wire: the solo projects

I just found Dome 3&4 at Tower on sale for $11.99. I haven't been able to find 1&2 anywhere yet. 3 is pretty amazing. It's certainly a precedent to a lot of the experimental electronica and post-rock of the mid-90s like Main, Oval, Disco Inferno, etc. Recorded 1980-81, the only influences I can hear is Eno's ambient stuff, the instrumental cuts from Bowie's Low, and Eno/Byrne's My Life In The Bush of Ghosts, with its sampled rhythms and ghostly, floating processed voices (who was A.M.C.?). Maybe a little contemporary Cabaret Voltaire and Throbbing Gristle too.

I'm listening to Dome 3 today for the first time in a while and I'm ready to proclaim it the greatest of all Wire-related projects (outside of Wire). The other Dome albums are fine but this one is just perfect. Weird we've never polled them here. If we did, this one in a landslide.

Listened to The Shivering Man as such from start to finish now – goddamm that is a complete and wonderful thing.

Hi - I am helping a friend write and prepare materials for a Wire (band and solo) family/related compendium being created through a Detroit-based publishing house.
Hoping to find a die-hard fan/collector with all the answers, we are reaching out, looking for info on the origins of a 2010 Bruce Gilbert song "Epitaph for
Henran Brenlar" on "The Shivering Man" album. Is Henran Brenlar a real person, possibly an art school colleague?

My guess: it's an anagram of LN HE RAN BARREN. LN is Lewis/Newman. He's saying the later Wire songs are not as well-written as the earlier ones.

it’s a composite/mashup of the names of two people Gilbert admires - Brendan Behan and err someone else I’ve forgotten (a quick search was no help)

Henry Miller

guessing

Asking Bruce Gilbert might be the way to go with this one.