Pixies at The Brady - 9.18.2010

[dioscorides]

i am so excited about this:

http://www.tulsaworld.com/scene/article.aspx?subjectid=269&articleid=20100603_371_0_hrbrFo756879

The Pixies set Tulsa tour stop

By JENNIFER CHANCELLOR World Scene Writer
Published: 6/3/2010  10:55 AM
Last Modified: 6/3/2010  10:55 AM

After nearly 40 sold out shows on three continents since Fall, 2009, The Pixies are bringing The Doolittle Tour back to the U.S., the band's publicist today confirmed with the Tulsa World.

The 11-city trek kicks off on Sept. 7 at the Tower Theatre in Philadelphia and will extend the 20th anniversary celebration of the release of the band's classic 1989 album, "Doolittle."

The band rolls through Tulsa's historic Brady Theater on Sept. 18. A special pre-sale begins on June 7 at 8 a.m. at the band's official website, pixiesmusic.com.

Tour support and ticketing prices and presale information will also listed at the band's official website.

However, for most dates, the public on-sale begins June 14. On sale times, ticket prices and where to buy tickets will vary city to city so please see itinerary below or visit the band's official website.

All shows will be recorded and the CDs will be made available immediately after every show at the band's merch table; all live CDs can also be ordered at www.doolittlelive.com.

This tour announcement also launches the band's first official band website since
the influential alternative rock band formed in 1986 in Boston.

On this tour, the Pixies - Black Francis, Kim Deal, Joey Santiago and David Lovering - will perform all of the songs from Doolittle and its related B-sides, "Weird at My School," "Dancing the Manta Ray" and "Bailey's Walk" among them.

Doolittle, the band's third album and the first to chart on Billboard's album charts, includes classics such as "Debaser," "Wave of Mutilation," "Here Comes Your Man," "Hey" and "Gouge Away."

An imaginative cinematic production has been created for The Doolittle tour, organizers announced. Designed by longtime Pixies lighting designer Myles Mangino and designer Paul Normandale, the set will feature four huge, undulating, eyeball-like spheres flown just below the lighting rig and are part of the concert's light show.

Filmmakers Judy Jacobs, Tom Winkler, Brent Felix and Melinda Tupling created 11 films especially for the production. The films are projected onto a massive backdrop video screen to accompany 12 of the 21 songs that comprise the show.

The concert will open with the showing of the 1929 silent surrealist short film, "Un Chien Andalou," which was produced in France by Spanish director Luis Bunuel and artist Salvador Dali, and provided the impetus for Black Francis in writing "Debaser."

The Doolittle Tour launched on September 30, 2009 in Dublin, Ireland, and played sold-out shows everywhere - Scotland, Frankfurt, Amsterdam, Brussels, Paris, and to 20,000 fans over four nights in London.

It then came to America last November, playing multiple-night sell-outs from Los Angeles to Chicago to New York, and then in March, 2010 sold-out shows were performed in five Australian cities.

The tour received five-star reviews in the London Times, the Guardian and the Independent, and, according to one U.S. alt/weekly, "The Pixies continue to WOW."

The Boston-formed Pixies have been acclaimed as the most influential pioneering band of the late '80s alt/rock movement.

Their five studio releases and six years together effectively blazed the path for groups like Nirvana, Radiohead, and Pearl Jam to rise to superstardom.

They disbanded in 1993 and launched their reunion tour in April 2004 when virtually every date sold out within minutes and fans traveled hundreds of miles to attend a show.

In post-Pixies years, Black Francis has enjoyed a successful solo career as Frank Black, Kim Deal went on to form the Platinum-selling band the Breeders, Joey Santiago started the band The Martinis and has carved a career as a music composer for film and TV, and David Lovering performs as a magician and continues to drum.

Confirmed dates for the Pixies' 2010 U.S. Doolittle Tour:

SEPTEMBER
7 - Tower Theatre, Philadelphia, PA*
10 - Ryman Auditorium, Nashville, TN*
13 - Fox Theatre, Atlanta, GA*
17 - Uptown Theatre, Kansas City, MO
18 - Brady Theatre, Tulsa, OK**
19 - Verizon Theatre, Dallas, TX*
20 - Verizon Wireless Theatre, Houston, TX
22 - Austin Music Hall, Austin, TX***
24 - Mesa Amphitheatre, Mesa, AZ (tix sold through the venue)
25 - The Joint, Las Vegas, NV*
26 - RIMAC Arena, San Diego, CA*

* Tickets sold through Ticketmaster
** Tickets sold through Protix
*** Tickets sold through Frontgate
By JENNIFER CHANCELLOR World Scene Writer

[charky]

Oh hell yeah! Saw them around '89-ish in Tallahassee.

[kylieosu]

I honestly never thought I'd get to see The Pixies live! This rocks. Sooooo hard.

[dioscorides]

I honestly never thought I'd get to see The Pixies live! This rocks. Sooooo hard.

same here.  i wanted to go to coachella in '04 (not just for the pixies though), but couldn't get off work.  i also tried to make the oakland or denver show from this tour work, but couldn't do it (which i am kind of glad about now).  i did get to see frank black open for they might be giants at the cain's in '94 and have seen the breeders a couple of times.  this will take the cake though.

[sgrizzle]

Sadly the only real Pixies I know are voiced by Ben Stein

[canester2002]

The presale is now online at http://www.pixiesmusic.com/

[kylieosu]

The presale is now online at http://www.pixiesmusic.com/

Darn, the presale tix are already gone. Thx for the heads up though.

[dioscorides]

looks like tickets go on sale on monday:
http://www.bradytheater.com/

this was one of the strangest presales i've ever seen.  it didn't seem like anyone actually knew when it was going happen.