Thomas had been recording a new album with his band before his death Stacia Timonere/Getty David Thomas, lead singer of Pere Ubu, has died. He was 71. Thomas died on Wednesday, April 23, at his home ...

When Firmin Gémier, the actor playing Père Ubu, uttered the opening line of Alfred Jarry's play Ubu Roi at its Paris premiere in 1896, its author gained instant notoriety. Although consisting of just ...

The Handspring Puppet Company of South Africa is world famous for its 2007 play “War Horse,” which has drawn 4.7 million audience members and spawned a Hollywood film. But Handspring’s most powerful ...

A portrait of the French playwright and legendary bohemian Alfred Jarry, with his long dark hair and manicured goatee that evokes The Three Musketeers, appears alongside family photos in Linda Klieger ...

A week that features Bernard Madoff denouncing people for being greedy, and Moammar Gaddafi delivering a sermon on love, can only be encompassed by a return to that ur-text of our time, Ubu the King.

The list of artists in the music business for 40 plus years that still push themselves to create their best work is undoubtedly a short one. Many may plug along, but Pere Ubu’s David Thomas plugs in ...

French playwright Alfred Jarry's "Ubu Roi" caused a riot when it premiered in Paris in 1896 - as startling for its complete break with stage naturalism as for beginning the play with a scatalogical ...

David Thomas, the pioneering frontman of the avant-garde rock band Pere Ubu, passed away on April 23, 2025, at the age of 71. Through his unconventional vocal delivery and unique stage presence, he ...

The seminal ‘avant garage’ band’s cantankerous frontman on forbidding clapping during shows, playing Roland Rat and Glastonbury audiences being ‘Jeremy Kyle people’ Hi David! What’s happening in Hove?

He prefers to conduct interviews via Skype, and at last count, he had more than 1,200 Facebook friends. Still, David Thomas has to draw the line somewhere. "I don't Twitter," the Pere Ubu frontman ...

David Thomas, the founder and frontman of the influential, avant-garde rock band Pere Ubu, died yesterday (April 24) at his home in Brighton, England, the band wrote on Facebook. The statement ...

David Thomas of groundbreaking Ohio art-punk bands Pere Ubu and Rocket from the Tombs has died at age 71 after a long illness. Here’s the band’s official statement: David Lynn Thomas, lead singer of ...