We have sad news to report. Yesterday, David Thomas, singer of the legendary art-punk band Pere Ubu, passed away. We honor his memory by sharing a rather brilliant live album with his side project, David Thomas and Two Pale Boys. From Pere Ubu’s Bandcamp site:
“David Thomas, Andy Diagram, and Keith Moliné describe their music as avant-garde traditional folk music from the future performed with post-dance technology.
In 2004, they would tour their new album “18 Monkeys On A Dead Man’s Chest‘ in 2004. The BBC chose it as Album of the Week for April 5 2004 describing it as “Strange, compelling, terrifying and great.” The Wire, April 2004, described it as occupying, “A wider, more disorientating terrain that exists way beyond the stifling, intimate concerns of rock ‘n’ roll… a feeling of faint existential terror.”
This recording is taken from dusty tapes rediscovered during the pandemic as part of the Unofficial Official Bootleg series that we’re doing here on Bandcamp.”
