Read & Burn: A Book About Wire

Read & Burn is the first serious, in-depth appraisal of one of the most influential British bands to emerge during the punk era. If Wire were briefly a punk band, however, it was largely by historical accident. Yet they seem never to have quite escaped the – despite the fact that they had complicated and transformed it almost before they’d begun. Wire’s story – which honours punk’s original but quickly forgotten commitment to the new – is one of constant remaking and remodelling, one that... Voir plus