When did the Pixies start thinking about a Doolittle tour?
There was some talk about doing it in London, but we thought, “When you do that, it’s sort of like signifying you’re officially retired.” So we kind of avoided that. We weren’t even planning on doing it this year. We got a call to open for Neil Young at the Isle of Wight, and as soon as we said yes to that gig, the phone wouldn’t stop ringing. We wanted to do some more shows, and it was a coincidence that it was the 20th anniversary of Doolittle and also that Minotaur was coming out. Someone said, “Hey, let’s do a Doolittle show!” We were kinda hesitant. We’re a little sensitive about milking the reunion thing to death. We don’t want to be seen as taking advantage of all the good will. At the same time, we are in show business and it is our right to go play — at county fairs if we want to. How much rehearsal will go into preparing for the show? The only songs we haven’t played ever is “Silver,” which was done in the studio during the mixing period of the album. And we haven’t played “T
