Steph, Skogg, Timmy and I saw The Pixies at the Sidney Myer Music bowl on Wednesday night. In short, it was pretty freakin' amazing. The sound was superb (far better than I imagined it would be) - it was near perfect. The weather was great - certainly not too cold for a March night in Melbourne. Our vantage point was insanely good - 2 people back from the barrier that separated seating and standing, and not crushed up against people; plenty of room to move. And finally, the band was incredible. I'd rank it as one of the best gigs I've seen. They were on fire; relentless in their sonic assault, and the setlist reads like a dream. I've nicked this off Skogg's site (saving myself some work - thanks Skogg);

1. Bone Machine - a totally perfect starting song.
2. Caribou Monkey Gone to Heaven
3. Wave of Mutilation

and they stopped mid-song in monkey with Frank Black demanding that a stupid big beach ball was removed. i think most in the crowd agreed with this. there was an amusing few minutes of discussion of where to re-start the song again.

4. U-Mass
5. Head On
6. Caribou
7. No.13 Baby
8. Tame
9. Hey
10. Gouge Away
11. Mr Greives
12. Broken Face
13. I Bleed
14. Here Comes Your Man
15. Planet of Sound
16. Debaser
17. Crackity Jones
18. Something Against You
19. Isla de Encanta
20. Nimrod's Son
21. Vamos
22. Where Is My Mind?

and joey's theatrics were great in Vamos, with the feedback and playing guitar with a drumstick.

encore:
23. La La Love You
24. Gigantic

All in all, it was a gorgeous night, and one that's left me singing Pixies songs for the past few days. Also saw Jarvis Cocker who was quite (unexpectedly) impressive - he's a funny man. The night belonged to the Pixies though.

Labels: Concerts, Music