You never really know what you’re going to get, and what we get next is Low Light, a deep cut album track from 1998’s Yield, and the tour's first version of Breath from the Singles soundtrack. In these types of scenarios, most bands would play it safe, tease out a few of the hits and then maybe settle into some deeper cuts, but Pearl Jam have made a career of being one of the most unpredictable live acts on the planet. Plus, being a support band at a show of this size is a pretty thankless task, so keeping the big guns coming makes a lot of sense, and means that the notoriously fickle Hyde Park crowd are engaged for the majority of the time. look, Pixies have a lot of fabulous songs is all we’re saying. It’s a minor grumble though, and working out what to you’d have to drop to accommodate it from the likes of Here Comes Your Man, Monkey Gone to Heaven, Gouge Away, Tame, Caribou, Wave of Mutilation, Hey. Over the course of their 18-song set, only one tune - recent single There's A Moon On, from the forthcoming Doggerel album - comes from their post-reformation era, which might be good for the casuals, but, actually, 2019’s Beneath the Eyrie album was fantastic, and we’d have liked to have heard something from that, or Blue Eyed Hex from Indie Cindy even. The Boston quartet arrive onstage armed with an arsenal of songs that inspired the entire alternative rock boom of the 1990’s, and, unlike many of their contrarian peers, Pixies are more than happy to play them. ![]() ![]() They probably wouldn’t be here if it weren’t for Pixies, although you could say that about pretty much every band on the bill to be fair.
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