The Picturesque Sound of Pere Ubu

IS THE ROCK world finally ready for Pere Ubu? The critically acclaimed sextet from Cleveland, which finishes a two-night stand at Club Lingerie tonight – its first local appearance since re-forming in 1986 – was a genuine punk-era innovator with its stimulating balance of gut-punch rock and unconventional sonic blasts. But so much attention was focused on the latter element during the group's first incarnation that Pere Ubu was usually portrayed as impenetrably bizarre.