Return of the Pixies

...then about a year later i saw them in a large dull and acoustically horrible shed type thing - about two songs into their set (and after watching support from cud(!!) and teenage fanclub) part of the stage and barrier in front of it collapsed and the gig was halted and 4000 Glaswegian pixies fans filed out with their heads in their hands.

Ah well, knowing me I probably wouldnt have even gone to see them anyhow!

There is a connection -- 4AD was originally a spin-off from and now is part of the label umbrella of Beggars.

x-post

One thing I like about Frank Black is that he doesn't have his head up his ass. In the Pixies days, their success may have made him a little arrogant, but for most of his solo/Catholics days he's been very modest about it all. He doesn't blow his own horn or take himself too seriously.

So, for now, I have trust in him that this will be good.

Are they or aren't they? I wish we'd get a definitive answer from somebody.

NEW YORK (Billboard) - A decade after a bitter breakup, seminal alternative
rock act the Pixies may reunite next year.

Asked about rumors of a tour and a potential new studio album, the group's manager told Billboard.com:
"I have received an offer for the Pixies to perform in April. That said, over the past 10 years, I have
received dozens of offers for the Pixies."

A spokesperson for the group's former label, 4AD, had no comment on potential reunion plans.

The group's last major tour came while supporting U2 on a number of U.S. dates on the 1992 "Zoo TV"
trek.

Goldenvoice Promotions head Paul Tollett tells Billboard.com he has tried to book the Pixies "every year"
for the Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival in Indio, Calif. "I still haven't made any movement," he
reports. " not sure if they are speaking to each other."

The Pixies -- vocalist/guitarist Black Francis, vocalist/bassist Kim Deal, lead guitarist Joey Santiago and
drummer David Lovering -- released four albums and an EP over the course of five years in the late 1980s
and early '90s, providing a blueprint for the alternative rock boom that dominated the latter decade.

In 1993, two years after the release of the group's final album, "Trompe Le Monde" (4AD/Elektra), Francis
(real name: Charles Thompson) sent a press release to the media announcing the breakup of the Pixies.

He went on to forge a solo career, now nine albums strong, as Frank Black. Deal found post-Pixies
success with the Breeders, whose 1994 album "Last Splash" (4AD/Elektra) peaked at No. 33 on The
Billboard 200 in 1994 and has sold 978,000 copies in the U.S., according to Nielsen SoundScan.

Black has been incorporating Pixies songs into live performances with his band the Catholics with
increasing regularity over the past few years.

Songs like "Where Is My Mind?," "Mr. Grieves," "Crackity Jones," "Nimrod's Son," "Holiday Song" and
"Gouge Away" have all surfaced in recent setlists, and a version of the latter recorded in April in Regina,
Saskatchewan, appears on a new Frank Black & the Catholics EP, "Nadine," licensed this week by
spinART exclusively to a number of independent U.S. retailers.

In July, Black told London radio station XFM that he still fantasized about reuniting his old band.

"I do dream about the Pixies reunion, I do have to say," he said. "It's like those schoolboy dreams when
you don't do your homework and you don't study for the test, but I'm at the gig and we're hanging out,
but it's an utter failure and I don't know the songs, and hardly anyone turns up for the gig and people walk
out. That's what I'm afraid of, that it'd be a big, big failure."

He added: "We might. We do get together and have private jams together, but not for public consumption."

During the Pixies' career, the group never made a huge commercial dent (their top-selling album is 1989's "Doolitte" at 552,000
copies).

But its impact on critics and fans was far-reaching. A handful of collections of Pixies material has surfaced during the band's
hiatus, including the 1997 Elektra double-CD set "Death to the Pixies," which featured favorites and live compilation discs. Last
year, spinART Records released "Pixies," a collection of unreleased songs from the band's original 1987 demo tape.

Biggest argument against them reuniting is based in some vague indie ideal of punk or selling out, but I don't think the Pixies ever pretended to hate the idea of success like alot of indie bands do now. I'll listen to arguments against this, though.

But seeing them live would be a golden opportunity to erase a huge regret from my teenage years... and I'd do anything for that... to have one less thing to be bitter about.

De Pixies hebben de wereld veroverd. Niet met grote megahits maar met een immer aanhoudende invloed, ook na hun uiteengaan. Ze groeiden uit tot helden van de alternatieve rock. Zoals de BBC het zegt "Try and imagine Nirvana with out The Pixies, nah, not gonna happen". En inderdaad, de invloed van de Pixies stond aan de wieg van vele grote en kleine namen in Rockland.

Op chronologische volgorde zijn hun albums: 'Come on Pilgrim', 'Surfer Rosa', 'Doolittle', 'Bossanova' en 'Trompe Le Monde'. Het zijn stuk voor stuk sterke platen maar werkelijk onmisbaar zijn vooral de eerste drie lp's. Een goed overzicht geeft de verzamelaar 'Death to the Pixies', in 1997 uitgegeven en samengesteld door zanger Francis Black.

Wellicht kun je hem en companen Kim Deal, Joey Santiago en David Lovering in 2004 weer live gaan bewonderen want er gaan sterke geruchten dat ze vanaf april weer bijeen komen voor een aantal live-shows. Gaat dat zien

http://www.itv.com/news/361356.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/news/story/0,11711,1040059,00.html
http://www.nme.com/news/107239.htm

'Cuz o' people like you. Cunt.

If you ever, under any circumstances, go to Kent State University, then just fucking shoot yourself because your life will be a living hell.

otm alas

I'm very much at peace with it. I think of them as two different bands.

I think they were the catalyst of literally every band who had a 80s/90s semi-hit getting back together

Hmm. I'm trying to think of other '80s and '90s bands that broke up but got back together after the Pixies. They always seemed kind of like a big fish that followed all the other reunions. Television, Gang of Four, Mission of Burma, Wire and so on.

Pixies inspired Slowdive, Ride, that generation

eh, I think the return of mbv did that.

Touche

My brain won't let me access American indie bands who may have reformed in the sights but there are a bunch

aughts

I'm very much at peace with it. I think of them as two different bands.

― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, June 3, 2020 6:09 AM (four hours ago)

this exact feeling clicked for me several years ago. i don't really think of post-reunion activities as damaging their legacy, because as far as i'm concerned the legacy of the original Pixies is set in stone. (maybe that's not fair / doesn't make sense, but that's where i'm at.)

and what they do now doesn't bum me out! i mean, those guys built a band lots of ppl will pay to see and they have bills to pay. who am i to stop them from working? it's fine ... there are a million other (newer) bands to be excited about.

Happy birthday, Kim and Kelley

wow, what are the chances of them sharing the same birthday

lol