Change Becomes Us
In spring 2012, Wire’s plan had been to convene at Rockfield Studios in Wales to review the original blueprints of songs that had never made it beyond a few live performances in 1979 and 1980 – a time when the band-members were in creative overdrive, yet the band itself was disintegrating.
The objective was to approach that unrealized work as a potential springboard for Wire’s contemporary, forward-looking processes – a possible point of departure for new compositions.
This took place with Wire firing on all cylinders, as a four-piece studio entity again, the core line-up of Newman, Graham Lewis and Robert Grey now enhanced by guitarist Matthew Simms.
Change Becomes Us encapsulates the paradoxical essence of Wire’s creativity.
Wire remains the most relevant and important of bands that emerged from the late 1970’s post punk era.
