Document & Eyewitness 1979-1980
Wire
CD
For those unfamiliar with DOCUMENT AND EYEWITNESS, it really doesn't do it justice to describe it simply as a collection of live recordings from three turn-of-the-80s Wire gigs. What makes it more than that is the unortho-dox nature of the main performance and the way it was presented on record. The centrepiece of the original vinyl release was a recording of the final gig of Wire's 70s phase. The approach was to couple selected live tracks with a spoken commentary on the proceedings by long-term Wire fans Adrian Garston and Russell Mills. Hence the title, DOCUMENT AND EYEWITNESS. For the album, the Electric Ballroom material was supplemented with recordings from a July 1979 show at the Notre Dame Hall (a straightforward band performance), along with one track from a 1979 gig in Montreux.
Tracklist:
- 5/10
- 12Xu (Fragment)
- Underwater Experiences
- Everything's Going to Be Nice
- Piano Tuner (Keep Strumming Those Guitars)
- We Meet Under Tables
- Zegk Hoqp
- Eastern Standard
- Instrumental (Thrown Bottle) 1
- Eels Sang Lino 1
- Revealing Trade Secrets 1
- And Then... Coda 1
- Go Ahead 1
- Ally in Exile 1
- Relationship 1
- Underwater Experiences 1
- Witness to the Fact 1
- 2 People in a Room 1
- Our Swimmer 2
- Heartbeat Tracks 2
- Our Swimmer 2
- Midnight Bahnhof Caf 2
- Second Length (Our Swimmer) 2
- Catapult 30 2
- Ally in Exile 2
- Go Ahead 2
- Remove for Improvement V2 2
- Over My Head V2 2
- Safe 3
- Relationship 3
- Underwater Experiences 3
- Eels Sang Lino 3
- Cancel Your Order 3
- Part of Our History (Emerges)