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Wire: Flies in the ointment

Ian Penman, The Wire, March 2000

23 years after their art attack first outpaced punk audiences, Wire have sprung back into action. Ian Penman meets the group in rehearsal and finds them in rude health, combative and inventive as ever, and still revelling in the absurd.

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