Ex-Pixies frontman Frank Black rocks out at the Horsheshoe last Thursday. Backed by The Catholics, Black played two sets, taking time out in between to tape a CBC interview. The jovial indie icon lit up the joint with a slew of Pixies tunes, including a stripped-down steel pedal guitar version of “This Monkey’s Gone to Heaven,” and finishing off with a cover of Tom Waits’ “Black Rider.”

Photograph by Simon Turnbull
Text by Ryan Kennedy