Pere Ubu
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Review by Paul Rambali, New Musical Express, 11 March 1978
WRECKLESS UBU: Waiting For The End ...
Interview by Adam Sweeting, Melody Maker, 1981
IT'S AN IRONIC twist of fate that Pere Ubu's latest visit to the UK should be prefaced by Rough Trade's reissue of the band's debut ...
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Various Artists: Live At CBGB's/Max's Kansas City 1976
Review by Charles Shaar Murray, New Musical Express, 27 November 1976
YOU KNOW what these albums remind me of: The This Is Mersey Beat collections that Oriole put out after the first wave of Liverpool bands had gotten ...
Interview by Paul Rambali, New Musical Express, 7 January 1978
THEY SAY ENVIRONMENT determines character, and when it comes to American music, they're probably right. ...
Review by Jon Savage, Sounds, 11 February 1978
Dance to a Modern RomanceDirections: Fast and asymmetrical… ...
Warren Zevon: Rained out of his home
Interview by Wayne Robins, Newsday, 3 March 1978
THIS WINTER has done more than dump masses of snow on the East. It's also made a lie out of Albert Hammond's song 'It Never ...
Live Review by Richard Grabel, New York Rocker, April 1978
THIS EVENING at CBGB's was a showcase for two bands newly signed to recording contracts by Blank Records. ...
The American Midwest: Akron and Cleveland
Overview by Paul Rambali, New Musical Express, 1 April 1978
Exploring alternative hives of industry in Akron, City of Rubber, and Cleveland, City of Steel. ...
Pere Ubu: Punching the Music Time Clock
Interview by Howard Wuelfing, Unicorn Times, May 1978
IF A TELEPHONE pole gets toppled by lightning and no one hears it hit pavement, was there indeed any sound of "thud?" Yeah, don't be ...
Datapanik In The Year 1978: Pere Ubu
Interview by Vivien Goldman, Sounds, 13 May 1978
Vivien Goldman and Geoff Travis in conversation ...
Graham Parker & the Rumour, Pere Ubu: Roundhouse, London
Live Review by Hugh Fielder, Sounds, 13 May 1978
MAYBE GRAHAM Parker should have held back on his forthcoming live album and waited to see what this tour might produce. For my money the ...
Profile and Interview by Ian Birch, Melody Maker, 13 May 1978
Ian Birch introduces Ohio's latest 'overnight sensation', Pere Ubu ...
Pere Ubu: Datapanik In Year Zero (Radar)
Review by Robot A. Hull, Creem, November 1978
THE DADA RAMPAGE of Breton and other jujube surrealists culminated in the craziness expressed in Alfred Jarry's Pere Ubu, prompting a whole generation of teens ...
Review by Jon Savage, Melody Maker, 4 November 1978
A week is a month and you could be forgiven for thinking that the times would catch up with Pere Ubu (and overtake them) as ...
Pere Ubu: Dub Housing (Chrysalis CHR 1207)*****
Review by Giovanni Dadomo, Sounds, 11 November 1978
HIT ME with a snorkel and call me Cousteau but this is what the man who delivered my Dub Housing said; MAN: "You for the pair o' U-boats, ...
Pere Ubu: Dub Housing (Chrysalis)
Review by Ian Penman, New Musical Express, 11 November 1978
Pop the Ubu ...
Interview by 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 ...
Pere Ubu: Unique Ideas Lead To Prison
Interview by Paul Rambali, New Musical Express, 18 November 1978
WE'S home, Huck!" The large, bulky frame squashed into the seat next to me delivers his quote from Mark Twain's fables of a more naive ...
Pere Ubu: Invasion Of The Warm, Friendly Bodysnatchers
Interview by Giovanni Dadomo, Sounds, 2 December 1978
SEE THE ALIENS. See the room. See the aliens in the room. The aliens call themselves Pere Ubu. See Pere Ubu. See the big alien ...
Pere Ubu Plays for Body, Brain
Live Review by Don Snowden, Los Angeles Times, 4 August 1979
Pere Ubu: The Whiskey, Los Angeles ...
Pere Ubu: New Picnic Time (Chrysalis)
Review by Max Bell, New Musical Express, 15 September 1979
PERE UBU is the type of band that enjoys banging its head against a concrete art-form – it makes an interesting sound and a crazy ...
The World According To Pere Ubu
Interview by Robot A. Hull, Creem, November 1979
Look, look at the machine revolving,Look, look at the brain flying,Look, look at the Rentiers trembling!Hurrah, arse-horns, long live Pere Ubu!– Alfred Jarry, ‘The Song ...
Pere Ubu: The Art of Walking (Rough Trade)
Review by Ian Penman, New Musical Express, 30 August 1980
1. PERE UBU IS haywire, rudimentary, and patiently documentary. It operates on a yield of snared and shared rhythms, on symptoms that have been stitched ...
Pere Ubu: "We wanna beat the art rap"
Interview by Dave McCullough, Sounds, 20 September 1980
David Thomas and Mayo Thompson tell DAVE McCULLOUGH: "We're not weird/bleak/gloomy etc" and also give him the name of an excellent tailor ...
Review by Robot A. Hull, Creem, March 1981
THERE'S NO DENYING that it's becoming increasingly difficult to move: the simple act of Putting one foot in front of the other is now a ...
Gang of Four, Pere Ubu, Delta 5: Mountford Hall, Liverpool
Live Review by Penny Kiley, Melody Maker, 21 March 1981
Firing on all Four ...
Pere Ubu: 390 Degrees Of Simulated Stereo
Review by Andy Gill, New Musical Express, 4 April 1981
SUBTITLED Ubu Live: Volume One, this LP contains recordings made by the Ubu of Modern Dance days between May 1976 and March 1979 in Cleveland, ...
Gang Of Four, Pere Ubu, Bush Tetras: Hammersmith Palais, London
Live Review by Charles Shaar Murray, New Musical Express, 11 April 1981
FOUR BETTER OR WORSE? ...
Interview by Richard Grabel, New Musical Express, 9 January 1982
Small American journalists and stout American singers... we confront the issue most music papers shy away from. In the shadows of the city of Meatloaf, ...
Pere Ubu: Song Of The Bailing Man (Rough Trade)
Review by Richard Cook, New Musical Express, 25 September 1982
SONGS OF THE BORING MEN ...
Pere Ubu: Terminal Tower: An Archival Collection (Rough Trade)
Review by Andy Gill, New Musical Express, 30 November 1985
BY 1975, THINGS had begun to look a little pale around the Rock'n'Roll gills (no relation); had begun to fade away, in fact. ...
David Thomas: Monster Walks The Winter Lake
Review by Sean O'Hagan, New Musical Express, 26 April 1986
DAVID THOMAS sees things differently. He sings things differently too. Sometimes he sees/sings things like a child, other times like a Martian. Often he'll submerge ...
Retrospective by Don Snowden, The Boston Phoenix, 10 June 1986
IT’S SHAME THAT Pere Ubu’s debut singles in 1975-’76 consigned the Cleveland band to the remote fringes of that pop reserved for the experimentally minded. ...
Review by Paul Mathur, Melody Maker, 6 February 1988
AND IT SEEMS like they never went away. The Pere Ubu revival has burst through like mushrooms in your airing cupboard, and somehow, this re-release, ...
Pere Ubu: The Modern Dance (Fontana)
Review by Mark Sinker, New Musical Express, 13 February 1988
IF PUNK was an ugly kid's crazed revenge on old age, an obliterating mayhem, there were other ways the clogging and the arrested adolescence of ...
Pere Ubu: The Tenement Commandments
Interview by David Stubbs, Melody Maker, 19 March 1988
BEAMING BACK FROM HIS ALTERNATIVE UNIVERSE, DAVID THOMAS LEADS PERE UBU'S MANIC WALTZ INTO THE DANGER ZONE. DAVID STUBBS TRACKS DOWN THE REFORMED AND REVITALISED ...
The Long, Strange Trip Of Pere Ubu
Report and Interview by Jim Sullivan, The Boston Globe, 16 September 1988
DAVID THOMAS, lead singer-lyricist of Pere Ubu, on his group's long, strange trip: "The original Pere Ubu had been very much like piling in a ...
The Picturesque Sound of Pere Ubu
Profile and Interview by Don Snowden, Los Angeles Times, 28 September 1988
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 – ...
Pixies, Pere Ubu: Kilburn National, London
Live Review by Adam Sweeting, The Guardian, 7 July 1989
SUPPORT FOR The Pixies, Boston's finest, came from Pere Ubu, born again (and again) as cortex-tickling popsters via the Cloudland album. Vocalist David Thomas, a sweating balloon ...
Interview by Jon Savage, Spin, July 1991
Pere Ubu remains one of the most influential, innovative groups to emerge from the mid-'70s American punk-new wave movement. JON SAVAGE listens to some pearls ...
Another Music In A Different Kitchen, Pt. 1: Captain Beefheart and Pere Ubu
Comment by Michael Goldberg, Neumu, 21 June 2002
From Trout Mask to Dub Housing: how did music that once seemed so harsh and incomprehensible come to sound so good? ...
Another Music In A Different Kitchen, Pt. 2: Captain Beefheart's Trout Mask Replica
Comment by Michael Goldberg, Neumu, 21 June 2002
WHEN THE noble savage theory of punk rock was first laid out in the early-to-mid-'70s, I bought in. According to one version of the mantra, ...
David Thomas brings Disastodrome! to UCLA
Report and Interview by Steven R Rosen, Harp, February 2003
IT'S LATE NIGHT in a Los Angeles motel room and a dog-tired, barefoot David Thomas is dining on broccoli and cognac. "There's plenty more where ...
Spiritualized/Pere Ubu: Royal Festival Hall, London
Live Review by Ian Gittins, The Guardian, 4 August 2004
THIRTY YEARS INTO their career, Cleveland art-punks Pere Ubu remain engaging mavericks. ...
Maxima Moralis: Relections from a Healing Mind – Cleveland, Independent Music, and the 1970s; Part 1
Essay by Michael Baker, Perfect Sound Forever, November 2004
In Memory of Robert Quine, Master of Beautiful Musical Expression, 12/30/1942 Akron, Ohio5/30/2004 NYC ...
Maxima Moralis: Relections from a Healing Mind – Cleveland, Independent Music, and the 1970s; Part 2
Essay by Michael Baker, Perfect Sound Forever, November 2004
IV. Pere Ubu: Christ's Agony, Cabarets, and Scary Movies ...
Pere Ubu: An interview with David Thomas
Interview by David Stubbs, Record Collector, October 2019
"I'VE DIED TWICE in the last two years," says David Thomas, co-founder and lead singer of Pere Ubu, in the living room of his Brighton ...
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