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Pixies to tour South Africa next year!

Cape Town – Amp Events on Monday announced that rock icons Pixies will be touring South Africa in March 2017. 

Marking their first visit to SA, Pixies will headline the inaugural Rock on the Lawns music festival on the Festival Lawns at Carnival City, Jo’burg and will play under the stars at Kirstenbosch Botanical Gardens in Cape Town.

Pixies are considered to be one of the most influential alternative rock bands of all time. Their string of anthems include Gigantic, Where Is My Mind, Here Comes Your Man, Monkey Gone to Heaven and many more.

At the Rock on the Lawns music festival at Carnival City, Pixies will be supported by the cream of the SA rock scene: Springbok Nude Girls, Prime Circle, aKing, Crash Car Burn, Shortstraw, The Sweet Resistance and The Robfather (DJ). They’ll perform on the Carnival Festival Lawns, a premium outdoor setting at a venue that perfectly caters for large-scale music festivals.

The Cape Town Rock on the Lawns concert will be a more intimate experience as fans enjoy Pixies under the stars at Kirstenbosch Botanical Gardens supported by Springbok Nude Girls. 

Pixies have recently released their new album Head Carrier. The 12-track collection of the band's unique aural mix of surrealism, psychedelia, dissonance and surf rock was produced by Tom Dalgety (Killing Joke, Royal Blood) and recorded at London's Rak Studios from mid-February through to mid-March this year. 

SA tour info:

16 March 2017 - Kirstenbosch Gardens, Cape Town
18 March 2017 - Festival Lawns, Carnival City, Joburg

Tickets cost R495 and will be available from 09:00 on 25th October 2016 at Computicket.

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