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New Pere Ubu album!
Lady From Shanghai
US/Canada tour dates announced.
• Pere Ubu playing Deerhunter's ATP Festival at Camber Sands.
Cd & vinyl available from Ubutique.
• Also released, Chinese Whispers - the 'Missing Manual,' paperback, 100 pages.

The Book of Hieroglyphs
by David Thomas
• There's a blog site dedicated to the book.
Available in paperback and hardback.
• YouTube video of "Last of the Mohicans"
Download a PDF of excerpts.

New items at Ubutique
The Farm Report / City Desk release by Robert Wheeler & Allen Ravenstine is now available.

David Thomas, Living Room Concerts.
Appearing in your living room, $999.49.
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Pere Ubu at Camber Sands
Ubu will play the Deerhunter-curated ATP festival at Camber Sands, England, on Sunday June 23.

Coal Tattoo
The March release on hearpen.com is The Kidney Brothers studio album, Coal Tattoo. This is an important album.

Ask not what Pere Ubu can do for you
Rather, ask what you can do for Pere Ubu! And we answer...

Bring Me The Head Chamber Version
David Thomas and Gagarin perform a Chamber Version of Bring Me The Head of Ubu Roi on March 8 in Lodz, Poland. They will be accompanied by British poet Kiersty Boon and Polish artist Malgosia Sady. It is the premiere of the work, which is a condensed version of the theatrical version and musical in nature. The Quay Brothers animations will feature. Details at the Calendar Page.

Living Room Concert in Norway
David Thomas will perform a Living Room Concert April 27 in Sirevåg, Norway (approx 65km from Stavanger). The host is willing to accept 'strangers' into his home for this event. All arrangements are private with him. An email address is provided on the Calendar Page.

Lady From Shanghai
The 17th Pere Ubu studio album, Lady From Shanghai, is released on cd and vinyl January 7 2013 by Fire Records, thirty-five years after the band's debut, The Modern Dance. The reviews are highly complimentary, often raves.

The vinyl release is pressed at 45RPM and spread across two records for the highest fidelity.

A 100-page paperback of 'liner notes,' Chinese Whispers, written by David Thomas, is published and can be purchased from Ubutique as of January 7. It will not be available on Amazon, or in book stores. There are plans for an iBook version.

Pitchfork rave about '414 Seconds' and post a stream of the tune.

Demos of the works-in-progress are posted on hearpen.com in various states of completion.

David Thomas Remix
David remixed a 7" single by by Roshi and Gagarin, a partnership known as Pars Radio, to be released December 10 on Geo Records. Gagarin is a de facto member of Pere Ubu these days and longtime soundman. Listen here.

UK Tour Dates Announced!
The dates for the UK tour in April have been announced. See the Calendar for details.

pale boys Solo
Keith and Andy have released a collaboration called Ley on the Entr'acte label. Keith has a blog with reviews and news.

Free White
National Public Radio (NPR) is currently premiering a track from the upcoming Pere Ubu album Lady From Shanghai. It can be played online.

Kevin Coyne
A book about Kevin Coyne by Pascal Regis is posted online at http://kevincoynebook.tk/. The 2pbs did a short UK tour with him some years ago. It was a privilege and an honor. Buy everything he ever recorded and treasure it.

Download Excerpts from Book of Hieroglyphs
For a limited time a PDF of excerpts from The Book of Hieroglyphs can be downloaded. Click here.

Van Dyke Parks
"I have trod and will retread this confirming and inquiring work time and again. It's strangely home. Epic in scope. As mighty on the page as on the stage, with scat and logic, this MacDuff leads us on."

J.C. Menu, French publisher, L' Association
"This book is not a book, it's an alien."

Bob Holman, Bowery Poetry Club
"Thomas refuses to call the pieces in this book poetry, says they are not the songs. I really don't care what you call them, and it's true that they are unlike anything you've ever read before, but what they are are zings, stings, word bullets that tell stories so condensed that your mind changes on every syllable."

bohcoverThe Book of Hieroglyphs
The Book of Hieroglyphs by David Thomas goes on sale to readers of ubuprojex.net on Friday, June 8 in its hardback edition. The official launch is scheduled for September, when a paperback edition will also be available. The hardback is a limited edition, 268 pages with a color dust jacket.

Bob Holman (Bowery Poetry Club) reports, "I'm having the pleasure of previewing David (Pere Ubu) Thomas' book of nonpoems called The Book of Hieroglyphs. Thomas refuses to call the pieces in this book poetry, says they are not the songs. I really don't care what you call them, and it's true that they are unlike anything you've ever read before, but what they are are zings, stings, word bullets that tell stories so condensed that your mind changes on every syllable."

Allen, Robert and the EML
Allen Ravenstine and Robert Wheeler are interviewed and play the EML together in this video, Dream Of Wires, produced by Bill Blakeney. Recorded at Grant Avenue studio in Hamilton, Ontario. A must-see.

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Press Center
A good place to find information concerning Pere Ubu, David Thomas, Special Projex and other sources on the site.


Pere Ubu Studio Albums
Historical Era:
The Modern Dance (1978)
Dub Housing (1978)
New Picnic Time (1979)
The Art Of Walking (1980)
Song Of The Bailing Man (1982)
Terminal Tower (1975 - 1981)
Datapanik In The Year Zero (Box Set)


Fontana Years:
The Tenement Year (1988)
Cloudland (1989)
Worlds In Collision (1991)
Story Of My Life (1993)


Modern Era:
Raygun Suitcase (1995)
Pennsylvania (1998)
St Arkansas (2002)
Why I Hate Women (2006)
Why I Remix Women (2006)
"Long Live Père Ubu!" (2009)
Lady From Shanghai (Demos)


Pere Ubu Live Albums
* - Denotes download only.
The Shape Of Things (1976)
Manhattan (1977)
Pirate's Cove* (1977)
390° Of Simulated Stereo* (1977 - 79)
U-Men Live At Intersate Mall* (1978)
One Man Drives While The... (1978 - 81)
I Walk The Line (1981)*
The Art Of Talking* (1982)
Waltz Across Texas* (1989)
Waltz By The Sea* (1989)
London Texas (1989)
Paradiso - Part 1* (1991)
Paradiso - Part 2* (1991)
Apocalypse Now (1991)
The Late Show* (1992)
A Ghost Town Goes Where You Want To Go* (2006)
Light It Up!* (2007)
Live at Grant Avenue* (2007)
Oh, Pennsylvania...* (1998 - 02)
The Annotated Modern Dance* (2010)


Pere Ubu Specials
Lady From Shanghai (Demos)
Lady From Shanghai (Demos) #2
Lady From Shanghai (Demos) #3
Lady From Shanghai (Demos) #4


David Thomas Albums
* - Denotes download only.
Vocal Performances (1981) *
Winter Comes Home (1982) *
EREWHON (1996)
Monster Box Set
Mirror Man (1999)
Bay City (2000)
Surf's Up! (2001)
18 Monkeys on a Dead Man's Chest (2004)
Brunswick Parking Lot* 2003
A Map Only Tells Me...* (2008)
Mirror Man Act 2* (2009)
Let's Visionate!* (2009)
How's Things In Your Town?* (2005)
I Remember Mars* (1996)
David Thomas and The Holy Soul* (2010)
A Free Man (2012)*
Disastohouse 001* (2012)


Rocket From The Tombs
Strychnine* (2012)
Barfly (2011)
I Sell Soul / Romeo & Juliet (2010)
The Day The Earth Met... (1975)
Rocket Redux (2004)
When It's Too Late To Die Young* (2003)
Extermination Night* (1974)


Theatrical Productions
Lost in Art, the Pere Ubu Ballet
Mirror Man
Bring Me The Head Of Ubu Roi


Festival Productions
Disastodrome 1998
Disastodrome 2003


Other Recordings
Wait For It - Tom Herman
Jimmy Bell's Still In Town - 15-60-75
The Inward City - 15-60-75


Other Pages Of Interest
David Thomas and two pale boys
UBUDOLL
Lyrics
Other web sites
Unlikely Releases
News Archive
European Taxes
Where nowhere is
Accusations of Paranoia
Blue Hole Of Castalia


Fan Input:
iPod Ubu
Geography Lessons
Ubuspotting


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