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	Pere Ubu Biography
		Pere Ubu boards a train that passes through a modern nation as if it were an ancient land, all ruin and portent, prophecy and decay.
		Pere Ubu was either ahead of its time or out of step altogether; the band's earliest music sounds as if it could have been recorded yesterday, and is likely to keep sounding that way for some time.
		Pere Ubu was formed as a studio project that drew on a body of musicians who were involved in a Cleveland underground music scene that by August 1975 seemed to have run its course.
	ubuprojex.net /pereubu.html (1724 words)

	Pere Ubu (band) -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Pere Ubu are an experimental (A genre of popular music originating in the 1950s; a blend of Black rhythm-and-blues with White country-and-western) rock music group formed in (additional info and facts about Cleveland, Ohio) Cleveland, Ohio, in 1975.
		Pere Ubu have consistently conducted their affairs as they see fit, regardless of convention: They refuse to discuss or explain their sometimes odd music, forgoing the usual banter of (A daily or weekly publication on folded sheets; contains news and articles and advertisements) newspaper and press interviews.
		Pere Ubu have compiled a list of ((computer science) rules determining the format and transmission of data) protocols for touring, live performances and the like, including such statements as, "Lighting should be (A performance of play) theatrical rather than rockist.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/p/pe/pere_ubu_(band).htm (1162 words)

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		Band members are expected, however, to be self-financing for the first few dates of the tour and should equip themselves with sufficient funds and currency to manage their own financial needs for several days.
		Ubu Projex will happily convert pounds to $s at the best possible rate (it's always better to do this in London and not in the US!) on the last day of the tour - but it is your responsibility to co-ordinate this with UP.
		Band member travels to a show a few days before show and returns a few days after show, under his/her own steam, as they have friends to stay with in that town.
	ubuprojex.net /protocols.html (6337 words)

	Pere Ubu Bio (Site not responding. Last check: )
		It is obvious that (the history of) Pere Ubu should not be thought of in terms of a linear development-- reducing its entire operation and presence to an exclusive concern for 'working and succeeding in' rock and roll.
		Unfortunately, most criticism-- of Pere Ubu, of many other folks-- assumes that words have one meaning, that desires point in a single direction, that ideas are logical; it ignores the fact that the world of language, noise and desire is one of lack, insecurity, interruption, struggle, blundering, disguises, ploys, embarrassed grins.
		Pere Ubu was either ahead of its time or out of step altogether; the band's earliest music sounds as if it could have been recorded yesterday, and is likely to keep sounding that way for some time.
	www.projex.demon.co.uk /pu_bio.html (1323 words)

	The History of Rock Music. Pere Ubu: history, discography, reviews, links
		The modern dance of Pere Ubu is a funeral rite for humanity after the catastrophe: there is the anguish of an inescapable fate, there is the agony and the delirium, the slow decay into the shapelessness, the immaterial chaos of the soul.
		Pere Ubu here arrive at a point of maturity which enables them to delineate each track with total mastery of means and with a formal elegance that succeeds wonderfully in not jarring with the barbaric impetus.
		Pere Ubu's major contribution to musical history is without doubt that of the "modern dance", a form of dance which borrows from primitive ritual, from funk, from garage-rock and from the music of the avant-garde.
	www.scaruffi.com /vol4/pereubu.html (9073 words)

	Pere Ubu (band) (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Pere Ubu's official website reports that the group is named "after the protagonist of Ubu Roi, a play by Frenchman Alfred Jarry." [1]
		Critical opinions of Pere Ubu include "the world's only expressionist Rock `n` Roll band." [1] and "Pere Ubu will be looked back on as the most important group to have come out of America in the last decade and a half.
		Pere Ubu's debut single was "30 Seconds Over Tokyo" (based on the wartime Dolittle Raid) backed with "Heart of Darkness"; followed by "Final Solution" in 1976.
	www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/pere_ubu__band_ (915 words)

	spinART records : Pere Ubu (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Pere Ubu's music is a unique blend of midwestern hard, groove rock, "found" sound, analog synthesizers, falling-apart song structures and careening vocals.
		Perhaps Pere Ubu's darkest and most dramatic statement yet, St. Arkansas is a work of off-hand brilliance by a band who often seem capable of miracles.
		Arkansas is the 12th studio release from Pere Ubu and the 28th album produced by the group's 27 year history.
	www.spinartrecords.com /site/bandpage.php?id=40 (183 words)

	Pere Ubu
		Seems Pere Ubu frontman/egoist/genius/savant Dave Thomas thinks of the Numbers Band boys (whose greatest intrigue comes in the fact that Pretender's founder Chrissy Hynde's brother is in the group) as some kind of "great lost hope" of rock and roll.
		It's fairly obvious though, that they are in fact, merely a bar band that tends to be a bit weird at times and has some lineage to 'those who made it' from the late 1970's avant-pop Ohio movement (DEVO, Pere Ubu, the Pretender's).
		It was wonderful to see and hear Ubu original Tom Herman coaxing anguish from his guitar and the encore arrival of mid-Ubu era guitarist Jim Jones was welcome relief, but mostly what was up there on that stage was a small piece of Ubu and a large swatch of David Thomas the solo performer.
	www.geocities.com /SunsetStrip/Studio/2040/0700ubu.html (870 words)

	The Home of Ubu Projex
		Cooking Vinyl USA celebrates the Pere Ubu's 30th year anniversary with the release of The Director's Cut versions of their highly praised and seminal albums of the 90s, Raygun Suitcase and Pennsylvania on Sep 6.
		Pere Ubu's hugely influential first album, THE MODERN DANCE, is scheduled for release as a surround-sound remix on Silverline Records (licensed by Cooking Vinyl) on October 3.
		Pere Ubu will repeat its soundtrack underscore performance to Roger Corman's "X, the Man With X-Ray Eyes" at the Museum of Contemporary Art in North Adams MA on August 12.
	ubuprojex.net (1958 words)

	PERE UBU
		Pere Ubu's music is a unique mixture of control and inspiration, incorporating driving rock, synthesized "found" sound, falling-apart sound structures and David Thomas' careening vocals and visionary lyrics.
		Ubu was part of a fertile Ohio rock scene that also fostered Tin Huey and Devo.
		Thomas announced that he was now ready to become the producer for Pere Ubu and that was what he was going to do.
	www.billions.com /artists/pereubu (789 words)

	EvilSponge: Concert: PERE UBU w/ The Features
		A friend who writes for a rival local 'zine once said to me, "No one who wasn't in Cleveland in 1976 can understand or enjoy Pere Ubu." This was his explanantion as to why he was not going to go to the show.
		It is as if you took a 70's guitar band, some avante jazz, and, well, Dave Thomas, and swished it all together in a blender with a lot of volume.
		He is a hulking behemoth with a high-pitched nasally voice, who stands on stage sweating profusely (with which i sympathize, believe me) and flailing his arms as he contorts his face and twists out the vocals.
	www.evilsponge.org /concert/PereUbu__27Sept02.htm (788 words)

	Pere Ubu (Site not responding. Last check: )
		From the early singles through The Modern Dance, Pere Ubu's music -- Allen Ravenstein's uncanny, keening synth notwithstanding -- was recognizably in the pre-punk anti-tradition of the Stooges and the Velvet Underground; on the amazing Dub Housing the song structures disintegrated and Thomas's vocal performance at times resembled speaking in tongues more than ordinary language.
		Somehow it still sounded like rock and roll -- unlike the band's subsequent records of the early 1980s, where Thomas followed his muse into found-object experiments, the Jehovah's Witnesses, and baby talk.
		Today, amazingly, Pere Ubu are making better music than they have since those great early albums.
	www.bostonphoenix.com /archive/music/98/04/16/REX/PERE_UBU.html (358 words)

	Pere Ubu: The Art of Walking: Pitchfork Review (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Thompson's former band, Red Krayola, was doing the primitive Dadaist art-punk thing in the 60's long before Thomas and Pere Ubu had conceived of such things.
		Of course, as a band, Pere Ubu were still unable to resist the overwhelming impulse to be artfully unlistenable.
		But when Pere Ubu favor a more rhythmically-founded, near-"conventional" format, the result can be a larger-than-life monster of a song.
	pitchforkmedia.com /record-reviews/p/pere-ubu/art-of-walking.shtml (396 words)

	TrouserPress.com :: Pere Ubu
		It includes two songs remade from early 45s that Pere Ubu had released on its Hearthan label (when Thomas was calling himself Crocus Behemoth and the late Peter Laughner was one of the sextet's guitarists and main songwriters).
		After a disastrous US tour, the band fell apart, with Krauss and bassist Tony Maimone focusing their energies on Home and Garden (a studio aggregation, led by the unfortunately named guitarist Jim Jones, that was invested with rustic Anglophilia) and Thomas actively embarked on a solo career.
		Pere Ubu formally reformed in late 1987, but all that actually meant was a name change and inclusion of Scott Krauss in the lineup of Thomas' most recent solo support band, the Wooden Birds.
	www.trouserpress.com /entry_90s.php?a=pere_ubu (2352 words)

	Pere Ubu - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		an experimental rock music group, see Pere Ubu (band).
		the enigmatic central figure of Ubu Roi, a play by Alfred Jarry.
		This is a disambiguation page — a list of articles associated with the same title.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Pere_Ubu (85 words)

	Pere Ubu: Apocalypse Now: Pitchfork Review (Site not responding. Last check: )
		From the opening seconds of Pere Ubu's freshly-released 1991 live album, you know the performance is going to be a one-in-a-hundred affair.
		Besides Thomas doling out plenty of quotable onstage banter between songs, the band's execution of their catalog of inside-out pop songs is near flawless.
		Pere Ubu conjures up more of their honorably obscure past on "Cry Cry Cry," and the irrepressible rubber-ball bounce of the closer, "Misery Goats." Also represented here is the semi-accessible and structurally conventional side of Ubu's legacy-- "Oh Catherine," and the title track to 1991's somewhat human-friendly Worlds in Collision.
	pitchforkmedia.com /record-reviews/p/pere-ubu/apocalypse-now.shtml (392 words)

	Ubu Web: Story of Pere Ubu
		Ubu played nearly every week for a year sharing the stage with local and touring groups in the early days of the new wave and as the spring-summer of 1977 came to be special days, a season of unique ideas, John Thompson promoted a remarkable series of concerts called Disastodromes.
		The decision to reform Pere Ubu came at a Wooden Birds band meeting in the large Dutch lobby of a small Dutch hotel in the smaller Dutch town of Ijmuiden.
		Ubu, still with two drummers, recorded demos that appeared as UK b-sides but the scheduling of his many projects became impossible and Chris had to leave early in 1990.
	users.rcn.com /obo/ubu/ubu_story.html (1788 words)

	PERE UBU (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Pere Ubu originated in Cleveland with a discordant brand of urban angst and dense industrial sound that mirrored the city's troubled 70s soul.
		The band twice toured Britain in 1978, and although they perhaps didn't live up to the expectations of an audience reared on US punk bands like the Ramones and the Dead Boys, they had a definite impact on post-punk bands like Joy Division.
		Pere Ubu have been dismantling and reassembling rock'n'roll for a long time, mainly in front of an indifferent public.
	pages.eidosnet.co.uk /johnnymoped/punk/rock/PERE_UBU.html (1057 words)

	Encyclopedia: Mission of Burma (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Mission of Burma is a post-punk band from Boston, Massachusetts, USA comprising guitarist Roger Miller, bassist Clint Conley and drummer Peter Prescott, with Bob Weston (originally Martin Swope) as tape manipulator and sound engineer.
		During the first wave of punk, roughly spanning 1976-1983, bands such as The Sex Pistols, The Clash, The Ramones and The Damned began to challenge the current styles and conventions of rock...
		On August 17, 2005 the band announced through their official website that they would be writing, prepping, and recording a new album on Matador records starting in September 2005.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Mission-of-Burma (2715 words)

	Pere Ubu Biographies
		Formed in Cleveland OH in 1975, Pere Ubu integrated found sound, analog synthesizers and musique concrete into a hybrid of overdriven midwestern garage rock tempered by abstract sensibilities.
		The band's first release, The Modern Dance (1978), can be found on all sorts of critics' lists of "The Great Albums." Over the years Pere Ubu has released a stream of uncompromising, highly original records, the latest being the acclaimed and noir-ish Why I Hate Women (2006).
		In 2006 he contributed to the Pere Ubu release, Why I Remix Women, and appeared as a member of David Thomas and the pale gagarins.
	www.ubuprojex.net /bio.html (3069 words)

	Ink 19 :: Pere Ubu
		Of course, this is just yet another example of Pere Ubu destroying the preconceived notions of a listening public.
		I've never seen a band more focused on the bass player before, and she was a powerhouse.
		Pere Ubu remains -- nearly 30 years down the road -- alone as America's most challenging rock band, a group that answers only to themselves yet never fails to impress and infuriate in equal measure.
	www.ink19.com /issues/october2002/eventReviews/pereUbu.html (441 words)

	Pere Ubu
		Contains the incredible Ubu classic "30 Seconds Over Tokyo" and parallels their career shift from experimental rockers to smooth poppers, which is weird considering that they were actually still experimental rockers in 1980 and didn't become smooth poppers for another 9 years or so.
		Pere Ubu should be mentioned in the same breath as the Beach Boys or the VU - their originality, ambition and achievement are comparable.
		Pere Ubu hits it square once in a while, which is more than most bands (or people) can say.
	www.markprindle.com /pere.htm (5802 words)

	MusicMoz - Bands and Artists: P: Pere Ubu (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Pere Ubu had been around the fringes of Cleveland, Ohio for a few years in a differing guise.
		Early singles "30 Seconds Over Tokyo" (1975) and "Final Solution" (1976) are pieces of music so ahead of the time in structure, content and post-modern f***-you attitude that supposed "innovators" like Radiohead or The Flaming Lips are still trying to catch up a quarter of a century in the future.
		And that's the genius of Punk Funk and of the band Pere Ubu, is that the edgy, sonic sounds all them true innovators created and the Post 09-11 landscapes they evoked, those slabs of nihilistic yelps and throbbing bass have only neared reality in the 21st Century and beyond.
	musicmoz.org /Bands_and_Artists/P/Pere_Ubu (258 words)

	Pere Ubu
		Not that it shows much - for the previous ten years, the band operated on the revolving door principle anyway, and it's one of those King Crimson-style bands where the "idea" and the "spirit" are more important than permanent membership and individual personalities.
		The only thing that should always be present in Pere Ubu is the vomit-inducing bleating of Mr Thomas, and since his voice only seems to get uglier and uglier with age, this requirement is met a hundred percent.
		See, back when the world was still green and dinosaurs were hunting giant ants and all these bands like Pere Ubu were still full of ideas and rock'n'roll still needed these ideas, you could listen to these guys and marvel at how bizarre and mind-opening their deconstruction of punk and other musical genres are.
	starling.rinet.ru /music/pereubu.htm (2664 words)

	Pynchon - Music: Pere Ubu
		Perhaps one of the most unfairly neglected bands of all time might be the massively creative group led by David Thomas and named after an overbearing character in a French play by Alfred Jarry called 'Ubu Roi.' I am talking, of course, about Pere Ubu.
		Ubu are never shy about dropping casual literary references, whether it be Heart of Darkness or Pynchon, so it is likely that it they are also Pynchon references.
		Pere Ubu's music is a disorienting mix of midwestern groove rock, "found" sound, analog synthesizers, falling-apart song structures and careening vocals.
	www.themodernword.com /pynchon/pynchon_music_pere_ubu.html (2767 words)

	Pere Ubu Websites
		Final Solution, By Pere Ubu - Review of the single as one of the greatest rock and roll records, ever.
		Pitchfork: Pere Ubu: The Shape of Things - Review of the live album by D. Erik Kempke, rated 6.8 out of 10.
		Spermatikos Logos: Pere Ubu - Web resource dedicated to exploring the work of Thomas Pynchon, and the musical artists who have turned to his works for inspiration.
	www.iq451.com /music/sites/pere-ubu-web.htm (583 words)

	Pere Ubu, MP3 Music Download at eMusic
		Pere Ubu emerged from the urban wastelands of mid-'70s Cleveland to impact the American underground for generations to follow; led by hulking frontman David Thomas, whose absurdist warble and rapturously demented lyrics remained the band's creative focus throughout their long, convoluted career, Ubu's protean art-punk so...
		Laughner's longstanding battles with drugs and alcohol forced his exit from Pere Ubu in June of 1976; within a year, he was dead.
		He recorded 1987's Blame the Messenger with the Wooden Birds, a backing band including fellow Ubu alums Ravenstine and Maimone; after Krauss sat in for a Cleveland live date, the decision was made to begin working as Pere Ubu again.
	www.emusic.com /artist/10560/10560543.html (484 words)

	Pere Ubu Reviews
		Cleveland's Pere Ubu, led by howling lead singer David Thomas, have been doing their unique brand of nonlinear experimental garage synth-pop since 1975.
		Sharing an ethos (and the occasional band member) with experimental acts like the Red Crayola or Captain Beefheart, Pere Ubu are tough to classify as just plain weird--sometimes their pop sensibilities, no matter how off-kilter, just get the best of them.
		Ubu's latest iteration rocks hard for newbies, with Thomas incanting over crashing drums, synth moans, and tinkly percussion like the last lonely shaman of the interstate system.
	www.iq451.com /music/pere-ubu.htm (579 words)

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