CD - Wire - Vien +

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Following the departure of Wire's drummer Robert Grey in 1990, WIR had risen phoenix like from the ashes of the acclaimed UK post-punk band after and were created to fulfil the final phase of Wire's Mute Records contract.

With a more sequence based sound, WIR saw the band breaking all their own rules by creating a new sparse electronic music with Graham Lewis singing most of the vocals and even cannibalising their own catalogue by sometimes sampling their own older material. WIR was, however, not a long-term project and besides completing their only album, "The First Letter", their only other activities were a very small number of gigs and two multi-artist "conceptual happenings" under the name I Saw You.

One of these was in Vienna in February 1993. On that Vienna trip, in addition to playing the gig, the band recorded a radio session for the Austrian national broadcaster ORF. This was released in 1996 by Touch on CD and consisted of two long tracks with a running time of almost 25 minutes. The remastered 2025 edition adds a newly recorded, Taylor Swift style re-recording of what is undoubtedly WIR's most pop moment, the dark brooding shadows of "So And Slow".