Rock Solid!
by speedgirl on 2011-05-05Southern Alberta Jubilee Auditorium - CalgaryRating: 5 out of 5These guys still deliver. Wicked venue, fantastic band. Great set.
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Pixies have been acclaimed as the most influential, pioneering band of the late 80s alt/rock movement, having served as a major influence for artists like Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Radiohead, the Strokes, Weezer, and many more. And today, a whole new generation of music fans has been discovering and embracing the band's "loudquietloud" signature sound. Quirky, catchy melodies have always been Pixies' calling card; seven genre-defining studio albums, including the Gold-certified Surfer Rosa, and the iconic Platinum Doolittle, considered one of the all-time, quintessential alt/rock albums. Sell-out crowds all over the globe, Pixies' live shows are unadulterated magic, simultaneously electrifying and lo-fi. Seventy-five minutes of the band playing anything they want, in whatever order they want, the classics and the new gems. And no two Pixies shows are ever the same.
After disbanding in 1993, Pixies launched their reunion tour in April 2004, playing to sell-out crowds across the globe for 15 years, a far longer period of time than they were a band originally. But writing, recording, and releasing new music was something that the band had been wanting to do for a long time, so they secretly booked studio time in Wales for the fall of 2012. Six days into the recording, founding bassist Kim Deal decided to leave the band; Black Francis, Joey Santiago and David Lovering made the decision to carry on, finishing and releasing the band's first studio album in more than two decades, 2014's Indie Cindy.
As a prolific international touring band, Francis, Santiago, Lovering began working with a number of touring bassists, including former A Perfect Circle bassist Paz Lenchantin. The band are renowned for their emphatic live performances - where they play all four corners of the globe - their live sets regularly rack up to 30+ songs played - made even more impressive by the fact that there are no pre-planned setlists or soundchecks before the band walk onto the stage to play.
Twenty-sixteen's Head Carrier followed and marked the beginning of the band's long-standing collaboration with British producer Tom Dalgety. Twenty-eighteen's Beneath the Eyrie, the next full-length recording project with Dalgety, was recorded at Dreamland Studios near Woodstock, NY. The recording session was documented by the innovative "It's a Pixies Podcast," which captured a true un-edited record of the recording process. A deluxe edition followed, featuring unreleased demos from the Dreamland session.
Early 2022 saw the band and producer Dalgety settle into Guilford Studios in the woods of Vermont, armed with a true abundance of riches, more demos than were needed for the band's eighth album, Doggerel. Pixies renewed musical fervor saw a stand-alone single, "Human Crime," leap from the shadows in March 2022, and the band then headed out on the road to play sold-out shows in North America, headline BBC Radio 6 Music Festival in Cardiff, and play Mexico City's Vive Latino festival to 70,000 people. Pixies' first international tour since 2019 kicks off June 22 in Europe and will see the band performing in South America, Japan, Australia, and New Zealand.
Doggerel (2022) is a mature yet visceral record of gruesome folk, ballroom pop and brutal rock haunted by the ghosts of affairs and indulgences, driven wild by cosmic forces and envisioning digital afterlives where no God has provided one.
Doggerel was toured worldwide to sell-out audiences across the entirety of 2022 and 2023 - with the very last show at Hollywood Bowl, Los Angeles. Despite the band approaching their 38th year together, the crowds remain as diverse as ever - with new generations of fans emerging year-on-year who were not even born during Pixies 1.0. Pixies will return in 2024...
Setlists
- 1.Bone Machine
- 2.Wave of Mutilation
- 3.Monkey Gone to Heaven
- 4.Caribou
- 5.The Vegas Suite
- 6.Snakes
- 7.In Heaven (Lady in the Radiator Song) (Peter Ivers & David Lynch cover)
- 8.Death Horizon
- 9.Here Comes Your Man
- 10.Vamos
- 11.Nimrod's Son
- 12.Winterlong (Neil Young cover)
- 13.Gouge Away
- 14.Debaser
- 15.Cactus
- 16.Hey
- 17.Mr. Grieves
- 18.Chicken
- 19.Primrose
- 20.Motoroller
- 21.Mercy Me
- 22.Velouria
- 23.The Happening
- 24.Where Is My Mind?
- 25.Into the White
- 1.Bone Machine
- 2.U-Mass
- 3.Head On (The Jesus and Mary Chain cover)
- 4.Isla de Encanta
- 5.Wave of Mutilation
- 6.Monkey Gone to Heaven
- 7.In Heaven (Lady in the Radiator Song) (Peter Ivers & David Lynch cover)
- 8.Here Comes Your Man
- 9.The Holiday Song
- 10.Cactus
- 11.Vamos
- 12.Gouge Away
- 13.Hey
- 14.Planet of Sound
- 15.Chicken
- 16.Primrose
- 17.Snakes
- 18.The Vegas Suite
- 19.Mercy Me
- 20.Kings of the Prairie
- 21.Motoroller
- 22.Caribou
- 23.Velouria
- 24.The Happening
- 25.Wave of Mutilation (UK Surf)
- 26.Where Is My Mind?
- 1.In Heaven (Lady in the Radiator Song) (Peter Ivers & David Lynch cover)
- 2.Vamos
- 3.Here Comes Your Man
- 4.Motorway to Roswell
- 5.Isla de Encanta
- 6.Cactus
- 7.Chicken
- 8.Mercy Me
- 9.Motoroller
- 10.Gouge Away
- 11.Tame
- 12.Hey
- 13.Mr. Grieves
- 14.Debaser
- 15.Monkey Gone to Heaven
- 16.Head On (The Jesus and Mary Chain cover)
- 17.Wave of Mutilation
- 18.Caribou
- 19.Where Is My Mind?
- 1.In Heaven (Lady in the Radiator Song) (Peter Ivers & David Lynch cover)
- 2.Death Horizon
- 3.Here Comes Your Man
- 4.Vamos
- 5.Mr. Grieves
- 6.Winterlong (Neil Young cover)
- 7.Motorway to Roswell
- 8.Chicken
- 9.Snakes
- 10.The Vegas Suite
- 11.Mercy Me
- 12.Kings of the Prairie
- 13.Gouge Away
- 14.Debaser
- 15.Head On (The Jesus and Mary Chain cover)
- 16.Isla de Encanta
- 17.Wave of Mutilation
- 18.Monkey Gone to Heaven
- 19.Caribou
- 20.Hey
- 21.Velouria
- 22.The Happening
- 23.Wave of Mutilation (UK Surf)
- 24.Where Is My Mind?
- 25.Into the White
- 1.Gouge Away
- 2.Wave of Mutilation
- 3.Head On (The Jesus and Mary Chain cover)
- 4.Debaser
- 5.Hey
- 6.Cactus
- 7.Monkey Gone to Heaven
- 8.In Heaven (Lady in the Radiator Song) (Peter Ivers & David Lynch cover)
- 9.Here Comes Your Man
- 10.Vamos
- 11.Nimrod's Son
- 12.Motorway to Roswell
- 13.Wave of Mutilation (UK Surf)
- 14.Where Is My Mind?
Pixies lit it up
by Logan45 on 2011-05-05Shaw Conference Centre - EdmontonRating: 4 out of 5Good show. Crowd seemed a little detached, perhaps the lingering effects of all the smoke? Why though did the house lights come up with 30 mins left in the show? Staff tired and wanted to go home perhaps... well suck it up.
Legendary
by mckool on 2011-05-04Shaw Conference Centre - EdmontonRating: 5 out of 5I don't think any band delivers a sound as amazing as the Pixies. To date, I haven't heard any. Fantastic show!
Shaw venue terrible
by Asil on 2011-05-03Shaw Conference Centre - EdmontonRating: 2 out of 5Always good to see a band that was so important to how your taste in music evolved. Unfortunately the venue was terrible, the sound was no good, and again I was left disappointed in a show at the Shaw. I continue to vow not to go to shows at the Shaw but sometimes I cannot resist and blindly hope that something will have changed. Not true! Avoid the Shaw.
Pixies show was amazing!
by Trixxstrr on 2011-05-03Shaw Conference Centre - EdmontonRating: 5 out of 5Awesome show, great songs, great crowd. Rocked out.
- by Anonymous on 2011-05-03Shaw Conference Centre - EdmontonRating: 5 out of 5
the pixies were freaking amazing!! what an awesome show they played an entire album practially non stop. this was an awsome concert for my 5 yr old first concert
Pixies good but not great
by 1Tigerswood1 on 2011-05-03Jubilee Auditorium - Calgary, AlbertaRating: 3 out of 5Opening act was below average. Pixies were good but they could have played some more well known songs. Did they have to open up with B-sides? Then play more B-sides for an encore? A setlist for hardcore fans only - disappointing for casual fans like myself. Quick compaint about the venue - I like going to the Jubilee Auditorium, but it sucks for rock concerts. When everyone is standing I can't see a damn thing!
Infreakincredible
by Pixelated on 2011-05-03Shaw Conference Centre - EdmontonRating: 5 out of 5Wow !!!! What a show. Doolittle is such a landmark album and to have The Pixies performing these songs cover to cover was majestic. Gouge Away..............mmmmmMMMM yummy
Lost my mind for the pixies
by kritter on 2011-05-03Shaw Conference Centre - EdmontonRating: 4 out of 5Awesome show!! Loved the stage effects, and the double encore!! Good times.
BORING!!
by MrsJD on 2011-05-03Shaw Conference Centre - EdmontonRating: 1 out of 5Most boring concert I've ever been to. Never seen so many people just blank-staring at a stage...
the pixies are an amazing live band
by joestrong on 2011-05-03Shaw Conference Centre - EdmontonRating: 5 out of 51500 at first show in red's & 4500 at this show in shaw conference center.they should come back & play rexall.they are the original alternative\grunge band & its too bad they never got the recognition earlier in their careers but at least they are beening recognized now.they sound so good live & i hope i get to see them again.i wasn't expecting the psychodelic screen in the background & that just made the event that much better.these guys are a band everyone must see.i would love to see the pixies & the black angels on the same bill sometime.i have seen so many concerts in my life & lately these smaller events have been blowing me away & this show just adds to that statement.
Pixies are amazing!!
by MusicLover123123 on 2011-05-03Shaw Conference Centre - EdmontonRating: 5 out of 5I love this band more than ever now that I've seen 'em live.... what a treat!!
The Pixies left with my heart
by Moneers on 2011-05-03Southern Alberta Jubilee Auditorium - CalgaryRating: 5 out of 5In true Pixies fashion there was little talk and lots of rocking. This is my second time seeing them live and each time they get better! After all these years they are still what they started out by being bout the music and not the fan fair. You feel like part of the family no matter where your seats are. They have been and always will be my favorite band. Their songs are timeless and no matter how many times I've listened to them they don't get old. From the first note to the last the chills never left my body. My only complaint was being asked to sit down. Do not come to a Pixies show to sit. You come to rock and sing and dance. Sitting does not allow you to do that. Also don't come to a show to sit and email through out, the concert sold out in minutes and even crashed their website with people trying to get tickets!! I know 50 people who would have deserved those tickets a lot more! All in all amazingly unforgettable as always! La la love you Pixies!
The Pixies bring down the house!
by LuJu on 2011-05-02Southern Alberta Jubilee Auditorium - CalgaryRating: 5 out of 5This show was fantastic! They sounded amazing, and did 2 encores, each consisting of several songs. A CLASS ACT!!!!
Their Greeeat!
by knee on 2011-05-02Southern Alberta Jubilee Auditorium - CalgaryRating: 5 out of 5This monkeys gone to Heaven! Pixies were awesome, I'd recommend this concert.
awesome
by ryanmaiden on 2011-05-02Southern Alberta Jubilee Auditorium - CalgaryRating: 5 out of 5what can a say the pixes are awesome, they do not disapoint i waited for a long time to see them and i was blown away
Amazing show
by Blue76 on 2011-05-02Southern Alberta Jubilee Auditorium - CalgaryRating: 5 out of 5So excited to get anouther chance to see the Pixies. Saw them in 2004 in Vancover. I was a bit conserned about the Jub as the venue. Didn't know how it would be seeing them in a seated venue. It was great. Whole audience was on their feeet the whole show and the energy was tremendous. Played everthing I was hoping to hear.
Pixies
by slainte on 2011-05-02Southern Alberta Jubilee Auditorium - CalgaryRating: 5 out of 5Fantastic show! Pure, true sound - didn't hurt that it was at the Jubilee either. They played all their great songs, even those that were not on their Doolittle album. Don't miss them - they rocked!!!
The Pixies - incredible!!
by Jerseydog on 2011-05-02Southern Alberta Jubilee Auditorium - CalgaryRating: 5 out of 5Super intimate! So amazing and probably their last tour! So happy to see them!
Pixies were awesome!
by JaTh on 2011-05-01Centennial Concert Hall - WinnipegRating: 5 out of 5We loved the pixies! Only thing was we found it too loud - ears hurt for 2 days but was still good-- especially the first band - imaginary cities - its not that we are getting old - we just want to hear past the age of 60 - they could have turned it down a touch and it wouldve been just that much better.