pixies = so awesome. went to last night's show at hammerstein ballroom and was absolutely blown away like i haven't been by any show in a long time. mission of burma opened and they were great, but i thought they were better at siren this summer. plus the sound was bass-heavy and sucky. the pixies finally came on (luckily, they'd fixed the sound) and the crowd went predictably wild. and for good reason!! their set was even better than the one they played at coachella, and not only because i was only like ten feet away this time. at coachella, they played basically a greatest hits set- which went over well with the crowd, but wasn't that interesting. this time they played a mix of hits (ie. hey, caribou, monkey gone to heaven, anything off of doolittle, etc.) and other cool, improvised make-feedback-with-our-drumsticks type stuff. they even played both versions of 'wave of mutilation'--regular and acoustic. i loved every minute. they didn't leave the stage before their encore and did a cute "aww should we play one more song? yeah, let's play one more song..." and played debaser and gigantic. and then when they were really finished, they said good night to each other. "good night, joe." "good night, frank." "good night, kim." etc. in other words, so much awesome.
highlight of the evening: the two foreigners next to us who didn't speak a word of english, yet were singing along phonetically to every song. oh yeah, and kim deal still looking awesome and sounding amazing, if tired by the end.
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