)I went to see Pere Ubu tonight.
Pere Ubu are one of those bands that divide onions. Some people love them. Some people hate them. A few say, "Them? Are they still going? Fuck me!" and most say simply, "Who?"
I love them - have done since I first heard them in the late 70s. They once (tongue-in-cheekily) described themselves as Avant Garage - and, although they didn't mean it seriously, it fits as well as anything!
It was cool to see a band with a theremin player on stage. It was also cool to hear the lead singer (David Thomas) keep up a running commentary between songs about how everyone but himself were living in a dream and how, in the real world, they were the biggest band on the planet, selling billions of albums a minute!
Here's a taste - all tracks they played tonight...
And you can't go wrong with a theramin!
