With the Pixies’ tour dates a smashing success in the U.S., the U.K., Europe, Australia, and New Zealand and Japan, the band – Black Francis, Kim Deal, Joey Santiago and David Lovering – has announced its first-ever tour of Latin America. Six dates have been confirmed, with the first being on October 6 in Buenos Aires, winding up with the last of three shows in Mexico on October 19. The Mexico trek will also include a co-headline spot (with Interpol) at the Corona Capital Festival. The full itinerary is below.
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On all of the U.S. “Doolittle” dates, the Pixies will perform all of the songs from Doolittle and its related B-sides, in front of an imaginative cinematic production that includes four huge, undulating, eyeball-like spheres that are part of the concert’s light show, as well as eleven short films produced specifically for this production.
The Doolittle Tour launched on September 30, 2009 in Dublin, Ireland, and played sold-out shows everywhere – Scotland, Frankfurt, Amsterdam, Brussels, Paris, and to 20,000 fans over four nights in London. It then came to America last November, playing multiple-night sell-outs from Los Angeles to Chicago to New York, and then in March, 2010, sold-out shows were performed in five Australian cities. The tour received five-star reviews in the [London] Times, the Guardian and the Independent, and, according to one U.S. alt/weekly, “The Pixies continue to WOW.”
The Boston-formed Pixies have been acclaimed as the most influential pioneering band of the late ’80s alt/rock movement. Their five studio releases and six years together effectively blazed the path for groups like Nirvana, Radiohead, and Pearl Jam to rise to superstardom. They disbanded in 1993 and launched their reunion tour in April 2004 when virtually every, single date sold out within minutes and fans traveled hundreds of miles to attend a show. In post-Pixies years, Black Francis has enjoyed a successful solo career as Frank Black, Kim Deal went on to form the Platinum-selling band the Breeders, Joey Santiago started the band The Martinis and has carved a career as a music composer for film and TV, and David Lovering performs as a magician and continues to drum.
The confirmed itinerary for the Latin American tour dates, as well as the complete routing for the second U.S. leg of the “Doolittle Tour” are as follows:
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