Funny day yesterday. I’ve been having a lot of back pain, especially at night. I was a bit gung ho with the tree lopping, maybe. Anyway, I hardly slept at all and got up about three to walk around Korumburra listening to the Velvet Underground. Did some study during the day then saw the GP for an extension to my sick leave. My principal has given me a letter saying that I can’t return to work until I convince a departmental doctor that I’m ok to work. Then Shane picked me up and we went to grungy old Festival Hall to see the Pixies on their Doolittle tour. Now I’m old enough to remember Doolittle but there weren’t many others there that could say that. Before and after we had a couple of drinks at a pub behind the hall. Got back about 2am I suppose, I was pretty out of it.
The band were great. The seats were so so – good view of the stage, but at a fair distance. The sound was loud and punchy but not 100% clear. Kim Deal was getting a great growl on a precision bass. Joey Santiago was very controlled, and accurate – oddly so, when the parts he writes are so dissonant – and David Lovering played (and sang) well although there were one or two little time hiccups. Black Francis sang beautifully and looked like a million dollars in an expansive suit.
A great night.
Setlist:
- Dancing The Manta Ray
- Weird At My School
- Bailey’s Walk
- Manta Ray
- Debaser
- Tame
- Wave of Mutilation
- I Bleed
- Here Comes Your Man
- Dead
- Monkey Gone To Heaven
- Mr. Grieves
- Crackity Jones
- La La Love You
- No. 13 Baby
- There Goes My Gun
- Hey
- Silver
- Gouge Away
Encores:
Have you heard about the psycho wombat?
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Comment by tonyofa — April 7, 2010 @ 1:25 pm
Hello Tony!
Yes, it’s a funny story.
Back to the Pixies, I’ve always thought you could have been Black Francis. Your Spanish is probably better, and I seem to recall your vocal and guitar style being similar.
Great to hear from you, keep well, James.
Comment by James A McDonough — April 14, 2010 @ 3:31 pm