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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.uncut.co.uk/music/pixies/special_features/10210"][b]Uncut.co.uk.[/b][/url] [IMG]http://img112.imageshack.us/img112/803/bestgigs300807wqc9.jpg[/IMG] [b][font=Arial][size=3]UNCUT'S 50 BEST GIGS - EXTRA![/size=3][/font=Arial][/b] [font=Verdana]Pixies [size=1]Exclusive to Uncut.co.uk - more gigs - Today: Pixies and Throwing Muses[/size=1] In this month's [b]UNCUT[/b], our writers, friends and favourite musicians reminisce about their favourite gigs. The October issue, onsale now, features our best 50 - including [b]Jimi[/b], [b]U2[/b], [b]The Band[/b] and [b]Oasis[/b] - with rare photos from the shows too. Now here’s some more – we'll publish one everyday this month - including online exclusives on gigs by [url="http://www.uncut.co.uk/music/the_stone_roses/special_features/10203"][b]The Stone Roses[/b][/url], [b]Pixies[/b] and the [b]Beach Boys[/b], and[url="http://www.uncut.co.uk/music/the_rolling_stones/special_features/10200"][b]Stereophonics’ Kelly Jones[/b][/url] and [b]Babyshambles’ Adam Ficek[/b]'s favourite live memories too. --- [b]THROWING MUSES & PIXIES[/b] RAT CLUB, BOSTON December 6, 1986 CHRIS ROBERTS: So just two journalists fly to Boston with [b]4AD[/b] head Ivo Watts-Russell, who is signing this strange heavy metal band because his girlfriend likes them. Honestly, compared to the more typical 4AD fare of the classic era - lovely, floaty, ethereal stuff made by men in black and skinny women in long white frocks - [b]Pixies[/b]’ early tapes (that’s cassettes) sounded very heavy. The signing seemed incongruous. Really, I’m going to see [b]Throwing Muses[/b], who they’ll be supporting, because they’ve been our press darlings that year, their extraordinary debut a turbo-charged [b]Horses[/b] with a dash of Plath. But we’ll do our duty and humour Ivo by checking out the warm-up act. Thus making us the first hacks in the world to see them. Boston is a lovely city but the Rat Club (actually the Rathskeller Club, a fact which rock mythology has long since erased) is a toilet. Pixies come on. They are: [b]Charles Thompson[/b] (soon Black Francis), an Iggy fan who’s spent months broke in Puerto Rico studying Spanish and writing vivid lyrics; [b]Joey Santiago[/b], his room-mate, who’s rifled through the dictionary and plumped for “pixies” because it says “mischievous little elves”, and Mrs. John Murphy (soon [b]Kim Deal[/b]), who’s answered an ad, bringing her drummer friend [b]David Lovering[/b]. They’re not heavy metal. They play brilliantly structured, dynamic songs about religion, sex, incest and outer space. They roar. This is where I claim kudos for “discovering” them, right? Truth is I thought they were really strong, and wrote so, but maintained that the Muses were the more interesting, literate band. The fuse was lit, though; an avalanche ensued. Pixies were such great company (“What are you doing next, Kim?” “First I’m going to piss like a racehorse, then I’m going to dance like a black woman”) that I worried my verbiage was over-generous. I thought they were the second best band on a quality night, I didn’t realise they were going to alter the pulse and shape of rock music forever.[/font=Verdana] [/quote]   Check here to include your profile signature.