American rock band Pixies have announced new Irish shows this upcoming summer, including a gig at RDS Simmonscourt.
The legendary rockers are coming to the RDS on August 29, at the heels of a Galway Summer Sessions gig at Galway Airport on August 27 and a Custom House Square gig in Belfast on August 28.
Tickets will be priced from €59.90 and will go on sale at 9am this Friday, November 24 via Ticketmaster. The band will be coming to Dublin in March as well and tickets to all three of their 3Olympia gigs are currently sold out.
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The 80s alt/rock pioneers have been acclaimed for their major influence on artists like Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Radiohead, the Strokes and many more. Pixies boasts with seven "genre-defining" studio albums, including the Gold-certified Surfer Rosa and the Platinum Doolittle.
After disbanding in 1993, Pixies launched their reunion tour in April 2004, playing to sell-out crowds across the globe for 15 years. In 2012, while they were recording their new studio album in more than two decades, founding bassist Kim Deal decided to leave the band. Black Francis, Joey Santiago and David Lovering made the decision to carry on, finishing and releasing 2014’s Indie Cindy.
Other recent releases of the band include Head Carrier (2016), Beneath the Eyrie (2018), and Doggerel (2022), which was described as "a mature yet visceral record of gruesome folk, ballroom pop and brutal rock". Doggerel was toured worldwide to sell-out audiences across the entirety of 2022 and 2023.
The band are renowned for their emphatic live performances and their live sets regularly rack up to 30+ songs played - with no pre-planned setlists or soundchecks before the band walk onto the stage to play.
To get tickets for their RDS gig before they sell out, visit the event's Ticketmaster page.
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