Pixies Come on Pilgrim... It’s Surfer Rosa 2020 Australian tour
Pixies, one of the most influential alternative rock bands of all time, are bringing their mammoth Come on Pilgrim... It’s Surfer Rosa world tour to Australia and New Zealand in 2020. Pixies’ debut releases - the electrifying 1987 EP Come on Pilgrim and 1988’s debut full-length album, Surfer Rosa - brought rise to a new genre and defined contemporary music for a generation.
The tour will bear witness to both seminal albums being performed in full - plus new and old tracks spanning their extensive catalogue. Surfer Rosa is a record made up of rage, religion, gore, incest and superheroes named Tony - a debut album so good that it's since been seen as a masterpiece. Produced by Steve Albini, it includes early Pixies classics such as Bone Machine, Gigantic, Vamos and Where Is My Mind? Come on Pilgrim contained eight songs from the band's first-ever studio session, produced by Gary Smith and recorded at his Fort Apache Studio near Boston.
Returning for what will be only their fourth visit to Australia, the band will perform in Melbourne, Brisbane and Sydney before flying west for a final show at Fremantle Arts Centre. In Sydney, Pixies will play a not-to-be-missed momentous show under the stars at Sydney Opera House Forecourt.
Forming in Boston, Massachusetts in 1986, Pixies are often acclaimed as the most influential, pioneering alternative band of the late 80s, garnering extraordinary critical and popular acclaim. After five genre-defining studio albums, Pixies disbanded in 1993. The tide turned in 2004 - the band reunited and began touring, playing to sell-out crowds around the world including their first-ever Australian performances in 2007, later to be followed by a 13-show sold-out Doolittle tour in 2010 and again in 2017.
Pixies will release their brand new album, Beneath the Eyrie, on Friday 13th September. Visceral, musically cinematic, otherworldly but strangely familiar and a bit unsettling - the album boasts 12 new tracks produced by Grammy nominated Tom Dalgety (Ghost, Royal Blood, Pixies' Head Carrier). Lead single On Graveyard Hill, is an in-your-face, classic Pixies tale of imminent, ominous doom. Fans can pre-order the album now. The evolution of the album’s creative process is uniquely documented in a 12-episode podcast entitled It’s a Pixies Podcast.
Live Nation members’ tickets on sale 12pm Wednesday 7th August until 12pm Thursday 8th August
Ticketmaster members’ tickets on sale 12pm Wednesday 7th August until 12pm Thursday 8th August.
General public tickets on sale at 1pm Thursday 8th August.
Tue 10th March - Melbourne, Palais Theatre - tickets from Ticketmaster
Fri 13th March - Brisbane, Fortitude Hall - tickets from Ticketmaster
Sat 14th March - Sydney, Sydney Opera House Forecourt - tickets from Ticketmaster
Tue 17th March - Perth, Fremantle Arts Centre - tickets from Ticketmaster and Oztix
The tour will bear witness to both seminal albums being performed in full - plus new and old tracks spanning their extensive catalogue. Surfer Rosa is a record made up of rage, religion, gore, incest and superheroes named Tony - a debut album so good that it's since been seen as a masterpiece. Produced by Steve Albini, it includes early Pixies classics such as Bone Machine, Gigantic, Vamos and Where Is My Mind? Come on Pilgrim contained eight songs from the band's first-ever studio session, produced by Gary Smith and recorded at his Fort Apache Studio near Boston.
Returning for what will be only their fourth visit to Australia, the band will perform in Melbourne, Brisbane and Sydney before flying west for a final show at Fremantle Arts Centre. In Sydney, Pixies will play a not-to-be-missed momentous show under the stars at Sydney Opera House Forecourt.
Forming in Boston, Massachusetts in 1986, Pixies are often acclaimed as the most influential, pioneering alternative band of the late 80s, garnering extraordinary critical and popular acclaim. After five genre-defining studio albums, Pixies disbanded in 1993. The tide turned in 2004 - the band reunited and began touring, playing to sell-out crowds around the world including their first-ever Australian performances in 2007, later to be followed by a 13-show sold-out Doolittle tour in 2010 and again in 2017.
Pixies will release their brand new album, Beneath the Eyrie, on Friday 13th September. Visceral, musically cinematic, otherworldly but strangely familiar and a bit unsettling - the album boasts 12 new tracks produced by Grammy nominated Tom Dalgety (Ghost, Royal Blood, Pixies' Head Carrier). Lead single On Graveyard Hill, is an in-your-face, classic Pixies tale of imminent, ominous doom. Fans can pre-order the album now. The evolution of the album’s creative process is uniquely documented in a 12-episode podcast entitled It’s a Pixies Podcast.
Live Nation members’ tickets on sale 12pm Wednesday 7th August until 12pm Thursday 8th August
Ticketmaster members’ tickets on sale 12pm Wednesday 7th August until 12pm Thursday 8th August.
General public tickets on sale at 1pm Thursday 8th August.
Tue 10th March - Melbourne, Palais Theatre - tickets from Ticketmaster
Fri 13th March - Brisbane, Fortitude Hall - tickets from Ticketmaster
Sat 14th March - Sydney, Sydney Opera House Forecourt - tickets from Ticketmaster
Tue 17th March - Perth, Fremantle Arts Centre - tickets from Ticketmaster and Oztix
