Wire Tour Australia

Wire have been described as the only real subversives of the punk rock revolt. It’s been suggested by Pop Matters that while much of that revolution quickly became mired in clumsy politics and caricature, Wire retained their importance and integrity through “reconceptualizations of song structure and content and their expansion of the possibilities of performance.” They pushed rock in directions that many of their contemporaries in the class of ’76 would have been hard-pressed even to imagine.

Since their formation in London in 1976, Wire have delighted and disturbed in equal measure, troubleshooting the circuitry of perfect pop, or patrolling the limits of focused experimentalism.

Wire came to prominence through the cultural revolution of punk in the UK, the effects of which were felt throughout the latter half of the 1970s. More than any other group from that period, Wire embraced the purpose of punk as a minting of otherness and newness—as a response to the notion of modernity itself reaching critical mass.

Wire are often cited as one of the more important rock groups of the 1970s and 1980s. Critic Stewart Mason writes, “Over their brilliant first three albums, Wire expanded the sonic boundaries of not just punk, but rock music in general.”

Wire are one of those bands whose influence has outshone their record sales. In the 1980s and 1990s, The Urinals, Manic Street Preachers, The Minutemen, R.E.M., and The Cure all expressed an influence from Wire. R.E.M. covered “Strange” on their Document album, and “What’s The Frequency, Kenneth?” has been compared to Wire’s song “Feeling Called Love”.

As removed from self-conscious intellectualism as they are from the inherent conservatism of much rock music, Wire employ their unique, endlessly restless and risk-taking creativity to question every aspect of song-writing. In terms of performance, Wire exchange the traditional heroics of live rock for the rhetoric of incitement, while remaining irresistibly entertaining.

Wire Albums:

Pink Flag (December 1977)

Chairs Missing (August 1978)

154 (September 1979)

The Ideal Copy (April 1987)

A Bell Is a Cup… Until It Is Struck (May 1988)

It’s Beginning To And Back Again (May 1989)

Manscape (May 1990)

The Drill (April 1991)

The First Letter (October 1991)

Send (May 2003)

Object 47 (July 2008)

Red Barked Tree (January 2011)

DATES

January 19 – The Corner MELBOURNE

January 20 – Beck’s Festival Bar Sydney Festival SYDNEY

January 21 – MONA 2011 HOBART
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January 23 – MONA 2011 HOBART

January 25 – The Bakery PERTH

Manic Street Preachers To Tour

Revered Welsh alternative-rockers Manic Street Preachers have just announced their long awaited return to Australia!

The Manics will perform landmark tracks lifted from throughout their stellar 20-year career, plus songs from their highly anticipated new studio album, Postcards from a Young Man, scheduled for a September 24.

The first single to the taken from the band’ latest album offering will be It’s not War (Just The End Of Love), classic alternative rock, Manics style. The twelve-track album also features guests Ian McCulloch, John Cale and Duff McKagen.

Manic Street Preachers emerged from Wales and into the fore of the UK music press in 1992 with the release of their debut album Generation Terrorists, followed by Gold Against the Soul, The Holy Bible and in 1996 Everything Must Go featuring A Design for Life, earning numerous salutes for Album of the Year, racking up multi-platinum sales and establishing the band as superstars.

Postcards From A Young Man is the band’s 10th studio album, following 2009’s Journal for Plague Lovers, written with and inspired by the abandoned lyrics of past member Richey James.

Dates:

Saturday 13th November – The Hi-Fi, Brisbane
Monday 15th November – The Metro, Sydney
Thursday 18th November – HQ, Adelaide
Saturday 20th November – The Forum, Melbourne
Monday 22nd November – Metropolis Fremantle, Perth

Tickets on sale Wednesday 18th August