Pixies fury at 'manipulative' documentary

The Pixies are furious with the results of a new documentary that follows the band on the road, and have slammed film-makers for "manipulating" them.

Loud Quiet Loud, which debuted yesterday at the Edinburgh Film Festival in Scotland, trails the US rockers on their 2004 reunion tour.

However the Debaser stars are unhappy with how their personal issues have been portrayed in the movie, directed by Steven Cantor and Matthew Galkin.

Singer Frank Black says: "I've got nothing against the film or the film-makers, but they manipulated the whole thing. They wanted a story, and that story became this tension within the band, how awful we got along, and Dave's (Lovering, drummer) downward spiral.

Whereas Dave was actually the one who was holding us together.

"Kim (Deal, bassist) wasn't happy with the film at all. It made her look like she was hardly there, clutching her beer and chain-smoking cigarettes. It made it look as if we had just scooped her out of the gutter."