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onemoreover
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 Posted - 08/25/2005 : 03:35:18
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Frank has given Brisbane's Rave mag the scoop: Pixies are coming to Oz.
go to page 12 here:
http://www.ravemag.com.au/raveweb.pdf
Rejoice, mang!
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vilainde
>> Denizen of the Citizens Band <<
Niue
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Posted - 08/25/2005 : 05:07:59
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"For instance, somebody womewhere gave the wrong city as my place of birth. They put Long Beach, California - I've never even lived there and I was born 3000 kilometres away [in Boston, Massachussets], but that single fact was subsequently reported everywhere."
Denis
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onemoreover
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Posted - 08/25/2005 : 05:44:01
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Copy of the article in this week's Rave (a free street mag in Brisbane):
First things first. The Pixies will tour Australia early next year - you read it here exclusively. Lead singer, Frank Black or his Pixies persona, Black Francis, wants to get the message across. The only question is when.
Frank says the band has been approached to play the Big Day Out circuit, however he has resisted that idea. "It’s not that I’m against Big Day Out," the bald-headed 40-year-old says, "but as The Pixies have never played Australia I thought it would be cooler to do our own tour and not play in a great big field but in a room or a club or something where we are in people’s faces. You know, ‘This is The Pixies and we are here at last’. It isn’t always about the money for me or for The Pixies. We do have an aesthetic...
"Anyway we’ve left in the hands our agent. So Big Day Out or on our own tour, The Pixies will be in Australia early next year and you are the first person I’ve told, so tell everybody down there."
In the meantime we have a staggering Frank Black solo album, Honeycomb, to deal with. What a record. Hyperbole aside, this is a work of art. Americana fans will lap it up, Pixies fans will broaden their horizons, Frank Black and The Catholics fans will sigh and learn to like something else new. By the way, Frank has message for the latter: "Look for The Catholics on their reunion tour in 10 years time." That finished huh? "Well, they are all having babies and stuff - as I have." Turns out Mr Black has two boys and a girl, aged 5,7, and seven months - "And, maybe, a girl on the way."
Honeycomb finds Frank in Dan Penn’s Better Songs and Gardens studio in Nashville, Tennessee, with some of the most celebrated players in music: Steve Cropper, Buddy Miller and Reggie Young on guitars, drummers Chester Thompson, Anton Fig, Billy block and Akil Thompson, David Hood on bass, and Spooner Oldham on keyboards among others.
For Black it’s a journey into the past as well as a step into the future. Cropper co-wrote the first song he ever sang in front of an audience, In The Midnight Hour.
"I was 17 and it was at school on some sort of afternoon program." The details people know about your life in the Net Age, Frank. "Yeah, but information still gets so mish-mashed and it’s amazing how much manufactured stuff there is out there.
"For instance, somebody somewhere gave the wrong city as my place of birth. They put Long Beach, California - I’ve never even lived there and I was born 3000 kilometres away [in Boston, Massachusetts], but that single fact was subsequently reported everywhere.
At which points there is an odd lapping, make that slobbering, noise in the background. "My brother has all these dogs," Black explains. "Three of them, and they are wrestling at my feet. There’s two boxers and one is some kind of pug-nosed bulldog thing - it’s very ugly."
"There are a lot of dog bones, and I mean bones of dogs, buried in the backyard here."
His brother also lives in Massachusetts and Frank is visiting.
On another level Black has been revisiting some old – if not classic – songs. On Honeycomb amid the originals there’s a choice of three covers: Dark End Of The Street (written by Dan Penn and Chips Moman), Sunday Sunny Mill Valley Groove (Doug Sahm) and a most peculiar pick from the Presley songbook, Song Of The Shrimp (Roy Bennett and Sid Tepper) from the film Girls, Girls, Girls.
"It’s not about Presley, it’s about the song," Frank says. "I’d never heard the Presley version. Townes Van Zandt does a version on Abnormal, a collection of live recordings. He does a very good, very funny reading of it. I recently bought a copy of that Elvis movie so I could finally hear and see the song performed in the context of the film.
"Actually, I’m convinced that most of the people who have written about this record and mentioned this song, have no idea about it. How many people have ever heard of it? However, they mentioned it in the bio and suddenly everybody is on-board."
"When I first heard the song I didn’t go ‘You clever devil, pulling this out of obscurity from 1961’. And it’s not even written by Elvis. I just liked the song."
Okay, so Elvis worship theory out of the window, but Doug Sahm’s another matter.
A main mover in the Tex-Mex supergroup Texas Tornados and leader of the Sir Douglas Quintet (which had 1960s hits such as She’s A Mover and Mendocino), Dahm passed away in 1999 but his musical legacy has developed strongly.
Black says he’s "obsessed" by Sunday Sunny Mill Valley Groove: "I’ve been dying to do a version for years. The original is lot more whisky-soaked but after trying to do my own whisky-soaked take for years this ended up coming out much sweeter.
"The late Jimmy Griffin, who sings backing vocals, was originally in the group Bread. He was a very smooth singer. Between the musicians playing smoothly and him singing smoothly, I went with softer and smooth."
Of his own songs, Another Velvet Nightmare (co-written with Reid Plaley) and Go Find Your Saint stand out, not that there is a passenger here. Frank chooses I Burn Today as his favourite because "I sound sage-like, a little world weary, and the poetry of it. It’s the most Blonde On Blonde of all the tracks, not that it was goal to do so, but it was a reference."
As for playing with all those session gods, take it as read that things went well. They are all getting back together in a few weeks time for another session. "Perhaps to augment an album I’m already in the process of doing," Frank says, cryptically.
He remains just as oblique when it comes to the possibilities of a new Pixies album: "Someday I feel like we will record one, others I feel like we won’t. We might get a round to doing one." You can hear the silent chuckle.
You big tease, Frank Black, you big tease.
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Carl
- A 'Fifth' Catholic -
Ireland
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Posted - 08/25/2005 : 08:26:43
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Thanks for posting, onemoreover-I'm glad you guys will finally get to see them. I did'nt know they had never played Australia! 'Obscure roots musician Frank Black'! :D
"Look for The Catholics on they're reunion tour in ten years time." Kathryn won't be happy to hear that!! |
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dayanara
* Dog in the Sand *
Australia
1811 Posts |
Posted - 08/25/2005 : 08:40:19
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thanks for the link. clearly the reunion tour will never ever end. ever.
is frank having another baby? he is one busy dude.
i am sitting here observing my emotional discomfort. |
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Carl
- A 'Fifth' Catholic -
Ireland
11546 Posts |
Posted - 08/25/2005 : 08:43:06
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| He is pretty productive! ;) BTW, Goldfrapp's looking good on that cover! |
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Levitated
= Cult of Ray =
Chile
652 Posts |
Posted - 08/25/2005 : 17:53:42
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| wow you lucky aussies, I hope latin fans have that luck too |
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benji
> Teenager of the Year <
New Zealand
3426 Posts |
Posted - 08/26/2005 : 04:31:20
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yes, about damn time too.
sure, i saw them 3 times in london last year, but seeing them in aus will be awesome.
hope they don't do the big day out route, but they better come to perth goddamit!
"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."
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Don Eduardo
= Cult of Ray =
Australia
403 Posts |
Posted - 08/26/2005 : 17:48:30
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| YES!!!!!!!!!! |
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billgoodman
>> Denizen of the Citizens Band <<
Netherlands
6214 Posts |
Posted - 08/27/2005 : 02:20:18
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finally!
a big congratiolations for the Oz people!
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God save the Noisies |
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alstar
- FB Fan -
Australia
23 Posts |
Posted - 08/30/2005 : 04:08:06
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This better be the real thing. I got rolled once before by the man (didnt show up to his solo shows in 2003). The Big Day Out would be good enough for me. Im sure they will also play a solo show in Melbourne. Like i said this better be true.
p.s. Does anyone know if the FOOL THE WORLD book is available in OZ yet.
BOSSINOVA'S DOOLITTLE FOR SURFER ROSA. SO COME ON PILGRIM, TROMPE LE MONDE. |
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Carl
- A 'Fifth' Catholic -
Ireland
11546 Posts |
Posted - 08/30/2005 : 14:25:43
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| Fool The World is coming out in the UK on October 6th through Virgin Books, alstar. He was schedualed to play in Australia, but never made it?! Awww. At least you can actually see Pixies live, though!! :) |
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Mad Lucas
- FB Fan -
Australia
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Homers_pet_monkey
= Official forum monkey =
United Kingdom
17125 Posts |
Posted - 09/08/2005 : 06:13:37
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Yeah I'm chuffed to bits for you brilliant Aussies.
 I'd walk her everyday, into a shady place
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Carl
- A 'Fifth' Catholic -
Ireland
11546 Posts |
Posted - 09/09/2005 : 08:00:23
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http://www.nme.com/news/113620.htm
BIG DAY OUT TO GO AHEAD IN 2006
BIG DAY OUT will go ahead in 2006 according to organisers, despite initial concerns the entire traveling festival could be cancelled if the MELBOURNE leg failed to find a new venue.
Melbourne’s usual location for the Australasian festival, The Royal Melbourne Showgrounds, is currently undergoing redevelopment - and other areas capable of holding up to 40,000 people will be under preparation for the 2006 Commonwealth Games being held in the city in March.
However, Melbourne City Council have approved the temporary placement of the January 29 event for Princes Park in the inner city, with the festival expected to be back at the showground in 2007.
While no announcements on the lineup have been made, Big Day Out organisers have confirmed that the Red Hot Chili Peppers – former frontrunners to headline the event next year – have pulled out due to delays in the release date of their forthcoming album, now due in March 2006.
The reformed Pixies have also hinted at touring Australia for the first time around January next year, however front man Frank Black recently told local paper Rave Magazine they are unlikely to join the Big Day Out line-up.
He said: “It’s not that I’m against Big Day Out, but as the Pixies have never played Australia I thought it would be cooler to do our own tour and not play in a great big field but in a room or a club or something where we are in people’s faces. You know, ‘This is the Pixies and we are here at last’.”
Black added: “It isn’t always about the money for me or for the Pixies - we do have an aesthetic. Anyway, we’ve left it in the hands our agent. So Big Day Out or on our own tour, the Pixies will be in Australia early next year.”
The first announcements for next year’s Big Day Out are due on October 5, with tickets going on sale Friday, October 14.
Pixies - No matter what, they'll be in Oz
Published: 07-09-2005-10-53 |
Edited by - Carl on 09/09/2005 08:01:13 |
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Daisy Girl
~ Abstract Brain ~
Belize
5305 Posts |
Posted - 09/09/2005 : 22:43:52
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That's so cool you guys down under. You've waited for so long for this moment! Enjoy every second... :)
"I ain't goin to be what I ain't" |
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Sister from his head
- FB Fan -
Australia
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Posted - 10/27/2005 : 03:48:11
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*melts*...my life gets better everytime i come on this forum...hahaha i would roll across the Nullaboor to see them...thank god...at last!
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Spartacus
- FB Fan -
Australia
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Posted - 11/06/2005 : 23:55:04
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| Any more news on this??? I had tickets for Franks solo gig in Melbourne a couple of years ago which was then cancelled....I dont want to miss out again!!! |
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sutekh
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Posted - 01/03/2006 : 03:58:22
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Does anyone have an update on this? What are the Australian tour dates?
If its the big day out that blows as that was sold out ages ago and we didn't know then if they were touring.
Pls anyone post an update. |
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Daisy Girl
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Belize
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