Thursday, Oct 31, 1991
Pixies
Also on the bill: Pere Ubu
- Date
- Thursday, Oct 31, 1991
- Show time
- 8:00 PM
- Venue
- Montezuma Hall, San Diego State University
- City
- San Diego, CA
- Seating
- General Admission
- Face value
- $17.50
- Promoter
- Avalon / Coke / 91X
- Sold by
- Ticketmaster
Halloween show, Trompe le Monde tour. Also on the bill, recovered from setlist.fm's record of who played this room that night. setlist.fm stores no running order, so the slot each act played is unknown.
What they played
- Head On The Jesus and Mary Chain cover
- Subbacultcha
- Debaser
- Allison
- Velouria
- The Navajo Know
- Motorway to Roswell
- Gouge Away
- U-Mass
- Is She Weird
- Bird Dream of the Olympus Mons
- Planet of Sound
12 songs, from setlist.fm. Contributed by whoever was standing there taking notes.
The moment
Trompe le Monde came out on September 23, 1991 — one day before Nevermind, the album Kurt Cobain openly admitted was him trying to write a Pixies song. So on Halloween the Pixies played a college hall in San Diego while the revolution they'd blueprinted was detonating around them. It was their last American tour as a working band: by spring they were opening U2's Zoo TV — John caught them again there five months later — and by January 1993 Black Francis had dissolved the band by fax.
From the time
- Trompe le Monde
“The final Pixies album of the original run — released one day before Nevermind, the record their sound made possible.”
The stub
