Pixies share UK and European tour dates for 2025, unveil new single Motoroller

Pixies, 2024 line-up — (Image credit: Liam Maxwell)

Pixies have announced an extensive UK and European tour, and shared the fourth single from their upcoming album The Night the Zombies Came.

The band say of new single Motoroller, “This is one of those kinds of songs where there’s little threads you can follow and they take you somewhere. But they’re not required for the experience. You can just start fishing around in the lyrics, and maybe you won’t find exactly what the story is, but you’ll find a story related to the city of Berlin. So just have fun with the clues that are there.”

As with its predecessor, 2022's Doggerel, The Night the Zombies Came was produced by English producer Tom Dalgety at Guilford Sound in Vermont: it's the first Pixies album to feature the band's first British member, bassist Emma Richardson (Band Of Skulls).

Set for an October 25 release via BMG, the album is described as the most "cinematic" collection of the Boston band's career, with frontman Black Francis stating, “Fragments that are related and juxtaposed with other fragments in other songs. And in a collection of songs in a so-called LP, you end up making a kind of movie.”

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The quartet will tour the album in the UK and Europe in spring 2025.

Pixies UK/Europe tour dates 2025

Apr 25: Utrecht TivoliVredenburg, Holland
Apr 26: Antwerp Lotto Arena, Belgium
Apr 28: Groningen Oosterport Holland
Apr 29: Tilburg 013, Holland

May 01: Berlin Tempodrom, Germany
May 02: Cologne Palladium, Germany
May 03: Munich TonHalle, Germany
May 06: Bordeaux Arkea Arena, France
May 07: Nantes Zenith, France
May 09: Granada Palacio de los Deportes de Granada, Spain
May 10: Lisbon Sagres Campo Pequeno, Portugal
May 13: Aberdeen P&J Arena, UK
May 14: Edinburgh O2 Academy, UK
May 16: London O2 Brixton Academy, UK
May 17: London O2 Brixton Academy, UK
May 19: Leeds O2 Academy, UK
May 20: Birmingham Academy, UK
May 21: Cardiff Utilita Arena, UK
May 23: Newcastle O2 City Hall, UK
May 24: Manchester O2 Apollo, UK

A pre-sale for the tour will begin tomorrow, September 18: tickets go on general sale on September 20, here.

A music writer since 1993, formerly Editor of Kerrang! and Planet Rock magazine (RIP), Paul Brannigan is a Contributing Editor to Louder. Having previously written books on Lemmy, Dave Grohl (the Sunday Times best-seller This Is A Call) and Metallica (Birth School Metallica Death, co-authored with Ian Winwood), his Eddie Van Halen biography (Eruption in the UK, Unchained in the US) emerged in 2021. He has written for Rolling Stone, Mojo and Q, hung out with Fugazi at Dischord House, flown on Ozzy Osbourne's private jet, played Angus Young's Gibson SG, and interviewed everyone from Aerosmith and Beastie Boys to Young Gods and ZZ Top. Born in the North of Ireland, Brannigan lives in North London and supports The Arsenal.