So many artists of a certain age have taken to performing classic albums start-to-finish in concert lately that it's starting to feel almost more impressive when someone just books a regular old non-gimmick tour instead. Even I'm not cynical enough to ignore today's exciting news from the Pixies camp, though. This October, the brilliant weirdos will hit Europe to play 1989's Doolittle in its entirety at a series of shows, just in time for the album's 20th anniversary. Any show with either "Here Comes Your Man" or "Monkey Gone to Heaven" alone in the set list is going to be pretty sweet, but one with both of those plus "Debaser," "Gouge Away," and every other song from the awesome Doolittle? Too cool. I sure hope the Doolittle tour does well enough to justify some U.S. dates along similar lines. Anyone else eager to see this?
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Absolutely fantastic. I hope they do more than Doolittle though, that would be a short show! Gimme some good ol’ Surfer Rosa!!!
If the Pixies are playing music, I’m happy, I don’t care what it is. Last I heard Charles had said the band was a ‘beautiful corpse’ so it’s lovely to see ‘em back. But they shouldn’t limit themselves to Europe. They must know by now that their fans are legion and enthusiastic.
Good. The world is a better place with these four people playing music.
Some U.S. dates would be welcome news.
have you people been living under a rock?? they’ve been playing shows for 5 years now, with the majority of surfer rosa and doolittle in every set list. the vast majority of these dates have in fact been in north america.
oasis are bastards yet still the best band in the world.
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finally. im a little bummed that it’s just doolittle, because i thought francis swore off playing some of doolittle forever. they’d piss me off by skipping us tour dates.