Pixies Dust Off For the Sydney Opera House

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In a Sydney-exclusive event and heralding in the annual Vivid LIVE festival, the indie rock extraordinaire Pixies have announced they will be performing a series of four shows at the Sydney Opera House starting on Friday, May 23 for a rare series of exclusive, intimate performances, finally bringing ‘the cornerstone of modern rock’ (the Guardian) back for a fiery festival opening in 2014.

Infamously known as the favourite band of the late Kurt Cobain, the Pixies heralded in a new sound within the rock scene with their surrealist bend on noise, psychedelia and surf-rock proving them to be peerless for a near 30 years. With iconic songs such as ‘Here Comes Your Man’, ‘Monkey Gone to Heaven’, ‘Debaser’ and ‘Gigantic’, Pixies became one of 4AD’s defining bands of the ’90s – enrapturing misfit nations with themes of space, sex, dysfunction and pure pop culture voyeurism.

Continuing on their reputation for never doing the expected, Pixies surprised everyone when they posted on their website a free download of ‘Bagboy’, the band’s first new song in nearly a decade (one Australian outlet wrote, ‘Deal or no Deal, ‘Bagboy’ is pretty darned awesome…classic Pixies’). To support the new music, the band launched its 2013-2014 world tour in September 2013, deciding to work with a variety of bass players, with Paz Lenchantin (A Perfect Circle) currently touring for Vivid LIVE.

Pixies will be performing at the Sydney Opera House for four shows starting Friday, May 23 until Monday, May 26.