Pere Ubu are hitting the road with the music from their new album, ’20 Years In A Montana Missile Silo’ (Cherry Red Records distributed by MVD, release date 29th September 2017), starting with the east coast of America. ‘The MonkeyNet Tour’ will deliver an hour-long set of new songs, peppered with a couple of tracks from previous albums and David Thomas’ infamous narratives in-between. On the choice of tour name, Mr Thomas says, “An infinite number of monkeys clicking on an infinite number of links will yield nothing but an infinite number of bananas.”
With the new track ‘Monkey Bizness’ giving a taster of what’s to come, anticipation of hearing the new album is high and, along with the rave reviews of their live performances last year, fans are guaranteed a Pere Ubu show unlike those that have gone before, but with all the same extraordinary components.
The touring band for Pere Ubu are:
David Thomas – vocals; Gary Siperko – guitar; Robert Wheeler – Analog synths, Theremin; Michele Temple - bass guitar, backing vocals; Steve Mehlman - drums, percussion, backing vocals. Plus Kristof Hahn.
Tour dates:
11/22/2017 Cleveland Heights OH Grog Shop
11/30/2017 Vancouver BC Rickshaw
12/1/2017 Seattle WA El Corazon
12/2/2017 Portland OR The Star Theater
12/4/2017 San Francisco CA Independent
12/5/2017 San Jose CA The Ritz
12/6/2017 Los Angeles CA Echo
12/8/2017 San Diego CA Soda Bar
Bio (Abridged) - ‘We don’t promote chaos, we preserve it!’
Pere Ubu's latest album is perhaps the most extensive orchestration of the band so far, with 9 professional musicians coming together to produce '20 Years In A Montana Missile Silo.' Following on from the success of their last album, ‘Carnival Of Souls,’ from which two tracks were used in cult TV show ‘American Horror Story,’ it is the latest in an extensive collection of albums that span the band’s 40+ year history. For this latest album, Kristof Hahn (Swans), joins the band on all tracks.
In 1975, the Pere Ubu project was supposed to be an end, not a beginning. Assembled 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. With all their past material recently reissued, Pere Ubu are one of the few bands of that era still consistently producing new material that captures the attention of music critics worldwide. Despite the division of critics desperately trying to categorize them into genres in the early years, there is now a consensus that they are exclusively Avant Garage; still breaking new ground, outside of genre and outside of any media enforced pigeonholes.
Live Reviews:
'Stories and songs blended seamlessly. Pere Ubu’s band members were such skilled followers of Thomas. They reacted to every gesture flawlessly. Thomas is definitely the ringleader, but his supporting circus is so well-run that it’s easy to focus centre ring.’ SarahJayn Kemp, The Bay Bridged. http://thebaybridged.com/2016/12/08/review-pere-ubu-preserves-chaos-slims/
‘What is this thing called Pere Ubu? Whatever it is, it is still way out there operating under its own idiosyncratic rules. No-one ever seems to be able to catch up. Still. There are some bands that are beyond the narrative. Pere Ubu are one of them.’ John Robb, Louder Than War. http://louderthanwar.com/pere-ubu-manchester-live-review/
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