LOS ANGELES, CA (Wednesday,
March 25, 2015) -- As part of the final leg of their 2013-2015 global
tour, Pixies will join Robert Plant for a handful of shows, and the band
- all big Robert Plant (and Zeppelin) fans - jumped at the chance when
the offer was made.
"No one sounds like Robert
Plant, his voice is completely unique and instantly recognizable," said
Pixies' David Lovering. "I've had all of his solo albums on my iPod
over the years - 'Pictures at Eleven,' 'In the Mood,' 'Little by
Little,' it doesn't matter what he sings, Zeppelin songs, solo songs,
he's wonderful to hear, and I'm really looking forward to being on tour
with him."
According to band
guitarist Joey Santiago, Plant and Zeppelin figured into Pixies' early
history in a strange sort of way. "On one of our first tours, when it
was just the four of us in a van, we had this cassette tape that had a
lot of different songs on it, but for some reason, the only song it ever
played was Zeppelin's 'When The Levee Breaks.' We'd fast forward the
tape, rewind it, but whenever we pushed PLAY, it played 'When The Levee
Breaks.' Weird."
"We've
never played with Robert Plant before," added Lovering, "but we
actually met him on a flight from London once. Our manager and I
started talking with him about soccer, talked and talked and talked
about it, as the plane was landing, while we were walking through the
airport to baggage, the conversation never stopped. He was a wonderful
guy, no pretentions, just a real joy. We found out later that our
manager had told him we were the Pixies, and he just said, "Boston's
finest."
Prior to joining up with
Plant, Pixies will perform a series of major festivals as well as
headline shows at intimate theatres in many cities not played on this
two-year trek. The tour will also set the stage for the debut of some
brand-new Pixies songs, written and arranged just in the past few
months. Pixies' first new studio album in more than two decades, Indie Cindy [PIAS], was released April 29, 2014.
For all of these dates,
Pixies - Black Francis, Joey Santiago and David Lovering - will once
again be joined by touring bassist Paz Lenchantin, who has been playing
with the band since January, 2014. All shows will feature a new and
more varied set packed with songs from the entire Pixies catalogue, full
of distortion howls and all the vivid dissonance a Pixies fan would
expect.
Announced dates for Pixies 2015 North American tour are as follows:
Upcoming Shows
- Sep 10, 2015Thursday @ 12pm
- Sep 10, 2015Thursday @ 7:45pm
- Sep 15, 2015Tuesday @ 7:45pm
- Sep 17, 2015Thursday @ 8pm
- Sep 18, 2015Friday @ 8pm
- Sep 20, 2015Sunday @ 7:30pm
- Sep 22, 2015Tuesday @ 7:30pm
- Sep 23, 2015Wednesday @ 7:45pm
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