LSXX Tour

The LSXX Tour was a series of sixty concerts by the Breeders in 2013 to commemorate the twentieth anniversary of the release of their 1993 album Last Splash.

LSXX Tour
Tour by The Breeders
Start dateMay 2, 2013 (2013-05-02)
End dateDecember 31, 2013 (2013-12-31)
No. of shows60
The Breeders concert chronology

Background

In the early 1990s, Kim Deal was a member of both the Breeders and the Pixies; the latter broke up in 1993.[1] When the Breeders released their second album Last Splash that same year—on 4AD Records—the group consisted of Kim and her twin sister Kelley Deal on guitar and vocals, Jim Macpherson on drums, and Josephine Wiggs on bass and vocals.[2] The album sold well, reaching platinum status in the USA,[3] and gold or silver in France, Australia, Canada, and the UK.[4][5][6][7]

Between 1992 and September 1994, the Breeders had an intense schedule including touring and recording, and by autumn 1994 most of the band members were tired.[8] During the Lollapalooza tour in summer 1994, Deal mentioned to those around her that she wanted her next project to be solo,[9] "something quick and dirty, under the radar ... without the pressure of following up [Last Splash's hit single] 'Cannonball'".[10]

That autumn and winter, Deal wrote songs inspired by her life where she lived in Dayton, Ohio, and practiced them in her basement.[11] In November 1994, Kelley Deal was arrested on drug-related charges,[9] and had to attend rehabilitation sessions.[12] The following year, an opportunity for Kim Deal to record some of her new compositions came up when Guided by Voices abandoned a recording session that she was producing, and she was able to use leftover studio time.[13] Trying to distract her sister from her drug problems, Deal recruited Kelley to play on three songs.[14] Kelley's involvement changed Deal's mind about her current project being solo, and she began to conceptualize the album as a band release.[14]

Wiggs chose not to work with Deal in the mid-90s—she was instead involved with multiple projects with members of Luscious Jackson[8]—and there have been different accounts for why. In 2013, Wiggs said to interviewers including Spin's Amanda Petrusich that in 1995 she had offered to rejoin if the next album would be a Breeders' release, but that she was convinced Deal wanted to do a side project.[8][10] Deal told Petrusich that she had wanted to record as the Breeders in 1995, but that Wiggs declined to be involved, wishing to take some time off.[8]

Whatever Deal's motivation, in 1995 she formed a group named the Amps, with fellow Daytonians Macpherson, Luis Lerma, and Nate Farley;[14] Kelley had to leave the project due to her drug treatment.[14] In 1996, Deal reformed the Breeders using the Amps' lineup of herself, Macpherson, Farley, and Lerma,[15] as well as Carrie Bradley and Michelle Bodine.[12] In several interviews in 1997, Deal complained that she had formed the Amps out of respect for Kelley and Wiggs, who needed time off,[12][15][16] but that even in May 1996,[17] around the end of the Amps' touring, Kelley and Wiggs still told her that they were not yet ready to rejoin the Breeders;[12][15][18][19] Deal wished then that she had instead recruited Farley and Lerma for the Breeders in 1994 after Lollapalooza, instead of forming the Amps.[12]

During Deal's attempted recording sessions in 1997, bandmates and studio musicians found her behavior and demanding musical standards to create a difficult working environment;[20][21][22] members including Macpherson quit the group.[20] Deal has recalled of Macpherson's departure that he "took his drums and I never saw him again. E-ver. And it hurt my heart, cos he’s such a great guy and I felt dumb and I’m sure he did too, whatever, we don’t even know";[23] Macpherson recalls that for 15 years "Kim thought I hated her, and I thought she hated me".[24] By the time of the Breeders' next album, 2002's Title TK, Mando Lopez, José Medeles, and Richard Presley had replaced Wiggs and Macpherson;[25] this same lineup, without Presley, performed on 2008's Mountain Battles[26] and the Fate to Fatal EP (2009).[27][n 1] Meanwhile, Deal joined multiple reunion tours by the Pixies between 2004 and 2011,[29][30][31][32][33][34] before officially quitting this group in 2013.[1]

Kim Deal has recalled that in the spring of 2012: "Kelley was on the couch ... and she said in a year it will be the 20th anniversary for Last Splash, and she wondered if [Wiggs and Macpherson] would do shows with us." When Kim texted Wiggs,[35] and Kelley contacted Macpherson,[23] they found both enthusiastic about the prospect of reuniting for a 2013 tour.[35][36] Following the initial contact, there were several months of waiting before more concrete plans could be made, during which "there was a process of getting people involved, booking agents and promoters", and waiting for organizers to begin planning music festivals.[35] The Deal sisters received the blessing of existing members Lopez and Medeles to work with Wiggs and Macpherson again.[37][n 2]

Performances

The Breeders performed sixty concerts in 2013 for the LSXX Tour.[36][42] Prior to this, they performed a warm-up concert on March 29 at the Bell House in Brooklyn; it was noted that this date was not officially part of the tour.[43] In addition to the Bell House show, an initial 21 tour dates for the period of May 3 to June 21 were announced.[44] These consisted of eight performances in the USA, one in Toronto, Canada, and twelve in Europe.[44] Concert locations that were subsequently for May and June included a May 2 show at Oberlin College in the Breeders' home state of Ohio, as well as music festivals in Alabama and in Nîmes, France.[42] The band also later added legs of the tour in South and North America, and Australia, in July to October, and further dates in the USA in December, finishing with a New Year's Eve performance in Austin, Texas.[42] Support bands on the tour included the Connections,[45] Parquet Courts,[46] Beach Day,[47] Speedy Ortiz,[48] and Imperial Teen.[49]

On each date of the tour, the Breeders performed the entire Last Splash album.[42][44] Another song they added later in the tour was "Walking with a Killer",[36] which Kim Deal had originally released in 2012 as an independent solo 7" single;[50] a full-band studio version of this composition was later released on the Breeders' 2018 album All Nerve.[50]

Dates
List of concert dates, cities, countries, and venues[42]
Date (2013) City Country Venue or event
May 2 Oberlin College United States Dionysus Discotheque
May 3 Pennsylvania Mr. Smalls Theater
May 4 Washington, DC 9:30 Club
May 5 Philadelphia Trocadero Theatre
May 6 New York City Webster Hall
May 9 Boston Royal Nightclub
May 11 Toronto Canada Danforth Music Hall
May 12 Detroit United States Majestic Theatre
May 14 Nashville Mercy Lounge
May 15 Atlanta Variety Playhouse
May 17 Gulf Shores Hangout Festival
May 18
May 19
May 24 Barcelona Spain Primavera Sound
May 25 Nîmes France This is Not a Love Song Festival
May 27 Toulouse Le Bikini
May 28 Bordeaux Le Rocher
May 30 Porto Portugal Primavera Sound
June 1 Paris France Le Trianon
June 2 Brussels Belgium Ancienne Belgique
June 3 Amsterdam The Netherlands Paradiso
June 14 Dublin Ireland Vicar Street
June 15 Belfast Northern Ireland The Limelight
June 17 Glasgow Scotland ABC
June 18 Manchester England Ritz
June 19 London Forum
June 21 Camber Sands All Tomorrow's Parties
July 20 Chicago United States Pitchfork Music Festival
July 24 São Paulo Brazil Cina Joia
July 25 Rio de Janeiro Circo Vaodor
July 27 Santiago Chile Ex Oz
August 3 Montreal Canada Osheaga Festival
August 10 Richmond United States Sound City
August 23 Los Angeles El Rey Theatre
August 24 FYF Fest
August 26 Santa Cruz Rio Theatre
August 27 San Francisco The Fillmore
August 28
August 30 Portland Wonder Ballroom
August 31 Vancouver Canada Commodore Ballroom
September 1 Seattle United States Bumbershoot Music & Arts Festival
September 6 Knoxville Bijou Theatre
September 7 Raleigh Hopscotch Music Festival
September 27 Champaign-Urbana Pygmalion Music Festival
September 28 Cincinnati MidPoint Music Festival
October 9 Miami Grand Central
October 13 Mexico City Mexico Corona Capital Festival
October 26 Melbourne Australia All Tomorrow's Parties
October 28 Sydney Enmore Theatre
October 29 Brisbane Tivoli Theatre
October 31 Perth Astor Theatre
December 12 Minneapolis United States First Avenue
December 13 Madison High Noon Saloon
December 14 Chicago Metro
December 16 Cleveland Beachland Ballroom
December 18 Boston Paradise
December 19 New York City Webster Hall
December 20
December 29 New Orleans One Eyed Jacks
December 31 Austin The Mohawk

Notes
  1. Although Wiggs was not a regular band member at this point, she played bass for the final three shows of the 2009 tour, because Lopez's wife was having a baby.[28]
  2. The Deals' reunion with Wiggs and Macpherson was initially conceived as being possibly temporary.[37] Lopez has been in Morrissey's band since the mid-2010s, playing on albums beginning with Low in High School (2017).[38][39][40] Medeles currently plays in the Portland, Oregon instrumental group 1939 Ensemble.[41]

Footnotes
  1. Erlewine
  2. Last Splash (CD booklet)
  3. American certifications – Breeders, The
  4. Les Certifications
  5. Ryan 2011, p. 41
  6. Gold Platinum Database
  7. Certified Awards Search
  8. Petrusich 2013
  9. Moore 1996
  10. Wiggs, Josephine in Aston 2013, p. 481
  11. Aaron 1995, p. 41
  12. Ashare 1997
  13. Greer: North of Onhava: The Official Charterhouse of Jim Greer
  14. Gettelman 1996
  15. Catlin 1997
  16. Sullivan 1997
  17. Fowler 1997
  18. Moon 1997
  19. Ferguson 1997
  20. Smith 2002
  21. Klosterman 2002, pp. 83–84
  22. Aston 2013, p. 556
  23. Mackay 2015
  24. Ryzik 2018
  25. Title TK (CD booklet)
  26. Mountain Battles (CD booklet)
  27. Fate to Fatal (7" cover)
  28. Breeders’ Bassist Josephine Wiggs Rejoins Band for Handful of Gigs
  29. Pixies to Reunite for Tour – Official!
  30. Pixies Announce Summer Tour... But Their Future is Uncertain
  31. Johnson 2009
  32. Fullerton 2010
  33. Pixies announce US 'Doolittle' tour details
  34. Young 2011
  35. Epple 2013
  36. Hopper 2014
  37. Power 2013
  38. Low in High School: Credits
  39. California Son: Credits
  40. I Am Not a Dog on a Chain: Credits
  41. 1939 Ensemble
  42. 2014 Tour Dates and New Music / 2013 LSXX Tour Dates
  43. The Breeders celebrated the 20th anniversary of ‘Last Splash’ at The Bell House
  44. Roffman 2013
  45. Mervis 2013, p. W12
  46. Hirsh 2013, p. B12
  47. Back with a Splash
  48. Thomas 2013, p. 10
  49. Holiday list
  50. Ōtaka 2018

References
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