One afternoon in 2016, I necked an industrial vat of coffee and proceeded to make the case for the Quietus that, when all is said and done and hyped and re-issued, ad infinitum, Trompe le Monde was Pixies 1.0 at their most downright irresistible. Marking their shapeshifting, space-obsessed last hurrah before combusting two years after its release in 1993, it’s spent the last three decades astride its predecessor, Bossanova, as a genre-mangling snapshot of the band being indie rock’s OG mentalists par excellence. Eight years on, I’m more sure than ever that, for all their relative dearth of Kim Deal, it’s…
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Reneé Rapp live at the 3Olympia Theatre in Dublin. Photos by Kate Lawlor
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Royal Blood live at the 3Olympia Theatre in Dublin with support from Hot Wax. Photos by Stuart Hayes
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Maisie Peters live at the 3Olympia Theatre in Dublin with support from Gretta Ray. Photos by Kate Lawlor
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Ham Sandwich live at the 3Olympia Theatre in Dublin with support from Shobsy. Photos by Ian Davies
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Christine and the Queens live at the 3Olympia Theatre in Dublin. Photos by Gemma Bovenizer
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Wilco live at the 3Olympia Theatre in Dublin with support from Anna Mieke. Photos by Monika Ruman
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Arlo Parks live at the 3Olympia Theatre in Dublin with support from Vagabon. Photos by Monika Ruman
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Tori Amos live at the 3Olympia Theatre in Dublin last night with support from Skaar. Photos by Ian Davies
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Fight Like Apes live at the 3Olympia Theatre in Dublin with support from Thumper. Photos by Ian Davies