Frank Black is delighted to announce a series of shows for 2025, where he will be performing the ‘Teenager Of The Year’ album in full.
The Teenager Of The Year Tour starts on 15th January at the legendary Fillmore in San Francisco and includes 11 US and Canadian shows before going over to perform in Paris and the iconic London Palladium. Originally released in May 1994, Teenager of the Year, is now widely regarded as the defining statement of his solo career and the best album the Pixies never made.
Frank Black on Teenager Of The Year “Sometime in the early 80s, I’d have to look up the date, I matriculated high school. This school held an awards banquet for some of the departing students at the school. I received an award called the TEENAGER OF THE YEAR award; my brother received the same award the following year. Our award was a 50 dollar credit for textbooks, a TEENAGER OF THE YEAR medallion (my mother still has this), and also the banquet hall dinner, soup to nuts. My brother and I had no complaint about the award (it was given for being all-around-good-guy as best as we could determine). But for such a grand title to be given as TEENAGER OF THE YEAR, I felt the glory had not been amplified enough.In 1993, I was doing “solo recording” sessions with Eric Drew Feldman in Los Angeles.We had settled on a core band with Nick Vincent and Lyle Workman, occasionally augmented by Joey Santiago and Moris Tepper. Though we had to change studios numerous times for actual forest fires and earthquakes, the whole process was such an addictive musical buffet that Eric and I couldn’t stop. We did some vocals at a studio rumored to be owned by Sergio Mendes; in the control room was a wall of television screens broadcasting the brush fire which crept toward us. We eventually evacuated to someplace else. We never met Sergio but we saw him perform a few weeks later when we vacated to Las Vegas after the Northridge earthquake, which had trapped the TEENAGER OF THE YEAR tapes in a studio vault for some time. Our zeal plus empathy from our financiers, they safely observing our travails from London, was enough to keep the money flowing until Eric and I relented and declared “Consummatum est”.We tried to make it grand. 22 in 62. I called it TEENAGER OF THE YEAR. It is 30 years old now,and the original band will perform the record at various venues in early 2025. 4AD has remastered the LP for a fresh printing. Enjoy“
A new re-mastered version of Teenager Of The Year will be released by 4AD later this year.
Along with Frank Black, the band for the tour features Eric Feldman, Lyle Workman and Nick Vincent who originally appeared on the Teenager Of the Year album.
The band is:
Frank Black on guitar and vocals
Eric Feldman on bass and keys
Lyle Workman on guitar
Nick Vincent on drums
Rob Laufer – keys, bass and guitar
Tickets for the Teenager Of The Year Tour are available HERE
2025 Teenager Of The Year Tour Dates:
January
15th San Francisco, CA The Fillmore
16th San Francisco, CA The Fillmore
18th LA, CA The Orpheum
19th El Cajon, CA The Magnolia
22nd Denver, CO The Paramount
24th Minneapolis, MN TBA
25th Chicago, IL The Metro
26th Chicago, IL The Metro
28th Detroit, MI St Andrews Hall
29th Toronto, ON History
31st Boston, MA Citizens House Of Blues
February
01st Brooklyn, NY Brooklyn Steel
04th Paris, France Le Trianon
06th London, UK The Palladium
Tickets On Sale: Friday, July 19th @ 10am local
Teenager Of The Year Track Listing:
- Whatever Happened to Pong?
- Thalassocracy
- (I Want to Live on An) Abstract Plain
- Calistan
- The Vanishing Spies
- Speedy Marie
- Headache
- Sir Rockaby
- Freedom Rock
- Two Reelers
- Fiddle Riddle
- Olé Mulholland
- Fazer Eyes
- I Could Stay Here Forever
- The Hostess With the Mostest
- Superabound
- Big Red
- Space Is Gonna Do Me Good
- White Noise Maker
- Pure Denizen of the Citizens Band
- Bad, Wicked World
- Pie in the Sky
