Dave N. wrote: Mon Apr 21, 2025 5:10 am Pope Francis. Probably couldn’t live with himself after that meeting with Vance.

Vance did it.

VP Shillbilly definitely sucked out his soul.

Frankie99 wrote: Wed Apr 16, 2025 9:37 am

HeavenIsInYourBeard wrote: Wed Apr 16, 2025 8:55 am

Gramsci wrote: Sun Apr 06, 2025 1:38 pm Dave Allen of Gang of Four. Boo!!
Glad I got to see the original-ish line up years ago.
RIP.

Edit. It was the original line up.
https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-ente ... 15397.html

Bummer. I also saw the original line-up earlier that year at the Shepherd's Bush Empire, and they were pretty incendiary.

Also heard a live set on BBC6 Music by the line-up that had Andy Gill as the only original member and it just sounded ... wrong. Tight, but wrong.

Could have sworn I read somewhere recently that Jon King was about to do some shows with yet another line-up, but my memory could be at fault there.

Pajo did the last tour (I missed it, but would've gone) and Ted Leo is on this one - I guess I can see that working? I might go just because....

This came on randomly last night and I thought I'd seen most of the whistle test stuff worth seeing, but I hadn't seen this before and it rules.

The one thing that just might inspire me to go and see them again would be if they brought in Mike Watt to play bass.

cakes wrote: Mon Apr 21, 2025 7:35 am

jfv wrote: Mon Apr 21, 2025 7:21 am

speedie wrote: Mon Apr 21, 2025 5:58 am

Fucksake Dave, just came here to post Popey Mc Pokeington

LOL

As a recovering Catholic, I have somewhat mixed feelings. Not sure if I could ever go so far as to say that I'll miss a Pope, but let's just say that it's likely that the next one will be worse.

Remember, the one before was pretty terrible!

Indeed. I'm no fan of Catholicism either, but Pope Francis seemed like a moderate compared to most of the others.

Roy Thomas Baker

David Thomas.

Goddamn, another American institution.

Rock music allows for so many bizarre personalities, strange voices, and general esoterica, and yet Dave still blew away the competition. I think everyone who hears him sing probably thinks the same thing, "is he gonna sound like this on every song??" But talking with both past and final (what a thought) members of Ubu, he was the prime mover, the guy who ensured that the band never keeled over, regardless as to what petty bullshit life threw at them. That he attempted to do spoken word/comedy/performance art after the initial breakup and later worked some of those routines into songs - well, shit, his calling was probably some sort of university theatre director, but thank god he and his oboe voice never gave up on rock 'n roll. Hopefully the ghoulish post-mortem reappraisal will "discover" the band's mid-90's work - St Arkansas is right behind their first two albums.

He co-fronted the 3rd greatest rock band ever, Rocket From The Tombs, and that was how he started an illustrious career in music. Was Hearpen Records the first time a rock band started their own record label to release their music as is, no stress from music's "commercial" suicide?

What a fucking guy. Requiescat.

One of the most unique voices ever

Sad day indeed. I knew he'd been in poor health for some time, but those early RFTT and Pere Ubu albums were benchmark texts for me.

David Thomas was awesome.

He was one of the greatest frontmen, and he did in two of the best bands I ever saw play live.

Super wide-ranging music, super flexible voice--which is saying something given how weird and formally constricted it was. Wide-ranging and unique world view. Capable of being very scabrous, very tender. Smart as hell.

Silkworm always felt like (maybe wished) Pere Ubu were kindred spirits somehow, and we listened to tons of their music in the late 80s-90s--everything from the early singles up through Tenement Year and Cloudland. I feel like I have some catching up to do.

Requiescat.