In celebration of the 20th anniversary of the release of their classic 1989 album Doolittle, the Pixies - Black Francis, Kim Deal, Joey Santiago and David Lovering - will kick off the 21-date US leg of their "Doolittle Tour" on Wednesday, November 4 at the Hollywood Palladium. Today, the band announces the support acts for the tour.
Opening for the
Pixies over the course of the "
Doolittle Tour" will be
Bad Lieutenant, the new project from
New Order/
Joy Division's
Bernard Sumner; the Los Angeles experimental art rock duo
No Age; Brooklyn-based music project
Black Gold;
TV On The Radio/
Kyp Malone's solo project
Rain Machine; garage punk musician
Jay Reatard; and Denmark's flamboyant
Mew.
In addition, a third and final Chicago show has been added to the American trek. The Pixies will now open their Chicago run on Thursday, November 19 at the Aragon Ballroom with Bad Lieutenant supporting. Tickets for this show go on sale Saturday, October 24 at 10AM local time and can be purchased online at ticketmaster.com.
The "Doolittle Tour" launched on September 30 in Dublin, Ireland, and has played sold-out shows everywhere - Scotland, Frankfurt, Amsterdam, Brussels, Paris, and to 20,000 fans over four nights in London. The "Doolittle Tour" has also received rave notices - five-star reviews in the [London] Times, the Guardian, and the Independent, which also said, "...no band has pulled off a one-album show as triumphantly as the Pixies did here with a 20th anniversary performance of their 1989 masterpiece Doolittle."
On this tour, the Pixies will perform all of the songs from Doolittle and its related B-sides, "Weird At My School", "Dancing The Manta Ray," and "Bailey's Walk" among them. Doolittle, the band's third album and the first to chart on Billboard's album charts, includes classics such as "Debaser," "Wave Of Mutilation," "Here Comes Your Man," "Hey," and "Gouge Away."
"We wanted to do something special for Doolittle's 20th anniversary", said Black Francis, "and we thought this was a good opportunity to play all of the songs from that album, something we don't normally do at a regular gig."
The "Doolittle Tour" will coincide with the release of the ultimate Pixies Collector's Set, Minotaur, which ships to purchasers in early November and will hit stores around the same time. To find out more about Minotaur and to place an order, log onto www.ainr.com.
