Indie on Tour
Minus Kim Deal, the sort-of Pixies are coming to Texas in early 2014
Quintessential indie band Pixies have announced a 33-city North American tour in early 2014 and it's coming to Texas, whoo-hoo.
The tour will end in Austin on March 2 at Austin Music Hall, but not before hitting Houston on February 27 at Bayou Music Center and the South Side Ballroom in Dallas on February 28. Best Coast is slated to be the opening act.
Tickets go on sale Friday, October 11 at 10 am; log on to pixiesmusic.com for purchasing information.
The announcement of the tour opens with this unintentionally sad note from The Guardian UK that "there's no denying Pixies' superlative live impact. Deal or no Deal." It's a reference to the fact that the quartet will tour without bassist Kim Deal, who left the band in June.
The other three original Pixies – singer Black Francis, guitarist Joey Santiago and drummer David Lovering – will be joined by touring bassist Kim Shattuck. They're plugging an EP's worth of new material, their first in more than 20 years. They released a single, "Bagboy," on June 28, and a four-track EP-1 on September 3. The tour features a new stage set and production, and will include new songs and old.
The Pixies disbanded in 1993 and launched a reunion tour in 2004. Francis insists that Deal's abrupt departure in June was amicable, but her sister Kelley cited "musical differences." Luckily for Pixies, they were able to find another female bassist named Kim. Prior to joining the Pixies, Shattuck fronted the even more-obscure band The Muffs.