Live at the Marquee moshers go to heaven

Pixies unleashed a glorious aural assault opening with their monster track ‘Debaser’ where David Lovering absolutely leathered into his drum-kit for some pounding rhythms to announce the arrival of the frantic foursome.

Black Francis — always a much cooler name than his solo moniker Frank Black — went straight into ‘U-Mass’ with a twistier, snarlier vocal and looked so comfortable in his own skin, so ineffably indie that he makes looking like Comic Book Guy the only way to go.