New Wire Album

read and burn 1 [released May 2002]
read and burn 2 = only available at posteverything.com

Buy the first EP and you're golden.

That said, there's some excellent songs on Send. Two of the best songs on the album weren't on the EPs, "Being Watched" and "Mr. Marx's Table." More than half of the record are the same recordings as on the EPs.

Basically it's got me listening to their older stuff again. Is the 'crazy for love' 12" version of 'our swimmer' one of the most amazing songs of all time or what?

This makes me very excited. I'm only hoping the North American tour includes stops in Canada.

WIRE announce live dates
After a considerable absence from the live scene (the last show was at Benecassim, Spain in 2004), Wire is set to announce dates for new live shows this year. As yet unconfirmed dates will include European festivals during the summer season and a trip to North America in the autumn.

At this time, we are able to confirm the following early show dates:

April 29: Stuk, Leuven, Belgium
May 01: 4AD, Diksmuide, Belgium - As part of their 50th Anniversary.
May 07: Nuits Sonores Festival - Lyon, France

Wire is, of course, now well advanced in recording and mixing its 11th (as yet untitled) album, due for release later this year.

Is Bruce back in the band?

Is Bruce back in the band?

Was he ever out of the band? If so, I'd be interested in where you read (or heard) this.

i thought robert had left

Oh no, a new Wire album. Oh yes.

I mean live dates. Sorry.

Gotobed left during the band'd dismal early 90's period and returned for the souped up Read and Burn period.

As far as I know, Gilbert never left.

I'm in love with Graham, damnit. I'm in love with that guy. I
can't get my DVD player to work right so I can look at him.
I'm tired of being quiet about it, about my feelings.

I'm going to look up Alfred Soto's email now.
I need to talk to him.

I'm in love with a man who has three kids. The guilt is killing me.

Absolutely positively totally in love.
And he won't let me tell him how I feel.

I want so much to tell him how I feel.
That's why I'm crying.

North American booking agency suggests July 2008 dates!

www.billions.com

I heard Gilbert left after A Scottish Play(?)

Well, if that's wrong, then that's great!

Well, it's been a while since that, so I guess he's backaroonie!

I could be wrong though.

New Wire album: Object 47
Object 47 (the 47th object in Wire's discography) is Wire's 11th studio album, and features nine all-new tracks. It is the second product of an arc of work started in 2006, which has so far produced the well received EP "Read And Burn 03", and stands as a confident statement of where Wire are in 2008 (as ever, looking forward!). Retaining Wire's idiosyncratic mix of an avant-garde mindset with classic pop timing, this album also boasts "tunes with zoom", a unique formula that manages to sound wholly Wire (in a classic sense) and contemporary. A preview of the front cover has been placed on the website at <http://www.pinkflag.com>;.

The full track-listing for the album is: One Of Us; Circumspect; Mekon Headman; Perspex Icon; Four Long Years; Hard Currency; Patient Flees; Are You Ready?; All Fours.

The provisional release date for Object 47 is July 7, 2008.

Let's talk!
During the last couple of weeks we have been testing out a forum on pinkflag.com <http://www.pinkflag.com/talk/>; and now it is ready to accept new members. We have wanted, for some time, a place where people could express their views about Wire, ask questions or just generally discuss stuff related and not so related to the band in a way that's simple and intuitive. Hopefully we've got that (although it hasn't been tested to destruction yet, so bear with us if we have teething problems).

More gigs
The gig list at the front of the website has been growing, and more dates will soon be added or confirmed. The current, officially confirmed, date-list is:

• April 29: Stuk, Leuven, Belgium
• April 30: Ekko, Utrecht, Netherlands
• May 01: 4AD, Diksmuide, Belgium
• May 02: Hedon, Zwolle, Netherlands
• May 03: Futuresonic Festival, Manchester, UK
• May 05: Bronson, Ravenna, Italy
• May 06: Circolo Degli Artisti, Rome, Italy
• May 07: Nuits Sonores Festival, Lyon, France
• May 30: Seaport Music Festival, NYC, USA [free festival]
• June 07: Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art, Porto, Portugual
• June 27: Sled Island Festival (#1 Royal Canadian Legion), Calgary, Canada
• June 28: Sled Island Festival (Main Stage), Calgary, Canada
• July 4: Rokaj Festival , Zagreb, Croatia

There will be a London show during the summer. New Yorkers may be interested to note that Wire will be headlining a big free festival on May 30th as part of the River to River series. A more wider-ranging visit to North America will take place in October, but no dates are currently conformed. As always, it pays to check back with the website periodically, to see if more dates have been added.

Note that due to Bruce Gilbert's resignation from the group in 2004, upcoming Wire gigs will have Margaret Fiedler McGinnis augmenting the band on rhythm guitar. Known for her work in Laika (masterminds of one of the best Wire covers to date, the Whore version of German Shepherds), her live credentials are further enhanced by her being a part of PJ Harvey's touring band earlier in the decade.

And finally
This newsletter and the website are complimentary resources. To keep abreast of Wire and and all its doings, we recommend checking Pinkflag.com regularly as well as being signed up to this mailing list.

All the best,

Pinkflag

No Bruce, No Credibility

I just saw this myself. I am a bit wary of a Gilbert-less band as well. I loved the way he stood there hunched over and motionless, coaxing brilliance from his guitar.

margaret fielder though! that is NOT a bad trade. I miss Laika

"one of us" has leaked and is fucking awesome. THEY SOUND LIKE MKII WIRE AGAIN! honestly: it's ideal-copy-tastic.

bruce doesn't seem to be working with them at the moment, which saddens me, but still: i have enormously high hopes for this album.

ILM has too many wire threads.

grimly fiendish otm. great song, too many wire thrds

Just listened to "One of Us" and I gotta agree, it totally rules.

exited!

excited!

exciteed!

egg sited!

this is a really good little album. it's nothing exceptional -- i can see it ending up somewhere on my end-of-year list through repeated listening rather than godlike genius -- but it's good clean wirey fun.

maybe the fact we know bruce isn't playing on it makes it sound a little thinner and lighter; maybe it really is just thinner and lighter. certainly, it's the closest they've come to their mid-to-late-eighties incarnation since ... well, the mid-to-late eighties.

i can see myself playing it a lot.

well it's better than manscape and wir at any rate

the wir album is a lost classic and i shall scowl at anyone who says otherwise.

I've never listened to wir or Manscape...stopped with that era at IBTABA.

Worth hearing?

not really. the single from the wir album is good though (slow and so it goes).

Manscape has maybe 4-5 really good tracks, it's worth it cheap (best; Torch It, Morning Bell I think)

New album streaming at P-Fork:
http://pitchfork.com/advance/52-change-becomes-us

And tour dates:

Wire Tour Dates

07.09 - Detroit, MI @ Museum of Contemporary Art
07.12 - Cambridge, MA @ The Sinclair
07.13 - Philadelphia, PA @ Union Transfer
07.14 - Washington, DC @ Black Cat
07.16 - New York, NY @ Bowery Ballroom
07.17 - Cleveland, OH @ Beachland Ballroom
07.19 - Chicago, IL @ Pitchfork Music Festival

Should I see 'em in Philly at this late date?

Wire -- Change Becomes Us

Okay and we've got a new self-titled Wire album any week now. But in the meantime, this amazing story from Alexis Petridis on Facebook just now:

True story: when I had an office in Brighton, Wire were supposed to come up and record an interview with me for the Music Weekly podcast. Alotted time arrives, no Wire. After about twenty minutes, I went downstairs to check they weren't outside and found Colin Newman and Graham Lewis being ferociously interrogated by the owner of the accountancy firm that had an office downstairs. They'd turned up, found the door open, walked in and immediately been apprehended as potential burglars, by a man who'd clearly never heard of Wire and thus wasn't buying their story at all.

If Lewis sported his eighties mullet, I might have stopped him too.

Hahah

Upcoming US tour as well. It's interesting that they don't seem to be bothering with much of the midwest. That Pitchfork show last time around probably got the best of them.

May 26: Dantes, Portland OR, USA Book tickets
May 27: Neumos, Seattle WA, USA Book tickets
May 29: Slim's, San Francisco CA, USA
May 30: The Echoplex, Los Angeles CA, USA
Jun 02: The Sinclair, Cambridge MA, USA
Jun 03: Music Hall of Williamsburg, Brooklyn NY, USA
Jun 04: Bowery Ballroom, New York NY, USA
Jun 05: Union Transfer, Philadelphia PA, USA
Jun 06: Black Cat, Washington DC, USA
Jun 07: Mr. Smalls Theatre, Millvale PA, USA
Jun 08: Beachland Ballroom, Cleveland OH, USA
Jun 09: Majestic Theatre, Detroit MI, USA
Jun 10: Headliners, Louisville KY, USA

New album is great providing you liked the last two. Hell of a run at this stage of their career.

So this summer I can see again Wire, Mission of Burma and the Buzzcocks.

Great!

Also, I didn't know they'd set up a wire chatroom! (t'is ruptured)

The new album is very good. That may sound obvious or pat, but really, nobody else can be them, and they just have it down still. Couple of real standouts on this one.

And you can prove it to yourself -- here's the stream:

http://www.npr.org/2015/04/05/396571143/first-listen-wire-wire

♫♪ three of these kids belong together
three of these kids are kind of the same
but one of these kids is doing his own thing ♪♫

Then there's this:
http://drillfestival.com/chicago/

silliness aside, this sounds pretty good.

Man these guys are just pretty much not ever going to stop. (And credit to them.) New album announced, plus new track to hear:

http://www.npr.org/sections/allsongs/2017/01/23/510954969/wire-set-to-release-new-album-hear-short-elevated-period

Excellent news!

Very consistent with the sound of the self-titled and "Nocturnal Koreans" albums. They've purged the oddness that Bruce Gilbert brought, which I'm of two minds about.

They've not done anything worldbeating since Read & Burn 03, the last thing Gilbert was involved with. Plenty of good,but no amazing. Maybe this is different

My sense with Gilbert via the Read and Burn book was that he was always on his own creative wavelength and that his path and that of Wire's no longer needed to cross. Which I think is a healthy viewpoint, really.

Also he hates Colin Newman's guts.

Minor details!

I was joking... or was I?

Their actual website hasn't been updated, and the 'greed bag' shop is down at the moment.

Details on the hate!

Short Elevated Period is great! This could be the best in a while

I am enjoying it, yes.

I had no idea there was a new one!