Pixies: 'The more you try to recapture youth, the sillier it sounds'

Travis ShinnPixies are one of the most influential bands in alt-rock (L-R): Joey Santiago, Black Francis, Emma Richardson and Dave LoveringPixies frontman Black Francis wouldn't be your first pick to read the CBeebies Bedtime Story.Over the course of his band's wildly influential career, his fractured, often abstract songs have referenced Biblical violence, mutilation, incest, torture and death."Sliced up…