Wire: Document And Eyewitness At Notre Dame Hall And The Electric Ballroom (Rough Trade)
Chris Bohn, NME, 1 August 1981
OUT OF SHEER perversity, it would seem, Wire stopped functioning 18 months ago. Going by their chronology of events we shouldn't have been surprised, as Wire persistently refused to do what was expected of them; and when the unexpected itself became the predictability factor there wasn't really much point in going on.
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