Pere Ubu Cloudland 6/17/02 71 / Remastered 2016] 5

71 / Remastered 2016] 5 The Great Gates of Kiev [Live at Newcastle City Hall

Emily King) 10

the band's seventh studio album and first collection of original material since 2008's Lucky

Sine From Above [Chester Lockhart

Pere Ubu Cloudland 6/17/02 71 / Remastered 2016] 5In a press handout that accompanied the original release of Pere Ubu's Cloudland, David Thomas quipped "We'd never been asked to write a pop record before. I guess it never occurred to anyone." Given the sonic Dadaism of much of Pere Ubu's work, what's most startling is not that it took so long for someone to suggest they make a pop record but that they were able to comply so successfully. Stephen Hague, who had previously worked with the Pet Shop