After Pere Ubu’s Legendary Live Score to a 3D version of “They Came From Outer Space” at the Arches a few years back. We are very excited to welcome David Thomas and his band back to Glasgow. “Long Live Père Ubu!”, was released in September 2009, is inspired by the proto-Absurdist stage play that gave the band its name – Alfred Jarry’s "Ubu Roi” (King Ubu). Its premiere in Paris in 1896 provoked riots in the theatre and a national scandal. A vicious and satiric re-telling of Shakespeare’s “Macbeth,” Jarry’s work lambastes do-gooder monsters and the survival of the Unfit.
Pere Ubu has devised an extraordinary concert event that involves connective dialog, electronic ambience, choreography, and animations by legendary film-makers The Brothers Quay. Not so much a case of Rock Music and Theatre coming together, it is more that the two find themselves engaged in a bloody fight to the death. Singer David Thomas stalks centre-stage, inhabiting the grotesque persona of the doomed Père Ubu, beset by the incompetence and treachery of his minions, who are all played by members of the band. The concert takes the shape of a radio play, steeped in the avant- garage sensibilities that the band pioneered.
Doors: 7pm (tbc)
Curfew: 10pm Strict
14+only
Tickets for this event are now available online or by calling the box office on 0141 332 6535
