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English rock band

Wire
Wire sept 2013.jpg

Wire in 2013; left to right: Matthew Simms, Robert Gray, Colin Newman, Graham Lewis
Background information
Also known as Wir
Origin London, England
Genres
  • Punk rock
  • mail-punk
  • fine art punk
  • experimental rock
  • alternative rock
  • electronic
Years active 1976–1980, 1985–1992, 1999–present
Labels
  • Pinkflag
  • Mute
  • Harvest
  • Warner Bros.
  • Crude Trade
Associated acts Dome
Website www.pinkflag.com
Members Colin Newman
Graham Lewis
Robert Gray
Matthew Simms
Past members Bruce Gilbert
Margaret Fiedler McGinnis

Wire are an English language stone band, formed in London in October 1976[1] by Colin Newman (vocals, guitar), Graham Lewis (bass, vocals), Bruce Gilbert (guitar) and Robert Grey (drums). They were originally associated with the punk rock scene, appearing on The Roxy London WC2 album, and were later central to the development of post-punk, while their debut album Pink Flag was influential for hardcore punk.[two]

Wire are considered a definitive art punk and post-punk ring, due to their richly detailed and atmospheric sound and obscure lyrical themes. They steadily adult from an early noise rock fashion to a more complex, structured sound involving increased utilise of guitar effects and synthesizers (1978's Chairs Missing and 1979'southward 154). The ring gained a reputation for experimenting with song arrangements throughout their career.[3]

History [edit]

1976 to 1980 [edit]

Wire'due south debut anthology Pinkish Flag (1977) – "perhaps the most original debut album to come out of the start moving ridge of British punk", according to AllMusic[four] – contains songs that are diverse in mood and fashion, merely most use a minimalist punk approach combined with unorthodox structures.[v] "Field Day for the Sundays", for example, is only 28 seconds long.

Their second album, Chairs Missing (1978) marked a retreat from the stark minimalism of Pinkish Flag, with longer, more than atmospheric songs and synthesizer parts added by producer Mike Thorne.[6] "Outdoor Miner" was a minor hitting, peaking at number 51 in the UK singles chart.[seven] The experimentation was fifty-fifty more prominent on 154 (1979).[ane]

Wire's unorthodox ideas to promote 154 led to a falling out with their label. According to Newman, "We'd worked out a sales strategy for 154 that EMI couldn't see at all...They couldn't sympathize a rock band that wanted to practice a week in a theater as an event, and wanted to promote 154 with videos or left-field TV adverts. Nosotros wanted to help them sell records; they thought nosotros were merely beingness intransigent."[8] According to Jim Light-green in an interview with Newman, "personnel changes at EMI had left Wire without any support." Colin Newman's solo album, "A-Z was planned equally the fourth Wire album, but EMI cancelled studio fourth dimension in the wake of failed negotiations with the band, then dropped Wire's option."[8]

Defective a recording deal and money,[8] creative differences carve up the band in 1979, leading to the Document and Eyewitness LP (1981), a recording of a live performance that featured, almost exclusively, new cloth. The album was described every bit "disjointed",[5] "unrecognizable equally rock music" and "almost unlistenable".[9] The LP came packaged with an EP of a different performance of more than new material. Some of these songs, along with others performed but not included on the anthology, were included on Newman'due south post-Wire solo albums (five/10, We Meet Under Tables), while others were released by Gilbert's and Lewis' main post-Wire outlet Dome (And So..., Ritual View).

Between 1981 and 1985, Wire ceased recording and performing in favour of solo and collaborative projects such as Dome, Cupol, Duet Emmo and several Colin Newman solo efforts.

1985 to 1992 [edit]

In 1985, the group re-formed as a "beat combo" (a joking reference to early 1960s beat music), with greater apply of electronic musical instruments. Wire announced that they would perform none of their older material, hiring The Ex-Lion Tamers (a Wire cover band named later on a song championship from Pink Flag) every bit their opening act. The Ex-Lion Tamers played Wire'southward older songs, and Wire played their new textile.[x]

In June 1988, Wire were function of a lineup that included Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark and Thomas Dolby supporting Depeche Mode at the Pasadena Rose Bowl where they played to over sixty,000 people.[eleven] [12] In 1989, Wire released IBTABA, a "live" album of generally reworked versions of songs from The Ideal Copy and A Bell Is a Cup, heavily rearranged, edited, and remixed. A new vocal from the album, "Eardrum Fizz", was released as a single and peaked at number 68 in the UK singles chart.[vii]

Gotobed left the band in 1990, subsequently the release of the album Manscape. After his divergence, the ring dropped one letter from its proper name, becoming "Wir" (still pronounced "wire"), and released The Starting time Letter in 1991. There followed a further period of solo recordings, during which Newman founded the swim ~ label, and later Githead with his wife (ex-Minimal Compact bassist Malka Spigel), while Wire remained an occasional collaboration. It was non until 1999 that Wire again became a full-fourth dimension entity.

1999 to present [edit]

With Gotobed back in the line-up (now using his birth name, Robert Gray), the grouping initially reworked much of their back catalogue for a functioning at Regal Festival Hall in 2000. Wire's reception during a brusk tour in early May of the US, and a number of Uk gigs, convinced the band to keep. Two EPs and an album, Transport (2003), followed, as well as collaborations with stage designer Es Devlin and artists Jake and Dinos Chapman.[13] In 2006, Wire'southward 1970s albums were remastered and re-released with the original vinyl rail listings. A tertiary Read & Burn EP was released in Nov 2007.

A total-length album of new material entitled Object 47 was released in July 2008. Bruce Gilbert was not involved in this recording, although, according to Newman, he did feature in a minimal capacity on the tertiary Read and Fire EP.

In January 2011, Wire released Ruddy Barked Tree, which according to the band's press release "rekindles a lyricism sometimes absent-minded from Wire's previous work and reconnects with the live energy of operation, harnessed and channelled from extensive touring over the past few years".[14] The album was written and recorded past Newman, Lewis and Grayness, but speaking to Marc Riley on the twenty-four hour period of the release, Newman introduced every bit "a new boy" guitarist Matt Simms (from Information technology Hugs Dorsum), who had been a touring member with the ring since April 2010.[ten]

In March 2013 the band released Modify Becomes Us, their 13th studio album, which was very well received.[xv] [sixteen] Their fourteenth album, eponymously titled Wire, was released in April 2015. The following year, in April 2016, the band's 15th studio anthology, entitled Nocturnal Koreans, was released on their label Pinkflag. It consisted of eight songs recorded during the sessions for their previous album, just were cut from the track list. Stereogum named Nocturnal Koreans the Album of the Week. Reviews for the anthology were generally positive.[17] In 2022 Wire celebrated 40 years since their debut gig on 1 April 1977 by releasing their 16th studio album Silverish/Lead and headlining the Los Angeles edition of their DRILL : FESTIVAL.

In late October 2019, the ring announced that they would be releasing an album entitled Mind Hive on 24 January 2020.[eighteen] It will be released on their own Pinkflag characterization.[xix] The ring appeared on the forepart embrace of Wire magazine (issue 432) published in January 2020; it featured an interview with the band about the new album and discussed the enduring nature of the group.[20]

In March 2020, the ring announced an 8-song album entitled x:xx that would exist released on Record Shop Day.[21] Side one of the vinyl LP consists of four tracks that were originally released as the limited edition Strays EP, which was given away with mail ordered copies of Red Barked Copse. Side two contains four tracks that were recorded during the Mind Hive sessions but not released until their appearance on 11:20.[22]

Influence [edit]

Wire'due south influence has outshone their comparatively modest record sales. In the 1980s and 1990s, Large Black, Minutemen,[23] and Sonic Youth[24] all expressed a fondness for the group. Minutemen bassist Mike Watt described their influence every bit cardinal proverb of Pinkish Flag "I don't know what nosotros would accept sounded like if we didn't hear it."[ii]

"And the sound was incredible," he continues. "Information technology was like that NYC band Richard Hell and the Voidoids without the studio gimmickry, but Wire was way more 'econo' with the instrumentation and the radical approach to song structure. And the style Wire wrote words were artistic without being elitist; some of the slang was trippy, too. All the 'former' conventions from all the other 'erstwhile' bands went out the window afterwards nosotros heard Wire. They were big-fourth dimension liberating on usa."[two]

Wire were influential on American hardcore punk. Fans included Ian MacKaye of Minor Threat and Henry Rollins,[2] [25] formerly of Black Flag. Pocket-size Threat covered "12XU" for the Flex Your Head compilation,[26] every bit did Boss Hog on their I Dig You EP. Rollins, as Henrietta Collins & The Married woman-Beating Childhaters, covered "Ex Lion Tamer" on the EP Drive by Shooting. Michael Azerrad reported, in the book Our Ring Could Exist Your Life, that at Minor Threat'south second gig, each of the seven bands on the roster performed a version of a Wire vocal.[27] Big Black covered Wire'due south "Heartbeat" twice, once equally a studio version that was released every bit a single (also included on The Rich Man's Viii Runway Tape compilation) and also every bit a live version, featuring Bruce Gilbert and Graham Lewis, included on the VHS version of the live anthology Pigpile.

R.E.M. covered "Strange" on their anthology Certificate. [2] Robert Smith has described how, later seeing the group live, Wire influenced The Cure's sound after their first album.[28] [ when? ] The shoegaze ring Lush covered "Outdoor Miner" in the 90s.

A plagiarism case between Wire'south music publisher and Elastica over the similarity between Wire'south 1977 song "Iii Girl Rhumba" and Elastica's 1995 hit "Connection" resulted in an out-of-court settlement.[29]

Alternative Press included Wire in their 1996 list of 100 underground inspirations of the past 20 years, stating that "every bit long as there are listeners equally lured by tough, intelligent riffs and fearless experimentalism, Wire will remain a crucial benchmark."[30]

Guided By Voices' Robert Pollard is a self-proclaimed fan of Wire, stating that the existence of a large number of songs on GBV's albums is a directly Wire influence.[31] I of My Bloody Valentine'due south terminal releases prior to reconvening in 2007 was a cover of "Map Ref 41°N 93°W" for a Wire tribute entitled Whore. The song was selected equally a favourite cover by Flak Magazine.[32]

Fischerspooner (who covered "The 15th" on their album #one), Britpop bands like Elastica and Menswe@r and post-punk revival bands similar Bloc Party, Futureheads, Blacklist and Franz Ferdinand have cited Wire as an influence.[ citation needed ] The Smiths' Johnny Marr has confirmed that he is a fan of the band and has acknowledged that seeing Wire live helped give him the confidence to release his kickoff solo album in 2013.[33]

The British electronic band Ladytron included Wire'southward "The 15th" on the mix compilation Softcore Jukebox. Ladytron fellow member Reuben Wu claimed Wire equally a musical influence.[34]

The Feelies, since their 2008 reunion, have covered the "Outdoor Miner".

The slowcore ring Low included an early on, previously unreleased comprehend of "Heartbeat" on their career-spanning box set in 2007. Ampere recorded a encompass of "Mr. Accommodate" for their 2006 carve up with Das Oath. New Flop Turks also recorded a cover of "Mr. Accommodate" on the 1993 album !!Destroy-Oh-Boy!!. The chorus of Ministry's "Thieves" was influenced by "Mr. Arrange" equally well. Helmet guitarist Page Hamilton cites Wire as one of his "tiptop five bands"[35] and as an influence on his music.[36]

Discography [edit]

Wire performing in 2008. L to R: Lewis, Newman, Grey.

Studio albums
  • Pink Flag (1977)
  • Chairs Missing (1978)
  • 154 (1979)
  • The Ideal Re-create (1987)
  • A Bell Is a Cup (1988)
  • IBTABA (1989)
  • Manscape (1990)
  • The Drill (1991)
  • The Starting time Letter (1991)
  • Ship (2003)
  • Object 47 (2008)
  • Carmine Barked Tree (2010)
  • Change Becomes United states (2013)
  • Wire (2015)
  • Nocturnal Koreans (2016)
  • Silvery/Lead (2017)[37]
  • Mind Hive (2020)[19]
  • 10:20 (2020)

Band members [edit]

  • Robert Grey – drums (1976–1980, 1985–1990, 1999–present)
  • Graham Lewis – bass guitar, vocals (1976–1980, 1985–1992, 1999–present)
  • Colin Newman – vocals, guitar (1976–1980, 1985–1992, 1999–nowadays)
  • Matthew Simms – guitar (2010–present)

Former members

  • Bruce Gilbert – guitar (1976–1980, 1985–1992, 1999–2004)
  • Margaret Fiedler McGinnis – guitar (2008–2009 – touring musician)

Timeline

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External links [edit]

  • Official website Edit this at Wikidata
  • Wire at AllMusic

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