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This is the official Wire site. From 1977's Pink Flag to the band's most recent album, Object 47, 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.
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Of all the bands in the rock canon, Wire may be the best embodiment of the term 'forward-thinking' that is so vogue nowadays, and Object 47 keeps with the mantra with stunning results.
John Zeiss, Prefix
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July 17, 2008Autumn Gigs
We are now unveiling our Autumn schedule (see gig listing) and while we can't pronounce it festival-free, it is more than likely that residents of North America, The UK, Holland and Belgium will be able to see the band in more intimate surroundings.
There also remain a couple of US shows that are not yet confirmed, so keep an eye out on the gig listinge for further additions. More European shows should also join the line-up.
Upcoming Wire gigs
- August 30: Offset festival, Hainaut Forest Country Park, London, UK
- Sept 08: The Scala, London, UK
- Sept 09: Met University , Leeds, UK
- Sept 10: Rescue Rooms, Nottingham, UK
- Sept 11: The Arches, Glasgow, UK
- Sept 12: Academy 3, Manchester, UK
- Sept 19: Melkweg , Amsterdam, Netherlands
- Sept 20: Minnemeers , Gent, Belgium
- Sept 21: ZXZW festival, Tilburg, Netherlands
- Sept 22: Botanique, Brussels, Belgium
- Oct 05: Le National, Montreal, Canada
- Oct 06: Barrymore's, Ottawa, Canada
- Oct 07: Lee's Palace, Toronto, Canada
- Oct 08: Middle East Downstairs, Cambridge, MA, USA
- Oct 09: The Fillmore at Irving Plaza, New York, NY, USA [WFMU Free Music Show]
- Oct 10: Johnny Brenda's, Philadelphia, PA, USA
- Oct 11: 9:30 Club, Washington DC, USA
- Oct 12: Variety Playhouse, Atlanta, GA, USA
- Oct 14: The Echoplex, Los Angeles, CA, USA
- Oct 15: The Fillmore, San Francisco, CA, USA
- Oct 16: The Commodore Ballroom, Vancouver, BC, Canada
- Oct 17: First Avenue, Minneapolis, MN, USA
- Oct 18: Metro, Chicago, IL, USA
View past gigs in the gigography
More recent Wire news
July 07, 2008Object 47 released today
Today sees the release of Object 47, Wire's 11th studio album. Following on from the well-received Read & Burn 03, it stands as a confident statement of where Wire are in 2008.
The album can be ordered now from Pinkflag mail-order, and the Object 47 page is now live on the website, including all of the album's texts.
June 10, 2008Festival Wire
There are quite a lot of reports online concerning Wire's last two shows. We have been reliably informed that over the course of two weekends we played to 17,500 people! Some of them appear to have written about it and photographed it... Amongst the "official" reports are Prefix Mag, Village Voice, Stereogum, Brainwashed, Billboard and QRO Magazine.
There are also of course a ton of youtube clips some of which (for the NYC show) can be reached from here and others (for Serralves in Porto) connected to here. There is doubtless more than can be found by judicious searching. If you find something good why not post it to the forum.
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