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Wire!
Oct 23, 2015 7:44:47 GMT
Post by pulphack on Oct 23, 2015 7:44:47 GMT
This is what a band looks like when you don't mix well with people... classic! I love this bloke just for that title!
Incidentally, how can anyone have liked Wire for so many years, as the mutterers must have, and still not got it about the no looking back credo? Puzzling. Sounds like an excellent gig, FM.
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Wire!
Oct 23, 2015 8:04:04 GMT
Post by franklinmarsh on Oct 23, 2015 8:04:04 GMT
You get the feeling some of these people had bought Pink Flag in '77 and then 40 years later had some dormant memory cells reactivated when they saw that this band were playing locally, so turned up expecting them to be exactly the same. It was a very good time. Wire were very loud and went down well with those that weren't fixated on the past.
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Wire!
Oct 23, 2015 13:47:15 GMT
Post by dem bones on Oct 23, 2015 13:47:15 GMT
I heard a disconsolate 'Well, they could have done a couple of the old ones' by someone obviously unaware of the 'Our career is a one-way ticket' philosophy of the band as I left. Ain't nothing wrong with "giving the fans what they want" - unless you're Wire. The idea of them touring a greatest hits package is so utterly disgusting that they ought to do it out of sheer perversity. Got to admire Auld Marshie. Arthur Brown and Wire within a matter of a few weeks. Respect.
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Wire!
Oct 28, 2015 4:54:39 GMT
Post by valdemar on Oct 28, 2015 4:54:39 GMT
It would be more fun if Wire were to do what a lot of old bands have done recently, which is to play their best-known album in it's entirety, and yes, well done. If Wire played 'Pink Flag' in all it's glory, the gig would be over in about thirty-five minutes. A lot of great tunes, granted, but thirty-five minutes. Why Wire have never considered this, just to annoy, I don't know. The idea fits their rather perverse sense of humour perfectly. I believe that, in the past, they have played very, very long versions of 'Drill', possibly for longer than half an hour, so why not? I do like their stance, though. I wish more bands would follow them.
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Oct 28, 2015 6:12:52 GMT
Post by dem bones on Oct 28, 2015 6:12:52 GMT
It would be more fun if Wire were to do what a lot of old bands have done recently, which is to play their best-known album in it's entirety ... Good luck convincing them that it would be "fun!" That was the point of touring with the Ex-Lion Tamers, but having done it once (and thoroughly enjoyed it), can't see them repeating the exercise. Their punk contemporaries can get away with playing cabaret versions of their younger selves, but somehow it would be sad if Wire, for once in their career, followed suit. They were never meant to be Showaddywaddy.
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Oct 29, 2015 22:50:12 GMT
Post by valdemar on Oct 29, 2015 22:50:12 GMT
Having liked Wire since 1977, and knowing the mercurial natures of all four original band members, I used 'funny' in it's loosest sense, knowing full-well that it would never, in anyone's wildest dreams, happen.
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