The Pixies played through the whole of Doolittle (plus B Sides) at the Academy last night (the second of four dates the venue) in honour of the classic album’s 20th birthday. It was fucking tight. The place was as packed as I’ve ever seen it, the lighting and visuals were awesome, and the songs sounded as good as they ever have. The band may be awkwardly middle-aged, but they still feel the music and they can still belt out a tune.

Obvious highlights from Doolittle were “Debaser”, “Wave of Mutiliation”, “Monkey Gone To Heaven”, “Hey” and, of course, “Here Comes Your Man”. “U-Mass” made an appearance in the encore and the band closed the show out with “Where Is My Mind?”, which was just as good as you could have hoped it would be. The whole show was over within 80 minutes, but they still managed to cram in about 19 or 20 songs (onstage banter was kept to a minimum, and most of it came in the form of garbled gibberish from bass player Kim Deal). Rad night, awesome gig.

I videoed all of “Where Is My Mind” to stick up here, but the sound quality is seriously shit so I’m not going to. There’s slim pickings from the clips on YouTube, but here’s the best I could find. It might be worth popping a Dramamine first.