Wide Wednesday (Wire Wednesday) (9th October 2024)

The Wire was founded in 1982 and since a workers buy-out in December 2000 it is 100% an independent operation. Given how uncompromising it is in its coverage of the most modern experimental, avant-garde and otherwise uncommercial music. I find it amazing that it has outlasted many more mainstream music papers and magazines, and its most recent  monthly edition, their 485th, was published last week.

In 1998 they launched their series of covermount CDs The Wire Tapper, published just three times a year, and featuring masterfully curated examples of the music they write about. I bought the first one in the Bath branch of HMV on 9 April 1998 and have managed to buy every one since, though it is getting harder to find in the shops and it is no longer possible to buy it in Calne or Devizes, for example, though Chippenham's WHS have a handful of copies each month. Having bought 65 Wire Tappers, as shown in my Blip, the pressure not to miss a copy and break the run increases, so the race is on to acquire the 66th before they sell out.

Before you ask, I don't order it from a local newsagent because then I would have to buy the magazine every month, not just when it housed The Wire Tapper.

With thanks to Steveng for hosting Wide Wednesday on the theme of 'Modern or Recent'.  

L.
Wednesday 9.10.2024 (1600 hr)


Blip #4166 (#3916 + 250 archived blips taken 27.8.1960-18.3.2010)
Consecutive Blip #000
Blips/Extras In 2024 #150/266 + #063/100 Extras
Day #5308 (1337 gaps from 26.3.2010)
Lozarithm's Lozarhythm Of The Day #3305 (#3145 + 160 in archived blips)

Taken with Panasonic/Leica DC-LX100M2 Micro 4/3rds

Old Forge series
Recent Purchases series
Records, Film and Books series

Lozarithm's Lozarhythm Of The Day:
Sealionwoman - It Rides A Horse (2023)
This is the opening track on The Wire Tapper 66, originally from the album Nothing Will Grow in the Soil, inspired by ancient yew trees. Sealionwoman are a due from London consisting of Kitty Whitelaw (vocal) and Tye McGivern (double-bass).