For most dates, the public on-sale begins Monday, June 14; Nashville goes on sale Saturday, June 19. On sale times, ticket prices and where to buy tickets will vary city to city so please see itinerary below. <\/p>\n
On this tour, the Pixies – Black Francis, Kim Deal, Joey Santiago and David Lovering – will perform all of the songs from Doolittle and its related B-sides, \u201cWeird at My School,\u201d \u201cDancing the Manta Ray,\u201d and \u201cBailey\u2019s Walk\u201d among them. Doolittle, the band\u2019s third album and the first to chart on Billboard\u2019s album charts, includes classics such as \u201cDebaser,\u201d \u201cWave of Mutilation,\u201d \u201cHere Comes Your Man,\u201d \u201cHey,\u201d and \u201cGouge Away.\u201d<\/p>\n
An imaginative cinematic production has been created for The Doolittle Tour. Designed by long-time Pixies lighting designer Myles Mangino and designer Paul Normandale, the set features four huge, undulating, eyeball-like spheres flown just below the lighting rig and are part of the concert\u2019s light show. Filmmakers Judy Jacobs, Tom Winkler, Brent Felix and Melinda Tupling were brought on board to create 11 films especially for the production. The films are projected onto a massive backdrop video screen to accompany 12 of the 21 songs that comprise the show.<\/p>\n
As an example, visuals accompanying the song \u201cDebaser\u201d are from a compilation titled \u201cForbidden Images.\u201d The hauntingly beautiful black and white footage from the 1920s depicts the beginning of the women\u2019s rights movement, showing women\u2019s exuberant playfulness, femininity and sensuality. The footage, a little too progressive for its time period, was originally banned from theaters. <\/p>\n
For \u201cHere Comes Your Man,\u201d a four-way split screen displays close up images of the band members dancing along to the song; \u201cI Bleed\u201d sees blood dripping down the screen in time to the music; \u201cHey\u201d features hand-drawn animation of the song\u2019s lyrics by Hollywood animator Tom Winkler; clouds, black holes, and Mankind\u2019s arrogance destroying the Earth are the focus for \u201cMonkey Gone to Heaven,\u201d while \u201cLa La Love You\u201d is a humorous animated piece starring hearts with legs.<\/p>\n
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, \u201cThe Pixies continue to WOW.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Boston-formed Pixies have been acclaimed as the most influential pioneering band of the late \u201880s 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. <\/p>\n
The concert opens with the showing of the 1929 silent surrealist short film, \u201cUn Chien Andalou,\u201d which was produced in France by Spanish director Luis Bunuel and artist Salvador Dali, and provided the impetus for Black Francis in writing \u201cDebaser.\u201d<\/p>\n
Confirmed dates for the Pixies\u2019 2010 U.S. Doolittle Tour are as follows:<\/p>\n
SEPTEMBER
\n 7\tTower Theatre, Philadelphia, PA*
\n10\tRyman Auditorium, Nashville, TN*
\n13\tFox Theatre, Atlanta, GA*
\n17\tUptown Theatre, Kansas City, MO
\n18\tBrady Theatre, Tulsa, OK**
\n19\tVerizon Theatre, Dallas, TX*
\n20\tVerizon Wireless Theatre, Houston, TX
\n22\tAustin Music Hall, Austin, TX***
\n24\tMesa Amphitheatre, Mesa, AZ (tickets sold through the venue)
\n25\tThe Joint, Las Vegas, NV*
\n26\tRIMAC Arena, San Diego, CA*<\/p>\n
* Tickets sold through Ticketmaster
\n** Tickets sold through Protix
\n*** Tickets sold through Frontgate<\/p>\n
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