For this week’s installment of “120 Minutes” Rewind, we turn to this Downtown Julie Brown-hosted “120 X-Ray” segment on Wire following the band’s reformation and the recording of 1987’s The Ideal Copy” — the debut of the post-punk legends’ second incarnation.
In the clip, Wire’s member discuss their decision to come back together and the new, more electronic nature of the group’s work. As Colin Newman says, “It’s the same people, but not necessarily the same music.”
Watch it below via uploader MrPhilrand.
PREVIOUSLY ON SLICING UP EYEBALLS
- ‘120 Minutes’ Rewind: Johnny Marr gets his post-Smiths spotlight in 1987
- ‘120 Minutes’ Rewind: Watch a Downtown Julie Brown-hosted episode from 1987
- ‘120 Minutes’ Rewind: Checking in with Nine Inch Nails at Lollapalooza 1991
- ‘120 Minutes’ Rewind: Kurt Loder puts Social Distortion under the ‘120 X-Ray’ in 1990
…and in true Wire form, that live bit at the end has them playing “Silk Skin Paws”…off their next album. :p
If you have five minutes, do a search on YouTube for the live clip of Wire meeting Suzanne Sommers (Three’s Company). SS was guest hosting a nighttime talk show. It goes about like you’d expect.
Here’s the link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g55U11h7dUI
Ever day goes a little better with a little surrealism.
Thanks for posting that.
Cerebral Englishmen meet vapid American blonde. It’s enough to make you stop celebrating the Fourth of July.
Ahead is still one of my all-time favorite songs.