LIVE AT THE ROXY/LIVE AT CBGB

"It has long been an accepted part of pop/rock culture folk memory that Wire's 3 "seminal" 70's "EMI" albums wrote the book on the definition of art-pop/rock/punk (choice of 2nd element depending on decade) and have influenced many a generation of the young and artistically ambitious of our culture. Yet for those too young or un-hip to have seen the band live in the 70's access to the band as a live entity has remained, until recently, the province of dodgy or long out of print bootlegs. The situation has in part been rectified by the 2004 release of the WIRE: On The Box :1979 DVD chronicling the band a few months before the recording of 154. Now we have WIRE: Live at The Roxy (1977) and WIRE: Live at CBGB Theatre (1978) the former 5 months before the recording of Pink Flag and the latter shortly before the recording of Chairs Missing." www.posteverything.com