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‘I blamed everyone else but I was the problem’: The Breeders on fallouts, reunions and 30 years of Last Splash

Despite decades of drugs and estrangements, the playful pop-grungers are back with new clarity and purpose. They discuss how a mutual appreciation of their 1993 opus made them put aside their differences

I n any successful band, the proof that they’ve crossed from cultish acclaim to overground recognition hits each member differently. For the Breeders’ English bass player, Josephine Wiggs, it was when her sister and mother were visiting her in New York. The three were at the top of the Empire State Building and somebody tapped Wiggs on the shoulder to confirm her identity. It struck drummer Jim MacPherson suddenly at a sold-out show in Paris. “I was just totally blown away by being in a band that had catering following us around, because we actually had a crew now,” he recalls, a note of wonder in his voice three decades on. “I was so green compared to Kim and Kelley and Josephine – it was all so new to me. And when I saw the video for Cannonball on TV, that’s when I thought: ‘This is really special, this song is affecting people’.”

The infectiously gleeful Cannonball, released exactly 30 years before the day of our Zoom call, was the first single from the Breeders’ second album, Last Splash. The Dayton, Ohio band – fronted by singer, songwriter and guitarist Kim Deal (formerly Pixies’ bass player) and featuring her twin sister Kelley, also a guitarist – are in Nevada, on tour supporting Foo Fighters. September sees the second reissue of Last Splash and the start of a headlining US tour during which they’ll again play through the album in its entirety. It’s won the status of a modern classic marked by eccentricity: a disarming mix of art rock, grunge, guileless pop and punk noise, where opaque, often dark lyrics are cut with sardonic humour and both melodic and vocal sweetness. The sound of Kelley’s mic’d-up sewing machine features, while some of Kim’s vocals were recorded in the studio toilet. None of which sounds much like the makings of a UK Top 5 and US Top 40, platinum-certified hit.

“It encompasses everything,” agrees Kelley of the record. “It is legion. As we’ve been preparing to do the shows, one of the things I’ve discovered is that it sounds so effortless; [it’s as if] we went into a room and just jammed some stuff, then it was like, ‘There’s our record!’ It took a week and a half and we were so pleased with it. I love that that’s how it sounds. That’s not what happened: everything on there is highly curated, every ‘accidental’ thing …” she trails off. “It is, isn’t it? Do you not think it is?” she asks, catching her sister’s doubtful look.

“It’s the way you say it,” Kim replies, wary of any suggestion of a grand plan. “I’ve seen bands who have said: ‘We had a group meeting and decided we were going to make this album the sound of the global happiness that we wish the universe would live in.’ People have mock mantras and stuff, you know,” she scoffs. She reckons it’s partly the band’s resistance to using any sound that was then fashionable that has preserved Last Splash’s freshness. Although they’ve always been keen to experiment, the Breeders remain committed to analogue recording and all use the same vintage gear today as they did back then. MacPherson is still playing the drum kit his parents bought him in 1982, though he’s chewed through a few cymbals since, and Kim still works on her most promising lyrics using paper plates and an orange Sharpie.

In interview the Breeders are an entertainingly unguarded bunch, trading jokey slights and feigning outrage with an ease that comes only through years of closeness, though theirs is a chequered history. After a three-year high that included opening for Nirvana’s European tour and playing Lollapalooza, the band disintegrated around the time of Kelley’s arrest in 1994 for heroin possession and her subsequent spell in rehab. It was 24 years before the four made another record together, the triumphant All Nerve.

In the interim, Kim released an album as the Amps in 1995, with MacPherson and others, then revived the Breeders’ name in 1997 and put out two LPs with a different rhythm section and contributions from Kelley. Kim also spent some time in rehab and, in 2004, rejoined Pixies for their reunion tour before quitting for good in 2013. Along the way, she and MacPherson became estranged and ended up not speaking for 15 years, despite living in the same town, though neither can identify a specific trigger point. Her explanation is “individual psychological implosions”, but MacPherson now admits to “almost having a breakdown. I could blame everybody else but, really, I was the problem. I couldn’t handle things and that was a result of drugs and drinking.”

It’s been a bumpy ride, which raises the question as to what has drawn the “classic” Breeders lineup back together for two Last Splash anniversary tours, especially given that all members now have their own independent music projects. Kelley is half of the moody alt-pop duo R Ring and also plays with Protomartyr; Kim has her solo songwriting (an album under her own name is due next year) and seven-inch single series; MacPherson plays in an instrumental surf band called the Mulchmen; while Wiggs is tinkering with a backlog of music she recorded with UK drummer Jon Mattock. It was a combination of the band’s ineffable chemistry and the twins’ sobriety that convinced Wiggs to jump on board again in 2012. “I had played with Kim and Kelley in 2005, when we went to London to do the 25th anniversary of [record label] 4AD. They put on two nights of events and it was unexpectedly magical – first of all to be playing with Kim and Kelley being 100% present and second, just playing those songs. I thought that it would be a great opportunity.”

MacPherson agrees: “We had such a great formula together and I missed it so much. I deeply love that album and I wanted to see if that specialness between all four of us was still there.”

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As Last Splash notches up its third decade, the band’s memories and emotions connected to its heyday are inevitably mixed. “It was a blast,” enthuses Kim. “We toured and went to different countries, people were so excited to see us play – it was so much fun. We were playing a lot with Teenage Fanclub at the time and quite a bit with Nirvana, we played with Luscious Jackson, she [Kim nods at Wiggs] fell in love, Urge Overkill … all those people.” If she could go back in time, Kim admits she would “stop drinking so much beer and smoking so much pot. It really amped up because of the touring cycle. If you’re working all the time you just have a certain amount of coffee and it’s not how much you drink when you’re not working. But when you go to work, you drink more coffee. Do that with beer …” Wiggs’s regrets are mainly sartorial, relating in particular to a pair of pleated trousers (“my ‘show pants’”) from a San Francisco charity shop. “My other cringe moment is when I see photographs of Lollapalooza and I’m wearing short shorts,” she winces. “Drummers are allowed to wear them but if you’re upfront, you shouldn’t be wearing shorts.”

So much for the Breeders’ unchangeable past. Beyond their 30th anniversary tour dates, the future lies open, as does the question of a new album. MacPherson readily admits he “would love to do another record with the girls” though Kim’s upcoming solo release (which features contributions from the other three) and touring commitments would have to be considered. Asked if she reckons there will be a follow-up to All Nerve, Kim looks expectantly around at her bandmates: “We’re still playing music together so I assume there will be. I mean, I hope. Do you?”

The 30th anniversary reissue of Last Splash is out on 22 September.

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The Breeders Announce Last Splash 30th Anniversary Edition, 2023 Tour Dates

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The Breeders have spent the past three decades crashing on the last splash. The ’90s alt-rock legends are celebrating the occasion with Last Splash (30th Anniversary Original Analog Edition), plus 2023 tour dates where they’ll play the 1993 record in its entirety. You can preview the reissue now with a newly-unearthed track from the era called “Go Man Go,” co-written with Pixies vocalist Black Francis.

Then composed of twin sisters Kim and Kelley Deal along with Josephine Wiggs and Jim Macpherson, The Breeders rose to international fame with Last Splash,  their sophomore album. Along with a double-LP of the original tracklist — including classics like “Cannonball” and “Drivin’ on 9” — comes a one-sided etched 12” disc containing “Go Man Go,” as well as a version of “Divine Hammer” with Dinosaur Jr.’s J Mascis on lead vocals, appropriately titled “Divine Mascis.” The remaster was cut at half speed at Abbey Road Studios by Miles Showell, and pre-orders are ongoing.

The Breeders’ headlining tour dates will take them across North America this fall, and they’ll be playing  Last Splash  in its entirety; they also have previously-announced shows coming up with Foo Fighters .

Tickets go on sale Friday, June 30th via Ticketmaster . You can also check for deals StubHub , where orders are 100% guaranteed through StubHub’s FanProtect program. StubHub is a secondary market ticketing platform, and prices may be higher or lower than face value, depending on demand.

Watch a brand-new music video for “Go Man Go” below, and then keep scrolling to see the details for Last Splash (30th Anniversary Original Analog Edition) and The Breeders’ 2023 tour dates.

Last Splash (30th Anniversary Original Analog Edition) Artwork:

Last Splash (30th Anniversary Original Analog Edition) Tracklist: 01. New Year 02. Cannonball 03. Invisible Man 04. No Aloha 01. Roi 02. Do You Love Me Now? 03. Flipside 04. I Just Wanna Get Along 05. Mad Lucas 06. Divine Hammer 07. S.O.S 08. Hag 09. Saints 10. Drivin’ on 9 11. Roi (Reprise)

12” 01. Go Man Go 02. Divine Mascis

The Breeders 2023 Tour Dates: 08/03 – Boise, ID @ Knitting Factory 08/04 – Spokane, WA @ Spokane Arena * 08/06 – Big Sky, MT @ Wildlands Festival 08/08 – West Valley City, UT @ USANA Amphitheatre * 08/10 – Stateline, NV @ Lake Tahoe Outdoor Arena at Harveys * 08/25-26 – Abiquiu, NM @ Ghost Ranch Music Festival 09/07 – Cleveland, OH @ Rock & Roll Hall of Fame ^ 09/08 – Columbus, OH @ KEMBA Live! ^ 09/15 – Chicago, IL @ Riot Fest 09/17 – Asbury Park, NJ @ Sea.Hear.Now. Festival 09/19 – Virginia Beach, VA @ Veterans United Home Loans Amphitheater * 09/20 – Philadelphia, PA @ Fillmore % 09/21 – Silver Springs, MD @ Fillmore % 09/23 – Brooklyn, NY @ Kings Theater % 09/24 – Boston, MA @ House of Blues % 10/03 – Phoenix, AZ @ Talking Stick Resort * 10/05 – El Paso, TX @ Don Haskins Center * 10/06-08 – Austin, TX @ Austin City Limits Music Festival 10/13-15 – Austin, TX @ Austin City Limits Music Festival 10/19 – Los Angeles, CA @ The Wiltern # 10/20 – San Diego, CA @ Observatory # 10/22 – Big Sur, CA @ Henry Miller Library # 10/23 – San Francisco, CA @ The Warfield # 10/25 – Seattle, WA @ Paramount #

* = w/ Foo Fighters ^ = w/ Horsegirl % = w/ Screaming Females # = w/ Belly

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The Breeders will mark the 30th anniversary of their breakthrough second album Last Splash with a new reissue featuring unreleased music — and by playing the record in full on a tour that will include some dates opened by Belly, the band founded by ex-Breeder Tanya Donnelly.

The 4AD label will release Last Splash (30th Anniversary Original Analog Edition) on Sept. 22 in digital formats, on CD and on both black and clear vinyl. The album is remastered for the first time from the newly-found original analog tapes, the label says, and the vinyl was cut at half-speed at Abbey Road for a 45 rpm, 2LP pressing.

The new reissue can be pre-ordered now via Amazon.com or from 4AD’s store .

The vinyl edition of the new reissue will include a bonus one-sided, etched 12-inch featuring two previously unreleased tracks: “Go Man Go,” a song Kim Deal cowrote with her former Pixies bandmate Black Francis, and “Divine Mascis,” an alternate recording of “Divine Hammer” with Dinosaur Jr’s J Mascis on lead vocals. Both songs date back to the original recording sessions for the 1993 album, the label says, and “were left forgotten until the sessions were exhumed to create this new master.”

You can hear “Go Man Go” below via its new music video.

The CD edition is a single-disc affair featuring a Japanese vinyl replica sleeve with the original LP art that will include a “high definition master of the album” — and both of the previously unreleased tracks.

The Last Splash -era lineup of The Breeders — Kim Deal, Kelley Deal, Josephine Wiggs and Jim Macpherson — reunited in 2012 in conjunction with the 20th anniversary reissue of that album. After considerable touring, the group went on to record the band’s fifth album, All Nerve , which was released in 2018.

Since then, the band has released a cover of His Name Is Alive’s “The Dirt Eaters,” part of a 4AD collection of cover songs called Bills & Aches & Blues (40 Years of 4AD) that released in 2021.

To mark the 30th anniversary of Last Splash , The Breeders will play a special run of concerts in September and October during which they’ll perform the album in its entirety. They’ll be joined at those shows by Belly, Screaming Females and Horsegirl, depending on the date. The band is also opening a number of Foo Fighters shows and playing festivals.

Below, check out those tour dates and the reissue’s tracklist.

The Breeders, Last Splash (30th Anniversary Original Analog Edition)

LAST SPLASH A1. “New Year” A2. “Cannonball” A3. “Invisible Man” A4. “No Aloha”

B1. “Roi” B2. “Do You Love Me Now?” B3. “Flipside”

C1. “I Just Wanna Get Along” C2. “Mad Lucas” C3. “Divine Hammer” C4. “S.O.S.”

D1. “Hag” D2. “Saints” D3. “Drivin’ on 9” D4. “Roi (Reprise)”

BONUS 12-INCH A1. “Go Man Go” A2. “Divine Mascis”

The Breeders tour dates 2023

Aug. 3: Knitting Factory, Boise, ID Aug. 4: Spokane Arena, Spokane, WA * Aug. 6: Wildlands Festival, Big Sky, MT Aug. 8: USANA Amphitheatre, Salt Lake City, UT * Aug. 10: Lake Tahoe Outdoor Arena at Harvey’s, Stateline, NV * Aug. 25: Ghost Ranch Music Festival, Albuquerque, NM Sept. 7: Union Home Mortgage Plaza, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Cleveland, OH ** Sept. 8: KEMBA Live!, Columbus, OH ** Sept. 9: Fillmore, Detroit, MI ** Sept. 15: Riot Fest, Douglass Park, Chicago, IL Sept. 17: Sea.Hear.Now Festival, Asbury Park, NJ Sept. 19: Veterans United Home Loans Amphitheater, Virginia Beach, VA * Sept. 20: Fillmore, Philadelphia, PA *** Sept. 21: Fillmore, Silver Spring, MD *** Sept. 23: Kings Theater, Brooklyn, NY *** Sept. 24: House of Blues, Boston, MA *** Oct. 3: Talking Stick Resort Amphitheatre, Phoenix, AZ * Oct. 5: Don Haskins Center, UTEP, El Paso, TX * Oct. 8: Austin City Limits Music Festival, Austin, TX Oct. 15: Austin City Limits Music Festival, Austin, TX Oct. 19: The Wiltern, Los Angeles, CA **** Oct. 20: Observatory, San Diego, CA **** Oct. 22: Henry Miller Library, Big Sur CA **** Oct. 23: The Warfield, San Francisco, CA **** Oct. 25: Paramount, Seattle, WA **** Nov. 19: Corona Capital 2023, Mexico City, Mexico

* Opening for Foo Fighters ** With Horsegirl *** With Screaming Females **** With Belly

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The Breeders have spent the past three decades crashing on the last splash. The ’90s alt-rock legends are celebrating the occasion with Last Splash (30th Anniversary Original Analog Edition), plus 2023 tour dates where they’ll play the 1993 record in its entirety. You can preview the reissue now with a newly-unearthed track from the era called “Go Man Go,” co-written with Pixies vocalist Black Francis.

Then composed of twin sisters Kim and Kelley Deal along with Josephine Wiggs and Jim Macpherson, The Breeders rose to international fame with Last Splash,  their sophomore album. Along with a double-LP of the original tracklist — including classics like “Cannonball” and “Drivin’ on 9” — comes a one-sided etched 12” disc containing “Go Man Go,” as well as a version of “Divine Hammer” with Dinosaur Jr.’s J Mascis on lead vocals, appropriately titled “Divine Mascis.” The remaster was cut at half speed at Abbey Road Studios by Miles Showell, and pre-orders are ongoing.

The Breeders’ headlining tour dates will take them across North America this fall, and they’ll be playing  Last Splash  in its entirety; they also have previously-announced shows coming up with Foo Fighters .

Tickets are available via StubHub , where orders are 100% guaranteed through StubHub’s FanProtect program. StubHub is a secondary market ticketing platform, and prices may be higher or lower than face value, depending on demand.

Watch a brand-new music video for “Go Man Go” below, and then keep scrolling to see the details for Last Splash (30th Anniversary Original Analog Edition) and The Breeders’ 2023 tour dates.

Last Splash (30th Anniversary Original Analog Edition) Artwork:

Last Splash (30th Anniversary Original Analog Edition) Tracklist: 01. New Year 02. Cannonball 03. Invisible Man 04. No Aloha 01. Roi 02. Do You Love Me Now? 03. Flipside 04. I Just Wanna Get Along 05. Mad Lucas 06. Divine Hammer 07. S.O.S 08. Hag 09. Saints 10. Drivin’ on 9 11. Roi (Reprise)

12” 01. Go Man Go 02. Divine Mascis

The Breeders 2023 Tour Dates: 08/03 – Boise, ID @ Knitting Factory 08/04 – Spokane, WA @ Spokane Arena * 08/06 – Big Sky, MT @ Wildlands Festival 08/08 – West Valley City, UT @ USANA Amphitheatre * 08/10 – Stateline, NV @ Lake Tahoe Outdoor Arena at Harveys * 08/25-26 – Abiquiu, NM @ Ghost Ranch Music Festival 09/07 – Cleveland, OH @ Rock & Roll Hall of Fame ^ 09/08 – Columbus, OH @ KEMBA Live! ^ 09/15 – Chicago, IL @ Riot Fest 09/17 – Asbury Park, NJ @ Sea.Hear.Now. Festival 09/19 – Virginia Beach, VA @ Veterans United Home Loans Amphitheater * 09/20 – Philadelphia, PA @ Fillmore % 09/21 – Silver Springs, MD @ Fillmore % 09/23 – Brooklyn, NY @ Kings Theater % 09/24 – Boston, MA @ House of Blues % 10/03 – Phoenix, AZ @ Talking Stick Resort * 10/05 – El Paso, TX @ Don Haskins Center * 10/06-08 – Austin, TX @ Austin City Limits Music Festival 10/13-15 – Austin, TX @ Austin City Limits Music Festival 10/19 – Los Angeles, CA @ The Wiltern # 10/20 – San Diego, CA @ Observatory # 10/22 – Big Sur, CA @ Henry Miller Library # 10/23 – San Francisco, CA @ The Warfield # 10/25 – Seattle, WA @ Paramount #

* = w/ Foo Fighters ^ = w/ Horsegirl % = w/ Screaming Females # = w/ Belly

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The Breeders Extend Last Splash Anniversary Tour

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This year, Kim and Kelley Deal's band the Breeders are celebrating the 20th anniversary of their landmark record  Last Splash with a deluxe reissue , out in April via 4AD . They're also reuniting the 1992-1994 lineup (with Josephine Wiggs and Jim Macpherson) for a tour, on which they'll play the album in its entirety. Along with a string of previously announced European dates , including a slot at the Deerhunter-curated ATP fest , the band has now announced a North American tour and more UK dates.

Carrie Bradley, who played violin on  Last Splash , will also join the band for the tour.

After the dates, watch the Kim Gordon- and Spike Jonze-directed video for "Cannonball".

03-29 Brooklyn, NY - The Bell House 05-03 Pittsburgh, PA - Mr. Smalls Theatre 05-04 Washington, D.C. - 9:30 Club  05-05 Philadelphia, PA - The Trocadero 05-06 New York, NY - Webster Hall 05-09 Boston, MA - Royale Nightclub 05-11 Toronto, Ontario - Danforth Music Hall 05-12 Detroit, MI - Majestic Theatre 05-14 Nashville, TN - Mercy Lounge 05-15 Atlanta, GA - Variety Playhouse 05-24 Barcelona, Spain - Parc Del Fòrum (Primavera Sound) 05-27 Toulouse, France - Le Bikini 05-28 Bordeaux, France - Le Rocher De Palmer 05-30 Porto, Portugal - Primavera Sound 06-01 Paris, France - Trianon 06-02 Brussels, Belgium - Ancienne Belgique  06-03 Amsterdam, Holland - Paradiso 06-14 Dublin, Ireland - Vicar Street 06-17 Glasgow, Scotland - ABC 06-18 Manchester, England - Ritz  06-19 London, England - Forum 06-21 Camber Sands, England - Camber Sands Holiday Centre (All Tomorrow’s Parties)

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Kim Deal has plenty to do before the Breeders' sold-out Last Splash 20th anniversary tour, but instead, she's calling in -- four minutes early -- for an interview with MTV News. Why?

"Well, the suspense was killing me," she laughed. "I was sitting here with the phone in my hand and I couldn't take it anymore."

We suspect she was kidding; after all, in recent months, Deal has turned her Dayton, Ohio home into Breeders central, gathering the band's Last Splash -era lineup -- her, sister Kelley, bassist Josephine Wiggs and drummer Jim MacPherson, plus violinist Carrie Bradley -- to rehearse for the tour (which kicks off Wednesday night with a warm-up show in Kentucky) and cull through the ample amount of material she's kept from the iconic album's recording sessions for a deluxe twentieth-anniversary reissue , set to hit stores on April 23. Needless to say, she's been busy, which is pretty impressive, considering she wasn't even aware Last Splash was turning 20 until fairly recently.

"I was sitting on the couch with my sister Kelley in Dayton last spring, and she's the one who said to me 'Kim, did you know next year is 2013, it's 20 years for Last Splash, ' and I was like 'Oh my God!'" Deal sighed. "So we started imagining what we could do for the anniversary; it certainly wasn't 'Let's get down to business. Let's do this thing.' It was like 'Wouldn't it be cool if we could do some shows?' And then we asked everyone if they would be into it, and it was nice of them to say 'Yes.' I mean, imagine what would have happened if they said ' No! '"

And while the band worked through the songs on Last Splash (they'll play the record in its entirety on the tour), Deal pulled double duty, serving as de facto engineer for the sessions -- "I have a nice TASCAM 16-track recorder, so I snaked it down to the basement, from my bathroom, down through the laundry chute," she laughed -- and chief archivist for the band. And she's done an admirable job of collecting everything from that period in the Breeders' career, pulling together a reissue that contains the original album, four EPs ( Safari and Head To Toe, plus the singles "Cannonball" and "Divine Hammer,") a full live album and a disc that features a BBC live session and demos.

And though she's continually working on new material (she's been releasing a series of 7" solo singles in her spare time), Deal couldn't help but get nostalgic for the Last Splash era, when, thanks to the success of "Cannonball," the Breeders became one of the standard bearers of Alternative Nation ... whether they wanted to or not.

"We didn't think it would be on the radio, that's for sure. I didn't even listen to the radio. I wasn't trying to make it on the charts, because the charts sucked; I was just trying to make good music," Deal said. "So the fact that it got on the charts was weird, and the fact that people thought Nirvana broke open the seal for people like Mudhoney and the Butthole Surfers or us to get on the charts, that's crazy thinking. I think the charts eventually came to the underground, the underground wasn't trying to push their way onto the charts. The charts were a bunch of bullsh--. Back in the day, underground bands could pay their rent, they could sell enough CDs and play shows and make a living. And that's all we were trying to do.

"But it was really fun. You know, it was so different, because there was a lot of money in the music business then ... I used to think 'What are all these people doing?' People would, like, go to shows and get drunk, and that was their job" she continued. "I can't believe how much I miss it. Think of all the things that don't exist anymore; there are no promo posters, there is no shelf space to fight over, there are no record stores anymore, man. I really do feel like I'm Pittsburgh, like a steel mill, I've been through the decimation of an entire industry. Hell, I live in f---ing Ohio, the whole f---ing state is decimated, so I'm fine with it. It's funny, like, 'Oh wow, the one thing I was super-involved with is also decimated now!'"

And though she's spent much of the past year re-visiting Last Splash, Deal said she's never paid attention to the album's legacy as one of the 1990s best; in fact, she's pretty shocked all of the Breeders' anniversary shows sold out in minutes ("I guess that means people care," she laughed). But does all of this mean that she'll continue to mine the archives, and thrill fans with even more reissues in the years to come? Say, for example, a 20th anniversary edition of the Amps' Pacer? Don't count on it.

"Oh, that would be nice, but I don't know," she said. "There would be, like, you and two other guys who would buy it."

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American indie rock band The Breeders 1993 album Last Splash is being reissued for its 30th anniversary. The album features the alt-rock classic ‘Cannonball’, reached the top 10 in the UK and was certified platinum in America.

The headline news for this reissue is that it is from the original analogue tapes which were thought to have been lost but have now been discovered (deep in Warner’s vaults). These half-inch tapes consisted of final mixes, but were un-sequenced and unmastered. There were transferred to digital before cutting to vinyl. This is due to the album being recorded over many months at several different locations and the tapes having different line up standards. Everything was mixed to 1/2” but, as Miles Showell confirmed to SDE, some of the tracks were recorded at 15 IPS (speed, rated in inches-per-second) while the majority were done at 30 IPS. Add to that the fact that some tracks were Dolby SR encoded and some were not, this mix of standards would have made it impossible to work on while keeping the signal path AAA.

One bonus is that the tape discovery brought to light two unreleased tracks from the 1993 Last Splash recording sessions: ‘Go Man Go’, a track that Kim co-wrote with Black Francis, and ‘Divine Mascis’, a version of ‘Divine Hammer’ with lead vocals provided courtesy of Dinosaur Jr.’s J Mascis.

This 30th anniversary ‘Original Analog Edition’ of Last Splash is being issued as a 2LP set. A bonus one-sided 12-inch offers the two newly discovered tracks (the other side is etched) meaning this is a three record set . Artwork sees the original, iconic sleeve design by the late designer Vaughan Oliver reimagined by his long-time design partner Chris Bigg.

CD fans can delight in a one-time pressing Japanese replica version of this release which is available at non-import prices. The sleeve is being printed by Ichikudo in Tokyo and will come with an obi strip, lyric booklet and includes the two bonus tracks from the vinyl version.

Last Splash is reissued on 22 September 2023, via 4AD.

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• New Year (2023 Remaster)1:55
• Cannonball (2023 Remaster)3:33
• Invisible Man (2023 Remaster)2:47
• No Aloha (2023 Remaster)2:06
• Roi (2023 Remaster)4:11
• Do You Love Me Now? (2023 Remaster)3:01
• Flipside (2023 Remaster)1:59
• I Just Wanna Get Along (2023 Remaster)1:44
• Mad Lucas (2023 Remaster)4:36
• Divine Hammer (2023 Remaster)2:37
• S.O.S. (2023 Remaster)1:34
• Hag (2023 Remaster)2:55
• Saints (2023 Remaster)2:31
• Drivin’ on 9 (2023 Remaster)3:21
• Roi (reprise) (2023 Remaster)0:44
• Go Man Go2:16
• Divine Mascis2:58

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What happened to the Breeders?

With ‘last splash’ 30 years ago, they seemed like rock’s post-nirvana future. now touring again, the band better understands how they fell apart — and how to keep it together..

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I n a cluttered suburban basement this summer, Kim Deal cupped her hands over the mic to distort her lilting voice into something like the moan of a humpback whale, and suddenly it was 1993 again.

AhhOOOOOwah! AhhOOOOOwah!

A few taps on the snare rim and cymbal stand from her bandmate Jim Macpherson. Then Josephine Wiggs came in with the bass line, that inquisitive Morse-code riff that telegraphs within a heartbeat that you’ve tuned into the biggest hit of the Breeders’ all-too-fleeting heyday.

Spitting in a wishing well

Blown to hell, crash — I’m the last splash

“Cannonball” was no mainstream chart-topper, but its delectably off-kilter riff was everywhere in the mid-’90s, making it the 22nd greatest indie anthem (according to New Musical Express), the 83rd greatest song of its decade (says VH1), one of the 500 greatest hits of all time (Rolling Stone). The Deal sisters’ cooing vocals against their scowling guitars, those impenetrable lyrics, that lifeguard whistle beckoning us … where exactly? The song was in “South Park,” over the sports highlights, on MTV. If you were filming a pitch-black comedy about bank-robbing cheerleaders, as someone actually did back then , you would definitely cue up “Cannonball” to score the madcap heist scene.

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For many critics and fans, though, the Breeders weren’t just supposed to be the sound of 1993. They were supposed to be the future — a femme-powered vanguard of grunge that could have, should have, led the way in the post-Nirvana vacuum. But “Last Splash,” the platinum-selling album that spawned “Cannonball,” somehow ended up being the Breeders’ last act in their prime.

“Sometimes I think, God, wow, we really should have probably done another Breeders record,” Deal said dryly. “Because it really was quite popular.” Popular enough that they are marking “Last Splash’s” 30th anniversary by playing it live in its entirety, in a tour that comes to the Fillmore in Silver Spring, Md., on Thursday.

Instead, the Breeders disappeared at their peak, for reasons that are easy to itemize — the drug abuse, the writer’s block, the fights, etc. — but hard to pin on one person. Like their greatest work, their mystifying collapse was a true collaboration.

W hat makes a band click? The Breeders were in their fourth year and third lineup before they conjured the magic that was “Last Splash.”

Kim Deal founded the band already something of a legend for her role as the bass player for the Pixies. Wiggs was there from the start, too, a bookish Brit with a master’s degree in philosophy and multi-instrumental chops. Macpherson, who joined after 1990s “Pod,” pounded his Gretsch kit like an Ohio schoolboy raised on Rush.

But it can be argued that the Breeders didn’t really become the Breeders until 1992, after co-founder Tanya Donelly defected to start the band Belly, and Deal managed to persuade twin sister Kelley to replace her as lead guitarist.

The hitch, of course, was that Kelley — at the time, working for a defense contractor in the Deals’ hometown of Dayton — didn’t play guitar.

“I was just like, ‘what the f---?’” recalled Wiggs.

Kim had previously tried, unsuccessfully, to lure Kelley into the Pixies. But her sister passed up the chance to join the Boston band whose galvanizing loud-quiet-loud sound went on to inspire Kurt Cobain and many others who would better monetize it.

Born 11 minutes apart, the sisters were always close, both of them gymnasts at Wayne High School, where Kim was also a cheerleader. And they were always musical, Kim playing guitar, and Kelley harmonizing in their folk-rock combo that would perform at the local Ground Round and Trolley Stop, using their grandfather’s potty chair as a speaker stand.

Siblings who sing together are said to have a special sound — a “blood harmony” that has raised goose bumps again and again over the years, in acts as varied as the Louvin Brothers of bluegrass, the Bee Gees of pop and the rock band Haim. And it was the blend of the twins’ clear, guileless voices on “Cannonball” as well as “Divine Hammer” that gave those songs their spark.

“The sister-throat thing is real,” observed Donelly. “And their voices together, it’s magic.”

The guitar part would have to follow. Donelly, the former teen prodigy of Throwing Muses, had brought serious playing chops to Breeders 1.0. Kelley Deal had to learn on the fly. Producer Mark Freegard recalled having to record her sliding line in “Cannonball” one chunk at a time and piece it together in the studio.

But she quickly developed a distinctive sound, driven by vibrato and creative melody — more guitar strategy than technique, but exactly what her frontwoman sister wanted for the band.

“It’s not ‘how loud can my guitar go right now’ and ‘let me pull out my blues scale in G’ or whatever,” Kim Deal told The Washington Post during the band’s rehearsal in Dayton.

“I’ve always tried not to do that,” Kelley said.

“And you counted how many times Neil Young hit that one note on ‘Down by the River,’” Kim added.

“Yeah,” said Kelley. “Thirty-eight times. And it’s just one note over and over, and it’s the f---ing best solo ever.”

In the Pixies, Kim Deal played second fiddle to founder and lead singer Charles Thompson, a.k.a. Black Francis. But the Breeders would reflect her vision. Of the two sisters, she had been the home-studio rat, collecting equipment every birthday and Christmas — the Yamaha PA, a Tascam 8-track, an Oberheim DX drum machine. From early on, she absorbed disparate influences through her boombox or the radio of her Volvo — Curtis Mayfield’s “The Makings of You,” Free’s “Lying in the Sunshine,” Billie Holiday’s “For All We Know.”

“There’s an aphorism that a junkie only gets high the first time and the rest of the time is just trying to relive that experience,” said Steve Albini, the era-defining alt-rock producer who engineered “Pod,” the Breeders’ 1990 debut. “And music is very much like that for Kim. The sensations that she has when she is animated by a piece of music enrich her so much that she will then go through whatever it takes to try to re-manifest that sensation.”

Launched with the imprimatur of an MTV “Buzz Bin” pick, lead single “Cannonball” helped “Last Splash” get classified as alternative rock. But the album defied definition by stretching into country (“Drivin’ on 9”), surf instrumentals (“Flipside”), no wave (“ROI”) and shoegaze. The latter was evoked in “No Aloha,” an echoing tragicomic ballad whose even-more-cryptic-than-usual lyrics ( No bye, no aloha/ gone with a rock promoter ) made fans ever more curious about Deal’s world. Was it about the Pixies? A boyfriend? Some industry sleaze? Deal still isn’t telling. She never explains her songs.

The album was packed with sonic experiments: The tape-splicing trick that warped the guitar riff on “New Year” into the sound of piano strings plucked from inside. The sewing machine pumped through a Marshall amp on “S.O.S.” Deal would sometimes listen to the daily session outtakes that Freegard sent home with her and return to the studio the next day asking if he could re-create the hiss of the cheap cassette tapes on the polished final version.

“If I listen to ‘Last Splash’ as a hi-fi experience, I’m kind of horrified,” said Freegard, who would go on to co-produce the album with Deal. “Kim was just like, ‘Mark, record it louder. I want it to distort.’ I think I put my head in my hands at the end going, ‘oh my God, this might be the end of my career.’ But in retrospect, it has this energy, this exuberance.”

T wo legends have always swirled around the Deal sisters. One is about Kelley and the drugs.

Outsiders were inclined to assume that life in the Breeders ruined Kim’s sister. That, removed from her button-down world as a technical analyst and thrust into the fast lane, an innocent Ohio gal careened into addiction. In fact, Kelley Deal was pushing the limits long before Lollapalooza. Their mom caught her sneaking cigarettes in high school and tried to punish her by forcing her to smoke an entire carton. (She shared a few of the Marlboro Reds with Kim.) In her work life at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, she ended up going to meetings in the same outfit two days in a row.

“I’d done ecstasy the night before and was up all night long, and one eye was going this way and the other was going that,” she recalled. “I was having all the same addiction and drug issues that everybody was. Lawyers and stockbrokers and Realtors and salespeople.”

“There’s an aphorism that a junkie only gets high the first time and the rest of the time is just trying to relive that experience and music is very much like that for Kim.” — Steve Albini, alt-rock producer who engineered the Breeders’ 1990 debut.

A little more than a year after “Last Splash,” Kelley Deal was at home in Dayton when she accepted four grams of heroin in an airmail package in November 1994. It was a controlled bust. As part of her plea, she agreed to go to the Hazelden drug treatment center in Minnesota. Nobody tried to hide the incident. In fact, the band mentioned it in an issue of their homemade Breeders Digest zine that was mailed out to fans.

Then there is the myth surrounding Kim, echoed in countless feature stories, books and blog posts. That she was a creative adventurer stifled during her time in the Pixies by an overbearing Thompson, marginalized like George Harrison in the Beatles.

To Deal, the theory is not just false, it’s insulting. It was Thompson’s band. She had no aspirations to take it over, and she always was free to leave if she wished. She didn’t need the Breeders to find liberation, and by 1993, the Pixies had run their course anyway.

“People liked my voice, and yes, they wanted to hear it more, so that’s nice,” she says. “But I don’t know how ‘I like your voice’ turns into ‘you’re trapped.’”

S o what happened to the Breeders?

Over pizza at Marion’s — a Dayton institution, where black-and-white head shots of visiting dignitaries like Cloris Leachman and Dom DeLuise line the walls — the band breaks it down.

After rehab, Kelley Deal landed at a halfway house in St. Paul, Minn. Meanwhile, Macpherson — who learned to mix his first daiquiri at 9 — found his hard-won sobriety challenged in the beer line at a Lollapalooza show.

“I called my wife, and I was like, ‘you know, I think I’m just going to drink a beer,’” he recalled. “She’s like, ‘uh, okay.’”

Wiggs exited for reasons they still debate. Deal remembers her asking for time off to live in New York with her then-partner, Luscious Jackson drummer Kate Schellenbach. Wiggs, however, assumed the entire band was taking a break after an exhausting two years on the road. She also didn’t want to be inside what felt like chaos.

With Wiggs and her sister absent, Deal kept writing and playing in the basement. Macpherson would come over and play drums, and those songs became material for a new band, christened the Amps. After relocating to Ireland to record what would be their first and only album, Macpherson’s drinking got serious. He had two separate accidents that required him to get stitches in the same Irish ER. Eventually, he and Deal had a fight, and he walked out. They wouldn’t speak for 15 years.

“I was also abusing drugs and drinking, so I didn’t pick up what he was going through,” said Deal. “I had no insight or perspective at all. Things were hard, that’s all. And then I came back, and I went downstairs, and his drums were gone.”

The Amps album, “Pacer,” flopped, and Freegard tried to work with Deal on a new Breeders album. The band, at this point, included both Deal sisters but not Wiggs or Macpherson. Deal rolled up nearly $250,000 in studio bills and still couldn’t finish. And with the collapse of her Amps side project, her own drinking accelerated.

“She was at the mixing board with the bass in her hand going through incredibly repetitive takes of the same riff on and on and on,” recalled Robin Hurley, head of U.S. operations for record label 4AD. “And she’d be sitting there for hours on end. I’d go home, go to bed at the hotel, come back in the morning, and I’m sure things had changed but it almost looked like nothing had changed since I left.”

To term the end of the Breeders as an explosion or implosion would be wrong, the Deal sisters now say, just as it would be to try to blame anyone in particular.

“It was always just the lack of a return phone call or a nice conversation saying, ‘well, I think I’ll just skip this one,'” said Kelley Deal. “I think if there had been an implosion or something, that would probably have been healthier almost.”

T he inspiration for the Breeders reunion is easier to trace.

In 2004, the Pixies famously began touring again, as their old cult following began to hit the kind of critical mass that could nudge them past their old acrimony. “I just laugh all the way to the bank,” Thompson told The Post in 2004.

Deal joined the tour, which for nine years grossed tens of millions playing to the kinds of packed arenas they couldn’t have imagined in the 1980s. Eventually, though, she had enough. She won’t go into detail about it other than to say she felt uncomfortable with the Pixies’ decision to record new music.

In the meantime, she and her sister had toured under the Breeders name and put out two records, in 2002 and 2008, without Wiggs and Macpherson. Kelley Deal, who stopped drinking in 1995, relapsed with opioids but has been clean since 2010. She said she has never been happier.

“Because of being in recovery,” she said. “Without it, I would not be alive because of fentanyl. I would actually be a dead person.”

In 2012, with the 20th anniversary of “Last Splash” approaching, Kelley told her sister they should do something with the old lineup. Kim told her she would have to be the one to ask Macpherson if he would join. Without question, he said.

Kim texted Wiggs. She also agreed. The Breeders toured again and eventually, in 2018, released “All Nerve,” the first album of original songs featuring the four of them since “Last Splash.”

This time — understanding, as many bands before them, that there is a thirst for their greatest work — they’re turning back the clock.

On the tour that continues into the fall, they play all 14 of the album’s songs. And “Last Splash,” remixed from a tape unearthed in the archives at Warner Music Group, will be reissued on Sept. 22, with a bonus track, “Go Man Go,” that was cut from the roster at the last minute in 1993, as well as a version of “Divine Hammer” sung by Dinosaur Jr.’s J. Mascis. Olivia Rodrigo, the new pop superstar who was born a decade after “Last Splash,” announced Wednesday that the Breeders will open for her at Madison Square Garden in New York and the Forum in Los Angeles next year.

Dayton remains home for the sisters and for Macpherson, whose regular job these days is as a carpenter. They rehearse in the same basement as always, in a house Deal bought in 1990 with Pixies money, surrounded by the guitar pedals and the instruments — Kim’s Les Paul, Kelley’s Strat, Macpherson’s maple Gretsch kit — that they used on “Last Splash.”

During rehearsal breaks, Wiggs tapped away on a laptop for something else making a comeback: the Breeders Digest. Would anyone even know what a zine was anymore? Their last issue was released 28 years ago. But why not?

“How many bands get to do this?” said Macpherson. “Kim looked at me just recently, and she goes, ‘This just does not happen to every album, to every band. It’s something special.’”

An earlier version of this article misidentified Robin Hurley, the former head of U.S. operations for the record label 4AD, as Robert Hurley. The article has been corrected.

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On your first day, you’ll be treated to a panoramic, drive-by tour of Moscow to get a feel for the immense scale of one of the world’s most rapidly developing urban centres. The city’s history unfolds in real-time as you pass lavish imperial mansions, solemn Soviet structures and luxurious modern shopping centres.

Day two kicks off exploring Moscow’s historic centre on foot, followed by a tour of the Kremlin, the seat of Russian power and political intrigue for centuries. Stand in the Red Square, surrounded by the stunning architecture as you hear stories of the people and events behind many of Moscow’s most iconic landmarks.

On your final day, we’ll head beneath the city for a tour of the Moscow Metro and its famously ornate underground stations. Art lovers should hit up one of Moscow’s many world-class galleries such as the Tretyakov State Gallery, the Pushkin Museum or Garage, Moscow’s cutting-edge contemporary art museum. History fans can follow a Soviet trail through the city including Stalin’s Bunker, while those seeking a more indulgent experience can browse trendy neighbourhoods like Kitay Gorod or shop for everything from fashion to kitsch souvenirs at the enchanting Izmaylovo Flea Market. Foodies can head to one of the countless speciality stores sampling vodka, caviar and chocolate.

If you only have a few days to spend in Moscow, this tour will ensure you make the most of your time in the city. Let the experts navigate you through this complex and occasionally overwhelming capital, giving you plenty of time to soak up the city’s most unmissable attractions.

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3 days / 2 nights

Private - Any Date

Day 1 Panoramic city tour

Welcome to the glorious capital of Russia, Moscow! You’ll be met by your driver at the airport and taken to your centrally located hotel.

After check-in and rest, meet your private guide at the hotel lobby for a comprehensive tour of Moscow by car. Visit the starkly contrasting Theatre Square to see the stunning Bolshoi Theatre, pass Tverskaya Street, the city’s main boulevard and home to the landmark Yeleseyevskiy Grocery Store.

You’ll enjoy a panoramic drive along the Moskva River, where a huge, controversial state of Peter the Great was erected. Pass by the legendary Gorky Park and the White House before a stop at the architecturally stunning Novodevichy Convent, and the observation platform at Sparrow Hills, for a bird’s eye view over this staggering megalopolis.

Day 2 Red Square and Kremlin

After breakfast at the hotel, your guide will take you on a walking tour of the historical city centre. Stroll through the Red Square, the hub of cultural life in Moscow, with its elaborate ‘stone flower’ fountain and fantasy-like St Basil’s Cathedral – a postcard-perfect symbol of the nation. Admire the grandiose façade of GUM, the city’s most luxurious shopping centre, and visit Alexander’s Garden, with its eternal flame and the chance to watch a changing of the guards.

Break for lunch before continuing on a tour of the Kremlin and Armoury Chamber, famous of its collection of tsarist fashion, with regalia such as jewel-encrusted crowns, orbs and sceptres as well as arms and armour, exotic gifts from the leaders of faraway lands, and an illustrious case of Imperial Faberge eggs.

As an option* spend an evening on a sumptuous dinner cruise, taking in the stunning sights and city lights of this mesmerising metropolis by night.

Day 3 Metro and Arbat Street

Start a day with a tour of Metro, stopping on the way to marvel at some of the most elaborately decorated stations of the world-famous Moscow subway system. Take a stroll along Old Arbat street - the most famous street in Moscow. Through the centuries Arbat used to be one of the most bohemian places in Moscow. Today Arbat is a promenade full of small cozy cafes and street life.

The afternoon is free for you to either enjoy the rest of the day on your own or choose among optional excursions to explore more of Moscow. Visit the Tretyakov Gallery or Pushkin State Museum to admire Russian art. Join locals for a stroll at the Gorky or VDNH park.

Visit beautiful Kolomeskoye Estate or Izmailovo Kremlin, or spend a day exploring the beautiful city of the Golden Ring (Russian province) - Sergiev Posad. In the evening you will be transferred to the airport for your departure to your next destination.

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All transportation according to the itinerary with a private driver

4* hotel accommodation in the historical city center (twin/double)

Local licensed English-speaking guide

All activities, indicated in the itinerary, except optional

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Optional excursions/activities

*Private tour. Price is per person, based on min 2 people

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