http://read.tidalhifi.com/article/i-dont-look-back-david-thomas-unedited/
Most Ubu fans will be familiar with what happens when interviewers don't do their homework before attempting to interview David Thomas. First answer takes the opportunity to re-iterate the latest shift in the Ubu landscape:
"Since the American Federation of Musicians has blocked us from performing in America, we have renounced not only our American ‘citizenship’ but also our American past. We’re not from Cleveland. Pere Ubu was formed in Leeds, England, in 1975. We are an English band. I don’t know anything about Cleveland. Sounds like an interesting place. I may visit there one day."
A fuller version of this statement can be found on the Amazon page for the Pere Ubu Moon Unit album. Apparently if the "specially convened congress of the members of Gang of Four, Sisters of Mercy, Soft Cell, The Mekons and The Wedding Present" don't offer Pere Ubu asylum in Leeds then Port Talbot is to be petitioned next.
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