Wire (band)

Wire is a British punk/experimental rock band formed in 1976 by Graham Lewis (bass, vocals), Bruce Gilbert (guitar), Colin Newman (vocals, guitar) and Robert Gotobed (drums).

Discography

Albums

• Pink Flag (Nov 1977)
• Chairs Missing (Sep 1978, UK #48)
• 154 (Sep 1979, UK #39)
• The Ideal Copy (Apr 1987, UK #87)
• A Bell Is a Cup...Until It Is Struck (May 1988)
• Manscape (May 1990)
• The Drill (Apr 1991)
• The First Letter (Oct 1991)
• Send (May 2003)

Singles & EPs

• Mannequin / 12XU / Feeling Called Love (Nov 1977)
• I am the Fly / Ex-Lion Tamer (Feb 1978)
• Dot Dash / Options R (June 1978)
• Outdoor Miner / Practice Makes Perfect (Jan 1979, UK #51)
• A Question of Degree / Former Airline (June 1979)
• Map Reference 41°N 93°W / Go Ahead (Oct 1979)
• Our Swimmer / Midnight Bahnhof Cafe (May 1981)
• Crazy About Love / Second Length (Our Swimmer) / Catapult 30 (Mar 1983)
• Snakedrill (EP, Nov 1986)
• Ahead / Feed Me (live) (Mar 1987)
• Kidney Bongos / Pieta (Mar 1988)
• Silk Skin Paws / German Shepherds (June 1988)
• Life in the Manscape / Gravity Worship (May 1990)
• So and Slow It Goes / Nice from Here (Apr 1991, as Wir)
• First Letter / The Last Number (Dec 1995, with Hafler Trio)

Compilations & live albums

• Document and Eyewitness (live, June 1981)
• Play Pop (Mar 1986)
• In the Pink (live, Aug 1986)
• The Peel Sessions (EP, Nov 1987)
• It's Beginning To And Back Again (live, May 1989)
• On Returning (1977-1979) (July 1989)
• Double Peel Sessions (Feb 1990)
• 1985-1990 The A List (May 1993)
• Exploding Views (Sep 1994, with book)
• Behind the Curtain (May 1995)
• Turns and Strokes (May 1996)
• Coatings (Oct 1997)