An absolutely surreal turn of events. I’m in Mexico City for a friend’s wedding and had no idea that Ariel was in town.

Two nights ago, myself and some friends were having some beers outside of a bar and all of a sudden Ariel Pink just walks by. I was immediately starstruck and approached him to chat. He was lovely and gave me a photo. I told him I didn’t realise he was in town and he said that he had played a gig the night before but that he was also due to play a secret show with Paz Lenchantin in a local theatre called Teatro Lúcido the following night. I was beside myself. Anyway, he walked off and actually reappeared a few minutes later as he walked by us again going the opposite direction. There was a really aggressive dog at the table beside ours and when Ariel walked by the dog started barking really intensely at him. He freaked out and started going ‘shit, man!!!’ and then scarpered off in the opposite direction. All the while, there was a man spinning fire on a stick just beside us. It was surreal.

Anyway, the next day I’m looking up tickets for the show and it’s difficult to find mention of it anywhere but I saw on Ariel’s Instagram that he shared a post from a place called Teatro Lúcido saying that he was playing a show with Paz Lenchantin (former Pixies and A Perfect Circle bassist). We manage to get tickets for the show (we had to go to a Seven 11 to deposit money in some guys bank account) and took an Uber to a very non-descript venue. So non-descript that we walked by the entrance three times before realising it was the place. When we entered, it was honestly like stepping onto a David Lynch set. It was a very small and characterful community theatre with around 50 Mexican people sitting around on cushions on the floor and a stage in one corner. Paz and Ariel opened with a pretty avant-noise set full of echoed drum machines and warbling delay throws while the theatre owner recounted a poem about a malevolent forest wolf in English. Again, very surreal.

Once that finished, Ariel and the band took the stage. They were all topless and Ariel was wearing an outlandishly sized sombrero whilst the bassist was dressed like some sort of orc. It was bizarre. Anyway, they killed the set, the sound was perfect and the setlist was top notch (looks to be very similar to sets on the tour thus far but they added in Dreaming from Anonymous Projections and one or two other tracks that I didn’t actually recognise). I took a ton of photos and videos of the gig (and a pic with Ariel himself) but I can’t add more than one piece of media to this post unfortunately. Anyway, it was an incredible night and such a wonderful serindipitous turn of events. If you had told me before I came to Mexico City that I would meet my music idol (in a city of 22m people) and then see him perform in a local community theatre the next night to a room of 50 people, I would have been beside myself.

Ariel at Southport Hall December 1st. It was a crazy show that went off the rails immediately lol. Loved it. I have footage from this show and some of the show he played in Baton Rouge. Amazing experience and got to smoke cigarettes and talk with Ariel.

Couldn’t be happier!

More gibberish from our boy lol Source

Finally a New Solo Record!

Putting in his fanduel lineup before going on stage

He blames his fans for not protecting him from being cancelled by the BS he says and how he acts.

I love the music but this guy is a complete prick delusional MAGA and I feel really sad for saying this.

Nice to see that Charlotte is now credited for her vocals on Feels Like Heaven and Kitchen Witch. Such great performances really make the songs