Pixies, O2 Academy Brixton review, setlist London (09 October 2009) with Dinosaur Pile-Up concert

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mohaupt (about 1 month ago)

super show. sounded as good as new

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manishpuri (about 1 month ago)

Recording available here: http://pixieslive.sandbag.uk.com/Store/DisplayItems.html

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michelle (about 1 month ago)

The reason why I love live music is for that inimitable experience of just being there. For a rare couple of hours in your life, you can forget everything and everyone else, the mundane and petty, and simply experience. Your heart and mind are in one and the same place for once, and it's enabled by that exceptional combination of true performance, affecting music, and kinship with complete strangers who are experiencing the same thing as you.

For me, that only happens with bands who've made a difference in my life, whose music vividly demarcates certain periods of time, where the words and melodies really mean something in my memory. The Pixies are that for me. My sophomore year of college, a now lost friend introduced me to them, shocked that I'd never heard of them before, and their surrealist, fragmentary lyrics made sense to who I was at the time: a person trying to decipher the world. (I still am I guess, but the feeling is now familiar and institutionalized, whereas back then it was new, new, bewildering and new.) So I suppose this review is highly personal, but then I guess music is.

I don't know if anyone knows what I mean, but that's why I go to gigs, why I do what I do. It rarely happens, maybe I've been to 5-6 gigs where I've experienced this. More often than not a song or two might capture my emotional attention, but for the rest of the time my mind is elsewhere, I wish I were somewhere else.

Last night I was there the whole time and the end caught me by surprise.

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krburg (about 1 month ago)

A Guess at the 3 song 2nd encore..

The Holiday Song
Planet Of Sound
Vamos

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Pixie8 (about 1 month ago)

Anyone got a spare ticket for tonights show by any chance?

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phantomwhale (about 1 month ago)

Woohoo ! Pixies !

I'll be the giant bearded ginger man blocking your view of the band. Sorry.

But in return - there will be a HAND OF ROCK on the back of my t-shirt. So that will be pretty awesome.

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1. michelle (about 1 month ago)
  
  WOOOOOOOOOO! I'll be there. And if you're blocking my view, don't mind me if I move up in front of you. I'm a short girl! My first time at Brixton Academy. Hope it's the best night out of all their shows.
  
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m_twi (2 months ago)

WANTED - 2 tix standing for any of the london nights - face value?

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giollaiosa (4 months ago)

Just got Wednesday tickets on Ticketweb!

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andrewmee (4 months ago)

Argh gigantic is sold out and the other two are down :(

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1. andrewmee (4 months ago)
  
  Ticketweb also sold out
  
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michelle (4 months ago)

Just bought my tickets! I finally get to see them -- dream realized. Gigantic totally buckled under the load, but Ticketweb held up. WOOHOOOOO.

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