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Wire

Musical Group
Forlisteners interested in punk-to-post-punk evolution, experimental rock structures, and canonical late-70s british alternative music.
11 Reviews 4 Definitions 22 Charts

The Profile

Wire are an English rock band formed in London in 1976, widely associated with punk’s late-1970s moment and with the development of post-punk and new wave through albums such as Pink Flag, Chairs Missing and 154; the band later returned with new material in the 2000s, including Send.

Publicly documented: Wire formed in London in 1976; core early members include Colin Newman, Graham Lewis, Bruce Gilbert and Robert Gotobed; notable early albums include Pink Flag (1977), Chairs Missing (1978) and 154 (1979).

Across these reviews, Wire are framed as unusually forward-thinking: punk energy reshaped into terse, unpredictable forms, then pushed into post-punk/new wave experimentation. Pink Flag is praised for radical brevity; Chairs Missing for undermining pop structure from within; 154 for being a watershed, manifesto-level statement. Later work is discussed as a strong comeback (Send), a mixed but interesting follow-up (Object 47), and a balanced “maturity” phase (Red Barked Tree). A 2015 live report highlights a slow-build set that turns into long, loud experimental passages.

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