Pixies announced this morning that they will take to stage at Iveagh Gardens this summer on Saturday 18th July. If their recent stint at the Olympia Theatre is any indication, their return next summer will be one to remember.

"As is traditional with Pixies, it was all riffs, no chit-chat," explained Hot Press's Ed Power when he saw them live at the Olympia last month. "Lenchantin brought muscularity and playfulness (you hardly missed original bassist Kim Deal) while the power trio of Francis, Santiago and Lovering chugged like titans."

Rock band Pixies formed in 1986 and released their first album Surfer Rosa in 1988. With top 10 hits like 'Monkey Gone to Heaven' and 'Here Comes Your Man', the band went on hiatus after the release of their second album before returning in 1990 with Bossanova. The band then disbanded in 1993, but reunited again in 2004, going on to enjoy several sold-out world tours. Their latest album Beneath The Eyrie is the third new album since Pixies reformed in 2004. After three decades beset with upheavals, splits, trials, and tribulations, Pixies was finally a band at ease with itself.

Beneath The Eyrie recaptures the aesthetic of Pixies’ legendary early albums without feeling the need to recreate them. Instead, the band toys with new wave, ragtime, Gallic noir, western psych, doom rock, Weezer pop and the vaudevillian cabaret they only hinted at on Mr. Grieves.

“We never looked back,” explained guitarist Joey Santiago of the album in a recent interview with Hot Press. “We made Surfer Rosa and then we made Doolittle. And then we made Bossanova. A completely different record. Head Carrier is completely different. Beneath The Eyrie is different. It’s going to be different all the time, whether people like it or not. We really don’t give a shit – I don’t want a record to be the same at all. Imagine if The Beatles kept doing ‘Love Me Do’. They would have broken up far earlier. It wouldn’t have lasted.”

Tickets for Pixies at Iveagh Gardens will go on sale this Friday 1st November for €59.50 and will be available on Ticketmaster.ie.