Fly-by: what are we doing here?

Well, not too much other than catching up on revision work for Theadia and listening to Pere Ubu, a band I’d known about for quite some time but never owned anything by them for years. They’re like the American version of Wire: starting off deep in arty post-punk territory, sliding into ‘beat combo’ groove after an extended hiatus, thereafter putting out several oddball yet great albums and songs and even the occasional ‘wait, what…?’ cover. They’ve been around for decades (their first single dropped in late 1975!) and they dropped their latest just last year.