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Pixies Return to the Stage at Isle of Wight Festival

6/15/09, 10:03 am EST

Photo: Martingdale/WireImage

Pixies took the stage at the Isle of Wight festival last night, marking their first gig since wrapping up their 2004 reunion tour and its subsequent festival gigs in 2007. Frank Black, Kim Deal, Joey Santiago and David Lovering treated the crowd to a nearly hour-and-a-half greatest-hits set that kicked off with “U-Mass” and featured “Debaser,” “Gouge Away” and “Gigantic” along with their cover of the Jesus and Mary Chain’s “Head On” and their version of Neil Young’s “Winterlong” (Young took the stage next).

According to the NME, the show went off without a hitch, save for a moment when Black and Deal laughed off a mistake that ended “In Heaven (Lady in the Radiator Song)” early. After Deal told Black he was supposed to scream on the track, he replied, “I haven’t screamed since about 1989″ and the band cracked up. The set ended with an aptly named song: B side “Into the White.” Also today, Pitchfork has a first look at the packaging for Pixies box set Minotaur.

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the vm | 6/15/2009, 2:27 pm EST

I’m glad that the Pixies can still go out and earn some money for their past genius. They deserve it. However, if the world of rock ever needed a new Pixies album, we need it NOW.

Work it out, damn it.

Mike S | 6/15/2009, 3:37 pm EST

Please more shows. Please more shows. Stop dicking around.

Black Frank | 6/15/2009, 3:54 pm EST

Please…New album and tour. We need it. Real rock must return and destroy The Jonas Brothers and Adam Lambert!!

Radio Zero | 6/15/2009, 4:23 pm EST

What they said….

arch stanton | 6/15/2009, 4:36 pm EST

Nirvana wanna be’s. RIP Kurt

.... | 6/15/2009, 4:58 pm EST

Pixies>>>>>Nirvana

Peter S | 6/15/2009, 5:51 pm EST

Arch! The Pixies recorded everything before Nirvana existed

you baby | 6/15/2009, 6:31 pm EST

Yes , we need a new pixie album

Cover Shot | 6/15/2009, 6:53 pm EST

Scrap that current RS cover… I’d have the Pixies or Sonic Youth on there any day over that current emo poser.

WhoresInMyHEad | 6/16/2009, 4:18 am EST

Pixies, please record a new album!!

Doolittle and Sufer Rosa are classics..

HEY BEEN TRYIN 2 MEET U!!!

COME BACK TO BOSTON!!!!!!!!!!! | 6/16/2009, 8:53 am EST

We need our hometown band back!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

COME BACK TO BOSTON!!!!!!!!!!! | 6/16/2009, 8:53 am EST

We need our hometown band back!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

COME BACK TO BOSTON!!!!!!!!!!! | 6/16/2009, 8:53 am EST

We need our hometown band back!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Barcelona | 6/16/2009, 9:31 am EST

is waiting for The Pixies!

GodisSeven | 6/16/2009, 12:12 pm EST

Come on Pixies. One more album. You have it in you, and you’re fans are absolutely dying for it. PLEASE!

imagoat | 6/16/2009, 6:09 pm EST

nirvana wannabe’s ? are you for real? the pixies the quiet loud song!

imagoat | 6/16/2009, 6:33 pm EST

why do people constantly bash other bands when talking about bands they like? do you really think the pixies would compete in the same market with the jonas brothers?

P-Jeezy | 6/16/2009, 8:11 pm EST

How can the Pixies be Nirvana wanna bes? They predate Nirvana. Nirvana cited them as an influence. Duh. Pixies came before and were mostly all done BEFORE Nirvana.

raisedlefteyebrow | 6/16/2009, 10:43 pm EST

“Nirvana wanna be’s. RIP Kurt”

People like you make Nirvana fans like me who actually know what they’re talking about look bad. Nirvana wanna be’s? Are you serious? You obviously know nothing about either Nirvana or the Pixies.

buttercup | 6/17/2009, 2:10 am EST

Obviously agreeing here with raisedlefteyebrow.

Both the Pixies and Nirvana are excellent bands, both are true alternative rock bands, and to mock either band is like saying you think the Pussycat Dolls have depth and personality, just about. I think that says it all.

If anyone wants to talk about grunge wannabes, it’s enough to look at 99% of what’s playing at modern rock radio today.

But to call the real act in question a poser act is a low blow… go buy the new Nickelback album, you fucking shallow unfeeling idiot!

PIXIES | 6/17/2009, 8:44 am EST

PIXIES PLAYED WHERE THE ACTION IS IN SWEDEN LAST WEEK. SO THIS WAS NOT THE FIRST PIXIES SHOW THIS YEAR AT ALL

mclovin | 6/17/2009, 5:51 pm EST

yay!!!! pixies are amazing and i hope they come to cali soon!!

mcduh | 6/17/2009, 11:47 pm EST

Frank just wrapped up a club tour in cali

Samoys | 10/3/2009, 12:35 pm EST

lot about you

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