Pixies live @ Plymouth Pavilions – 14/09/2019
Pixies @ Pavilions
There are two ways to approach
this one for me and it’s left me in a bit of a quandary. The teenager in me was
giddy to be back at the venue of so many happy memories from the late 90s,
walking in to see a band that I never thought I’d get to see in my lift time. I
certainly never expected that a band of
the stature of Pixies would ever bother wending their way all the down to
Britain’s Ocean City so it was heart-warming to see the venue full to capacity
(take note, other touring bands , it’s worth travelling down this way).
The adult in me, however, found
it much harder to let the joy of the experience of hearing Pixies rip through a
visceral set of old and new songs due to the now infamous awful sound quality
at the Pavilions. Sure, classic tracks like ‘Monkey Gone to Heaven’, ‘Here
Comes Your Man’, ‘Wave of Mutilation’ and ‘Where is my Mind?’ were crowd
pleasers but on more than one occasion the huddled masses took a while to
comprehend what the swirling, echoing noise bouncing around the arena was. The
new tracks like ‘Catfish Kate’, ‘St. Nazaire’ and ‘Graveyard Hill’ didn’t miss
a step at all and the devoted crowd are lapping it up but once the teenager in
me had grown up and experienced almost any other venue, this place was ruined
for the adult in me.
The standard lack of audience interaction
from Pixies was part of the experience as always and a one song encore of ‘Gigantic’
was a glorious sing-along to end on but it doesn’t alter the fact that the band
sounded better from the bar even though they couldn’t be seen. So, as my gig
companion for the evening put it so eloquently “Great band, shit venue”.
More information: https://www.facebook.com/pixiesofficial/
Live Dates:
16th September – O2 Academy, Birmingham
17th September – O2 Academy, Leeds
18th September – O2 Apollo, Manchester
20th September – Alexandra Palace, London
21st September – O2 Academy, Newcastle
22nd September – O2 Academy, Glasgow
23rd September – Usher Hall, Edinburgh
25th September – Ulster Hall, Belfast
26th September – Olympia Theatre, Dublin
29th September – Sentrum Scene, Oslo
30th September – Cirkus, Stockholm
1st October – KB Hallen, Denmark
3rd October – Tivoli Vredenburg, Utrecht
4th October – O13 Poppodium, Tilburg
5th October – Columbianhalle, Berlin
7th October – Palladium, Cologne
8th October – Lucerna Music Hall, Prague
9th October – Gasometer, Vienna
11th October – Estragon, Bologna
12th October – Todays at OGR, Turin
13th October – X-Tra, Zurich
15th October – Tonhalle, Munich
16th October – Forest National, Brussels
17th October – Luxexpo, Luxembourg
19th October – L’Olympia, Paris
20th October – Le Radiant, Lyon
21st October – Le Liberte, Rennes
23rd October – Sant Jordi Club, Barcelona
24th October – Riviera, Madrid
25th October – Campo Pequeno, Lisbon
26th October – Coliseum, Galicia
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