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Friday, 26th August 2005
The Pixies get Frank
Kevin Bourke
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."
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.
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Posted - 08/30/2005 : 17:44:47
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"I'm very happy to be with these people (Kim Deal, Joey Santiago and Dave Lovering) again."
In the studio, Frank? The studio! |
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* Dog in the Sand *
Austria
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Posted - 09/07/2005 : 05:14:22
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wow ! this article is full of compelling news ! teh writer must have been doing recherche for months...
seriously, sometimes i think there must be a program called PAG - Pixies article generator. input needed: Pixies DVD, FB remarks about the mellowness of honeycomb&the mind-blowing recording sessions, and some other articles like the SPIN 2004. it just then takes random statements out of these inputs, and creates a new article. and the great thing is, this new article can be feeded into PAG again ! so all the information can be stored redundantly, making sure people can read it over and over again.
so just get PAG, press the "ENTER" button, add that cobain quote, and hey presto, you very own pixies article!
I joined the cult of Souled American / 'cause they are a damn' fine band |
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Carl
- A 'Fifth' Catholic -
Ireland
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Posted - 09/07/2005 : 07:28:12
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| How about a Honeycomb article generator-press enter, type 'Americana', hey presto!! ;) |
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