Pere Ubu
TUE 18 NOV 2014
Pere Ubu
(The Carnival of Souls Tour)
Pere Ubu’s music is a disorienting mix of midwestern groove rock, ‘found’ sound, analog synths, falling-apart song structures & careening vocals.
The Pere Ubu project was supposed to be an end, not a beginning. Assembled in August 1975 to be the Crosby Stills Nash & Young of the Cleveland music underground, the plan was to record one, maybe two singles and exist no more. Within months, however, those first self-produced records were being snapped up in London, Paris, Manchester, New York and Minneapolis. Pere Ubu was changing the face of rock music. Over the next four decades they defined the art of cult; refined the voice of the outsider; and inspired the likes of Joy Division, Pixies, Husker Du, Henry Rollins, REM, Sisters of Mercy, Thomas Dolby, Bauhaus, Julian Cope and countless others.
Pere Ubu make music that is a disorienting mix of midwestern groove rock, ‘found’ sound, analog synthesizers, falling-apart song structures and careening vocals. It is a mix that has mesmerised critics, musicians and fans for decades.
Links: www.ubuprojex.com
DETAILS
DATE: Tue 18 Nov 2014
VENUE: The Voodoo Rooms, 19a West Register Street, Edinburgh EH2 2AA
Nearly Dan