Pixies announce additional shows for Brisbane, + second Melbourne tickets on sale now
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Pixies, one of the most influential alternative rock bands of all time, have announced a second show for Brisbane fans due to overwhelming demand. Following on from Melbourne’s second show announced on Friday (on sale 12pm today!), Brisbane fans have been just as eager to see catch the influential music pioneers, selling out the Fortitude Music Hall date on March 13. A second show has been added at the same venue on Thursday March 12 as part of their mammoth world tour, Come On Pilgrim… It’s Surfer Rosa.
Forming in Boston, Massachusetts in 1986, Pixies are often acclaimed as the most influential, pioneering alternative band of the late 80s, garnering extraordinary critical and popular acclaim. After five genre-defining studio albums, Pixies disbanded in 1993. The tide turned in 2004 - the band reunited and began touring, playing to sell-out crowds around the world including their first-ever Australian performances in 2007, later to be followed by a 13-show sold-out Doolittle tour in 2010 and again in 2017.
The Pixies’ debut releases – the electrifying 1987 EP Come On Pilgrim and 1988’s debut full-length album, Surfer Rosa - brought rise to a new genre and defined contemporary music for a generation.
The tour will bear witness to both seminal albums being performed in full; plus new and old tracks spanning their extensive catalogue. Surfer Rosa is a record made up of rage, religion, gore, incest and superheroes named Tony - a debut album so good that it's since been seen as a masterpiece. Produced by Steve Albini, it includes early Pixies classics such as Bone Machine, Gigantic, Vamos and Where Is My Mind?. Come On Pilgrim contained eight songs from the band's first-ever studio session, produced by Gary Smith and recorded at his Fort Apache Studio near Boston.
Pixies will release their brand new and eighth studio album, Beneath The Eyrie, on September 13 (through Infectious/BMG). Visceral, musically cinematic, otherworldly but strangely familiar and a bit unsettling – the album boasts 12 new tracks produced by GRAMMY nominated Tom Dalgety (Ghost, Royal Blood, Pixies' Head Carrier). Lead single On Graveyard Hill, is an in-your-face, classic Pixies tale of imminent, ominous doom. Fans can pre-order the album now. The evolution of the album’s creative process is uniquely documented in a 12-episode podcast entitled It’s a Pixies Podcast.
Returning for what will be only their fourth visit to Australia, the band will now perform two shows at Melbourne’s Palais Theatre on March 9 and 10, then head to Brisbane for shows on March 12 and 13, a not-to-be-missed momentous show under the stars at Sydney Opera House Forecourt on Saturday March 14 before flying west for a final show at Fremantle Arts Centre on March 17.
Pixies Come On Pilgrim… It’s Surfer Rosa AUS Tour 2020
09/03/2020 - Palais Theatre, Melbourne, AUS
10/03/2020 - Palais Theatre, Melbourne, AUS
12/03/2020 - Fortitude Music, Brisbane, AUS
13/03/2020 - Fortitude Music, Brisbane, AUS
14/03/2020 - Sydney Opera House Forecourt, Sydney, AUS
17/03/2020 - Fremantle Arts Centre, Perth, AUS
Tickets for the second Melbourne show go on sale at 12pm today (Monday, August 12).
Tickets for the second Brisbane show go on sale at 12pm Tuesday, August 13.
For complete tour and ticket information, visit: livenation.com.au.