Pixies Honor Chilean Miners with 33-Song Salute

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Pixies - Maquinaria Festival 2010

Pixies - Maquinaria Festival 2010

They may not be getting their own reality show, but the rescued Chilean miners got a pretty cool tribute last night. Last night long-reunited alt-rock legends the Pixies’ first-ever headlining appearance in Chile happened to coincide with the rescue of the Chilean miners who had been trapped in a collapsed copper mine for more than two months. To honor the 33 miners rescued, the band played 33 songs (plus a two-song encore), their longest set ever.

“We were so moved by this story,” said Black Francis, “by how many lives had been affected by this, and how the Chilean people banded together to support what can only be described as a miracle. We wanted to do something to show how affected we were by this…. We found out five minutes before we went on stage that all of the miners had safely reached the surface. This was definitely one of the most meaningful show we’ve ever played.”

Watch Francis introduce the set (in Spanish) below:

Having completed a second leg of their Doolittle tour, the band has returned to playing songs from all five of their records for their first Latin America tour. The complete set-list for last night’s show is below.

1. Cecilia Ann
2. Rock Music
3. Bone Machine
4. Crackity Jones
5. River Euphrates
6. Debaser
7. Wave of Mutilation
8. Monkey Gone to Heaven
9. I Bleed
10. Caribou
11. Cactus
12. Broken Face
13. Something Against You
14. Isla de Encanta
15. Tame
16. Sad Punk
17. Hey
18. #13 Baby
19. Gouge Away
20. Is She Weird?
21. Dead
22. U Mass
23. Break My Body
24. Velouria
25. Dig For Fire
26. Allison
27. Ed Is Dead
28. Mr. Grieves
29. Winter Long
30. Here Comes Your Man
31. Head On
32. Holiday Song
33. Vamos

Encore:
34. Where Is My Mind?
35. Gigantic

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