WIRE: Share new video for 'High' and new European show dates announced!


Following DRILL : CHICAGO, the 6th installment of Wire's DRILL festival comes with their own stage at Incubate Festival. New video for High now online.

After successful tours of UK & USA, commencing with DRILL : LEXINGTON  and culminating in DRILL : CHICAGO (more HERE), in support of the band’s extremely well received 14th studio album simply entitled WIREthe band are to play a series of new dates across Europe.

The tour will include DRILL : INCUBATE at Tilburg's Incubate Festival in September;  the 6th DRILL event and first DRILL : STAGE at a commercial festival. Artists joining Wire this time are expected to be announced over the next few weeks.

These dates are announced alongside the launch of a new video for the song High, directed by Eric Scott.

View the new video for 'High' below.

 

Full list of forthcoming Wire live dates:

July 30: Bolognetti Rocks Festival, Bologna, Italy

July 31: Arena Parco Castelli, Brescia, Italy

Aug 08: Absolutely Free Festival, Genk, Belgium

Sep 19: Levitation Festival, Angers, France

Sep 20: DRILL : INCUBATE, Incubate Festival, Tilburg, Netherlands

Oct 22: West End Centre, Aldershot, UK

Oct 23: Mono, Falmouth, UK

Oct 24: Simple Things Festival, Bristol, UK

Nov 05: Le Tetris, Le Havre, France

Nov 06: Musiques Volantes (25th Anniv.), Les Trinitaires, Metz, France

Nov 07: La Laiterie, Strasbourg, France

Nov 20: Gebause 9 Koln. Germany

Nov 21: Kleine Freiheit, Osnabrück, Germany

Nov 22: Postbahnhof, Berlin, Germany

Nov 24: Manufaktur, Schondorf, Germany

Nov 25: Dachstock, Berne, Switzerland

Nov 26: La Romandie, Lausanne, Switzerland

Nov 28: La Coopérative de Mai, Clermont Ferrand, France

Nov 29: Festival BB Mix, Boulogne Billancourt, France

Nov 30: Paradiso Nords, Amsterdam, Netherlands

Dec 01: Orangerie, Bruxelles, Belgium

 

Praise for the new album 'Wire':

"The quality and freshness evident here make Wire sound more like an exciting new band than one with 35 years’ experience" 4* - The Guardian

"They always did stand apart from the pack. Excellent" 4* - Q

"An album that is very much about now " - The Quietus

"Wire's music is extraordinarily  accessible" - Sunday Times

"They effortlessly fuse light, melodic pop with artful, angular guitar grind and enigmatic words" 4* - The Independent

"Few groups have demonstrated such a consistent drive, desire for newness & commitment to experimentation over a career of this length" - Dummy

"For those new to the band, Wire’s pleasures lie waiting, ready for those who want to take a chance on a daunting discography and a heck of a backstory that still keeps being added to" - 7/10, Pitchfork

For more information please contact kate@stereosanctity.co.uk / t. +44 7812 607 230.

July 21, 2015 12:39pm ET by Stereo Sanctity   Comments (0)

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