, we can't leave that unturned. That would frustrate me. It would. I think we should do it. But it's up to everybody."

 

The Pixies complete their Doolittle tour in Victoria, Canada on 5 May .

[Paul]

Woo-hoo!!!

[Gym Beglin]

I saw them live at Reading in 05 as well, it was probably the best thing I've seen live. Love them. For XBOX'ers, there was a live set available on Zune not long back, which I bought and is now stored on my machine which I watch now and then to remind me of how fat and class Frank is.