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Pinkflag is the label run on behalf of British art punk band WIRE. From it's early inception as a vehicle for making available, through mail order & sales at live shows, limited run special edition releases and merchandising from the band - it has grown into an indie label capable of handling serious worldwide releases like Send & special releases & re-releases of historic albums

To subscibe to the pinkflag mailing list follow this link to the mailing list page on the pinkflag website which also contains an archive of past mailing so you can see what you get!

(Biography Last updated 14 August 2007)



Latest 16 releases by Pinkflag

Read & Burn - 03by Wire

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Release date 5 November 2007
CD In Stock £6.00 buy || MP3 £5.00 buy

**BACK IN STOCK**

Having spent the four-and-a-half years since the May 2003 release of Send, their last full length studio album, consolidating and reappraising their back catalogue (by means of CD and DVD releases and re-releases of their '70s material) and for the most part remaining out of the public eye, ... [more]


Vienby Wir

Release date 30 July 2007
MP3 £5.00 buy

Recorded at ORF's Vienna studio in February 1993 "Vien" stands as a unique documentation of the period when Wir(e) 's main public activity was as part of the occasional "I Saw You" events which themselves drew heavily on the "People In A Room" performances in the Jeanetta Cochrane in ... [more]


Live At The Roxy, London (1977) / Live At CBGB Theatre, New York (1978)by Wire

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Release date 13 November 2006
2CD In Stock £15.00 buy || MP3 £7.00 buy

It has long been an accepted part of pop/rock culture folk memory that Wire's 3 “seminal” 70’s “EMI” albums wrote the book on the definition of art-pop/rock/punk (choice of 2nd element depending on decade) and have influenced many a generation of the young and artistically ambitious of our culture. ... [more]


Pink Flagby Wire

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Release date 30 October 2006
CD Limited Stock £10.00 buy || LP Out Of Stock

Wire's debut Pink Flag , was originally released in December 1977 on EMI's progressive label 'Harvest' perhaps an unlikely label for a release that effectively prefigured both post-punk & art- punk. With it's 21 stripped down tracks and iconic stark sleeve.

In Pink Flag Wire proposed a form ... [more]


Chairs Missingby Wire

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Release date 30 October 2006
CD Limited Stock £10.00 buy || LP Limited Stock £15.00 buy

Wire's three Harvest released albums in the 70's are often referred to as a kind of "accelerated development triptych". The differences between the reductive minimalism of 1977's Pink Flag and the layered baroque (albeit still minimalistic) of 1979's 154 show a staggering turn over of ideas, ... [more]


154by Wire

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Release date 30 October 2006
CD Limited Stock £10.00 buy || LP Limited Stock £15.00 buy || 3LP Out Of Stock

1979's 154 represented the final tableau in Wire's Harvest released 70's triptych and was the first Wire album to be released to a universal set of five star reviews from the British rock weeklies. Thus it represented the point when the British 'pop culture establishment' publicly recognised Wire's ... [more]


WIRE: 1977-1979 ~ Pinkflag (America)by Wire

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Release date 15 May 2006
5CD In Stock £50.00 buy

In spite of the longevity, breadth and perpetual underground status of the artistic output of Wire and it's individual members, the period of the bands' first flowering between 1977 & 1979 has remained a touchstone and entry point for fans old & new... Perpetually re-contextualised as each generation ... [more]


WIRE: The Scottish Play: 2004by Wire

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Release date 28 March 2005
2DVD In Stock £15.00 buy || MP3 £7.00 buy

Special Offer!
FREE PINKFLAG BADGES

Free Pinkflag enamel badges – click here for more information

A live DVD + CD document of contemporary WIRE. ... [more]


WIRE On The Box: 1979by Wire

WIRE On The Box:1979 CHILD

Release date 4 October 2004
2DVD In Stock £15.00 buy || MP3 £7.00 buy

Pinkflag are proud to present the first in our series of archive research releases. This one in the form of the only extant filmed recordings of the band performing live in the 70s. Consisting of a one hour live set and half hour interview from WDRs Rockpalast sourced ... [more]


Pinkflag Enamel badge by Wire

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Release date 4 June 2003

Special Offer!
FREE PINKFLAG BADGES

Free Pinkflag enamel badges – click here for more information

Even if you've got the albums, the T-shirts, the commemorative object, the postcard, the free CD & the scent there's still one thing every Wire fan needs, and that's the enamel badge.

These little 15mm square "prefect" badges are 2003's de rigeur fashion item representing as they do both Wire's first ... [more]


Sendby Wire

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Release date 28 April 2003
2CD Out Of Stock || LP Out Of Stock || MP3 £7.00 buy || MP3 £7.00 buy

Released in 2003, Send is Wire's first new album in 13 years.

"phenomenal.. an album of untrammeled power and pre-apocalyptic unease" 5 stars MOJO

"the reconvened Wire sound outrageously on form and up for it here" The WIRE

"bouncing up & down into the 21st century the , the Duracell-battery-powered irritants are ... [more]


Read & Burn - 02by Wire

Release date 1 October 2002
CD Out Of Stock || MP3 £6.00 buy

Special Offer!
FREE PINKFLAG BADGES

Free Pinkflag enamel badges – click here for more information

Read & Burn 02 has been available exclusively to PostEverything customers and attendees of Wire's shows in North America & Europe - Autumn 2002. This item is not available in shops or via any other mailorder service.

SPECIAL OFFER
While stocks remain all customers ordering ... [more]


Read & Burn - 01by Wire

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Release date 17 June 2002
CD In Stock £10.00 buy || MP3 £6.00 buy

Special Offer!
FREE PINKFLAG BADGES

Free Pinkflag enamel badges – click here for more information

READ & BURN 01 (2002) was the first release on pinkflag featuring wholly new material from WIRE (their first new release for over 10 years) and although some of it's content ended up on the later Send album half of the tracks here,
"I Don't Understand", "Germ Ship" & "1st ... [more]


Twelve Times Youby Wire

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Release date 4 January 2001
7" Deleted || MP3 £2.00 buy

Limited, one-off pressing, on WIRE's own label. One side is based on a high velocity Y2K live recording, nuclear fused by Mr Newman @ SWIM Studios. The other side, Mr N on a frantic 21st century techno dub dancehall DJ version from the far side tip.
Packed for maximum minimalism, ... [more]


The Third Dayby Wire

Release date 1 February 2000
CD Deleted || MP3 £7.00 buy

The Third Day CD (pf1) A unique 5 track document of the third day in the first wire rehearsal for over 10 years.

NOW AVAILABLE IN DIGITAL FORMAT

NB. NO LONGER AVAILABLE ON CD


It's All In The Brochureby Wire

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Release date 1 January 2000
CD Deleted || MP3 £7.00 buy

An audio record of the Wire curated Royal Festival Hall performance, including excerpts from the Immersion , He Said & DJ X DJ sets as well as 8 pieces from the Wire set.

NOW AVAILABLE IN DIGITAL FORMAT

NB. NO LONGER AVAILABLE ON CD


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Latest News

WIRE announce live dates

7 March 2008

After a considerable absence from the live scene (the last show was at Benecassim, Spain in 2004), Wire is set to announce dates for new live shows this year. As yet unconfirmed dates will include European festivals during the summer season and a trip to North America in the autumn.

At this time, we are able to confirm the following early show dates:

April 29: Stuk , Leuven, Belgium
April 30: Ekko , Utrecht, Netherlands
May 01: ... [read full article]


WIRE Read & Burn 03 release date

23 October 2007

The release date of Read & Burn-03 has now been brought forward a week to the 5th November. So for those of you who have already pre-ordered you are now a week closer to getting your hands on a copy.

We aim to ship copies out the week starting the 29th October. Thats next week right?! So, if you've not already ordered a copy, what you still reading this for...


WIRE's Pinkflag.com reborn!

3 September 2007

After what has been an absolute age in the doldrums we are finally launching the brand-new expanded super version of pinkflag.com. The new version features brand new sections, including a gallery and a place to download MP3s from various pinkflag releases, past present and future. The site also carries a discography (each release has complete lyrics alongside), and a skeletal gigography (a section we'd like to expand).

If you are at all interested in this, ... [read full article]


New WIRE releases

27 October 2006

PIC WIRE live at CBGB in 1978

First up the vinyl re-releases of the 1st 3 albums - Pink Flag , Chairs Missng & 154 . These remasters are on 180 gram vinyl, come in bags (with inner sleeves) that echo the mini - vinyls of the 1977-1979 box set and shout "collectable"! Posteverything is doing the 3 together for a special price...see here

Secondly ... [read full article]


WIRE on NPR

27 September 2006

Fresh Air , on America's National Public Radio , broadcast a feature today on Wire's early years, concentrating on PostEverything's chart topping WIRE: 1977-1979 box set.

The feature, put together by NPR's rock historian Ed Ward , is archived on the NPR website .


WIRE - box set FAQs

14 May 2006

Information about WIRE : 1977 >1979 – Pinkflag (America)

1. WHEN WILL IT BE AVAILABLE?

As of 14th May 2006 - see Product page .

2. WHAT EXACTLY IS IN IT?

The box contains 5 CDs in mini-vinyl sleeves they are:

The first 3 Wire albums,
Pink Flag (PF11)
Chairs Missing (PF12)
154 (PF13)
which are all re-mastered versions of the original vinyl track-listings

plus 2 “co-releases” from the same ... [read full article]


WIRE : 1977 >1979 – Pinkflag (America)

24 February 2006

WIRE - Pink Flag (pf11) CD WIRE - Chairs Missing (pf12) CD WIRE - 154 (pf13) CD --- WIRE - Live at The Roxy, London - April 1st & 2nd 1977 (pf9) CD WIRE - Live at CBGB Theatre, New York - July 18th 1978 (pf10) CD 

 While   WIRE and the individuals associated with it continue to be an intrinsic part part of the contemporary musical & artistic landscape, undoubtedly ... [read full article]


WIRE: The Scottish Play: 2004

14 March 2005

There's been some confusion about the availabilty of the new WIRE DVD, WIRE: The Scottish Play: 2004 , since the fault reported with the original stock delivery back in late January: the audio CD which acompanies the DVD contained no audio!

We'd like to confirm that the fault has now been rectified... The CDs have been replaced with working copies containing the audio it was meant to.

PostEverything are now holding stock and dispatching the majority ... [read full article]


WIRE '...Brochure' warehouse find!!

27 September 2004

A very small quantity of the audio record of Wire's seminal performance at the Royal Festival Hall in February 2000 "It's All in the Brochure" has been found in the depths of the pinkflag warehouse. These are made available on a first come first served basis.

SORRY THIS ITEM IS NOW SOLD OUT

Wire may make this item available by download only in the future. Please sign up for the pinkflag mailing list. if you ... [read full article]


WIRE On The Box - 1979

14 July 2004

WIRE ON THE BOX – DVD + Audio CD (PF7TV)

AVAILABLE HERE

Since the dawn of the video age rock bands of almost any note are liable to have every minutiae of their career documented. Videos, TV & radio appearances, broadcast concerts, embarrassing jams with Jools etc etc. However it was not always thus. Before the 80’s, outside of the confines of the odd whistle test appearance it was very unusual to see ... [read full article]


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