Wire: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert

This performance was recorded on March 9, 2020. We will continue releasing Tiny Desk videos of shows that had already been taped. In light of current events, NPR is postponing new live tapings of Tiny Desk Concerts. In the meantime, check out Tiny Desk (home) concerts Theyre recorded by the artists in their home. Its the same spirit strippeddown sets, an intimate setting just a different space. May 27, 2020, Bob Boilen For me, it was beyond surreal to watch Wire performing at my desk, in broad daylight, in 2020. I spent many an evening over the past 40 years, listening to their original, artful bursts of noise and imagery, seeing them in dark clubs in the 80s and beyond. From the time I first heard them in 1977, few bands have encapsulated my musical aesthetics like Wire. And yet there they were, with three original bandmates: Colin Newman, singing his enigmatic poetry, and those driving rhythms of Graham Lewis on bass and Robert Grey (aka Robert Gotobed) on drums. Matthew Simms was the new