Daily live electricity to turn summer into a holiday…
Band: PIXIES (Boston)
Where: Eden Sessions, Cornwall, UK
When: 2014
Song: GOUGE AWAY
Album: Doolittle (1989)
It’s time, Francis…
New album Doggerel out 30th September.
PIXIES: Facebook
BST HYDE PARK
Hyde Park – London UK
8 and 9 July 2022
4 TUTV Tips
(2 for each day)
– PIXIES –
(Fri 8 July)
– THE MURDER CAPITAL –
(Fri 8 July)
– JOHNNY MARR –
(Sa 9 July)
– TEMPLES –
(Sa 9 July)
Great album cover artwork
Boston‘s noise rock heroes PIXIES have a new longplayer ready for
release in September. It’s baptized DOGGEREL. Pre-order info here.
The LP’s cover is cool, the Pixies cool way, that is.
While waiting for that 8th LP I wonder if
Black Francis has already found his mind.
PIXIES: Instagram
Oops!
“Where is my mind, Francis?”
10 April 2022
Let’s help Francis to find it…
New striking strokes
3 March 2022
Artwork single
Boston’s beloved PIXIES just released new single
HUMAN RIME with maestro Black Francis looking
back at an old relationship..
Don’t you be unkind
That’s a human crime
Don’t you be so bright
It’ll come back to you sometime
Don’t you be unkind
That’s a human crime
Don’t you be so bright
It’ll come back to you sometime
(photo by Turn Up The Volume)
The accompanying video clip for the polished, yet infectious rocker
was directed by the band’s bassist Paz Lenchantin, which was filmed
at the San Pedro abandoned bunkers and Santa Monica’s Gold Diggers
Bar in Los Angeles.
Here we go…
The new single comes ahead of a deluxe edition of Live In Brixton arriving next month. It’s an 8-disc box set that brings together the complete recordings of all four shows from Pixies’ legendary run at the iconic London venue in 2004.
More info here
Black Francis/Frank Black about rules…
(Image: cover of Frank Black’s solo rarities compilation)
Great concert posters
PIXIES
Los Angeles
2019
1. ‘Where Is My Mind’ by NANDI BUSHELL
Original by Pixies.
From their 1988 debut LP Surfer Rosa.
This 11-year-old British-Zulu musician of South African
descent and media star is just brilliant, brilliant, brilliant.
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2. ‘The Ship Song’ by NELL SMITH and THE FLAMING LIPS (USA)
Original by Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
The cover is part of a full Nick Cave tribute LP called
Where The Viaduct Looms by The Flaming Lips and
the wondrous voice of 13-year-old songstress Nell Smith.
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3. ‘You Are A Runner And I Am Your Father’ by PORRIDGE RADIO (Brighton, UK)
Original by Canadian indie rockers Wolf Parade.
Porridge Radio vox Dana Margolin sends shivers
down your spine. Goosebumps all the way.
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4. ‘Highway To Hell’ by TOM MORELLO, THE BOSS and EDDIE VEDDER
Original by AC/DC.
Part of Rage Against The Machine guitarist Tom Morello‘s
2021 album The Atlas Underground Fire.
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5. ‘Stayin’ Alive’ by LEE ROGERS (Northern Ireland)
Original by Bee Gees.
This warm Americana voice out of Northern Ireland slows
the classic down, drenches it in a nostalgic sepia bath, and
gives it a haunting and soul-stirring twist corresponding with
the somber lyrics. Compelling version!
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6. ‘Run Run Run’ by KURT VILE
Original by The Velvet Underground.
From I’ll Be Your Mirror: A Tribute to the Velvet Underground and Nico,
celebrating the iconic NYC mavericks, and more specifically their debut
masterpiece LP of 1967.
Kurt Vile‘s pumped-up version of ‘Run Run Run’ is a striking steamroller…
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7. ‘Finest Worksong’ by DESPERATE JOURNALIST (UK)
Original by R.E.M.
This North London band nailed it, spot-on!
From A Carnival of Sorts: R.E.M. Covers Compilation,
released last August.
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8. ‘Paperback Writer’ by SAXON
Original by The Beatles
Britsih veteran metalheads seem to have big fun with this cover, so am I.
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9. Sad But True’ by ROYAL BLOOD (UK)
Original by Metallica.
From the massive covers compilation called The Metallica Blacklist
featuring no less than 53 artists interpreting a Black Album song, the
breakthrough LP that was released 30 years ago.
Wham royal bloody wham bam…
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10. ‘Silver Machine’ by TOYAH and ROBERT FRIPP
Original by Hawkind (with Lemmy)
Every Sunday for about two years now, the famous British songstress and
her King Crimson husband Robert Fripp entertained us (and still do it) via
YouTube with covers of big crackers. Their performances were/are ridiculously
hilarious. Definitely the stand-up rock comedians of 2021.
Let’s roll…
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