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Wire have announced their return by revealing a new album and sharing a video for its first single.
Mind Hive will launch on January 24 through the band’s own Pinkflag label and follows 2017’s Silver/Lead.
The video for the first single from the album is Cactused, with the promo featuring footage from Graham Duff’s upcoming career-spanning documentary about the band titled People In A Film which is expected to be released in the spring of next year.
Cactused is described as one of “Mind Hive’s resoundingly pop moments. Colin Newman’s vocal is wide-eyed and wired, with Graham Lewis’ smooth backing vocals thickening the plot.
“Matthew Simms’ effects-heavy guitar work creates a bright web of noise, with the song’s stop/start moments providing a series of precise energy bursts.”
Check out the video for Cactused below along with a teaser for the documentary.
Wire will embark on a UK tour early next year before heading across the Atlantic for a run of North American shows in March.
They’ll then return to London on May 21 for a set at the Islington Assembly Hall.
Wire: Mind Hive
1. Be Like Them
2. Cactused
3. Primed and Ready
4. Off The Beach
5. Unrepentant
6. Shadows
7. Oklahoma
8. Hung
9. Humming
Wire 2020 tour dates
Jan 27: Bristol The Fleece, UK
Jan 28: Manchester Band On The Wall
Jan 29: Birmingham Hare & Hounds, UK
Jan 30: Glasgow The Garage G2, UK
Jan 31: Leeds Brudenell Social Club, UK
Feb 01: Brighton Chalk, UK
Mar 03: Minneapolis Fine Line, MN
Mar 04: Chicago Metro, IL
Mar 06: Nashville Mercy Lounge, TN
Mar 07: Atlanta Variety Playhouse, GA
Mar 09: Washington Union Stage, DC
Mar 10: Philadelphia Underground Arts, PA
Mar 11: Brooklyn Music Hall Of Williamsburg, NY
Mar 12: Brooklyn Music Hall Of Williamsburg, NY
Mar 13: Boston Sinclair, MA
Mar 14: Ottawa Bronson Centre, ON
Mar 15: Toronto Great Hall, ON
May 21: London Islington Assembly Hall, UK
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- Wire - Dot Dash + Picture Sleeve - UK - 7" vinyl - £75.00, $95.25, €87.75 (New Item) (arrived 17-May-2024 15:41)on May 18, 2024 at 5:05 am
WIRE Dot Dash (1978 UK 7" vinyl single with intact four-prong centre, also including Options R, labelled as punk but surely one of the first British acts from '76/'77 to go beyond the confines of the genre. The picture sleeve has some minor ringwear & the vinyl is Near Mint HAR5161)
- Wire - Chairs Missing - Repress - UK - vinyl LP - £75.00, $95.25, €87.75 (New Item) (arrived 19-Apr-2024 11:44)on May 18, 2024 at 5:05 am
WIRE Chairs Missing (1978 UK 15-track LP, the second longplayer [or 'next dose of disease'] from one of Britain's finest post-punk outfits, including the classics, Outdoor Miner & I Am The Fly, complete with the illustrated black and white lyric inner housed in a matt picture sleeve. The sleeve shows some light general signs of age wear, the inner has splits either side, whilst the vinyl shows only light signs of play SHSP4093)
- Wire - 154 (One Five Four) - EX - UK - vinyl LP - £50.00, $63.50, €58.50 (New Item) (arrived 22-Feb-2024 10:08)on May 18, 2024 at 5:05 am
WIRE 154 (1979 UK 13-track LP with A1/B1 matrices, the third album by the English post-punk band, picture sleeve with original lyric inner. The matt sleeve shows some ringwear towards the top and some light discolouration along the top edge whilst the vinyl still looks barely played. Features some of their greatest songwriting & worth it alone for Map Ref. 41N 93W! SHSP4105)
- Wire - Ahead - UK - 12" vinyl - £12.00, $15.24, €14.04 (New Item) (arrived 12-Mar-2024 10:07)on May 18, 2024 at 5:05 am
WIRE Ahead (1987 UK 4-track 12" vinyl single, also featuring Vivid Riot Of Red, Ambulance Chasers & Feed Me, black. The picture sleeve displays some light wear and the vinyl looks barely played 12MUTE57)
- Wire - Pink Flag - UK - CD album - £10.75, $13.65, €12.58 (New Item) (arrived 14-Mar-2024 16:18)on May 18, 2024 at 5:05 am
WIRE Pink Flag (1994 deleted UK 23-track CD including bonus tracks Dot Dash and Options R, picture sleeve. Forget the Ramones' brutal minimalism. On Pink Flag, Wire's fractured, visionary debut album from 1977, Wire raced through 21 songs in under 40 minutes, never once forgetting to write a memorable hook-line, and some smart, sassy words) #Top 500 Greatest Albums Of All Time
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