I was at Watford Art School when they made this video, in fact Colin (aka Clive Nice then) introduced himself to me and my friend Pete who just started at the Art School. Before becoming Wire they were known as Overload which featured George Gill (Wire's guitarist) and Ron West who went on to form The Bears and then The Tea Set. This looks like it was filmed in the downstairs Foundation room and partly in Ron's Tech Room
This is absolutely brilliant. Great footage, excellent sound. Finding live Wire that you can actually hear the mix in is nearly impossible. Well done.! Thank you for posting!
Man, it doesnt even matter that the video and audio aren't from the same source -- it's an incredible video for the song, full of the power and the cool.
@@whatevershebrings As someone who was ingesting all the punk that came out at the time, the Pink Flag album sounded fresh and different. It was precise, unsentimental, and foretold hardcore. Considering what came after it, I definitely saw this as ahead of its time.
Saw them live in '11. With my dad. In Stockholm. I was considerably the youngest in the crowd (20 at the time) My dad thought the electronic system was about to collapse.
the album version is a little faster. Not Minor Threat fast. But much more uptempo then this live version. If you never heard 12XU then I'm going to assume you have not heard the album pink flag. I highly suggest searching it out. Especially mannequin, ex lion tamer. Both favorites of mine along with 12XU.
Shame the sound track is not of the gig, it’s from another recording and doesn’t marry up. Nevertheless the footage is great and Wire remain a seminal mover in the early days and are brilliant.
You know that's a tough one. The Ramones were very influential. However they were just revisiting the past However I'm not sure I could say they ever put out a record as groundbreaking as Pink flag. Their first album came out sooner. And everybody picks up influences from what they hear. But in my opinion, as I said. I don't think the Ramones made an album that changed music. Wire did.
@@patricklink8527Um, the first Ramones album was *VERY MUCH* “groundbreaking” upon its release in the spring of 1976. No one else sounded even remotely like that at the time. It was completely against all that was popular in music in those days, and influenced an entire new musical movement. It’s pretty much the original blueprint for punk. “Ground zero”, so to speak. All of the first-wave punk bands took a cue from it. Perhaps not as arty or experimental as Pink Flag, but every bit as ‘groundbreaking’.
@@marcosdgonzalez5270 “Groundbreaking” can mean a lot of different things. Yes, those bands all broke new ground in their own way, in their own time, to one degree or another. The funny thing about all this is that I’m actually a much bigger fan of Wire than I am of any of those bands, but you see this isn’t about personal preference. I was never trying to say that the Ramones were more innovative or original than Wire. It seems like that’s how you interpreted my last comment. Obviously Wire came up with a *_MUCH_* more challenging and unique approach than the Ramones ever did, not just with Pink Flag, but on all of their first three albums. I was never attempting to debate that. I was challenging the assertion made by the person I was replying to that all the Ramones were doing was “just revisiting the past” (his exact words). Love ‘em or hate ‘em, if you’re old enough to remember when that first Ramones album came out then you know good and well that it was _very much_ “groundbreaking” in its own way, as in it kicked the door wide open for a new burgeoning movement to go charging through. The term ‘groundbreaking’ isn’t monosemic. Anyway, that’s all I was saying. It has nothing to do with which band I like more. It’s just a matter of being historically accurate. And since we’re making lists of bands that were ‘groundbreaking’, you left out the most important one of them all… The Velvet Underground. The Velvets were where it all began.
I personally don't think this piece is "a head of it's time." I think it came exactly when it should have, thus proving there was more to music in the mid 70's than Olivia Newton John, the BeeGee's, and Linda Ronstadt.
San Patricio definitely a precursor of sorts in the uk at least. Discordant, minimalist. Other artists had done similar stuff but Wire fucking nailed it...
@@ShadSimm Swell Maps, and half a dozen Rough Trade acts from this time period. I think where Wire stood apart was how disparate their first three albums sounded, each one pushing the punk/post-punk genre further. Not too many of their peers were like that (except maybe Joy Division?).
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This 60 year old has just experienced being 17 again. Thanks for that
rock on
Oh yeah yeah yeah!!! Stoked!
62 and I’m so with you there!
@@peterlawson777 👍
Sooo koool !!!
Similar slightly slower but maybe even groovier than the Lp much like Bad Brains Pink tape / Black Dots earliest release .
I was at Watford Art School when they made this video, in fact Colin (aka Clive Nice then) introduced himself to me and my friend Pete who just started at the Art School. Before becoming Wire they were known as Overload which featured George Gill (Wire's guitarist) and Ron West who went on to form The Bears and then The Tea Set. This looks like it was filmed in the downstairs Foundation room and partly in Ron's Tech Room
Was that the Ridge Street building or Queens Road?
Always painting the same picture differently. An absolute inspiration.
This is absolutely brilliant. Great footage, excellent sound. Finding live Wire that you can actually hear the mix in is nearly impossible. Well done.! Thank you for posting!
phenomenal use of archival video. it feels like something that hasn't aged a day
this is the best sounding audio I've ever heard on this website
Man, it doesnt even matter that the video and audio aren't from the same source -- it's an incredible video for the song, full of the power and the cool.
Scratches even add somthing.
Nicely done. In true Wire tradition, it kind of doesn't matter what song they were actually doing.
My first laugh today. Thank you!😊
That's New footage to me personally
it's genuine 76 / 77 clear as day footage
Excellent find who ever found it THANK YOU
Is this music, ahead of it's time?
yes
In what way, exactly? It sounds completely contemporary for its time. Now '154', maybe...
@@whatevershebrings idk...
@@whatevershebrings As someone who was ingesting all the punk that came out at the time, the Pink Flag album sounded fresh and different. It was precise, unsentimental, and foretold hardcore. Considering what came after it, I definitely saw this as ahead of its time.
Yes already in '77 punk was just starting but there was already post-punk.
Saw them live in '11. With my dad. In Stockholm. I was considerably the youngest in the crowd (20 at the time) My dad thought the electronic system was about to collapse.
1911?
@@wormman1772 2011
Absolutely incredible.
EPIC PERFORMANCE
Only saw them once a joint headline with the Cure in Aylesbury
F@cking amazing.
long live Wire!
Wonderful Wire !😎
great footage !!
Every time I hear this song I want to smash through the front windshield of my car while it's going 90 miles an hour and dance on the hood.
LIKE BEING BIRTHED AGAIN
Absolutely Brill 😎
❤For us LOULOU❤WIRE FOREVER❤
oooof I love this
12XU.
First heard this song when minor threat covered it hearing the original for the first time
the album version is a little faster. Not Minor Threat fast. But much more uptempo then this live version. If you never heard 12XU then I'm going to assume you have not heard the album pink flag. I highly suggest searching it out. Especially mannequin, ex lion tamer. Both favorites of mine along with 12XU.
@@patricklink8527 Thanks for the recommendation
Amazing. Whoh dude.
Punk rock at its crudest, primeval,most exhilarating and exciting best!!
ama-zing!
Fucking magic
This is awesome, wish I could know what songs they were performing …
“Lost in Love”
@@Shikta-poobah67 how’d you figure that out?
This looks like an underground soviet movie
Da comrade, da.
Little known fact that cocteau twins used to be called cocteau bear.
Fucking Brilliant 1st Hearing this banging
Nice!
Shame the sound track is not of the gig, it’s from another recording and doesn’t marry up. Nevertheless the footage is great and Wire remain a seminal mover in the early days and are brilliant.
Inspirational. Really captures the whole punk ethos. who gives a f*ck if you can't play that well, just get out there and make noise.
hot
❤FOR P4 TOO😂😂❤
Fuck yes, thanks!!!
The sound is from another recording but still fun
Merci
♥♥
Sounds like a lot of people heard the Ramones album, including these fellas
You know that's a tough one. The Ramones were very influential. However they were just revisiting the past However I'm not sure I could say they ever put out a record as groundbreaking as Pink flag. Their first album came out sooner. And everybody picks up influences from what they hear. But in my opinion, as I said. I don't think the Ramones made an album that changed music. Wire did.
@@patricklink8527Um, the first Ramones album was *VERY MUCH* “groundbreaking” upon its release in the spring of 1976. No one else sounded even remotely like that at the time. It was completely against all that was popular in music in those days, and influenced an entire new musical movement. It’s pretty much the original blueprint for punk. “Ground zero”, so to speak. All of the first-wave punk bands took a cue from it. Perhaps not as arty or experimental as Pink Flag, but every bit as ‘groundbreaking’.
@@Shikta-poobah67new york dolls mc5 ....stoges ... pink flag is more grounbranking that the ramones
@@marcosdgonzalez5270 “Groundbreaking” can mean a lot of different things. Yes, those bands all broke new ground in their own way, in their own time, to one degree or another. The funny thing about all this is that I’m actually a much bigger fan of Wire than I am of any of those bands, but you see this isn’t about personal preference.
I was never trying to say that the Ramones were more innovative or original than Wire. It seems like that’s how you interpreted my last comment. Obviously Wire came up with a *_MUCH_* more challenging and unique approach than the Ramones ever did, not just with Pink Flag, but on all of their first three albums. I was never attempting to debate that. I was challenging the assertion made by the person I was replying to that all the Ramones were doing was “just revisiting the past” (his exact words). Love ‘em or hate ‘em, if you’re old enough to remember when that first Ramones album came out then you know good and well that it was _very much_ “groundbreaking” in its own way, as in it kicked the door wide open for a new burgeoning movement to go charging through. The term ‘groundbreaking’ isn’t monosemic.
Anyway, that’s all I was saying. It has nothing to do with which band I like more. It’s just a matter of being historically accurate.
And since we’re making lists of bands that were ‘groundbreaking’, you left out the most important one of them all… The Velvet Underground. The Velvets were where it all began.
talk about ahead of your time
this one's for Luke an' Ada
Impossible.
12 years later Fugazi appears...
Sound quality extra, unfortunately, images are about something else
I personally don't think this piece is "a head of it's time." I think it came exactly when it should have, thus proving there was more to music in the mid 70's than Olivia Newton John, the BeeGee's, and Linda Ronstadt.
San Patricio definitely a precursor of sorts in the uk at least. Discordant, minimalist. Other artists had done similar stuff but Wire fucking nailed it...
@@ShadSimm Swell Maps, and half a dozen Rough Trade acts from this time period. I think where Wire stood apart was how disparate their first three albums sounded, each one pushing the punk/post-punk genre further. Not too many of their peers were like that (except maybe Joy Division?).
@@whatevershebrings PIL and The Fall were certainly continually evolving.
@@iloveNathalie1 Slits, too.
@@bobgreen623 A band I saw and liked a lot, although they didn't have the longevity of the other groups mentioned.
Ta
saw you in mag kissing a man
now go hear Minor Threat's hardcore version for a greai comparison
So punk 1000%
12XU
❤FOR P4 TOO😂😂❤