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As Wire prepare to release Change Becomes Us and curate the Drill:London festival with The Quietus, Robert Grey, Graham Lewis, Colin Newman and Matt Simms guide Luke Turner through the inspirational near death experiences, peculiar practice and events that have shaped their decades of operation
Ahead of his collaboration with Gazelle Twin at the Drill:London festival we're curating with Wire, Robin 'Scanner' Rimbaud talks Luke Turner through his musical career, from cassettes with Coil to scanning police airwaves for phone conversations, a Derek Jarman tribute record, dance scores and soundtracking a morgue
As we look to Wire's future with their Quietus gig at the Lexington tonight and tomorrow, we look at a new book about Düsseldorf's Ratinger Hof venue, where Wire played in the late 1970s, and publish an extract where Colin Newman recalls how, in Düsseldorf, Wire felt at home. Wire live at the Ratinger Hof pic by Carmen Knoebe
On the release of her debut solo album, former Lush member Emma Anderson takes Jude Rogers through her favourite albums, from a teenage years soundtracked by Simple Minds and The Durutti Column to her affinity with later 4AD labelmates
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