A BRADFORD music festival has announced a huge global band will headline the final day of the weekend-long event in 2021.

Pixies will travel across the pond next August to treat the ears of all those attending the second-ever Bingley Weekender festival.

They are headlining the closing night of the event, on Sunday, August 8.

The American alternative rock band, who hail from Boston, were formed in 1986 and have played right across the world.

The four-piece is made up of Black Francis (lead vocals and rhythm guitar), David Lovering (drums and percussion), Joey Santiago (lead guitar) and Paz Lenchantin (bass, violin and backing vocals).

Three of those have been with the band since its inception, and from when it returned in 2004 after an 11 year hiatus, with Paz Lenchantin joining up in 2014.

This was after original bassist and vocalist, Kim Deal, left Pixies in 2013, with Kim Shattuck stepping in for a short time before moving on.

The band is renowned for turning musical conventions inside-out, melding punk and indie guitar rock, classic pop, surf rock and stadium-sized riffs.

Black Francis will be singing about space, religion, sex, mutilation, pop culture and everything inbetween.

Pixies has seven studio albums to their name, with the most recent collection, “Beneath the Eyrie”, released in 2019.

They are no strangers to the festival scene either, having headlined Reading Festival back in 1990, before returning to the Main Stage there, and also at Leeds Festival, in 2005.

The four-piece were last in West Yorkshire as recently as September 2019, when the band played the O2 Academy in Leeds, supported by The Big Moon.

Bingley Weekender Organiser, Steve Davis, said: “It’s an absolute honour to be welcoming one of the most iconic and influential alternative indie bands of all time to the Bingley Weekender in 2021.

“We were blown away by the public response to the first weekender last year and we were determined to come back with an even bigger and bolder line-up for the following event.”

This latest announcement rounds off the list of artists headlining Bingley Weekender 2021, which will take place between Friday, August 6 and Sunday, August 8.

It will be two years since the inaugural three-day festival took place by the time the second iteration of the event rolls round, after SSD Concerts was forced to postpone Bingley Weekender 2020 back in June due to the coronavirus pandemic.

The organisers revealed then that they had worked “tirelessly” since the outbreak of the Covid-19 virus to maintain the festival’s “stellar” line-up.

Friday and Saturday’s headliners, Primal Scream and The Libertines, who were announced way back in November 2019, were maintained.

But, Sunday’s original headliner, Tom Walker, dropped off the list - now replaced by Pixies.

The announcement that Bingley Weekender would be postponed was double-edged with some other joyful news.

SSD Concernts revealed world-renowned local heroes, Embrace, had agreed to join the fun - co-headlining with Primal Scream on the opening day.

Pixies follow in the footsteps of Manchester rock band, James, who headlined the Main Stage on the final day of the first ever Bingley Weekender last year.