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The Pixies: Hammersmith Odeon, London

Barney Hoskyns, The Times, October 1990

WATCHING THE Pixies in a rock venue as mainstream as the Hammersmith Odeon seemed wrong, and they were as surprised to be there as anyone else. "Lotta seats in this place," noted bassist Kim Deal sardonically, used as she is to playing the kind of places where people hurl themselves about a bit.

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