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Wire
Fillmore, Mon/9
AFTER FINISHING OFF a retrospective "comeback" Y2K
tour with a three-night stand at London's Highbury Garage, Wire claimed
they wouldn't be relying on their vast and varied catalog from the past
26 years for future tours. Member Bruce Gilbert said he feared that
doing so would peg the self-described beat combo, which formed in the
delta of London's punk rock scene in 1976, as some sort of punk cabaret
act. It seems the band, still made up of the four original members,
are sticking to their word. They've got a new EP out, Read and Burn,
to draw from, which is faster, louder, and more rock than anything they've
ever done and augurs new things to come from the next two EPs they plan
to release on their Pink Flag label. How they will flesh out an entire
set from the 17-minute recording remains to be seen, but did you really
expect musicians that have reinvented their sound with each new release,
from the influential art-school punk classic Pink Flag, which
was decidedly detached and austere in contrast with the Sex Pistols'
in-your-faceness, to the pop experimentalism on Chairs Missing,
the endearingly dated industrial synth material on 154, and on
up to their techno years à la Drill, to stand still? No,
that would be the Damned. And this is Wire. They are great. 8 p.m.,
1805 Geary, S.F. $21.50. (415) 346-6000. (Deborah Giattina)
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