Re: Pixies reunion?

Here's the full story:
http://pitchforkmedia.com/news/03-07/14.shtml

Monday, July 14th, 2003

Frank Black Says Pixies Considering Reunion
We're gonna ditch the tagline here and just tell you to go read the 
lyrics to Caribou again, as more beautiful words have never been written

Ed Howard reports:
On the heels of the reissuing of virtually their entire back catalog, 
The Pixies, that most upstanding of classic late 80s/early 90s 
alternative rock bands (who I'm sure need no introduction here) may be 
just a few baby steps away from a full-fledged reunion.  Pixies 
frontman Frank Black (formerly known as Black Francis, for those who 
may have needed to ask) recently said in an interview with London radio 
station XFM that the group has been getting together every once in a 
while to play informally.

Black isn't 100% sold on the idea; he told the station, "I do dream 
about the Pixies reunion... It's like those schoolboy dreams when you 
don't do your homework and you don't study for the test, but I'm at the 
gig and we're hanging out, but it's an utter failure and I don't know 
the songs, and hardly anyone turns up for the gig and people walk out. 
That's what I'm afraid of, that it'd be a big, big failure."

Despite Black's hesitation, he does admit that the Pixies "do get 
together and have private jams together, but not for public 
consumption." It's a huge step, considering the well-publicized bad 
blood between Black and second singer/bassist Kim Deal. It was this 
tension that originally split up the band in 1993, leaving Deal to form 
The Breeders with sister Kelley.  Black's confirmation that the 
original line-up of himself, Deal, guitarist Joey Santiago, and drummer 
David Lovering still play together is a big step toward the band 
overcoming their past difficulties and reforming for a tour-- or 
possibly a new album.

In the meantime, however, Pixies fans will have to remain content with 
Black's current work with his backing band, The Catholics-- and it 
sounds like they couldn't be busier.  Though the band simultaneously 
released two full-lengths with Frank last August, they've already got 
another in the can.  Titled Show Me Your Tears, the forthcoming album 
is due out on September 9th.   They'll be promoting it with a tour of 
the UK this autumn. Dates:

09-26 Edinburgh, UK - Liquid Rooms
09-27 Aberdeen, UK - Lemon Tree
09-28 Glasgow, UK - Garage
09-30 Leeds, UK - Cockpit
10-01 Manchester, UK - MDH
10-02 Liverpool, UK - Stanley Theatre
10-03 Dublin, Ireland - Vicar St
10-05 Sheffield, UK - Leadmill
10-06 Birmingham, UK - Academy 2
10-07 Norwich, UK - Waterfront
10-09 Bristol, UK - Fire Station
10-10 Oxford, UK - Zodiac
10-11 Portsmouth, UK - Wedgewood Rooms
10-13 Cambridge, UK - Junction
10-14 Brighton, UK - Concorde
10-15 London, UK - Astoria


On Sunday, July 20, 2003, at 01:22  PM, Andrew Ironside wrote:

> Found this on remembertheeighties.com, anyone have an
> inkling of this?
>
> THE PIXIES are the subject of reunion rumours after
> frontman FRANK BLACK has revealed that the band still
> get together to jam and wouldn't rule out the
> possibility of future live shows...


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