Pixies, The
Jul 18, 2011
The Pixies (Black Francis, Kim Deal, Joey Santiago and David Lovering) recently announced in honor of the 20th anniversary of their beloved 1989 album Doolittle they will be touring the US beginning Thursday, October 27 at the Wellmont Theatre in Montclair, NJ.
On the Doolittle Tour, the band will perform all of the songs from their 1989 classic Doolittle and its related B-sides. "Weird at My School," "Dancing the Manta Ray," and "Bailey's Walk" among them. Doolittle, rated the second-best album of all-time by the NME, was the band's third album and the first to chart on Billboard's album charts, and includes classics such as "Debaser," "Wave of Mutilation," "Here Comes Your Man," "Hey," and "Gouge Away."
A creative cinematic production has been created for The Doolittle Tour designed by long-time Pixies lighting designer Myles Mangino and designer Paul Normandale. The set features four huge, undulating, eyeball-like spheres flown just below the lighting rig and are part of the concert's light show. Filmmakers Judy Jacobs, Tom Winkler, Brent Felix and Melinda Tupling were brought on board to create 12 films especially for the production. The films are projected onto a massive backdrop video screen to accompany 12 of the 21 songs that comprise the show.
Since the "Doolittle Tour" kicked off in Dublin nearly two years ago, the Pixies have perfected the extravaganza, playing to sold-out crowds in Ireland, Scotland, Frankfurt, Amsterdam, Brussels, Paris, and to 20,000 fans over four nights in London. The band then first brought "Doolittle" to America in November 2009 where it played multiple-night sell-outs from Los Angeles to Chicago to New York, then again in the fall of 2010 where it criss-crossed the country, also to capacity crowds.
Earlier this year, "Doolittle" played 18 Canadian dates, the most extensive tour the band had done there. The tour has received five-star reviews in the [London] Times, the Guardian and the Independent, and the U.S. press loved the show as well: "'Doolittle' still plants the freak flag in alt-rock's twilight zone, where lullabies meet blasphemy, waves of mutilation pound forests into driftwood, and all good monkeys go to heaven." "...an almost indescribable joy..."
Dates for the Pixies' Fall 2011 leg of the Doolittle World Tour:
OCTOBER
- 27 Wellmont Theatre, Montclair, NJ
- 28 Asbury Park Convention Hall, Asbury Park, NJ
- 29 Palace Theatre, Waterbury, CT
- 30 Hampton Beach Ballroom, Hampton Beach, NH
NOVEMBER
- 1 State Theatre, Portland, ME
- 2 The Armory, Rochester, NY
- 3 State Theatre Center for the Arts, Easton, PA
- 5 Paramount Theatre, Huntington, NY
- 6 Grand Opera House, Wilmington, DE
- 8 War Memorial Auditorium, Greensboro, NC
- 9 Louisville Palace Theatre, Louisville, KY
- 10 Tennessee Theatre, Knoxville, TN
- 11 North Charleston Performing Arts Center, North Charleston, SC
- 14 Orpheum Theatre, Memphis, TN
- 15 Bricktown Events Center, Oklahoma, OK
- 16 Santa Fe Center, Sante Fe, NM
- 18 Fox Theatre, Bakersfield, CA
- 20 The Uptown Theatre, Napa, CA
- 21 Civic Auditorium, Santa Cruz, CA
