Cargo Records

The Scottish Play : 2004

Honed to a fine performance edge from their live forays to Europe earlier in the year, Wire present their fierce, high-velocity set based around the highly successful 2003 album 'send', with encores including 'strange', '106 beats that', 'surgeon's girl', and 'pink flag'. Their first album in over a decade, 'send' marked a return to their trademark gimlet, shivved, short sharp shocked writing style. Filmed by visual artist Tom Gidley in forensic detail, this document shows the complete visceral set and deliberately excludes the usual rock music celebration of place and time, instead concentrating on giving the viewer the closest of contact with a band often misrepresented as enigmatic, cold and distant. Also included is a bonus selection of pieces captured by observation camera #1 of the second half of Wire's April 2003 "flag:burning" performance installation at the only connect festival at the barbican, London. The set by avant stage designer Es Devlin was specifically commissioned by Wire for this one-off performance.

Track Listing

1) 99.9 2) Germ Ship 3) Mr. Marx's Table
4) 1st Fast 5) Read & Burn
6) The Agfers Of Kodack 7) Comet
8) In The Art Of Stopping 9) Spent
10) I Don't Understand 11) Strange
12) 106 Beats That 13) Surgeon's Girl
14) Pink Flag

Bonus Section
1) 1st Fast
2) Comet
3) Spent
4) I Don't Understand