David Thomas and two pale boys live from 2004 …. released today as part of the Pere Ubu unofficial official bootleg series …. “as close to perfection as you can get” according to David …. high praise indeed
This recording is taken from dusty tapes rediscovered during the pandemic, as part of the Unofficial Official Bootleg series that Pere Ubu are doing on Bandcamp.
This album has David Thomas, Andy Diagram and Keith Moline? in Schio (Vicenza- I), Teatro Pasubio, 2004, with the extraordinary (unique?) music that they toured both Europe and the USA with in the early noughties.
Described as avant- garde traditional folk music from the future performed with post-dance technology. In 2004, David Thomas and the 2 pale boys toured their new album “18 Monkeys On A Dead Man’s Chest’.
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.”
