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Screensize: 640 x 480 800 x 600 1024 x 768 1280 x 1024 UserName: Password: Format Mode: Basic  Help  Prompt  Format: Font Andale Mono Arial Arial Black Book Antiqua Century Gothic Comic Sans MS Courier New Georgia Impact Lucida Console Script MT Bold Stencil Tahoma Times New Roman Trebuchet MS Verdana   Size 1 2 3 4 5 6   Color Black Red Yellow Pink Green Orange Purple Blue Beige Brown Teal Navy Maroon LimeGreen Message: * HTML is OFF * Forum Code is ON Smilies [quote][i]Originally posted by Carl[/i] [br][url]http://www.manchesteronline.co.uk/entertainment/music/indieandrock/s/171/171349_the_pixies_get_frank_.html[/url] [b]manchester music indie & rock Email to a Friend | Your comments Friday, 26th August 2005 The Pixies get Frank Kevin Bourke[/b] DAVID Bowie and Bono love them - "I found it just about the most compelling music of the whole eighties," opined Dame David, while Bono simply says they are "one of America's greatest ever bands". Kurt Cobain loved them so much that he essentially ripped them off wholesale, although he did have the good grace to admit "I should have been in that band, or at least a Pixies cover band" and it's hard to imagine what Radiohead would have sounded like had Thom Yorke never heard them. But the Pixies seemed destined to be one of the great "could have been" stories of modern rock, having split spectacularly acrimoniously at the beginning of the nineties. Then, to everyone's utter astonishment they reformed in 2004 to play a series of shows that were not so much common-or-garden gigs as delirious scenes of rejoicing at the Second Coming. The world, it seems, is finally ready for the Pixies. But are they ready for the world? "It just comes flooding back," says Charles Thompson, aka Black Francis, who also has a new solo album to tout, recorded in Nashville with some of the legendary Muscle Shoals musicians. "I'm very happy to be with these people (Kim Deal, Joey Santiago and Dave Lovering) again. I forgot how much I liked this. "There was some apologising, some hugs," he matter-of-factly says of the most-unexpected band reunion this side of The Beatles. "It's not like it was in the beginning when people were going mental and freaking out in drunken mayhem. "Nowadays people just stand there watching. It's definitely quieter, almost respectful. And as you play the more popular songs, you expect that everyone in the audience will know the lyrics inside out and sing along." [b]Pixies play the Apollo on Tuesday, August 30. Tickets are sold out. Call the Box Office on 0870 060 1768 or click here to check for returns.[/b] Submit your comments View comments (1 comment 29/08/2005 at 20:50) [b]Related stories[/b] Apollo landing for Pixies (21/07/2005) [b]Links to other web sites[/b] Pixies Apollo Buy their greatest hits from Amazon, here [b]© Copyright 2005 Manchester Evening News. If you wish to use this article for commercial purposes please contact our syndication department.[/b] [IMG]http://img338.imageshack.us/img338/6264/c17articles171349bodywebdetail.jpg[/IMG] [b]Pixies frontman Frank Black[/b] [/quote]   Check here to include your profile signature.