Dear Wire fan,



Welcome to the newest edition of the Pinkflag mailing list, getting you all the latest Wire news first.



*Live Dates*



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photo Ralf Ziegermann



*Nov 04 :* 4AD*, Diksmuide, Belgium*

*Nov 06 :* Kunstencentrum BELGIE*, Hasselt, Belgium*

*Nov 08 :* WIRE At The Lexington (with Factory Floor)*, London, UK*

*Nov 09 :* WIRE At The Lexington (with Lonelady)*, London, UK*

*Nov 10 :* The Jericho*, Oxford, UK (in support of Shelter)*



Wire will play only five more shows in 2010 ahead of their new album's release... First, a return to the small pearl which is 4AD in Diksmuide, followed by the band's debut at Kunstencentrum BELGIE, in Hasselt. The band then return to the UK for two special London shows in association with The Quietus at The Lexington. The fifth and final show is in support of the homeless charity Shelter at The Jericho in Oxford.


Wire are also slated to tour in *Australia/New Zealand* in Jan. 2011, followed by a *UK/Euro* Club Tour in Feb 2011. Actual dates and further routings will be confirmed as and when we know.















*The DVD is HERE!!*



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The Legal Bootleg Series *DVD of 21 July 1985 Bloomsbury Theatre (pfb802)* is finally ready and may well have arrived in some mailboxes by the time you read this. Featuring fan-shot footage of Wire's second gig of the ’80s with an improved soundtrack - mixing board audio combined with camera sound and a third source give a more rounded sound than any of those individual sources would give - the video footage shows ’80s Wire at a totally formative stage. To the uninitiated the DVD is the extra item available only to subscribers to the full first Legal Bootleg series and not only features Video of the show but a data section with the audio as wav & mp3. The DVD itself comes presented simply in a polybag.



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However we are also providing printable PDFs of cover art for the series to date. These will fit into a standard jewel case and will enable the discerning fan to make up "physical" versions of this series (we are already providing flac files as standard to all subscibers to aid in this).



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You need to be signed up to the forum, to download a zip of the PDFs. When you've signed up, head to the *members area*.




For those who have yet to dip their toe in the "legal download" pool we have provided a freely downloadable track, *The Queen of Ur*, from 21 July 1988 Astoria, London on the listen page of pinkflag.com.








*Red Barked Tree (pf18)*



During 2010 Wire has been working on its 12th studio album which is being mastered as we speak. The album was recorded in London, and all of the material was composed during 2010.



The release dates will be



*20th December 2010* - Digital

*10th Jan 2011* - CD (Vinyl will be released either with or ahead of the CD)



The provisional running order is



Please Take

A Flat Tent

Adapt

Two Minutes

Clay

Bad Worn Thing

Moreover

Now Was

Smash

Down To This

Red Barked Trees



Some titles will be familiar from shows earlier in the year. More info will be forthcoming over this year.








*WIRE on the Social Networks*



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photo Adam Scott



We have finally decided that Wire needs its own band page on Facebook. We are also one of the first independent artists to have been offered a band page on the new iTunes Ping platform. All friends, followers, likers & fans welcome!








*Ratingerhof - history*



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The illustrator & writer Ralf Ziegermann has published a history of the (in) famous Ratingerhof Club in Dusseldorf, a club which Wire played (as the first ever non-German band) in 1978. Both Graham & Colin have contributed memories, and the book, which is mainly in German, comes lavishly packaged in a tin box each one containing a facsimile of the original "ticket" for that Wire show (a beer mat). Read more about it HERE.








*And finally*



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All the best,



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