NEW YORK (www.gaargeradio.com) - Without a doubt the hottest reunion in ages, PIXIES - Frank
Black (vocals, guitar), Kim Deal (bass, vocals,) Joey Santiago (guitar),
David Lovering (drums) - will kick off their first North American concert tour in more than a decade on
September 4 at the Les Schwab Amphitheatre in Bend, OR (confirmed dates below).
This tour follows the band's sold-out April "warm up" dates which culminated with the band's co-headlining position at Southern California's Coachella Valley Festival on May 1.
For this Fall tour, Pixies have already shattered past sales records in numerous venues - all 18,000 tickets were sold in minutes last week for the band's unprecedented six-consecutive-night December run at New York City's Hammerstein Ballroom; Pixies also sold-out all 18,000 tickets for a record-setting four-night November run at Chicago's Aragon Ballroom. Sell-outs have also occurred for shows in Atlanta, Philadelphia, Toronto, Orlando, Vancouver, San Francisco, Kansas City, and Orlando.
As on the April "warm up" dates, Pixies will work with DiscLive, Inc. to record most of the Fall concerts**, making "Pixies Live," a special limited edition double-CD of a particular show available for sale immediately after that concert. The first show to be available will be the September 18 performance at the Austin City Limits Festival in Austin, TX. The Pixies' traveling caravan will include a DiscLive truck that will have the capacity to record and manufacture the CDs on the spot. Depending on the show, 1-2,000 CDs will be made, and when the CDs are gone, they're gone - no more will be produced. The collectible discs will retail for $25.00 and can be pre-purchased at the DiscLive site (https://www.disclive.com) or at point of sale stations to be set up at the participating venues.
In addition, DiscLive will implement a NetBurn Pass program allowing fans to make CDs at home from any Pixies concerts on the Fall tour that DiscLive has previously recorded. The NetBurn pass will be offered to fans for $18 for a single concert, $59 for five concerts, and $99 for ten concerts of the fan's choosing. DiscLive sold out all 16,000 CDs produced on the Pixies' April dates, as well as a limited edition of 6,000 CDs from four sold-out shows at London's Brixton Academy in June. For more information about the Fall tour CDs and NetBurns, log onto https://www.disclive.com.
Since it kicked off last April, the Pixies' reunion has experienced overwhelming worldwide success. Virtually every Pixies show on the April "warm up" dates sold out within minutes, and tickets were available only on eBay for hundreds of dollars each. In May, the Pixies co-headlined the first day at the Coachella Valley Festival, and created pure magic in the hot desert for 50,000 fans ("The day belonged to the Pixies," so said the New York Times).
June saw the band headline four sold-out dates in London, playing to a total of 19,000 fans.
According to The Times in London, the Pixies were "musically spellbinding...[playing] a set of superlative rock songs with unwavering conviction, and they did it brilliantly." Earlier this month, Pixies sold out yet another London concert scheduled for August 20 at the Forum in under ten minutes.
Since late May, the Pixies have toured throughout Europe, playing major festivals and sold-out headline shows of their own, and on July 30, made their first-ever performance at the Fuji Rock Festival in Japan. On June 15, the band's first new song in more than a dozen years - "Bam Thwok" - was released as an exclusive download via iTunes, becoming the #1 seller on the site's USA, UK, and French charts. The song can be downloaded for $.99 at Apple's iTunes.
With more dates to be announced, confirmed dates for the PIXIES' 2004 Fall North American tour are as follows:
SEPTEMBER
4 Les Schwab Amphitheatre, Bend, OR
6 Bumbershoot Festival, Memorial Stadium, Seattle, WA
7 Plaza of Nations, Vancouver, BC
18 ACL/Ziker Park, Austin, TX **
20 Mesa Amphitheatre, Phoenix, AZ **
21 RIMAC, San Diego, CA **
22-23 Greek Theatre, Los Angeles, CA **
24-26 Greek Theatre, Berkeley, CA **
28 Kinsbury Hall, Salt Lake City, UT **
30 Magness Arena, Denver, CO **
OCTOBER
1 Uptown Theatre, Kansas City, MO **
2 Pershing Auditorium, Lincoln, NB **
4 Veterans Memorial Auditorium, Columbus, OH **
5 Hearnes Center, Columbia, MO **
6 Ryman Auditorium, Nashville, TN **
8 USF Sundome, Tampa, FL **
9 Mizner Amphitheatre, Miami, FL **
10 Hard Rock, Orlando, FL **
12 Boutwell Auditorium, Birmingham, AL **
13-14 Fox Theatre, Atlanta, GA **
16 Voodoo Festival, New Orleans, LA **
17 Reliant Arena, Houston, TX **
19 Next Stage/Nokia Live, Dallas, TX **
NOVEMBER
9 Milwaukee Theatre, Milwaukee, WI
10-11 Roy Wilkins Auditorium, St. Paul, MN **
13-16 Aragon Ballroom, Chicago, IL **
18 State Theatre, Detroit, MI
20 Fox Theatre, Detroit, MI
21 Rhodes Arena, Akron, OH **
24-25 Arrow Hall, Toronto, ONT **
26-27 CEPSUM Arena, Montreal, QUE **
28 Arena Robert Guetin, Hull, QUE **
30 Mullins Center, Amherst, MA **
DECEMBER
3 Palumbo Center, Pittsburgh, PA **
4-5 Tweeter Center, Camden, NJ
6 Constant Convocation Center, Norfolk, VA **
7-8 Constitution Hall, Washington, D.C. **
11-16 Hammerstein Ballroom, New York, NY
** Shows that DiscLive will record for "PIXIES LIVE" limited edition CDs and NetBurn.
