“I lie to them and change the goalposts… you build up techniques of throwing the curveball of discomfort. If it gets comfortable I change it”: David Thomas calls Pere Ubu “avant-garage” – but how prog are they?

David Thomas of Pere Ubu.

They may have jokingly dubbed their music “avant-garage” and been lumped in with the punks, but they’ve proved an entity unto themselves. With their frontman David Thomas claiming they “refocused” prog rock in the 70s, in 2014 we asked: how prog are Pere Ubu?

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