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RFTT European Dates
Dates are beginning to be confirmed. See the Calendar Page for the latest.

Changes In RFTT Clarified
Cheetah Chrome, a founding member of the legendary Cleveland pre-punk band Rocket From The Tombs, announced his retirement in dramatic fashion recently.

"I was half way down the steps to the dressing room at the last show of the tour after our set at Maxwell's in Hoboken," singer David Thomas said. "'Wait! Wait! I have something to say,' Cheetah told us. 'This is my last show.'"

"We were all not a little bit upset," Thomas said. "Pissed-off would be a good description."

"Thinking back on it," Mr Chrome said, "My advice to others is that it's not a good time to make the announcement, just before the encore of your last show."

Mr Chrome intends to retire from the road by the year's end in order to devote more time to his family and the responsibilities of raising his young son. Not wanting to leave the band in the lurch he promised to fulfill road obligations for the year.

"I know how seriously Cheetah takes his family obligations," Mr Thomas said. "All things considered we thought it best to re-configure the band sooner rather than later."

Buddy Akita will join Rocket From The Tombs in the 'Cheetah Position.' He's a member of This Moment In Black History, considered by many to be the best Cleveland band of the last five years. He will pair with the other recent addition to the band, guitarist Gary Siperko.

"I really enjoyed playing with Gary for the short time we had," Mr Chrome said. "He's really done his homework, and I think he's going to add a lot to the band's future."

"There was alot of pressure to resolve the situation," Mr Thomas said. "I try not to do things too fast on the basis that time reveals the best solution."

The best solution came in what's called the Jim Jones Model. In the mid-90s Pere Ubu guitarist Jim Jones told Mr Thomas that the state of his health would not allow him to tour anymore and he'd have to quit the band. Don't quit, don't tour, Thomas told him. Mr Jones remained a non-touring member of Pere Ubu until his death in 2008, contributing material, recording, and occasionally appearing on stage.

"I'm happy to be able to remain in RFTT as a non touring member," Mr Chrome said. "I've never meant it to be taken as I'm retiring, I mean, writing and recording are things that you don't just quit doing, they're in my DNA. I look forward to contributing in that capacity; and I'll definitely be popping up for gigs now and again."

Day The Earth Reissued
The Day The Earth Met The Rocket From The Tombs has been reissued on Fire Records via cd and vinyl.

Update to eBook of "Bring Me The Head"
The illustrated eBook has been updated to version 9.0 with more background text, format fixes, and additional dialog from a wider range of the many iterations of the script. Those who bought version 8.1 from hearpen.com, or who bought the dropcard , have been sent free download codes for the update, as is the policy at hearpen.com. Those who bought the Kindle version need to contact Amazon for a free update.

Lady From Shanghai #4
The latest installment of demos from the next Pere Ubu album, Lady From Shanghai, is the September release at hearpen.com. It is an album-length 11 song update. Some are nearly completeion, others have a way to go and there are some recent additions still in an embryonic state.

New news
We have updated the ways we deliver news about Pere Ubu & related bands. We no longer keep a mailing list & deliver news through it. This methodology was too labor-intensive, yielding haphazard output. News will henceforth be delivered from a dedicated blog site. At this site you can subscribe to email news, an RSS feed, or view online. It will also feed the Ubu Projex twitter account.


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Rocket From The Tombs
The new album, Barfly , is scheduled for release September 13 on Fire Records and Smog Veil. The eleven new songs, produced by David Thomas at Suma, are: I Sell Soul, Birth Day, Anna, Butcherhouse 4, Romeo & Juliet, Sister Love Train, Love Train Express, Good Times Never Roll, Six And Two, Maelstrom, and Pretty. The band remains: David Thomas, Cheetah Chrome, Richard Lloyd, Craig Bell and Steve Mehlman.


The Archimedes Quartet
The Archimedes Quartet is a project driven by method, mystery and miasma. Five years ago David Thomas described a bath tub epiphany to Peter Blegvad at a chance meeting outside an architectural college in Oxford. "Edison, Einstein, Eisenhower and Elvis - The Four 'E's Who Invented The 20th Century." This evolved, in the way of these sorts of conversations, into a Big Idea - a lecture / symposium slamdown to be refereed by Chris Cutler. A few emails were exchanged, words beginning with "E" were accumulated but, in the way of these things, the Big Idea withered on the vine.




eBook Download Dropcards
Credit card sized, plastic dropcards with download code for the Illustrated Script to "Bring Me The Head Of Ubu Roi" are now available from Ubutique.

Jane Scott is gone
The icon of Cleveland rock music, Jane Scott , died early on July 4. She was 92.

Living Room Concerts
The first three Living Room Concerts on the west coast were successful on all levels and so the series will continue. Those who have expressed interest will be contacted soon. Thanks to the hosts for enjoyable and well-organized events: Dan Carbone, Duane Capizzi and Pierre Gonzalez.

Final Solution at the Beacland March 19
There a clip on YouTube .

Best of 2010
The UK's The Independent selected Pere Ubu's "The First & Last" concert (Feb 25, The Garage, London) as one of the best of 2010 .
Living Room Concerts
Based on the delightful experience of Lilley Live in Copenhagen recently David Thomas is offering a new product, Living Room Concerts, wherein he gives a solo performance in... your living room. Click here for more details.

eBook of Bring Me The Head Of Ubu Roi
Hearpen publishes its first iBook/eBook, the illustrated script to Bring Me The Head Of Ubu Roi . It's available at hearpen.com in both iBook/ePUB and PDF formats. Also available thru Amazon's Kindle server.

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