Chris Dunlavy

A fresh take on football
THINK of the Pixies and it is hard to escape the image of Frank Black, corpulent and crazed, endlessly veering from psychotic scream to frantic whisper.
Black – or Charles Michael Kittridge Thompson IV to bestow his given name – brought feral flamboyance to an era-defining band who still sound fresh today.
Yet what really brought the Pixies to life was the driving chug of Kim Deal’s bass. Erase that and all the brooding menace of Debaser and Wave of Mutilation would melt away.
Technically, Deal was no virtuoso. N...