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Change Becomes Us, the stunning new album by Wire

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This is the official Wire site. From 1977's Pink Flag to the band's most recent album, Red Barked Tree, legendary 'art' combo Wire has created a unique body of work. Often subverting genres, Colin Newman, Graham Lewis and Robert Grey continue to work on new material, regularly confounding expectations.

On this site, visit the Wire discography (complete with lyrics), download free Wire MP3s, find out about the band, contact Wire, and more.

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What people are saying about Red Barked Tree...

This record contains some of the band's softest, most ingeniously beautiful performances, as well as some of its fiercest… It's also a fact that Red Barked Tree compares favourably with the very best of the definitive Wire.

Keith Cameron, Mojo

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Selected Wire releases

Twelve Times You
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Read & Burn 02
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17 Dec 1985 Paradiso, Amsterdam
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Vien
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Remastered live Wire gigs

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March 8, 2013DRILL : LONDON - UPDATED

As announced in our latest newsletter the initial line-Up of Wire's DRILL : LONDON can now be revealed. You can read a full article about it in the Quietus, who are co-curating the event which will take place between March 21st & March 24th.

Thu 21st Mar, 2013 - The Lexington
Charlie Boyer and the Voyeurs + Malka Spigel + It Hugs Back
Charlie Boyer moonlighting from Electricity In Our Homes in his new "pop" guise co/headlining with Malka Spigel's UK debut with her band featuring Wire's Colin Newman, To Roccoco Rot's Ronald Lippok and Gil Luz & Uri Frost from Mambas. The evening is rounded off with a performance by Matt Simms' It Hugs Back, who have a new album out in March.

Fri 22nd Mar, 2013 - The Lexington
Comanechi + Stranger Son + Mambas
Comanechi have long staked their reputation as one of the fiercest bands in London, with gargantuan riffs topped with Akiko Matsuura's hectoring scream. Now joined by a drummer, they'll be celebrating the release of new album You Owe Me Nothing But Love. Support comes from the equally unhinged dance noise of Mambas and psychedelic Stranger Son.

Fri 22nd Mar, 2013 - Cafe Oto
Gazelle Twin in collaboration with Scanner + Land Observations + Edvard Graham Lewis + Klara Lewis
Friday night at Cafe Oto unites an disparate group of artists with connection to Wire, all with a connection - of sorts - to ideas of place. Think Map Ref expanded. Klara Lewis builds her music from field recordings made in locations that range from Turkey to Germany and Russia. Mute's Land Observations (a solo project of James Brooks, ex of Appliance) uses looped guitar eddies to evoke the ghosts in the landscape left by the Roman Road network. Finally, long-time friend of Wire Robin 'Scanner' Rimbaud will perform a unique collaboration with Gazelle Twin, whose music explores dystopias of real and imagined worlds.

Sat 23rd Mar, 2013 - Cafe Oto(daytime)
Q&A with Wire presented by Graham Duff (free entry) As if Wire were not busy enough on this day! This will be an afternoon session (4.00PM to 5.00PM) at Cafe Oto, hosted by comedy genius and long time Wire afficionado Graham Duff (Ideal, Hebburn). Please note: the Cafe will need to be cleared after the Q&A, so that Teeth of The Sea can soundcheck.

Sat 23rd Mar, 2013 - The Lexington
Toy + Wire
Although their long hair suggests an early '70s cosmic rock group, young Londoners Toy share with Wire a love of melodic psychedelia and songs that build and build before knocking you down. Last year's debut album was a critical hit and their live show is something to behold. Support WIRE

Sat 23rd Mar, 2013 - Cafe Oto
Teeth Of The Sea (including "Drill" with Wire) + Verity Susman
After supporting Toy at the Lexington, Wire will hotfoot it to Cafe Oto... there, ToTS will have been playing a set of their Giorgio Morodor-TG-Wolf Eyes genregasm. Wire will then join ToTS for an semi-improvised encore of 'Drill' featuring both bands. Also on the bill will be Verity Susman of Electrelane, whose solo sets feature an intriguing mixture of electronics, sax, performance and film.

Sun 24th Mar, 2013 - Heaven
Wire + East Inda Youth + pinkflag guitar orchestra
East India Youth is the first signing to the Quietus' new record label, The Quietus Phonographic Corporation. Real name William Doyle, EIY is a solo project based around very English pop melodies over burbling, electronic noise described by the Guardian as "pleasingly mental".

There are links to buy tickets below.

Readers of the newsletter will also know that we have now formally launched the 2nd set of the Legal Bootleg Series. The first 3 are:
17th Feb 1978, West Runton Pavillion - (PFB 705)
12th June 1987, Maxwell's, Hoboken - (PFB 805)
21st May 1990, Hibernian, London - (PFB 901)
alongside - 23 February 2000, Nottingham Social - (pfb 0050) - Recycling Sherwood Forest & 04 April 2011, WFMU - 13 April 2011, KEXP (PFB101) which are only available to subscribers to the full series.

January 19, 2013Doubles & Trebles

Change Becomes Us has now been launched to the world's media and news items are going up online about it. We particularly like the the one on The Quietus. At the same time you can now hear the album's opener "Doubles & Trebles" streaming on WireHQ's soundcloud it is already proving rather popular!

At the same we are making the first announcement about DRILL : LONDON a series of events taking place at various venues across London in March 2013. This will culminate with a performance by Wire playing Change Becomes Us in full at Heaven on Sunday, March 24th. The set will close with the massed guitars of The Pinkflag Orchestra playing the track 'Pink Flag' by way of an encore. The ticket link is below.

December 11, 2012Change Becomes Us (pf19)

As Pinkflag newsletter subscribers will already know, a new Wire album will be released on CD and digital in March 2013, with vinyl following for Record Store Day on April 20. "Change Becomes Us" began as an exploration of unrecorded material originally written in 1979–80. Some of this material had only ever existed as quickly prepared sketches for one-off performance; however, subjected to the rigour of a Wire working process of both touring and studio, it evolved organically into what we think is a fascinating hybrid. Liberated from its historic roots, it simply took off! "Really fresh!" is the common quote of the few who've heard it!

You can pre-order the "Special Edition" from our Mail Order (regular CD or vinyl will be available to order at a later date) and you can read more in our most recent newsletter archived here.

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