Document and Eyewitness

by Wire

Document and Eyewitness cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: July 1981
  • Label: Rough Trade
  • Country: United Kingdom
  • Length: 18:27
  • Community rating: 3.37/5 from 2 ratings

Artists on this release: Gareth Jones

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Documenting Wire's final performances before a five-year hiatus, including a notoriously confrontational gig at the Electric Ballroom. The recording captures the band moving aggressively away from traditional song structures into challenging, avant-garde territory that actively alienated much of their early punk audience.

Genres

Descriptors: lo-fi, avant-garde, dissonant

Tracklist

  1. Silk Skin Paws (Full Length Version) (4:45)
  2. German Shepherds (4:43)
  3. Ambitious (Remix) (5:19)
  4. Come Back In Two Halves (Rerecorded) (3:40)

Credits

  • Bruce Gilbert - performer
  • Colin Newman - performer
  • Graham Lewis - performer
  • Robert Gotobed - performer
  • Richard Mackness - sleeve [magnet man]

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