Ubu Web: Links

This page is our attempt to provide a comprehensive list of links to Pere Ubu-related information on the Internet as well as a (more or less random) sampling of links to other sites we believe may be of interest to Ubu fans. The page is updated frequently * and new links are (helpfully) marked "New Link!" To make the page easier to use we've divided it into 6 sections (you can use the links at the top of the page to jump directly to any of the sections). Please send any comments, suggestions or corrections regarding this page to obo@dnai.com.

* March 1997- Apologies for the lack of updates over the last few months. Thanks to all who have submitted new links, suggestions, corrections & etc. Keep those e-cards 'n' e-letters comin'.

• New Link! Pulling Teeth Research Labs' Radio IDT is currently featuring a recording of David Thomas & two pale boys' March 7th performance at the Cotton Club in Atlanta, GA. The medium is Macromedia's Shockwave Streaming Audio, so if you don't aleady have it, you'll need to get Shockwave first.

  [Note- There are a variety of requirements your computer hardware & software must meet in order for you to successfully use Shockwave Streaming Audio, read about them here. Caveat Emptor.]

• New Link! Lots of info on Ubu's Datapanik In The Year Zero CD box set is available from the Geffen/DGC Records website. Includes a reworked version of the Story of Pere Ubu materials featuring much of the artwork from the box set booklet.

• Ubu Projex is "the art and business affairs directorate for Pere Ubu and related projex." Their new web site serves as an adjunct to Ubu Web and is host to pages featuring quickly changing information (including the Garage Calendar and Ubutique catalog), ephemera and operational materials.

• Ubu Projex (see above) has information on David's "solo project" Erewhon by David Thomas and Two Pale Boys (now available on Tim/Kerr Records in North America and on Cooking Vinyl in the UK and the rest of the world) including tour dates.

• Tom Herman played guitar in Pere Ubu from their founding in September of 1975 until September of 1979. From 1981 to 1986 Tom played in a band called Tripod Jimmie who released 2 albums during those years. After that Tom retired from music until last year when he rejoined Ubu for their 20th Anniversary tour in support of Raygun Suitcase. Here's a page about his current project I Am Your Conscience and another about Lennie Line Records' recent release of an album of 11 previously unreleased songs by Tripod Jimmie. IAYC play live in and around San Francisco from time to time, so if you're in the Bay Area be sure to check out the IAYC Live page for info on upcoming appearances.

• The legendary downtown NYC club the Knitting Factory has an Ubu page on their Web site (Ubu have played at the club a number of times in recent years and contributed a live version of "Heaven" to the Knitting Factory Works release Live at the Knitting Factory Volume 5).

• Jonathan M. Gladstone has created a Web page dedicated to original Ubu guitarist Peter Laughner which includes Clinton Heylin's liner notes from Tim/Kerr Records' Take the Guitar Player for a Ride and Peter's obituary (written by Lester Bangs) from the September-October 1977 issue of New York Rocker.

• Peter Laughner's entry in the online version of Jeff Pike's book "The Death of Rock'n'Roll".

• Those who've been wondering what former Ubu bassist Tony Maimone's been up to since he left They Might Be Giants' band will want to check out this page about Brooklyn-based "insurgent country" band, Tandy.

• A page about erstwhile Ubu drummer Chris Cutler from the Recommended Records pages at Phil Zampino's Squidlink Web site. Recommended was set up in 1978 by Chris and singer, lyricist & entrepreneur Nick Hobbs (who also happens to be Pere Ubu's manager).

• Another Chris Cutler page from the online newsletter of the British Harry Partch Society (of which Chris is an honorary member).

• New Link! Ubu's page from the online version of Ira Robbins' Trouser Press Record Guide

• New Link!The Rough Guide to Rock Music has entries for both Ubu and David Thomas.

• New Link! Ubu's listing in the All Music Guide web database.

• New Link! Years in the making, Datapanik Records has released its Ohio bands Pere Ubu tribute album, Ubu Dance Party (compiled by Chad Van Wagner).

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• New Link! The 9/16/96 edition of Salon featured a review of the Datapanik in the Year Zero box set.

• New Link! Another review of the Datapanik box, from Singapore's The Strait Times.

• New Link! A short review of the Datapanik box from Overstreet's Fan Universe.

• New Link! Ubu Web was surf du jour for 4 October 1996 in Hotwired's (now defunct) Pop section.

• New Link! An article about Rocket From the Tombs from Perfect Sound Forever.

• A review of Ubu's Folly of Youth See Dee + appears in the "cool continuously updated Belgian WWW musiczine" Ultra. [Note- If you're outside continental Europe you'll probably get a faster response if you read the review from Ultra's new mirror site, courtesy of Southern Studios.]

• Another good Ubu article/interview from the October 19, 1995 edition of Toronto's eye Weekly.

• A live review of Ubu's 10/18/95 show at the 930 Club in Washington, DC from the Dec '95/Jan '96 issue of Sonic Envelope, a new webzine that focuses on "that corner of the Universe generally referred to as "Industrial" and branching out into other 'crossover' realms".

• An article about the Raygun Suitcase tour from the 11/7/95 issue of the online music zine Addicted To Noise

• "Londoners are not Clevelanders", an article/interview in German from the November 1995 issue of Lee$on Online. This article includes links to two sound files (in Wave format) of short excerpts from their interview with David (in English).

  [Note- I had a hell of a time getting my browser to fetch these Wave files from Lee$on Online (they seem to be on a slow link & it also looks as if the mime type settings on their Web server are misconfigured), so I've made them available directly from Ubu Web as ubu1.wav [553k] and ubu2.wav [502k] for your edification & enjoyment.]

• A review of Raygun Suitcase from the Sept/Oct issue of Strobe magazine at IUMA (the Internet Underground Music Archive). [Scroll down, it's about halfway down the page.]

• The "entertaining and informative leisure orientated" UK Web site London Calling Internet also has a Raygun Suitcase review.

• Another Raygun Suitcase review can be found in the October 19, 1995 issue of the University of Minnesota's Daily Online. [Scroll down, it's near the bottom of the page.]

• The December '95 issue of the Webzine Furious Green Thoughts featured an Ubu article/interview.

• An off the cuff review of Raygun Suitcase from radio station KFJC's searchable Edge of Obscurity Music Database.

• Cleveland's other claim to Rock'n'Roll fame (no, not the Michael Stanley Band, the Hall of Fame) has a searchable online archive of about 200 rock-related stories from the Plain Dealer, which includes a couple of Ubu-related stories, one from 1991 and one from 1993.

• The McKinley Group's Magellan Internet Directory has a review of Ubu Web (we got 3 stars, so we get to display this cool emblem).

• Guitar World Online lists Dub Housing as one of the Twenty Essential Alternative Albums;

• The Boston Phoenix lists Raygun Suitcase as one of 1995's Very Cool Pop Albums in its Year In Pop Music roundup.

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• New Link! The legendary Numbers Band, 15 60 75

• New Link! Tin Huey

• The Politics of Art and the Red Krayola / Red Krayola 101

• Peter Blegvad

• Richard Thompson (Henry the Human Fly Caught in the Web)

• New Link! Markuu Pikonen's got a site devoted to Stiv Bators

• New Link! Bricklayer - Your Guide to Bob Mould on the Internet

• New Link! Saturn, the Web home of Sun Ra and his Arkestra

• A Can Home Page / Holger Czukay

• Captain Beefheart (Home Page Replica)

• Gary Lucas

• Yet another erstwhile Ubu drummer, Anton Fier & his Golden Palominos

• Ruins: the Unofficial Henry Cow WWW Server

• The Fred Frith pages are kept by Malcolm Humes who has lots of interesting pages about other cool bands and stuff.

• The Syd Straw Discography is kept up by John Relph, who also keeps discographies for a bunch of other cool acts.

• Brian Wilson / The Beach Boys

• Gong

• The Wonderful World of the Mekons

• Happy and Bleeding: the PJ Harvey WWW Page

• The Pixies / Frank Black

• Meat Puppets

• Yoko Ono

• Faust

• Negativland's Negativworldwidewebland

• The Bonzo Dog [Doo-Dah] Band

• For pointers to pages about many other interesting bands check out the Squidlink Bands & Artists page (or "you could look it up" in the Ultimate Band List).

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• Analog Synth Heaven

• The Theremin Home Page

• Thierry Rochebois's Brief History of Electronic Instruments (also available en Français)

• "Captain Trips Bums Clevo" by Chris Butler (ex-Tin Huey & the Waitresses & longtime Ubu-friend) from "the inflatable love bunny of the air," East Orange, New Jersey's WFMU.

• If you'd like to know what bands other people who like the same bands you like like, check out Agent Inc.'s Firefly, "Your Personal Music Recommendation Agent."

• The Cassette Mythos, an electronic book about Homemade Audio Cassettes, includes the article "Necessity and Choice in Musical Forms: Concerning Musical and Technical Means and Political Needs" by Chris Cutler.

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• Where to Play Pinball in Cleveland from Ian's Pinball Page

• The Indians

• Cleveland's Scene magazine is on the Web. Be sure to check out their 25th Anniversary history page which includes reminiscences by and about Ubu's own David Thomas, who held a variety of jobs at Scene during its early days.

• Cleveland Freenet

• Geyman's Comprehensive List of Greater Cleveland WWW Sites

• WENZ's The End Web (commercial alternative radio).

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• Immanuel Velikovsky & Catastrophism

• Alfred Jarry: The Madman of Laval

• New Link! Pataphysik Symbolismus und Surrealismus

• An essay "Concerning the spiral adorning Pere Ubu's belly."

• Raoul Vaneigem's "The Organization of Appearances" from the Situationist International Archives.

• Jean Baudrillard's "Pataphysics of Year 2000" from CTHEORY.

• Mark Amerika's Avant-Pop Manifesto from his post-post-modern zine/journal/web site, Alt-X.

• The Virgin MegaWeb's Musée Imaginaire asks (and attempts to answer) the question "Où se cache l'esprit Dada dans le monde electronique?" or, en anglais, "Where is the Dada spirit hidden in the electronic world?"

• Robert Dada's Anti-Art Productions Home Page

• The Indescribable Fluxus Indian Museum - a must see.

• The Fluxus Home Page.

• L.A.'s Museum of Jurassic Technology is very odd (in a groovy kinda way). [Thanks to Julia Rubiner for suggesting this link.]

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