Releases 7-9 in Wire's "Legal Bootleg" Download series
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Releases 7-9 in Wire's "Legal Bootleg" Download series
Pinkflag presents the final instalment of the first series of the legal bootleg series. This time the sets are all drawn from performances outside the UK.
WIRE - 12 NOV 1978, SO36, BERLIN
Even though Wire had been gigging solidly in the UK throughout 1977 & 1978 and have even made a short visit to the USA it was not until November 1978 that Wire would start to play in continental Europe. For the band, this tour was a game changer, the band had never felt so welcome or understood especially in Dusseldorf (see the book on the Legendary Ratingerhof Club by Ralf Ziegermann) and Berlin where the band played at the then uberhip S036 with it's industrial interior. On one of the two nights artist Martin Kippenberger was sent flying through the glass door during an attack by neo-anarchist punks….
WIRE - 17 DEC 1985 PARADISO, AMSTERDAM
Wire's "year zero" re-start in the 80's was not met with universal acclaim. Far from it. Until subsequent albums established a set of material audiences were not quite sure what to make of a Wire stripped of all familiarity. In fact the band received some hostile receptions, none more so than at the Paradiso. A show to a packed auditorium where many felt short changed by the lack of familiar material and the set's presumed brevity. In fact the urban myth that the band played less than half an hour is rendered untrue by this release which clocks in at a little over 46 minutes. Short by Springsteen standards but pretty standard even for late 70's Wire...
WIRE - 02 MAY 2000 GREAT AMERICAN, SAN FRANCISCO
Having re-grouped for the Royal Festival Hall show and cemented the re-emergence with an appearance at ATP Wire then set out on a short tour of the USA where the visitors to the "Desert Island" set about the process of re-inventing their back catalogue as a prelude to the next phase. 2 days of production rehearsals at the "Great American" were followed by two nights performances in the same venue.
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