I have it on preorder, I heard it online and flipped out of my skull. Best they've sounded in 20 years to my ears.
Also I find it amazing that you can preorder the new Burial album from the same site.
― Bimble, Saturday, 3 November 2007 12:42 (sixteen years ago) link
akm, you can listen to the Wire at post everything.
― Bimble, Saturday, 3 November 2007 12:46 (sixteen years ago) link
it's out on monday; i've been a bit lucky thanks to posteverything's largesse.
bimble, what are you doing up at what, for you, is surely an unearthly hour? :)
― grimly fiendish, Saturday, 3 November 2007 12:47 (sixteen years ago) link
yeah I was going to say: "wow I'm on when the Brits are for once, what is going on?" Just a lucky accident, I guess. I did get some sleep but I woke up.
― Bimble, Saturday, 3 November 2007 12:53 (sixteen years ago) link
key words on a first listen: contemplative, gentle, shuffling, introspective, quiet.
?!!!??!
whoa
― stephen, Saturday, 3 November 2007 17:38 (sixteen years ago) link
okay. "quiet" is a relative term here. but still.
― grimly fiendish, Saturday, 3 November 2007 19:15 (sixteen years ago) link
read and burn 03!
― Michael F Gill, Saturday, 17 November 2007 01:30 (sixteen years ago) link
thank you for that new insight there
― stephen, Saturday, 17 November 2007 01:36 (sixteen years ago) link
I'm going to have a hysterical fit of unbridled excitement when this CD arrives at my door.
― Bimble, Saturday, 17 November 2007 04:52 (sixteen years ago) link
More shock than insight. I thought Wire mark III were kaput.
― Michael F Gill, Saturday, 17 November 2007 22:53 (sixteen years ago) link
i'm digging this
― latebloomer, Sunday, 18 November 2007 17:12 (sixteen years ago) link
Anyone else planning to see them in a few hours at (NYC's) South Street Seaport? It's free! Die! Die! Die! are supporting, and also worth seeing.
― paulhw, Friday, 30 May 2008 20:56 (sixteen years ago) link
Whoa! Sweet! I'm going to this after work! They play at 8pm.
― Chelvis, Friday, 30 May 2008 21:43 (sixteen years ago) link
yep! I'll be up there
― dmr, Friday, 30 May 2008 21:54 (sixteen years ago) link
I knew about this.. did not go. I live too far away :(
― billstevejim, Saturday, 31 May 2008 07:02 (sixteen years ago) link
They were really good. Graham Lewis shouted "Respect!" as they walked offstage. Funny. Who's the new guitarist (in place of Gilbert)?
― Capitaine Jay Vee, Saturday, 31 May 2008 07:44 (sixteen years ago) link
I was pleasantly surprised, they were very good and able to make the South Street Seaport not so cheesy but actually pretty cool. Also, who were all these people who knew who WIRE were? There was like 3,000 people there!?! Very happy to be able to say that I've seen '12XU' performed live.
― Chelvis, Saturday, 31 May 2008 16:32 (sixteen years ago) link
yeah the end of the show was really good. The Lowdown -> 12XU -> Pink Flag! also that one from 154 that they played a couple songs before the encore (The 15th?)
― dmr, Saturday, 31 May 2008 17:10 (sixteen years ago) link
Yeah - I was also really surprised at the huge crowd. More there than for the National last year...
― paulhw, Saturday, 31 May 2008 17:40 (sixteen years ago) link
Who's the new guitarist (in place of Gilbert)?
I read Margaret Fiedler from Laika and Moonshake fame.
― Bill in Chicago, Saturday, 31 May 2008 19:34 (sixteen years ago) link
Is a setlist posted anywhere?
― billstevejim, Monday, 2 June 2008 02:25 (sixteen years ago) link
http://www.brooklynvegan.com/archives/2008/05/wire_south_stre.html
also includes a link to a youtube vid of lowdown & 12xu
― Michael F Gill, Monday, 2 June 2008 03:27 (sixteen years ago) link
never heard this stuff!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_iUa6NYp7I
― scott seward, Tuesday, 15 October 2013 15:58 (ten years ago) link