Pere Ubu: Five Alive in Ohio
Ian Birch, Melody Maker, 11 November 1978
LAST Saturday in Cleveland, Ohio, the bona fide booji were out in force on the street. In America, any event (however minor) is invariably heralded by a public display of commercial excess, and the football game that afternoon between local college Notre Dame and the US Naval Academy constituted a perfect occasion for consumer gluttony.
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