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Pixies Frontman Solo Album Delayed

added 18 May 2004 at 12.53

Prior to The Comeback Of The Year, Frank Black had a solo album on the way including his own personal reworkings of some Pixies classics. However, since the Pixies are now booked to play every venue under the sun for the next decade, the release has been put on the back burner. Plus news of another Pixies biography.

Black had been working on a two-disc set entitled 'Frank Black Francis' scheduled for a spring release. However, SpinArt Records, the label set to release the double album have been reportedly unable to pin Black down for a completion date.

Disc 1 is said to feature Black's reworking of Pixies classics collaborating with experimental duo Two Pale Boys. The group features Andy Diagram, who plays a trumpet through radio receivers and Keith Moliné who manipulates sound with a MIDI-based guitar setup. Crikey.

Currently, little is known of the second disc, although sources confirm that it is likely to compile Black's early pre-Pixies solo demos.

In other Pixies news, writer Josh Frank has been piecing together his musical 'Teenager of the Year: The Frank Black Musical' which is set to premiere this September in New York.

Frank has also been working on an official biography entitled 'Fool The World: An Oral History Of The Pixies' features excerpts from interviews with the band themselves and their associates and celebrity fans including Thom Yorke, David Bowie, Bono, PJ Harvey and Dave Grohl.

The book is expected to see a release before the end of the year.

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