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Stereo Sanctity Announce Wire Re-release

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Stereo Sanctity have announced the addition of seminal punks, Wire, to their roster along with the reissue of the bands 1981 Document and Eyewitness via Pink Flag. When informed that Wire were planning to reissue Document and Eyewitness, Rough Trade boss Geoff Travis (who released the original vinyl version) commented that the band were “completely mad.”
 
For those unfamiliar with Document and Eyewitness, it's not just an album of live recordings from three turn-of-the-80s Wire gigs. What makes it more than that is the unorthodox nature of the main performance and the way it was presented on record.

For the album, the Electric Ballroom material was supplemented with recordings from a July 1979 show at the Notre Dame Hall (a straightforward band performance), along with one track ("Heartbeat") from a March 1979 gig in Montreux, during Wire’s stint as the support act on Roxy Music’s Manifesto tour.

This release-cycle provides a wider view of the period, bringing in as much additional material as can be accommodated within the confines of the media. It takes as its core the Electric Ballroom, Notre Dame Hall and Montreux shows (remastered from the original tapes and pitch-corrected where necessary) and adds further texture with studio and rehearsal room recordings.

The release will hit the stores on Monday August 18. It comes as double vinyl in a gatefold sleeve, a double album (CD and digital) and three additions to the Legal Bootleg series. You can listen to '12XU (FRAGMENT)' now via Soundcloud

Full Release Tracklisting:
 
DOCUMENT AND EYEWITNESS (DOUBLE CD) PF21 CD: Packaged in a square Amaray case with a booklet. Disc 1 has the original album in full. Disc 2 adds two singles (+ B-sides) from the period, plus some rehearsal room recordings unheard for nearly 35 years!
 
CD 1: 01. 5/10 / 02. 12XU (Fragment) / 03. Underwater Experiences / 04. Everything's Going to Be Nice / 05. Piano Tuner (Keep Strumming Those Guitars) / 06. We Meet Under Tables / 07. ZEGK HOQP / 08. Eastern Standard / 09. Instrumental (Thrown Bottle) / 10. Eels Sang Lino / 11. Revealing Trade Secrets / 12. And Then... Coda / 13. Go Ahead / 14. Ally in Exile / 15. Relationship / 16. Underwater Experiences / 17. Witness to the Fact / 18. 2 People in a Room / 19. Our Swimmer / 20. Heartbeat
Tracks 01-12 from Electric Ballroom. Tracks 13-19 from Notre Dame Hall. Track 20 from Montreux. 

CD 2: 01. Our Swimmer / 02. Midnight Bahnhof Cafe / 03. Second Length (Our Swimmer) / 04. Catapult 30 / 05. Ally in Exile / 06. Go Ahead / 07. Remove for Improvement V2 / 08. Over My Head V2 / 09. Safe / 10. Relationship / 11. Underwater Experiences / 12. Eels Sang Lino / 13. Cancel Your Order / 14. Part of Our History (emerges)
 Tracks 01-02 from "Our Swimmer" (1981) single. Tracks 03-04 from an unreleased 1981 single. Track 05: a person- al recording from Jan. 1979 in Cadaqués, Spain. Tracks 06-14: Wire rehearsal recordings from 1979 and 1980. 
 
DOCUMENT AND EYEWITNESS (DOUBLE VINYL) PF21 LP: Packaged in a gatefold sleeve. Disc 1 is the same as the original vinyl, albeit remastered and re-edited. Disc 2 features the original selection from the Notre Dame Hall show on side one and the two singles and B-sides on side two.
 
Disc 1
Side One: 01. 5/10 / 02. 12XU (Fragment) / 03. Underwater Experiences / 04. Everything's Going to Be Nice / 05. Piano Tuner (Keep Strumming Those Guitars) / 06. We Meet Under Tables
Side Two: 07. ZEGK HOQP / 08. Eastern Standard / 09. Instrumental (Thrown Bottle) / 10. Eels Sang Lino / 11. Revealing Trade Secrets / 12. And Then... Coda
Tracks 01-12 from Electric Ballroom 

Disc 2
Side One: 13. Go Ahead / 14. Ally in Exile / 15. Relationship / 16. Underwater Experiences / 17. Witness to the Fact / 18. 2 People in a Room / 19. Our Swimmer / 20. Heartbeat
Side Two: 21. Our Swimmer / 22. Midnight Bahnhof Cafe / 23. Second Length (Our Swimmer) / 24. Catapult 30
Tracks 01-12 from Electric Ballroom. Tracks 13-19 from Notre Dame Hall. Track 20 from Montreux. Tracks 21-22 from "Our Swimmer" (1981) single. Tracks 23-24 from an unreleased 1981 single. 
 
LEGAL BOOTLEG SERIES: To complete the second legal bootleg series, the full, unedited gig recording of each show will be released (digital only). These will be:
 
09th March 1979, Pavilion Montreux (PFB 708) 
01. Another the Letter / 02. Practice Makes Perfect / 03. 2 People in a Room / 04. I Feel Mysterious Today / 05. Being Sucked In / 06. Blessed State / 07. A Question of Degree / 08. Mercy / 09. A Touching Display / 10. Former Airline / 11. French Film Blurred / 12. Men 2nd / 13. Heartbeat

19th July 1979, Notre Dame Hall, London (PFB 707) 
01. Go Ahead / 02. Ally in Exile / 03. Being Sucked In / 04. Relationship / 05. Midnight Bahnhof Cafe / 06. Underwater Experiences / 07. Blessed State / 08. Witness to the Fact / 09. I Should Have Known Better / 10. Safe / 11. Lorries / 12. 2 People in a Room / 13. A Question of Degree / 14. Our Swimmer / 15. I Am the Fly / 16. Heartbeat / 17. Strange

29th February 1980, Electric Ballroom, Document and Eyewitness Naked (PFB 806) 
00. Eyewitness Accounts / 01. 5/10 / 02. Request Spot/12XU / 03. Underwater Experiences / 04. Everything's Going to Be Nice / 05. Piano Tuner (Keep Strumming Those Guitars) / 06. We Meet Under Tables / 07. Inventory / 08. ZEGK HOQP / 09. Eastern Standard / 10. Instrumental (Thrown Bottle) / 11. Ritual View / 12. Part of Our History / 13. Eels Sang Lino / 14. Revealing Trade Secrets / 15. And Then... Coda

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