[ATTENDED: July 23, 2025] Pixies
I have seen Pixies four times in the last eight years. I didn’t really know if I wanted to see them again–indeed when these two shows were announced I was iffy about the whole thing. I did want to go to the first of two nights–where they were playing Bossanova and Trompe Le Monde (since they don’t play very much from either of those albums in their sets–I’ve only seen 2 songs from Bossanova and only 4 from Trompe). But that turned out to be the night of The Decemberists concert, and I wasn’t going to pass up The Decemberists.
A couple of days before this, I asked my wife if she’d like to go to this show–mostly because Kurt Vile was opening. She loves Kurt and, as she says, doesn’t know anything by Pixies (except, it turns out Here Comes Your Man). She agreed and we wound up buying tickets at the box office day of (the first night sold out this one did not).
The Kurt show was great and I told my wife that Pixies are interesting because they do not talk between songs–indeed, they don’t talk at all. And they will play like 30 songs in 90 minutes.
She felt bad that she didn’t know anything going into the show, but I told her afterwards that they played nearly ten (out of about 30) that I had never heard before. But it was the 2o songs in between that I was really psyched about.
I was unsure who their new bass player was–it’s Emma Richardson of Band of Skulls. The biggest difference between her and Paz (who I really liked) is that Emma has blonde hair. Otherwise, she is an excellent addition to the band.
She sang the first song (and what I assumed was the final song). The first song was a David Lynch cover “In Heaven (Lady in the Radiator Song)” that apparently Pixies released a long long time ago on a B-sides record. She also sang Into the White. Interestingly (or not) they did not play Gigantic (the most famous Kim Deal sung song).
Heaven is a slow, meandering song, something unlike most Pixies songs, so it felt like it was building to something. Which turned out to be a song from their 2019 album that I didn’t know. So, yes, I’m an old school Pixies fan and haven’t listened to much of anything they ‘ve released since they reunited. (more…)
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