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Pixies on having curry with and being covered by David Bowie

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Pixies have told NME about going for curry with David Bowie and having the legend cover one of their songs.This week, the alt-rock legends took NME‘s Does Rock ‘N’ Roll Kill Braincells?!

challenge, where veteran artists are quizzed about their history in the music industry.During the interview, frontman Black Francis and drummer David Lovering were asked about Bowie covering Pixies’ ‘Cactus’ for his 2002 album ‘Heathen’.“It’s cool when people like your music and do versions of it but I don’t like to make a big deal out of it,” Francis said. “Bowie was just a music geek – like me.

It’s too star-fucky if you say [adopts an air-headed voice] ‘Oh my God, he likes me! He looked at me!’. Everybody’s shit stinks.

I’m not pushing an egalitarian agenda here, but let’s get real!”Discussing an in-person encounter with the legend, Lovering remembered: “David Bowie once took us to an Indian restaurant in Manchester, and I sat next to him shooting the shit.

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