Pixies Reviews

Pixies - Glasgow, 4th October 2009

by Stephen McLeod on Sun, 2009/10/04 - 10:51pm

By the time Nirvana had come to fame, the Pixies had already come and gone. They never really did get all that much recognition at the time, but retrospectively they’ve become somewhat of a must-have for anyone with an ear for alternative music.

Tonight saw them return to Glasgow after 18 years – their last trip in 1991, where the stage collapsed after only a few songs.
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Fresh from the Pixies reunion and biting back with some LOUDquietLOUD material, Black Francis is taking Koko by storm with XX Teens by his Satanic side. Ric Rawlins reviews…
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Abigail catches a gaggle of guitar driven electro acts at Fabric, and wonders whether Xerox Teens are worthy of the top-ish billing they’ve been getting lately…
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In this review, Dave Hood refers to the new Kings Of Leon album by its acronym, which is ‘Bott’. Strangely appropriate, as it’s a big pile of arse. Plus there’s a feisty comment from ‘Minster’ just added, who uses personal insults and KoL’s commercial success to defend the album. Does anyone else out there genuinely like or dislike this record? Let us know…
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by Dave
This is one of those albums that is officially released on 24th July, but you can already easily get as was self released and I think put out on another label in the US. Anyway, it’s excellent.
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