Black Francis live in London with Pixies (Photo: Andy Crossland for Live4ever Media)
Black Francis has said the regular turnaround in Pixies bass players during 2013 ‘ain’t that big of a deal’.
Pixies lost their long-term bandmate Kim Deal in the summer, and a few short months later revealed US alternative regular Paz Lenchatin had in turn replaced Kim Shattuck. But Francis, for one, appears to be a bit confused as to why this has garnered so much attention.
“Frankly, you don’t want to explain it to anybody – it’s a lot of its personal, private shit,” he told Yahoo. “It’s like politics and sports and people’s personal lives have all been smeared together in this modern world. It’s a very presumptuous attitude about a lot of things.
“‘Oh you’re shifting something in your world – we demand a statement as to why’. I’m not the mayor, this isn’t the bus service for a town. This is a rock band. There’s been a shift in the lineup, big woop-dee-doo, as far as we’re concerned it ain’t that big of a deal.”
Pixies have a busy 2014 ahead of them, with headline festival commitments in the UK due up along side world-wide headline gigs.