Coming up on weekend of 14th and 15th March in Brighton and 17th March in London, a very special celebration of David Thomas and all things Ubu.
Tickets for the weekend in Brighton on 14th 15th March can be got here,
On Sat 14th: There will be a sale of Archives from 1pm( see below), a live Q and A (at 3.30pm) and a screening of the documentary “PereUbu is a Cup”(7.30pm) at Mood, 80 Church Road, Hove BN3 2EB
On Sat 15th: There will be breakfast from 10am at Mood, with the showing of an archive concert on the screen. Then at 2pm there will be a live performance at The Brunswick Pub, 1 Holland Road, Hove BN3 1JF. A collection of musicians who have played with David Thomas and Pere Ubu will perform under the name “The Moon Unit”. You can get tickets just for the live performance here
On Tue 17th at the London Hackney, Moth Club, there will be a screening of “Pere Ubu is a Cup” and live performance by the Moon Unit. Tickets can be got here
The Archive
David kept three of everything. For sale will be:
Archived T-shirts
Original vinyl – including 12” albums and singles, 7”s as well as very rare vinyl of the wooden birds and other solo Projex
Framed and unframed publicity shots
Original cassette tapes
Original video
Archived posters.
There will also be bags, mugs, badges and books.
On display will be several display books detailing the journey of Pere Ubu and all the other Projex. Extremely rare communications, the first recording lists from the recording studio (with a mystery track?) and photos that the band took of each other on the road. There’s also a copy of Street Waves that he and Peter doodled lyrics for a new song on. David’s extraordinary array of instruments and his personal favourite treasures including the Lego band, WIC frisbee and his space balls will also be there.
If this guy was around today, he’d be excited – especially as we’re serving hot dogs on the Saturday night. I’ll post the tix links in comments – it truly is the most complete you will ever have known the band and Mr Thomas himself.
