Alt rockers Pixies return for Caesarea gig
Boston band heading to Israel 3 years after last visit and 7 years after canceling a gig amid boycott
Jessica Steinberg, The Times of Israel's culture and lifestyles editor, covers the Sabra scene from south to north and back to the center
There’s another concert on tap for July 2017 as the alternative Boston band the Pixies announced a July 25 concert at the Caesarea amphitheater.
The band was last here in 2014 as part of the RockN’Roller festival at Bloomfield Stadium in Tel Aviv.
Considered influential in American alternative rock, the band has seen its albums “Dolittle” and “Surfer Rosa” achieve cult status among fans, who were heartbroken when the group broke up in 1993 and delighted when they reunited 11 years later.
Their sixth album, “Head Carrier,” was released last September to solid reviews.
This summer, there will be room for some 3,500 fans at Caesarea who want to hear Pixies’ hits “Here Comes Your Man,” “Monkey Gone to Heaven” and “Where is My Mind,” as well as their newer releases from the last decade.
The Pixies, formed in the Boston area in 1986, pulled out of a planned concert in Israel in 2010 after the Mavi Marmara incident in which Israeli commandos killed nine Turks after they were attacked by armed activists in a melee aboard a ship that attempted to bust Israel’s blockade of the Gaza Strip.
The group blamed “events beyond all our control [that] have conspired against us” for its decision to cancel that show. Its withdrawal was one of a number of cancellations as part of a cultural boycott against Israel.
Rock band Radiohead is also set for a July concert as part of its world tour.
Tickets for the Pixies are on sale for NIS 199. Call “9066 or go to the Eventim site.
