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Ziggy
* Dog in the Sand *

United Kingdom
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Posted - 08/09/2005 :  04:45:23  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
Ha, I wish they could add footage from this year! The supposed 'B sides' and all that.
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benji
> Teenager of the Year <

New Zealand
3426 Posts

Posted - 08/14/2005 :  18:32:50  Show Profile  Visit benji's Homepage  Reply with Quote
here is the full setlist of the original tv broadcast.
seems like they're cutting out no. 13 baby, cairbou, nimrod's son and debaser.
but then again, they've got bone machine twice, so no certainty on the setlist for the official release. lets hope they include them all.
and here's the link for the discussion about the show when it was sown on frnch digital tv and recorded and distributed by davechapman. it's going to be tough for the official release to surpass daves' recording, which is mindblowing.
the extras will be cool tho.
http://forum.frankblack.net/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=9424

1-wave of mutilation (uk surf)
2-in heaven
3-something against you
4-river euphrates
5-u-mass
6-bone machine
7-cactus
8-ed is dead
9-i bleed
10-monkey gone to heaven
11-hey
12-n.13 baby
13-levitate me
14-subbacultcha
15-dead
16-gouge away
17-velouria
18-caribou
19-mr. grieves
20-crackity jones
21-broken face
22-isla de encanta
23-tame
24-here comes your man
25-nimrod's son
26-holiday song
27-where is my mind?
28-vamos

29-wave of mutilation
30-debaser
31-gigantic





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Carl
- A 'Fifth' Catholic -

Ireland
11546 Posts

Posted - 08/15/2005 :  02:58:44  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
I hope a mistake has been made, and they're not cutting songs out!
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billgoodman
>> Denizen of the Citizens Band <<

Netherlands
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Posted - 08/16/2005 :  02:26:11  Show Profile  Click to see billgoodman's MSN Messenger address  Reply with Quote
this is the eurorockenees dvd right? the dvd that was leaked a year ago?
that is a great show!


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benji
> Teenager of the Year <

New Zealand
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Posted - 08/16/2005 :  06:38:49  Show Profile  Visit benji's Homepage  Reply with Quote
that is indeed the one, and yes, it it is indeed a fantastic show.


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Carl
- A 'Fifth' Catholic -

Ireland
11546 Posts

Posted - 08/30/2005 :  14:29:16  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/news/05-08/29.shtml

Pixies Announce Details of Live Reunion DVD

Matt Amis reports:

Somewhere amid the summer of 2003, rumors began to swirl about a Pixies Reunion. A Pixies Reunion! Remember how excited you were? How excited we were? The tour dates began to trickle out...and then, they began to barrel out. Eight months of touring (and still going, mind you) jaded us a little bit. News broke about a stand-alone Pixies "best of" compilation CD/DVD, Waves of Mutilation, as well as the limited-edition live CDRs-- available for sale just 15 minutes after each concert. A pretty vast array of consumables, all things considered, and the stacks of merch are soon to rise a bit higher with the addition of a live DVD.

On September 20, Rhino Home Video will release The Pixies Sell Out: a concert DVD (as well as a delightful play on words) taken mostly from a July 3, 2004, performance in Belfort, France. The disc will also feature bonus material including footage from the Pixies' hefty 2004 festival slate, including Coachella, the Austin City Limits, and the New Orleans Voodoo Fest. Full tracklisting for The Pixies Sell Out is:

>> [Taken from Belfort, France]
01 Bone Machine
02 Wave Of Mutilation
03 In Heaven
04 Something Against You
05 River Euphrates
06 U-Mass
07 Bone Machine
08 Cactus
09 Ed Is Dead
10 I Bleed
11 Monkey Gone To Heaven
12 Hey
13 Levitate Me
14 Subbacultcha
15 Dead
16 Gouge Away
17 Velouria
18 Mr. Grieves
19 Crackity Jones
20 Broken Face
21 Isla De Encanta
22 Tame
23 Here Comes Your Man
24 The Holiday Song
25 Where Is My Mind?
26 Vamos
27 Wave of Mutilation
28 Gigantic

>> [Bonus performances]
01 Caribou (Coachella Festival)
02 Here Comes Your Man (Move Festival)
03 Debaser (T In The Park Festival)
04 Gigantic (Coachella Festival)
05 U-Mass (Lowell Mass Festival)
06 Crackity Jones (Fuji Rock Festival)
07 Nimrod's Son (Fuji Rock Festival)
08 The Holiday Song (Fuji Rock Festival)
09 Subbacultcha (Austin Festival)
10 Vamos (Austin Festival)
11 No. 13 Baby (Lowell Festival)
12 Planet Of Sound (Voodoo Festival)
13 Is She Weird? (Lowell Festival)
14 Into The White (Coachella Festival)
15 Where Is My Mind? (Move Festival)
16 Monkey Gone To Heaven (Move Festival)

As previously reported, frontman Frank Black continues to hint toward new Pixies material, telling NME, "We don't want to overstay our welcome in terms of performing under the banner of a reunion...So I suppose one way to accomplish that is to work on some new material." Naturally, no specific information has been disclosed at this time. For now, the group will wrap up a UK trip, having just completed sets at the Reading and Leeds festivals. Dates:

08-30 Manchester, England - Carling Apollo
08-31 London, England - Alexandra Palace
09-01 London, England - Alexandra Palace
10-01 Brooklyn, NY - Keyspan Park

* Pitchfork Review: Pixies: Wave of Mutilation: The Best of the Pixies / Pixies DVD
* Pitchfork News: Frank Black Hints at New Pixies LP
* Pixies Music [unofficial]: http://www.pixiesmusic.com/

Wow, less than a month to wait for this now!
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fbc
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United Kingdom
4903 Posts

Posted - 08/30/2005 :  14:59:36  Show Profile  Visit fbc's Homepage  Reply with Quote
Pixies DVD is all good. I know i'll buy it. Course I will.

But thank frank i have my dvd of the bossanova tour. Now that's a live performance.
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Carl
- A 'Fifth' Catholic -

Ireland
11546 Posts

Posted - 08/30/2005 :  15:08:48  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
A bootleg?
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fbc
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United Kingdom
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Posted - 08/30/2005 :  15:25:10  Show Profile  Visit fbc's Homepage  Reply with Quote
a bootleg.
if i can get it burnt (which i probably can, though i'm relying on others) you'll be the first to know. definately.

Just imagine, Dig For Fire, Rock Music, Havalina live. In vision. Now that's a dvd!
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number 13
= Cult of Ray =

286 Posts

Posted - 08/30/2005 :  15:29:48  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
And do you plan to seed your dvd of the Bossanova tour?!
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Carl
- A 'Fifth' Catholic -

Ireland
11546 Posts

Posted - 08/30/2005 :  16:22:16  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
Cheers, Soren!
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fbc
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United Kingdom
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Posted - 08/30/2005 :  17:08:03  Show Profile  Visit fbc's Homepage  Reply with Quote
quote:
Originally posted by number 13

And do you plan to seed your dvd of the Bossanova tour?!


i would not know where to begin. i'm a mac man. dimeadozen/soulseek is not my friend.
but i'll let this forum know if i manage to 'seed' or burn copies.
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Levitated
= Cult of Ray =

Chile
652 Posts

Posted - 08/30/2005 :  17:45:44  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
A-W-E-S-O-M-E
Did they play All Over The World?
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fbc
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United Kingdom
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Posted - 08/30/2005 :  18:04:43  Show Profile  Visit fbc's Homepage  Reply with Quote
Yes! I really have to get this burnt for you all. I will try my hardest.

levitate me / debaser / rock music / tame / hangwire / monkey gone / ana / all over the world (fb uses a mustang) / velouria / alison / the happening / into the white / here comes / havalina / gigantic / hey / dig for fire / isla de / crackity / is she weird / caribou / ed is dead / broken face / wave (surf) / where is? / nirmrod's / vamos / tony's theme / wave of mutilation

Edited by - fbc on 08/31/2005 02:43:14
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benji
> Teenager of the Year <

New Zealand
3426 Posts

Posted - 08/30/2005 :  19:54:07  Show Profile  Visit benji's Homepage  Reply with Quote
all over the world!
you've got to be kidding!
get it out please!!!!!



"My Doctor says that I have a malformed public-duty gland and a natural deficiency in moral fibre, and that I am therefore excused from saving Universes."
|Arthur Dent|
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jediroller
* Dog in the Sand *

France
1718 Posts

Posted - 08/30/2005 :  23:13:51  Show Profile  Reply with Quote



I jumped on the Frank Black Bandwagon/'Cause Pixies are so 2004
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Ziggy
* Dog in the Sand *

United Kingdom
2461 Posts

Posted - 08/31/2005 :  04:55:34  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
Wonderful artwork! Still s little confused about the release date though.
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mrgrieves1971
= Cult of Ray =

USA
544 Posts

Posted - 08/31/2005 :  05:48:06  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
I have a tape of a show from the Bossanova tour that was aired on Japanese TV. Probably the same show.
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number 13
= Cult of Ray =

286 Posts

Posted - 08/31/2005 :  10:10:58  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
I thought Cecilia Ann was played at the Reading Festival.

By the way, I mentioned it here but I recently bought a Pixies book (180 pages) and it takes a look on the Trompe's session. "Surf Epic" was originally planned for this one, and so was Brackish Boy, and a few other songs from the first Frank lp.

There are also some unreleased songs, and one of them is called "Loops". Anybody got information about this one?
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Carl
- A 'Fifth' Catholic -

Ireland
11546 Posts

Posted - 08/31/2005 :  11:13:47  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
Thanks for the artwork, jediroller!
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Carl
- A 'Fifth' Catholic -

Ireland
11546 Posts

Posted - 08/31/2005 :  11:19:47  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
http://www.soulshine.ca/news/newsarticle.php?nid=2440

Guided by Voices, Pixies to Release Live DVDs
Published: 2005-08-30

By the magic of Digital Video Disc technology, one much beloved band will say goodbye and another hello (again) with a couple of upcoming DVD releases.

Guided by Voices are the boys saying farewell on film, announcing today that the band will release an as-yet untitled live concert recording of their final show. Held on New Year’s Eve 2004 at the
Cabaret Metro in Chicago, the heavy drinkin’ Dayton, Ohio, rockers went out with a bang, performing a massive and career-spanning 60-song set. The concert included appearances by ex-GBV members Tobin Sprout, James Greer, Don Thrasher, Jim MacPherson, and Greg Demos, as well as turns by GBV associates Jon Wurster (Superchunk) and Matt Sweeney (Chavez).

Luckily, ’twas all captured on film and you will be able to own this sure-to-be riotous show forever when it is released by Plexifilm on November 15th.

Meanwhile, on the comin’ back tip, the Pixies have announced that they, too, will soon release a live DVD. Entitled The Pixies Sell Out, the DVD will feature a 28-song performance recorded in July 2004 at a gig in Belfort, France, including two versions each of “Bone Machine” and “Wave of Mutilation” among all the other Pixies classics that you crave.

A full 16 bonus performances will also be included as extras, most culled from festival appearances at Coachella, T in the Park, and the Fuji Rock Festival last year. The seemingly never-ending Pixies reunion continues in the UK, with new Pixies material a tantalizing possibility for the near future.

Writer: Neil McDonald

Two versions of Bone Machine? Checking the set list again, there is indeed two BMs...what's up with that?!

Edited by - Carl on 08/31/2005 11:22:44
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ccuadros
* Dog in the Sand *

Chile
1315 Posts

Posted - 08/31/2005 :  16:23:20  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
wow!!
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Daisy Girl
~ Abstract Brain ~

Belize
5305 Posts

Posted - 09/02/2005 :  11:05:14  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
thanks! i can't wait!

"I ain't goin to be what I ain't"
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Levitated
= Cult of Ray =

Chile
652 Posts

Posted - 09/04/2005 :  07:31:49  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
quote:
Originally posted by mrgrieves1971

I have a tape of a show from the Bossanova tour that was aired on Japanese TV. Probably the same show.



seems to be the Brixton '91 show
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billgoodman
>> Denizen of the Citizens Band <<

Netherlands
6182 Posts

Posted - 09/05/2005 :  09:51:33  Show Profile  Click to see billgoodman's MSN Messenger address  Reply with Quote
didn't play all over the world then


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theFILLshow
- FB Fan -

Canada
65 Posts

Posted - 09/05/2005 :  17:58:06  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
Oh crackers. I was hoping they'd have one song from Toronto on the 24th. Because if there were any crowd/fan shots. I'd be in it. The camera was on me for a while because I was so insane. Oh well, I'll still buy this.

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fbc
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United Kingdom
4903 Posts

Posted - 09/14/2005 :  09:14:44  Show Profile  Visit fbc's Homepage  Reply with Quote
Carl, has this been posted up already?

Pixies Sell Out - The Story

In anticipation of the October 4th release date of the Pixies 'Sell Out' DVD, the band has released an official biography of the 2004 reunion. The bio, entitled 'Pixies Sell Out - The Story', features all new commentary by Charles, Joey, Kim, and David.

For more than ten years, since the Pixies ended their run with a meltdown that left pretty much everyone pissed off, the chances of this group ever getting back together were basically nil. All four members scattered: Frank Black embarked on a solo career that has produced ten albums, many of which were critical triumphs and all of them anticipated eagerly by long-time and new fans. Joey Santiago did session work and got into scoring television and film projects in L.A., and received critical kudos for the two albums he did with wife Linda Mallari as The Martinis. Kim Deal put together the Breeders who opened for Nirvana, headlined at Lollapalooza, and recorded a platinum album. After finding little satisfaction in studio work, Dave Lovering gave up music entirely and began a career as a professional magician.

But like star systems in an expanding universe, each of the Pixies would feel the pull, sooner or later, back toward the center, where once they had exploded and showered the musical vacuum with pointed, ironic, blackly humorous, and unforgettable songs. It took a few years – twelve, to be exact. But in late 2003, against all expectations, they did get there.

And once again, everything changed.

The Pixies’ 2004 tour was a total surprise and at the same time no surprise at all. Of course, it was a miracle that they were all up there onstage, pummeling through the songs that had inspired bands from Nirvana to Radiohead and guitar-thrashing teenagers in garages throughout the Western world. On the other hand, once they were there, how could they not sound glorious? If anything … if possible … they were stronger than ever, despite their tempestuous legacy.

Which takes us to the real story: Unlike most miracles, their return was documented on digital film. Those who disbelieve, or who consider a Pixies resurrection too good to have actually happened, are proven wrong with Pixies Sell Out, a DVD extravaganza that captures the greatest shows from their first reunion tour. (And, yes, there was a second reunion tour this year, but let’s take it one miracle at a time.) Footage includes hair-raising performances from around the world: the Move Festival in England, Voodoo Festival in New Orleans, T in the Park in Scotland, Fuji Rock Festival in Japan, Coachella in California’s desert valley, Austin City Limits festival, and the heart of the DVD, the Eurockeennes Festival in France.

All of this documents an event that’s rare in rock: the return of a band in its primal form, not as a nostalgia act but as a vital force. Watching Pixies Sell Out, it’s easy to appreciate the importance of the Pixies – and, beyond that, to marvel that as powerful as they were in their so-called “prime,” reincarnation has made them even stronger.

Typically, though, the Pixies comeback began with a burst of confusion and contradiction. Reactions within the band, for example, were hardly consistent when word spread that Frank Black wanted to put the act back together:

“I was elated,” enthuses drummer Dave Lovering.

“I dreaded it,” admits bassist Kim Deal. “I just hoped it would go away.”

Just as typically, given the patterns of communication that had helped drag the Pixies to their demise in the early nineties, it began with Frank Black and his habit of expressing wishes indirectly. Rumors persist that he had originally broken up the band by letting his colleagues know it was over via fax. (“He remembers it that way,” Kim insists, “but it never happened. It could never have happened because he isn’t a confrontational guy. He couldn’t fire anybody, so he just stopped talking to us.”)

This time out, he apparently let everybody know what was on his mind by talking to the media. In an interview with London’s XFM Radio in the summer of 2003, he mused about his dreams of getting the Pixies together again. He even sweetened the bait by revealing that they still hooked up now and then to jam, though “not for public consumption.”

“Well,” Black says, coming clean at last, “we never actually jammed or anything. I was sort of stealing a quote from George Harrison, who said, when asked about his band’s much anticipated reunion, ‘Hey, if we all got together and jammed in the living room, you guys in the press wouldn’t even know about it.’ So I was being completely sarcastic, and the next day it was in The New York Post. It was like the cat that was never actually in the bag was out of the bag anyway.”

That’s all it took for the rest of the band to catch on. “I actually heard about it from my dad,” Lovering laughs. “One day he says to me, ‘I hear the Pixies are getting back together.’ I was like, ‘What are you talking about?’ See, I knew that would be impossible. I would never, ever have conceived of a reunion actually happening. So I discounted it until one day Joey called to say, ‘Guess what? Charles [Thompson, a.k.a. Frank Black] wants to get the band back together.’ And that just made my whole world much better.”

Black had asked guitarist Joey Santiago to convey his wishes to Lovering and Deal – just in time, it turned out, for him to disappear into a series of solo projects that made him unavailable when the rest of the band decided to see how it felt to play together again. With Black tied up on a European tour, the three met in November ’03 at the Breeders’ studio in Vernon, south of downtown L.A.

“Joe and I had agreed that if we sounded like shit, of course we wouldn’t do it,” Kim remembers. “So I packed my stuff into a Volvo station wagon in Ohio and checked into corporate housing near Joe’s house. He had burned ten of our songs onto a CD, which I picked up at his house – David already had all the Pixies stuff on iPod. We listened to those songs, and then we drove down to the Breeders’ space and got to work.

“It began quietly,” she continues, “like, ‘Okay, how does this one start?’ But toward the end of the day Joe and I were amazed at how, for better or worse, we sounded exactly the same as we used to. We even joked about whether this was good or bad, but we all agreed it was remarkable.”

In four days they worked up a list of forty songs, which they polished on and off through the winter, until Black was free to join them. “I was worried because he’d been doing solo stuff for a decade,” Kim says. “I thought that might give him a different sensibility of performance. When you’re in a rock band, it’s part, part, part, like with the Who, it always goes like this: ‘We won’t get fooled again … AAAGGHH!! Yeah!!’ But then you get this Mac Davis thing, where you decide that maybe you won’t go to the verse just yet, you’re going to ride the opening notes until you feel like singing the verse. If you have to cough, you can just cough. You can stop the song to take a drink of something and start the song back up.

“But Charles sounded great,” she smiles. “He sang like a beauty. It was gorgeous. I was so impressed.”

“On my first day back with the Pixies, we took a break to get some tacos,” Black recalls. “It reminded me of our early days of rehearsing in some industrial place, with little amps, a minuscule P.A., and a couple of mikes. I was feeling so up that I said, ‘Hey maybe we should do an unannounced gig in a few days, at some local club.’ The rest of the band looked at me like I had two heads because, to be honest, I’d forgotten a lot of the words to the songs. I was all over the place on that first day. But I knew there was a lot of muscle memory involved, and after I reviewed a little bit that night it all came right back by the next day. And by a couple of days after that we were sounding exactly the same as we had years before.”

With everyone onboard now, plans were laid for their reunion tour.

Opening in Minneapolis, the Pixies tour rolled first into Canada. From the start they drew packed houses and won rapturous reviews: At one of their early shows, in Saskatoon, Pop Matters described the performance as “ninety minutes of bedlam.” And even as part of an all-star bill at Coachella, The New York Times reported, “the day belonged to the Pixies.”

More important to the band was the feedback they were getting from their audiences, which was unlike anything they’d experienced. “In every city, people were so happy we were there,” Kim marvels. “People were crying. It didn’t really hit me until later in the summer, when Charles, Joe, and I went to a Stooges reunion in Berlin. And I realized, ‘Oh, my gosh, maybe people were reacting to us the way I was to the Stooges.’”

“When we started this tour,” Frank adds, “and all the crowds were singing along with us, we were like, ‘Wow, did you hear that tonight? That was amazing!’ But the whole time I’d been thinking, ‘Hey, man, we’ve been through this before. Don’t you remember that first wave of popularity in Europe? It was ridiculous. But you guys don’t remember – we were all too drunk!’”

But, as Frank concedes, there was something different in the response they got throughout 2004. “There were lots of younger people who’d never seen us before. Instead of thrusting their fists in the air and screaming along with the lyrics, the way it was the first time, there was a kind of deference. There was a lot more people standing there, really quietly, and going, ‘Oh, so this is what it’s like to hear the Pixies!’ It was more of a religious than a military zeal.”

Each gig stood out. Most were extraordinarily positive: great performance from the band, enormous warmth from crowds that ranged from early teens to late forties. Some were a little strange, like their appearance at a metal festival in Vienna. “These were young metal fans who had no idea who we are,” Frank laughs. “We were used to that ‘oh, my God, they’re back!’ reaction, so there was a little tension there. But when we were onstage we approached it like being some little band from Boston again, trying to make our way into the world. That was kind of nice, actually – a bonding thing, like ‘We do what we do, and if they don’t like it, screw ‘em.’”

And a few would prove unforgettable. They made their first-ever appearances in Iceland and in Japan; their set in the lush, green setting of the Fuji Rock festival is one of the highlights of Pixies Sell Out. But for all four members of the band, the highlight of their reunion was in the dry desert heat at Coachella.

“It was … indescribable,” Kim says. “We had worked our way west toward Vancouver, playing regular-sized shows. But when we walked out onstage at Coachella, the sun had just begun to curve down, so it was getting cooler but it wasn’t dark yet. We could see all these people and they were so happy. It wasn’t like, ‘Geez, they’re clapping loud.’ It was more this sense of excitement that the Pixies were there. I was so overwhelmed that I screwed up the beginning of our first song, ‘Bone Machine.’”

“I think we played Pomona the night before,” Dave continues. “A lot of the Coachella bands were there, so there was this feeling that it was a big event. Getting there, it was wonderful to hang with the bands backstage. It reminded me of one of the first times we’d played in London, at a place called the Mean Fiddler, after Surfer Rosa had come out. The audience just shocked me. It was the same at Coachella: I hadn’t ever seen that number of people with that amount of love. It was incredible.”

After Coachella, the Pixies routine that only got weirder – i.e., more comfortable, more fun – with each gig, and they found themselves getting along. “We buried the hatchet,” is how Santiago explains it, while Dave elaborates: “We’re all older and wiser, so we could deal with each other much better this time around. Other than that, there was no difference in what it was like to go on the road again. It felt exactly the same, from rehearsals to being onstage.”

They even passed time on the road playing games, including one ancient music geek diversion based on band names. “Okay,” Kim explains, maybe getting a little excited. “I’d start and say the name of a band, like ‘Asia.’ Then someone else would take the last letter of that word and name another band.” (“Alabama?” the interviewer suggests.) “Yeah, exactly. Then I’d say … well, I couldn’t say ‘Amboy Dukes,’ it would have to be ‘Ted Nugent and the Amboy Dukes,’ so … ‘Abba’? We’re stuck in the A’s, aren’t we? We’d play that for four full hours and have a blast.”

All four agreed on the most important point of the tour: The Pixies were beating everyone’s expectations, including their own. ‘We’re definitely tighter,” Santiago observes. “And I was trying new things, using more effects in a very flavorful way. I’d never done that in the past.”

“I’ve had a lot of time to think about the drum parts I’d recorded with the Pixies, which I was never happy with,” Dave adds. “Neil Peart [of Rush] was my favorite then, so I would always go nuts and throw a lot of fills into our early stuff. Now I’ve pared it down and it’s like, ‘Aha! Now I understand how it goes!’ I’m thirteen years too late, but at least it’s coming together now.”

“We were always about trying to play like the record,” Frank says. “That was our thing. Now, our thing is to play as we used to. While there are subtle differences – like, we’re probably a little more muscular as musicians – we do in fact sound the same, which is ‘mission accomplished’ for us.”

In assessing the result of nearly twenty Pixie years, from their first gigs in Boston through catalog of history-changing CDs (Come On Pilgrim, Surfer Rosa, Doolittle, Bossanova, Trompe le Monde), their crash-and-burn breakup, and their improbable return as documented on Pixies Sell Out, it’s Kim who wraps up the ongoing saga with perfect, eloquent brevity:

“We sound the same … only better.”

-- Robert L. Doerschuk
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Carl
- A 'Fifth' Catholic -

Ireland
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Posted - 09/14/2005 :  10:47:35  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
Thanks, Soren! I think it might have been posted on Pixesmusic, don't think it's been posted here. Interesting quotes from the guys.
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fbc
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Posted - 09/14/2005 :  11:14:01  Show Profile  Visit fbc's Homepage  Reply with Quote
That's where I pinched, sorry, borrowed it from. I'll give it back soon.

Edited by - fbc on 09/14/2005 11:14:19
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Ziggy
* Dog in the Sand *

United Kingdom
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Posted - 09/15/2005 :  02:53:02  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
A very good read.
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kelladwella
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Posted - 09/15/2005 :  04:44:39  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
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Pixies Sell Out - The Story
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Joey Santiago did session work and got into scoring television and film projects in L.A., and received critical kudos for the two albums he did with wife Linda Mallari as The Martinis.


They have done two albums? I only know of Smitten.
Can someone explain?
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Posted - 09/15/2005 :  04:58:57  Show Profile  Visit fbc's Homepage  Reply with Quote
There's a Smitten Sessions Ep, too. I don't know if this counts as the extra album.



1 You Are The One
2 Right Behind You
3 Right Behind You (demo)
4 Out Upon The Road
5 Out Upon The Road (demo)
6 Walls Of Silence (demo)
7 Such A Fake (exclusive track)
8 Skater Pink (exlusive instrumental track from Joey Santiago)

Edited by - fbc on 09/15/2005 05:00:11
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kelladwella
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Posted - 09/15/2005 :  05:09:35  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
Thanks fbc. That's all I found, too.

I wouldn't call a demo ep an album, but hey.
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Posted - 09/15/2005 :  05:30:00  Show Profile  Visit fbc's Homepage  Reply with Quote
Neither would I. But you know journalists. Don't ever let facts get in the way of a story.
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Posted - 09/15/2005 :  06:41:21  Show Profile  Visit pixie punk's Homepage  Reply with Quote
quote:
Originally posted by kelladwella

quote:
Originally posted by fbc

Pixies Sell Out - The Story
...
Joey Santiago did session work and got into scoring television and film projects in L.A., and received critical kudos for the two albums he did with wife Linda Mallari as The Martinis.


They have done two albums? I only know of Smitten.
Can someone explain?

The Martinis released a first album and another E.P.that they sold independently and thru MP3.com if I remember correctly (these are no longer available.
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