If there’s anything better than a legal high (and what isn’t?), it’s a legal bootleg. Now, legendary post-punk group Wire is bringing a legal bootleg series, along with a retooled version of their comeback album, 2002’s Send, to law-abiding pleasure-seekers everywhere. The band’s Pinkflag label plans on making select live performances available as part of The Wire Legal Bootleg Series, which can be purchased in its entirety via the label’s online subscription service as individual concert performances or in batches of three. Wire will also be releasing the super EXTREME-sounding Send: Ultimate, which features rare material like the 12 Times U vinyl-only collector’s item tracks, the unreleased track “DJ Fuckoff,” plus alternate and album tracks from the two out-of-print Read and Burn EPs that didn’t make it onto the original Send. Rumor has it Wire also has new material in the works for 2011.
Bootleg albums:
25 October 1978 Bradford University:
01. Indirect Enquiries
02. Men 2nd
03. Lowdown
04. On Returning
05. Being Sucked In
06. I Feel Mysterious Today
07. The Other Window
08. A Mutual Friend
09.
Former Airline
10. Mercy
11. Stepping Off Too Quick
12. Strange
13. Another The Letter
14. Sand In My Joints
15. French Film Blurred
16. I Should Have Known Better
18.
Practice Makes Perfect
19. Reuters
20. 106 Beats That
21 July 1988 Astoria, London:
01. The Queen of Ur
02. In Vivo
03. Kidney Bingos
04. The Finest Drops
05. Silk Skin Paws
06. German Shepherds
07. A Public Place
08. It’s a Boy
09. The Offer
10. Eardrum Buzz
11. Boiling Boy
12. Drill
13. Ahead
14. Over Theirs
08 Dec 2000 Queen’s Hall, Edinburgh:
01. Zoom
02. Heartbeat
03. Ally in Exile
04. Germ Ship
05. Boiling Boy
06. He Knows
07. Advantage in Height
08. Lowdown
09. Another the Letter
10. 12XU
11. Pink Flag
12. Drill
• Wire: http://www.pinkflag.com
• Pinkflag: http://pinkflag.greedbag.com
