The Pixies at Virgin Festival
The Pixies are my favorite band. I got to see them live today at Virgin Festival, and they did not disappoint. It helped that I had ridiculously good seats. Virgin Festival Ontario this year started out as an outdoor venue and got moved to the Molson Amphitheater. Those of us who bought the initial tickets got upgraded to the best seats in the place; my girlfriend and I were in the 5th row. Here’s the view:
The set included your obligatory tracks from Rockband (‘This Monkey’s Gone to Heaven’, ‘Debaser’, ‘Wave of Mutilation’). Other songs in their set included:
- Hey
- Here Comes Your Man
- Tame
- Dig for Fire
- Gauge Away
- Where is My Mind
It was a great experience hearing all these songs live, and in the amphitheater it sounded wonderful — having originally planned for an outdoor concert, I didn’t expect killer acoustics. ‘Where is My Mind’ was particularly spectacular.
I would have loved to have heard ‘The Happening’ live:
Which they didn’t play, but with a catalog as big as the Pixies’, this can’t really be a complaint. It was a great band, doing a great concert, in a venue with great acoustics. Everyone was begging for more at the end, I feel kind of sorry for Ben Harper and Relentless7 (who closed).
