Pixies Bring Imaginary Cities With Them For DOOLITTLE TOUR 4/22

The Pixies are delighted to announce that the Canadian band Imaginary Cities will support them on their entire Canadian/U.S. "Doolittle Tour." The Winnipeg-based Imaginary Cities will join the Pixies on April 9 at the Metro Center in Halifax - the tour's kick-off date - and will open all 21 shows, including a performance at Detroit's Fox Theatre on Friday, April 22 at 7:30 p.m.

Starting tomorrow, Friday, January 21 at 9:00 a.m. EST, a limited number of tickets for the tour dates will be available through a special presale on www.pixiesmusic.com. In addition, all pre-sale purchases will include a "download taster" of live tracks from the "Doolittle" show.

"We really like the idea of having a Canadian band as support on these dates," said the Pixies' Black Francis, "and after checking the band out, we really liked what we heard. We think they'll be great on these dates."

The Pixies' Canadian "Doolittle Tour" is their most extensive tour of the provinces to date with 13 cities and 18 shows on the itinerary, and will see the band visiting several Canadian cities for the very first time. This leg of the "Doolittle Tour" will also make stops in three U.S. cities.

On the "Doolittle Tour," the Pixies - Black Francis, Kim Deal, Joey Santiago and David Lovering - perform all of the songs from their 1989 classic Doolittle and its related B-sides. "Weird at My School," "Dancing the Manta Ray," and "Bailey's Walk" among them. Doolittle, the band's third album and the first to chart on Billboard's album charts, includes classics such as "Debaser," "Wave of Mutilation," "Here Comes Your Man," "Hey," and "Gouge Away."

The Pixies perfected the "Doolittle" extravaganza over the past 20 months, having first launched it in the UK and Europe in the fall of 2009, playing to sold-out crowds in Ireland, Scotland, Frankfurt, Amsterdam, Brussels, Paris, and to 20,000 fans over four nights in London. The band then brought it to America in November 2009 where it played multiple-night sell-outs from Los Angeles to Chicago to New York, then again in the fall of 2010 where it criss-crossed the country, also to capacity crowds. The tour received five-star reviews in the [London] Times, the Guardian and the Independent, and the U.S. press loved the show as well: "The Pixies continue to WOW." "...a straight-forward rock show that was all about the music..." "'Doolittle' still plants the freak flag in alt-rock's twilight zone, where lullabies meet blasphemy, waves of mutilation pound forests into driftwood, and all good monkeys go to heaven." "...an almost indescribable joy..." "...their live performance left no doubt that they are just as lively and connected than they ever have been. If not more so."

Tickets ($35 and $59.50) are on sale now and may be purchased at OlympiaEntertainment.com, LiveNation.com, the Fox Theatre and Joe Louis Arena box offices, Hockeytown Authentics in Troy (without service charge) at all Ticketmaster locations and Ticketmaster.com. To charge tickets by phone, call (800) 745-3000. For additional information, call (313) 471-6611.

Dates for the Pixies' 2011 "Doolittle Tour" are as follows:

APRIL
9 Metro Centre, Halifax, NS
10 Centre - Casino Moncton, Moncton, NB
12 Salle Albert-Rousseau, Quebec City, QC
13 Metropolis, Montreal, QC
14 Metropolis, Montreal, QC
16 Civic Centre, Ottawa, ON
17 The Center in the Square, Kitchener, ON
18 Massey Hall, Toronto, ON
19 Massey Hall, Toronto, ON
20 Wentworth Room, Hamilton, ON
22 Fox Theatre, Detroit, MI
23 Eagles Ballroom, Milwaukee, WI
24 Roy Wilkins Auditorium, St. Paul, MN
26 Centennial Concert Hall, Winnipeg, MB
27 Centennial Concert Hall, Winnipeg, MB
29 TCU Place, Saskatoon, SK
30 Southern Alberta Jubilee Auditorium, Calgary, AB

MAY
1 Shaw Conference Center, Edmonton, AB
3 Orpheum Theatre, Vancouver, BC
4 Orpheum Theatre, Vancouver, BC
5 Save On Foods Memorial Centre, Victoria, BC