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punk post Wire

dots time with salty

lowdown dash

Shoes Are Not For Walking…

Oh My. Here we have another fantastic slide show from Bill Cunningham of the NYTimes, but it is the voice over with the photos and subject matter that tickles me to no end. Stop it please. Please this is too much. I could listen to this for years, In fact I think I will…. It’s like a ridiculous Terry Gilliam Brazil outake with a voiceover by a character from an old Warner Bros. cartoon, “not to start everyone on a rampage…. ah huh huh ghuh….”

Bobbleheads Negativgloria

Fun, dark, popishly bemused whilst deeply durable and moving.

A lot more “today” than Bush of Ghosts.

Great.

Wire:Object 47:comments

Artist: Wire

Title: Object 47

Date Received: 8/08

COMMENTS

A relatively short “LP” clockin’ in at about 39″. There are a couple of songs, maybe three, that really feel in line with their better stuff: Are You Ready, One of Us, Circumspect. All Fours is quite disturbing, the tones they get actually make me queasy…. The lack of all four members on all of the songs seems to flatten them out a bit; which is to say when all four original members are involved their stuff really has a simplicity and depth to it that can sound great, classic and timeless…What the hell the song “Mekon Headman” is getting at is unclear; It must have something to do with the band the Mekons? Whatever, I’m looking forward to seeing their upcoming tour.

Wire, the band, will be touring in support of a new release

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 10: Johnny Brenda’s, Philadelphia, PA, USA
Oct 11: 9:30 Club, Washington DC, USA
Oct 12: Variety Playhouse, Atlanta, GA, 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

Hey check the free download. Timeless stuff, not certain if all four are on this, I think Gilbert is sitting out or something…