[kj] [OT] 29/04 - Live WIRE ! Practices still makes PERFECT... Whata gig !!!

[Karen Weil]

"Could it be a ... drill?"

Love Wire; they are so incredible.

k.w.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "MARKEC" <markec at telenet.be>
To: "A list about all things Killing Joke (the band!)" 
<gathering at misera.net>
Sent: Wednesday, April 30, 2008 5:24 AM
Subject: [kj] [OT] 29/04 - Live WIRE ! Practices still makes PERFECT... 
Whata gig !!!



> What an evening.

> What a sound

> What a gig

> What a bind..

> WOOOOOOOOOOOOOW

>

> W   I   R  E !!!

>

> Wire are back. Well, since 2003's "Sent" they are.... Not that they  were 

> ever really "away". There was also inbetween DOME and WIR.. and  so on 

> but...

>

> For the first since quite some time WIRE are touring again !

> And I went to yesterdays gig in "TSTUK" in Leuven (Belgium). Oh boy!

> What an energy, what a show...

>

> Their adagio aka song "Practice Makes Perfect" surely counts ! They  ar 

> still on a high ! What a live performance.... Wire blows all them  young 

> would be bands of nowadays, trying to sound like, but not  "having it" 

> away. That's for sure.

>

> Colin Newman: "Hi, we're Wire". And what would follow was one and a  half 

> hour of Wire-gems. The Wire train was rolling and sounded great: 

> Avant-Garde-Art-Punrock-greatness in overdrive !

> The mainset was mainly build on the to be released new album "Object  47", 

> and those songs sound great, so I can't wait to get my hands on  that new 

> album (July) and also songs from 2003"s "Sent", containing  one of the 

> evenings absolute highlights: "COMET" !

>

> Further on the set, and mainly in the encores, the band returned 3  times, 

> we got really old Wire-gems such as "1.2.X.U" ( and of cours  yours truly 

> singing along "I saw You in A mag Kissing A Man") but  also "Three Girl 

> Rhumba" (so that's where Elastica nicked their  riffs !!!) and "Too late". 

> And yes: "Reuters" !!

>

> But - and maybe not an obvious choice - also "The Boling Boy" from  1988's 

> "A Bell is A Cup Untill it is Struck" was amongst those songs,  and as far 

> as I'm concerned, amongst the absolute highlights of the  evening ! 

> Although the songs was played much faster and rawer then on  in it's 

> album-version, it was recognised at the first note, and also  appeared to 

> be a great crowdpleaser...

>

>

> During the evening one of the fans kept on shouting "Mr. Suit!",  whilst 

> Newman kept on answering "We don't do requests"! And.. Well  there was no 

> need to, as the band's own choices for their setlist  where pretty good. 

> So why complain? Of course, I would have liked to  hear more of "my" 

> favourites, such as "I should have known better",  "40 Versions", 

> "Strange" and "The Art Of Stopping" but one can have  it al, can one?

>

> This was a great evening. With WIRE sounding fresher and intense then 

> ever......

> Wire anno 2008 is just bloody awesome.

>

> After a couple more gigs in Belgium and Holland they'll return to the  UK 

> to do series of shows there so....

> Check them out !!

>

>

> Greetz

>

> Markec

>

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> np  Wire "The Peel Sessions Album".

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