Document and Eyewitness_音乐专辑
Document and Eyewitness
表演者: Wire
专辑类型: Live
介质: Audio CD
发行时间: 2003-06-23
唱片数: 1
出版者: Mute
条形码: 5016025680023
专辑简介
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Document and Eyewitness, Live album by Wire.
Released July 1981, Recorded Electric Ballroom, February 1980, Notre Dame Hall, July 1979
Document and Eyewitness is a live album by the post-punk band Wire. It marked the end of the first period of Wire's activity and the end of their association with EMI. The Notre Dame Hall show records Wire after the tour to support 154, tired of playing the same old songs and continually moving forward. Of the seven songs, three were never recorded by Wire and the rest were captured as B-sides and other ephemeral recordings.
The Electric Ballroom show documents a band revelling in their (artistic) freedom, creating a surreal and challenging show that not only included almost all new material, but also a Dadaist cabaret including a moving 6'x12' sheet behind which the band performed, assorted headdresses and props, and an MC, Wire's manager Mick Collins, who tried to keep control of proceedings. The show was performed before a restive punk crowd who were little appeased by a version of 12XU (edited down to a 15 second fragment for this release) and reacted with a thrown bottle during the unnamed instrumental.
The recording was made on an eight track tape recorder that was set up incorrectly, resulting in a distorted two track mix.
The live version of 'Heartbeat' was recorded in Montreux in March 1979 when Wire supported Roxy Music.
The original vinyl release was a double with the Notre Dame Hall and Montreux tracks on one record and the Electric Ballroom tracks on the other. 'Our Swimmer' and 'Midnight Bahnhof Cafe' were originally released on Rough Trade as a 7" single (RT79) and are bonus tracks on Mute's CD reissue.
Track listing
(1-7 were recorded at Notre Dame Hall, London, 8 at Montreux, 9-20 at the Electric Ballroom, London, 21-22 at Magritte Studio)
曲目
Midnight Bahnoff Cafe
