WIR (AKA WIRE) - Vien + (Reissue) BILLY BRAGG and uplifting brass

and uplifting brass

were back in their hometown for a very special anniversary show which marked exactly 40 years to the day since the album was released on the 21st June 1982

Jazz Is Dead brought the pair to perform in the US for their very first time

consisting of singles from the same period - the great "Too Much" (also cut at the September 1-3 sessions

WIR (AKA WIRE) - Vien + (Reissue) BILLY BRAGG and uplifting brassCD EP Following the departure of Wires drummer Robert Grey in 1990 WIR had risen phoenix like from the ashes of the acclaimed UK post punk band after and were created to fulfil the final phase of Wires Mute Records contract. With a more sequence based sound, WIR saw the band breaking all their own rules by creating a new sparse electronic music with Graham Lewis singing most of the vocals and even cannibalising their own catalogue by sometimes