All meat, no fat but plenty of voodoo bones: as far as a Pixies set goes, there are certain things you can come to expect from the surreal rock legends. There’ll be no ‘banter’ – the closest we got to that last night, or indeed ever, came via the opening “Hey!” that introduced the classic song of the same name from the band’s Doolittle album. But instead we got a lean, mean run through one of the most fertile canons in the game; packing in 30-plus songs to their two-hour set, you can’t complain that a Pixies gig is bad value for money.
Where recent tours have found Black Francis and his band fully leaning into the old favourites, however, this time they went heavy on recent album Doggerel. Playing the first of two long-sold out nights at Camden’s Roundhouse, these shows were pretty intimate fan gatherings for them; though there were still dips in the energy despite the unequivocal quality of their latter career material.
