| T O P I C R E V I E W |
| Haluo |
Posted - 09/07/2005 : 11:22:24
yes, it's true.
http://www.pixiesdiscs.com/archives/2005/09/the_eastern_cam.php
this is the best news for all the japanese friends who dissapointed at this summer's fes.
Frank, I'm preparing a BENTO untill the end of this year |
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| Rylan9037 |
Posted - 06/08/2006 : 18:29:35
quote:
Originally posted by therewererumours
You guys are getting a shit load of gigs, that are well deserved! On the thirty-first floor your gold-plated doorWon't keep out the Lord's burning rain
All this crazy talk about "burning".....it's insane...
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| Carl |
Posted - 12/09/2005 : 06:15:42
http://www.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/getarticle.pl5?fm20051209l1.htm
LISTENING POST
LIVE
The Pixies
By SUZANNAH TARTAN
Bono, Bowie, Kurt Cobain and Thom Yorke have all said that The Pixies are one of the most influential bands of the past two decades. But minutes before taking the stage for another sold-out show during the current Pixies reunion tour of Japan, leader Frank Black isn't having any of it.
"No, I don't hear it," he says commenting on the post-Pixies music scene, "though I can't say I've really listened either." He later concedes, however, that maybe some of The Pixies' albums "stand the test of time."
Judging by the delighted paroxyms of fans and critics that greeted news of The Pixies' reunion shows in 2004, 12 years after their break-up, the public agrees. So much of contemporary rock, or at least the interesting bits, owes something to the group's idiosyncratic mixing of surf rock guitar with darkly playful surrealistic lyrics, and their novel collision of noise and melody.
At their recent Tokyo show, the group displayed all of these facets, playing songs from throughout their brief, five-year recording career. The crowd was with them all the way from the darkly poetic "Nimrod's Son" (most unusual singalong lyric: "My sister whispered in my ear, you are the son of a motherf*@ker') and the fiercely anthemic "Holiday" to the over-the-top sweetness of "La La Love You."
If their music was a collision of opposites, "a potpourri" as Black describes it, so was their membership. Black is the moody, nervous intellectual of the group, penning the vast majority of the group's lyrics and belting out songs in a high-pitched, nasal yelp. Largely terse while performing (and a little large in the girth), he is a far cry from the usual rock hero material.
Joey Santiago's guitar, at turns slashing and twanging, is arguably the band's defining element. Drummer David Lovering, a magician when he is not on the road, is the "playful" one in the group, according to Black. While bassist Kim Deal, who plays with sister Kelly as The Breeders, is the cotton-candy voiced counterweight to Black's more neurotic persona.
"The biggest argument for Kim Deal, aside from her musical contribution, is that the audience loves her. She has a kind of charisma. I notice this much more now than before," says Black.
Indeed this tension between the four, arguably part of what made the band so unique, also ultimately helped lead to their eventual break-up in 1994.
"I didn't start the band with this knowledge, but with hindsight, I realized that the better bands, the better artists, tend to let their guard down more and let their personalities step forward no matter what it is," says Black.
The much-noted strain between Deal and Black was nowhere to be found at their recent Tokyo show. Black seemed happy to hang back and let Santiago and Deal -- who opened the show with the lovely David Lynch-penned Eraserhead theme song "In Heaven," and then closed it with "Gigantic," -- take the spotlight. Indeed once the group caught their groove during the middle of the 80-minute set, they played with the fluid tightness that belied their 12 year hiatus. "It really feels like we just took a short break," says Black.
The Pixies, Beat Crusaders and Mo'Some Tonebender will play at Studio Coast Tokyo on Dec. 11; doors open 5 p.m., start 6 p.m.; all tickets 7,000 yen. For more information, call (03) 5466-0777 or visit www.creativeman.co.jp.
The Japan Times: Dec. 9, 2005
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| mariggy |
Posted - 12/08/2005 : 07:46:56
Thanks Carl.
I've just come back. It was a great show. They played The Sad Punk!!
I was excited and I shouted and danced, so I've burnt out.
Now, I go to bed for tomorrow's show
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| Carl |
Posted - 12/08/2005 : 06:23:56
Enjoy the show mariggy, and Haluo too, if you're going to that show!!
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| mariggy |
Posted - 12/07/2005 : 20:12:51
Yes, number13. I love them. Luckily, The Sad Punk was performed in Hiroshima, I hear, so I hope for 'special gift'.
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| number 13 |
Posted - 12/07/2005 : 14:22:46
Hope they play Alec Eiffel and The Sad Punk too, they are rarely performed and would be a perfect gift for you, don't you think? |
| mariggy |
Posted - 12/07/2005 : 07:00:04
Finally it is my turn! Pixies comes to osaka tomorrow.
I'm so excited that I almost go mad.
Last year pixies came to Japan for the first time. At the end of their performance, FB said "MATANE". It means "See you again". Of course he is not a liar! Thanks FB!!
I hope they will play 'DANCING THE MANTA RAY'! My dream is to sing along loudly.
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| Carl |
Posted - 12/06/2005 : 22:36:21
Another ticket?! Wow, you lucky thing!
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| Haluo |
Posted - 12/06/2005 : 05:32:15
i totally agree with you, Carl. what a powerful sound they have! so thrilled.
I was literally a blown away. and i have another ticket .
"There's no need to fit in, when you're the alternative" -- j homme |
| Carl |
Posted - 12/06/2005 : 01:41:57
Yeah, they've played it a number of times, as far as I know-they played it when I saw them here in Dublin. Glad you enjoyed seeing them, Haluo, and it's nice to hear they visited that museum. It's certainly a thrill to see them live!! :)
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| Haluo |
Posted - 12/05/2005 : 22:55:00
Had they ever played a "The Sad Punk" since they reunited?
i don't know whether they had or not, but i do know when it comes to the city of hiroshima, i don't think there is more suitable city exist for playing that song.
according to mr. jake walker's blog (http://www.pixiesdiscs.com/archives/2005/12/peace.php), the band and their staff visited the peace memorial museum before the show. and i suppose this is related to why they chose the song on that night.
it was a very touching moment. i found myself being in sudden tears (no, this is not true. i had already cried at River Euphrates, a 2nd song!) and i cannot describe how i felt or what a great show that was .... in english .
so i want to say this very simple way, thank you, just thank you, pixies.
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| Carl |
Posted - 12/05/2005 : 20:20:48
Sounds like a unique show. Is'nt it the highest honour in Japan for an audience to remain completely silent at the end of show?! Obviously, that did'nt happen, although I suppose it was a rock gig!
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| Etienne |
Posted - 12/05/2005 : 17:28:31
Tokyo, Dec 5th
Tentative Setlist
Gouge away
Ed is dead
Crackity Jones
Debaser
Tame
I bleed
Is she weird
Monkey gone to heaven
Here comes your man
Where is my mind
Planet of sound
UMASS
Vamos
No 13
Broken face
Bone machine
Into the white
Gigantic
Lady in the radiator song
Winterlong
Caribou
La la love you
Wave of mutilation (UK surf)
Hey
Mr Grieves
River Euphrates ???
The Japanese crowd was far more gentle than European crowds : gentle moshing, no crowd surfing... It's not that the crowd was too quiet : the audience reacted, danced, jumped but without disturbing each other.
Frank and Co did a few jokes on stage, for example a kind of theater play before the "encore" : they pretended they could not play anymore because one of David's fingers was a little painful... then David had the idea to kiss his finger then it was OK ! So overplayed, so funny !!
Etienne |
| Etienne |
Posted - 12/04/2005 : 22:37:01
Hi everyone
Since I have now the chance to live in Japan, I will go to the show tonight (Dec 5th) in Tokyo... Who else will come ? 日本人へお知らせ：私は背が高いフランス人です。
I will try to post comments afterwards.
NB : This is the 4th country in which I see the Pixies.
Etienne
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| number 13 |
Posted - 12/04/2005 : 04:05:35
Thanks for the info. Hope we'll get the next ones. |
| Carl |
Posted - 12/03/2005 : 17:51:53
These links were posted on PIXIESMUSIC.COM.
http://www.pixiesdiscs.com/blog.php
http://jakewalker.typepad.com/photos/pixiesjapan/
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| mariggy |
Posted - 12/03/2005 : 17:38:06
hello.I found the setlist in Japanese board.
Fukuoka, Dec.,3rd
01.Bone Machine
02.Crckity Jones
03.Something Aginst You
04.Cactus
05.Mr.Greives
06.Gouge Away
07.Head On
08.U-Mass
09.In Heaven
10.Wave Of Mutilation(UK Surf)
11.Where Is My Mind?
12.Nimrod's Son
13.La La Love You
14.Here Comes Your Man
15.#13 Baby
16.Planet Of Sound
17.Wave Of Mutilation
18.Is She Weird
19.Subbacultcha
20.Blown Away
21.Winterlong
22.Tame
23.Hey
24.I Bleed
25.Debaser
[Encore]
26.Vamos
27.Gigantic
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| number 13 |
Posted - 12/03/2005 : 13:24:36
So, what about the first live show? Any setlist yet? |
| Carl |
Posted - 12/01/2005 : 08:48:35
http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/dy/features/arts/20051201TDY14001.htm
Return of 'stupid little Boston band' the Pixies
Frank Spignese / Special to The Daily Yomiuri
When the reunited Pixies took the stage at another rain-drenched Fuji Rock in summer 2004, one couldn't help but feel that the audience wasn't grasping the full significance of what was about to happen. The band was welcomed with the same respectful applause that had greeted P.J. Harvey and Lou Reed, but a far more monumental reception was deservedly in order.
The Pixies had gotten back together. Only Joe Strummer crawling out of his grave and reforming the Clash could have overshadowed this most unlikely of rock 'n' roll reconciliations. The animosity between lead man Frank Black and bassist Kim Deal is legendary. Black was on such bad terms with the rest of the Pixies at the end of their doomed 1992 tour that he broke up the band via fax.
At the peak of their fame, opening for U2 at stadiums across the United States and riding the about-to-break '90s grunge rock wave, they called it quits. They would never get a chance to reap the benefits of the music that they themselves had planted.
In Gouge, a recent Pixies documentary, David Bowie says that everyone who heard them back in those days day formed their own band. Bono goes on to claim that Black is one of the most gifted American songwriters of all time.
But where they really left their mark was on the alterative revolution that dominated '90s music. Everyone from Helmet to Blur aped a bit of the band's nerd-rock aura. Radiohead frontman Tom Yorke only agreed to play last year's Coachella Festival after learning that the Pixies were also on the bill. Most famously, Kurt Cobain confessed that "Smells Like Teen Spirit," with its quiet/loud, whisper/scream dynamic, was a complete Pixies rip-off.
This "stupid little band in Boston" (as Deal once referred to them) lay claim to something that few groups can: they invented their own genre. They made Pixies music. They mixed surf rock, Beatlesque harmonies and ear-bleeding thrash all inside head-spinning songs that were often over before you knew they had begun. This, coupled with Black wailing away about incest, UFOs, death, the Old Testament, masturbation and water pollution, made for one heady brew.
Those who missed out the first time around can see what all the fuss is about when they hit Japan next week. They're promoting a new live DVD, Pixies Sell Out, which finds them in fine form.
Rumors abound that they will soon be reentering the studio to record again. So far the only new material to come from the reunited Pixies has been a track on a Warren Zevon tribute album and a Deal song, recorded (but rejected) for the Shrek 2 soundtrack.
In an interview with Salon.com, Black spoke about not being able to milk the reunion meal ticket forever.
"What does a band do?" he asked. "They go out on tour and then if they feel they have to make it or continue to make their mark, they go and write music and record it. We're not really in that mode, because right now we're just playing the old songs and getting paid lots of money for it."
Their set at Fuji Rock was a ferocious affair, kicking off with a crushing version of "Bone Machine" and steamrolling forward nonstop. The majority of tunes came from their early classics, Surfer Rosa and Doolittle, but two fan faves from their later discs, "U-Mass" and "Velouria," were also rocked out.
Black looked a bit stockier and the detoxed Deal was without her trademark lit cigarette; otherwise they didn't appear much different than they did back in 1992.
They didn't move then and they don't move now. The Pixies don't have to, they just play.
One tangible difference was their easy air on stage. Deal was smiling from ear to ear the entire show, hamming it up with her old nemesis Black.
Guitarist Joy Santiago flubbed the beginning to "Debaser" and Black made a joke about it. A similar mistake made back in the early '90s would have been greeted with a hurled instrument.
The kinder, gentler Black verified the possibility of a new album in a recent interview with VH1.
"I haven't removed enough Kim Deal compositions yet" he half-joked. "We'll have a fight about that or something. And, of course, in the end I will dominate."
Pixies will play Dec. 3, 6 p.m. at Drum Logos in Fukuoka, (092) 714-0159; Dec. 4, 6 p.m. at Club Quattro in Hiroshima, (082) 249-3571; Dec. 5-6, 7 p.m. at Zepp in Tokyo, (03) 5466-0777; Dec. 8, 7 p.m. at Zepp in Osaka, (06) 6233-8888; Dec. 9, 7 p.m. at Zepp in Nagoya, (052) 320-9100.
(Dec. 1, 2005) |
| Carl |
Posted - 11/29/2005 : 09:13:41
quote:
Originally posted by Haluo
by the way, i must say this in behalf of all the FUGU in japan, they are much more cute! what is that purple skin and glare-looking eye? they are so cute that we tend to eat them very easily (contrary to Daisy Girl's view) -- and, as a result, we could die easily .
Konichiwa, Haluo! When I Googled for those Simpson's pics, I saw the word Fugu! They're from the episode One Fish, Two Fish, Blow Fish, Blue Fish. Have you ever seen the episode where they go to Japan? They have epileptic seisures watching a cartoon called Battling Seisure Robots!!
My brother used to eat tofu when he was a vegan (and probably still does), I'm not sure if I've tasted it before. And I've never had Sushi! Or sake. I don't recall the word karoshi, but I do know karaoke!
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| Haluo |
Posted - 11/29/2005 : 06:28:45
thanks billgoodman! i cannot wait to sing along them and have fun.
Carl, i suppose they are snippets from famous US TV show "The Simpsons".
i didn't know that the word "FUGU" makes sense to you, as well as TOFU, SUSHI, and KAROSHI (work hard until you die).
by the way, i must say this in behalf of all the FUGU in japan, they are much more cute! what is that purple skin and glare-looking eye? they are so cute that we tend to eat them very easily (contrary to Daisy Girl's view) -- and, as a result, we could die easily.
cheers.
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| Daisy Girl |
Posted - 11/28/2005 : 19:47:31
blowfish (the actual fish) are too cute to be eaten. |
| Carl |
Posted - 11/28/2005 : 16:22:03
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| billgoodman |
Posted - 11/28/2005 : 04:12:59
have fun Haluo, ''have a poison'', a bit of an understatement,
if you eat it, you'll die.
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| Haluo |
Posted - 11/28/2005 : 03:07:05
more details of an added date.
it seems they plan for some special features on december 11th gig.
they call it "Pixies Tribute -Alive- ", and aside from the Pixies, they list two japanese bands, BEAT CRUSADERS and MO'SOME TONEBENDER, who definitely respect the band.
According to the BEAT CRUSADERS' official web site, both of them took part in the album called "tribute to the PIXIES" in 2000. i don't know them even a name, but i think it sounds fun.
and floop, sorry for my poor english made you confusing.
you need at least ﾂ･7,500 to watch a show. ticket price ﾂ･7000 + drink charge ﾂ･500. they don't care whether you are thirsty or not, you just have to buy a drink when you get to the venue. and that has no relation to a limit.
i have no idea why they are not willing to take all that money (ticket+drink) simultaneously, but that is what they have declared on their web site.
anyway, we have a week left. i'm so excited.
frank, kim, joey, david, i'm proud to welcome you to japan and i wish you guys enjoy our country as well as foods.
in Osaka, why don't you try a globefish. have you ever eaten a FUGU (globefish in Japanese)? so delicious, so expensive. although they have a poison (very bad one), it's still worth a try.
繧医≧縺薙◎譌･譛ｬ縺ｸｼ
"There's no need to fit in, when you're the alternative" -- j homme |
| rrrich |
Posted - 11/20/2005 : 11:05:45
nah, a lot of japanese shows have you buy a drink ticket on entry for 500 yen so it's probably the same. i never went to a gig with a drink limit, so i imagine you just have to buy some in advance.
ザ：ピクシーズ。。。 |
| floop |
Posted - 11/19/2005 : 14:08:49
quote:
Originally posted by Haluo
i've already got two night tickets and both of them are relatively easy to get.
so i started some kind of worrying that if the venue would be filled up or not.
but i think this must be a good news that they decided to add the date. thanks rrrich.
here is the information from creativeman.co.jp (some explanations are added by haluo)
quote:
12/11ｼ域律:Sunｼ画?ｱ莠ｬ(:TOKYO)縲STUDIO COAST
OPEN 17:00 / START 18:00
TICKET ｿ･7,000-(遞Z<caron>霎ｼ:tax included/ALL STANDING/1DRINK蛻･:You need another ﾂ･500 drink fee at the venue on compulsion. and if you don't have money besides a ticket, you must go home, i think.)
INFOｼs<caron>Creativeman縲03-5466-0777
"There's no need to fit in, when you're the alternative" -- j homme
so there's like a 2 drink minimum? forget it. i'm not going!
i don't get it |
| Haluo |
Posted - 11/19/2005 : 13:24:13
i've already got two night tickets and both of them are relatively easy to get.
so i started some kind of worrying that if the venue would be filled up or not.
but i think this must be a good news that they decided to add the date. thanks rrrich.
here is the information from creativeman.co.jp (some explanations are added by haluo)
quote:
12/11ｼ域律:Sunｼ画擲莠ｬ(:TOKYO)縲STUDIO COAST
OPEN 17:00 / START 18:00
TICKET ｿ･7,000-(遞手ｾｼ:tax included/ALL STANDING/1DRINK蛻･:You need another ﾂ･500 drink fee at the venue on compulsion. and if you don't have money besides a ticket, you must go home, i think.)
INFOｼ咾reativeman縲03-5466-0777
"There's no need to fit in, when you're the alternative" -- j homme |
| nachoso |
Posted - 11/17/2005 : 08:40:13
porfavor, please!!the pixies must come to chile, itll be a sold out, thousands of people are waiting since the 80`s!!!vengaaaaaaaaa...................
mmmm.... |
| rrrich |
Posted - 11/15/2005 : 23:57:24
yeh theres been trouble with the link for some reason- it just goes to the venue's website. go to creativeman.co.jp (the tour promotor) for info on how to get tickets. if youre in japan just go to lawson's or call PIA.
ザ：ピクシーズ。。。 |
| Carl |
Posted - 11/14/2005 : 13:47:24
That link is blank, rrrich, don't know what's up with it.
That's my birthday. Hint. ;)
"I seem to have rejoined the cult of FB.Net!"
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| rrrich |
Posted - 11/13/2005 : 04:25:07
more info!
probably due to the popularity of the show, another gig was added in tokyo on december 11th with tickets going on sale saturday 19th november. it's at studio coast: http://www.studio-coast.com/
ザ：ピクシーズ。。。 |
| Daisy Girl |
Posted - 09/09/2005 : 22:52:07
quote:
Originally posted by kathryn
*wonders to self how insane it would be to check out flights to tokyo*
Sometimes, no matter how shitty things get, you have to just do a little dance. - Frank
hhmm? maybe we can start checking the travel deals online.
seriously though, have fun japan!
wow, this is so cool they seriously ARE going all over the world!
"I ain't goin to be what I ain't" |
| rrrich |
Posted - 09/09/2005 : 09:25:43
it's surprising that the places they are playing are so small. i imagined theyd play much bigger venues, but cant complain with the pixies in clubs. should be amazing tour. im just pissed that ive moved home to the uk now so i wont get to go. ill have some friends going tho so ill get pictures.
ザ：ピクシーズ。。。 |
| Carl |
Posted - 09/09/2005 : 08:04:36
quote:
Originally posted by kathryn
*wonders to self how insane it would be to check out flights to tokyo*
I'd love to go to Japan.....to see The Pixies in one those cool little intimate bars would be the chery on a dream-come-true cake!! |
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