THE PIXIES - THE PIXIES HAPPY TO SHARE

THE PIXIES HAPPY TO SHARE

The Pixies insist they are willing to license their songs to almost anyone as they feel it is their ''duty'' for more people to hear it.

The Pixies don't care who use their music.

The 'Where Is My Mind?' hitmakers insist it is their "duty" to allow their songs to get as much exposure as possible.

Frontman Black Francis explained: "There was a lot more danger in letting your music be used for other commercial purposes. It had a lot more of a stigma. Now it has virtually no stigma unless it happens to be a very un-PC usage or very un-green, but after some time it's just a bunch of songs you wrote a long time ago and if somebody wants to use it to sell something it's kind of like,

"I guess I just don't care that much. Pop music is embedded in every facet of modern life so I almost consider it my duty to my band mates and to our families to almost approve everything because if it means the band and its repertoire gets that much more embedded into the popular culture, so be it."

The singer says it is particularly important for him to get his music heard because the group were never as commercially successful as people think.

He added to IGN.com: "You have to understand that the band never even had a hit record. I mean, we have a hit record in 'Doolittle', but that record took five years to go gold to put it into perspective. Surfer Rosa, another one of our gems, took seventeen years to go gold. So to put it into perspective, we truly are a cult band.

"It's not that we don't sell any records or that we don't sell any concert tickets. It's just that we never were as big as people think we were and whatever bigness we've achieved at the moment has to do with this underground reputation or whatever. It's not from having a hit record."