Pixies
Live Review & Gallery: An Unforgettable, Intimate Affair as Pixies Play Liberty Hall – Eora/Sydney, 20.11.24
Last night, the Pixies performed an intimate show at Eora/Sydney’s Liberty Hall, offering fans a rare close-up experience with the iconic band. Playing to just 1,200 lucky fans, the event sold out within days, offering an occasion miles removed from the sprawling stadium crowds they’re currently drawing as Pearl Jam’s support act. Black Francis greeted …
News: Here Comes Your Band-Pixies Announce Exclusive Australian Sideshows
Here Comes Your Band: Pixies’ Exclusive Sideshows Are a Head Rush
Feature: UK & Ireland live review team’s Top 5 gigs of 2023
It’s been one hell of a year for live music and our UK & Ireland review team have covered the length and breadth of the British Isles, to bring you the very best coverage, befitting one of the UK’s Top 10 music websites. Did we mention we’d recently come 9th in the Top 100 UK …
Pixies Announce Bossanova x Trompe Le Monde UK Tour 2024
Pic Credit: Andi Callen Photography – All Rights Reserved Pixies, one the most influential, pioneering bands have announced their return to the UK to perform their hugely acclaimed albums Bossanova and Trompe Le Monde as part of a major European tour. Pixies third studio album, Bossanova released in 1990 was produced by Gil Norton, with …
Live Review: Pixies / Slow Readers Club – The Roundhouse, London 20.03.2023
To mark the 35th Anniversary of the ‘Surfer Rosa album’ the most influential American rock band are performing an electrifying show at the Roundhouse and this is their first of two major UK shows at the Roundhouse since they did a five night stint back in 2018. It was not surprising to see people already …
LIVE REVIEW and GALLERY: The Clockworks – Mike the Pies (11.11.2022) and Róisín Dubh (12.11.2022), Ireland.
Irish band The Clockworks are now based in London and have been on their first headline tour. The last two dates of their Irish leg saw them play Mike the Pies in Listowel and Róisín Dubh in Galway. Both gigs sold out with the latter having particular significance as it’s a hometown venue which they …
Live Review: Pixies / The Slow Show – Iveagh Gardens, Dublin 16.07.2022
Pixies were the band tasked with finishing off this years run of music at Dublin’s Iveagh Gardens.The gardens/park are almost completely surrounded by buildings and only a short walking distance from Dublin City Centre and being surrounded as it is makes it a perfect sound trap as was proven throughout the evening. One of the …
Track: Pixies – Hear Me Out
Pixies will release a limited edition double A-side single on October 16th. Pressed on 12” yellow vinyl, it will feature the new track ‘Hear Me Out’ alongside the band’s gritty interpretation of the T-Rex classic ‘Mambo Sun’. ‘Hear Me Out’ The song was written by frontman Black Francis and Lenchantin at Dreamland Studios during sessions for ‘Beneath The Eyrie’, with production courtesy of the Grammy-nominated Tom Dalgety (Royal Blood, Ghost, etc.). “Black …
TOP TEN: Fair Mothers’ Kevin Allan picks the albums that made the difference
Aberdeenshire’s Kevin Allan releases his second LP of this most universally fraught year today, August 7th. Valentine’s Day brought us ‘Separate Lives’, which was necessarily championed by Stuart Maconie on his 6Music Freakzone. ‘In Monochrome’ is an absolute stunner, we find. Raw, chilled, unblinking in the face of life, Kevin makes promises no answers. But what he does do is communicate with you, proffer you emotional information; learn alongside him. ‘In Monochrome’ is unflinching and visionary; it’s one of the essential albums of 2020, sayeth us here at BSM.
Classic Compilation: Various Artists – I’m Your Fan
The compilation album consisting of multiple acts recording a variety of songs penned by a single artist by way of tribute resulted in a series of releases which can be generously considered ‘patchy’. For every Step Right Up, or A Testimonial Dinner, two examples which actually worked, there were a dozen more ham-fisted attempts at …