Re: Pixies reunion?

oh, pitchfork. the day after they said MBV was reuniting too. ha ha 
ha ha ha. i was half expecting them to say J&MC or chapterhouse 
reuniting later that week...

yes, frank black has done jam sessions or whatever with the other 
pixies band members... except for kim deal. pitchfork does have a 
habit of taking backhanded comments and turning them into huge news 
stories. like that whole "elephant 6 is dead" thing. feh. of course 
they stole this story from NME, who also is guilty of doing similar 
things


what's really fun is finding something on another site/message board 
and posting it to the pitchfork message board, and seeing it end up a 
headline news story a few days later! like when i posted about the 
vsnares 'nymphomatriarch' album when people first started talking 
about it on the planet µ board, or when i read about the 
microphones "breaking up" on tinymixtapes.com...


ROCK!
-paul
np: hnia: one year (four tet rmx)

--- In [email protected], Mike Piontek <mikey@t...> wrote:
> 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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