My mother sent me this link. She’s the second biggest Springsteen fan in the world. My uncle is the first biggest – he takes a day off work every time Springsteen releases an album so he can go and buy it and listen to it all day.
Anyway, it’s a lovely article, made me smile. One day I’ll have an awesome book published and made into a film about one of my heroes.
Check it out! So newsworthy it made the nme! Feel honoured to have been there.
So… last week I was lucky enough to dine with two members of Pixies (drummer and guitarist) and a few of their “entourage” thanks to a fortunate coincidence/friend of a friend type situation. Big thanks to Light Man Myles who made sure we got free entry to the gig in Santiago last night – it was a truly spectacular affair! They are undoubtedly as cool as ever (fucking cool).
Myles, legend, found us before the band went on and let us stand with him in the lighting box where he and the sound guy were doing their stuff. The band waited for the last miner to get out alive before starting the show – respect! Was great that the band wanted to celebrate the occasion and definitely appreciated by the fans. Black Francis kicked off the set, telling us (in pretty alright Spanish) that they’d be playing 33 songs, one for every freed miner! The atmosphere was buzzing, perhaps heightened by the fact it was Pixies first time in Chile, in spite of their popularity here – and with 33 songs we were really spoilt!
They eased their way through the set: after so many years the songs are still fresh, yet familiar, 3 minute slices of fucking awesomeness. The heavier grungy stuff got the crowd going but my personal highlight had to be the encore the audience lights came on for “Where is my mind?” It’s actually not my favourite Pixies song, but both times I’ve seen them live, it’s the one that really stood out for me. Perfect contentment. And all the more enjoyable to see they were having a good time too. After every song in the first half of the set Kim would coyly say “Gracias”, followed by a nervous laugh! But eventually she bantered more with the audience (in English) and would turn around to joke with Dave. We could see her big grin from right at the back! Radiant!
Set List:
“Cecilia Ann”
“Rock Music”
“Bone Machine”
“Crackity Jones”
“River Euphrates”
“Debaser”
“Wave of Mutilation”
“Monkey Gone to Heaven”
“I Bleed”
“Caribou”
“Cactus”
“Broken Face”
“Something Against You”
“Isla de Encanta”
“Tame”
“Sad Punk”
“Hey”
“#13 Baby”
“Gouge Away”
“Is She Weird”
“Dead”
“U Mass”
“Break My Body”
“Velouria”
“Dig For Fire”
“Allison”
“Ed is Dead”
“Mr. Grieves”
“Winter Long”
“Here Comes Your Man”
“Head On”
“Holiday Song”
“Vamos”
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“Where Is My Mind”
“Gigantic”
Hannah Mead 