Pixies To Reunite For Tour - Official!

[zerothru7]

The indie legends, who split in 1993, had already been announced as one of the acts at this year's Coachella festival in California, where they will appear on May 1. Speculation has been rife for months now that the band would be playing more shows in 2004, and now a spokesperson for the band has revealed that more shows will be taking place, and are due to be confirmed imminently. <a href="http://www.nme.com/news/107414.htm">link</a>

[polite]

This is tremendous news, I'll look them up.

[Sbutter]

Good to hear. Hopefully they do a few other spots than Cali.

[polite]

I've got "I bleed" and "debaser" thumping in my head now and my stereo is off.:)

[Bostonmess]

The Pixies, one of rock's most influential bands, continue their comeback on Wednesday with their first UK show for 13 years, before playing at festivals across Europe this summer.
Hailing from Boston, Massachusetts, the four-piece were never pin-ups, never topped the singles charts on either side of the Atlantic, or went multi-platinum.

But without them, the modern rock scene since would be very different.

Nirvana leader Kurt Cobain was clear that without the Pixies, there never would have been a Smells Like Teen Spirit.

Thom Yorke of Radiohead has hailed the band's leader - the mysteriously-titled Black Francis - as one of the best songwriters of the late 1980s.

There are echoes and whispers of the Pixies in records by everyone from The Strokes to PJ Harvey, Ash to The White Stripes.

And their effect has been felt by elder statesmen like David Bowie and U2's Bono, who said they were re-energised by the anarchic, otherworldly music this eccentric rock group made.

BBC (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/music/3729933.stm)

[Canalien]

I heard about this near the start of the year... back then there was a very speculative *rumour* that they might be making out here to play at the Livid festival this year... haven't heard anything about that since though.

[and3w]

They are playing at V2004 @ Weston Park, in Staffordshire in August and guess who has a weekend ticket (even though I only live 10 miles away) ME :D

Any other Geekers going?