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DAVE FORMULA & NOKO PLAY SONGS FROM UNDER THE FLOORBOARDS
Yes! That’s right! Magazine’s Dave Formula & Noko play Songs From Under The Floorboards. OFFICIAL!
In May next year, 2026, Magazine’s keyboard player and guitarist, Dave and Noko, will be touring the UK one more time – performing an evening of Magazine material. BONUS!
Kicking off in Newcastle on May 6, and ending in Manchester on May 23, tickets are available in short order, and short supply, from www.seetickets.com, and elsewhere…
Alongside Dave and Noko, will be Peter Petersen (from the French new wave band, Affection Place) on vocals; his son, Tim on the bass guitar; and Dave’s son, Max, on the kit. As Sly Stone would say, ‘It’s a family affair…’
You will hear a full live set taken from the across Magazine’s classic back catalogue. North, south, east and west. Coming to a town near you. Get your skates on!
06 MAY : NEWCASTLE – THE CLUNY
07 MAY : EDINBURGH – LA BELLE ANGELE
08 MAY : GLASGOW – ST. LUKE’S
09 MAY : ABERDEEN – THE LEMON TREE
14 MAY : BRISTOL – THE FLEECE
15 MAY : BIRMINGHAM – O2 INSTITUTE 2
16 MAY : LONDON – THE GARAGE
21 MAY : NOTTINGHAM – RESCUE ROOMS
22 MAY : LEEDS – BRUDENELL SOCIAL CLUB
23 MAY : MANCHESTER – ACADEMY 2
THE BANSHEES’ SONIC ARCHITECT RETURNS…
The sonic architect of Siouxsie & The Banshees is back and behind the wheel.
John McKay’s the name. Discordant chords is the game.
Flanked by two Priscilla’s, Jen and Jola, alongside Billy King on bass. Together they are John McKay’s Reactor, parading material old and new…
Heading to Reading on Tuesday 17 June. The Facebar.
Tickets, a mere £18. Be one of only 300. Get some… https://wegottickets.com/event/657318
… and then to The Lexington, Islington on Thursday 19 June, for a night of uneasy listening. Expect metal shard roars…
Only 200 lucky souls will witness. Secure your entrance ticket right now, right here : https://www.seetickets.com/…/john…/the-lexington/3405803
Fare : £20.
Playing material from the lost, now found, album, ‘Sixes And Sevens’. Yours to have and to hold on the night, or else earlier via Bandcamp : https://thejohnmckay.bandcamp.com/album/sixes-and-sevens
MORE NEW CRISP DESIGNS. THIS TIME : ‘CUT-OUT SHAPES’ T-SHIRTS
Yes! To coincide with the vinyl box set, we are issuing new Ts to go with it.
Available in two colour ways : Winter Blues on Parade Grey, and Autumn Rusts & Oranges on I’m A Party Black.
4 colour silk screened on soft spun 100% cotton garments.
Available in M, L and XL, plus, by popular demand in XXL & XXXL.
£20 per shirt, but £25 for XXL & XXXL, because there’s more fabric…
HERE THEY COME. CRISP NEW DESIGNS. EXCLUSIVE TO WIRE-SOUND…
THE MAGAZINE STUDIO ALBUMS (1978–2011) VINYL REISSUES BOX SET IS HERE, AND ONLY HERE. NOWHERE ELSE…
Yes! The Magazine studio album recordings are refreshed and revisited. Coming to you in coloured vinyl with new interview / photo inner sleeves, along with various unpublished before extras…
This super-duper deluxe Give Me Everything box set is yours for £200 – a saving of £10 on buying the LPs separately, plus you get a box (that cost £20 to make) absolutely free. Bonus!
PRE-SALE ORDERS ARE AVAILABLE TO THE MAGAZINE HARDCORE FANS RIGHT NOW! CLICK HERE IMMEDIATELY...
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SO, WHAT DO YOU GET FOR YOUR HARD EARNED?
WELL, FOR STARTERS…
1. REAL LIFE : Recoil Red vinyl LP cut and pressed from the 2000 remastered recordings; photo inner sleeve featuring an interview with Dave Formula; a 12” x 12” art print based on Linder’s front cover monograph; and an unpublished contact sheet of photographs by Adrian Boot taken in 1978.
2. SECONDHAND DAYLIGHT : Permafrost Green vinyl LP cut and pressed from the 2000 remastered recordings; photo inner sleeve featuring an interview with Howard Devoto; a 12” x 12” art print based on Ian Pollock’s front cover monograph; and an unpublished contact sheet of photographs by Ebet Roberts taken in 1979; plus a replica 24” x 12” poster the original LP inner gatefold sleeve.
3. THE CORRECT USE OF SOAP : Philadelphia White vinyl LP cut and pressed from the 2000 remastered recordings; photo inner sleeve featuring an interview with sleeve designer, Malcolm Garett; a 12” x 12” art print based on Malcolm’s original front cover design; an unpublished contact sheet of photographs by BC Kagan taken in 1979; plus a set of 9 oversize The Correct Use Of Soap postcards, wrapped around and secured with a Magazine emblazoned belly band.
4. MAGIC, MURDER and THE WEATHER : Poison Pink vinyl LP cut and pressed from the 2000 remastered recordings; photo inner sleeve featuring an interview with John Doyle; a 12” x 12” art print based on Malcolm front cover imagery; and an unpublished contact sheet of photographs by Jamie Morgan taken in 1980.
5. NO THYSELF : Of Course Orange vinyl LP cut and pressed from the 2011 recordings; photo inner sleeve featuring an interview with Noko; a 12” x 12” art print based on Odilon Redon’s front cover etching; a 12” x 12” two-sided lyric insert; a Magazine carrier bag; and a replica Vive Le Rock press advertisement first published in 2011.
6. RAYS & HAIL 1978–2011 : Burn Again Yellow vinyl LPs cut and pressed from the 2000 remastered and 2011 recordings; photo inner sleeves featuring a personal overview by Rory Sullivan-Burke (author of the John McGeoch biography, The Light Pours Out Of Me); a 12” x 12” art print based on Damian Wayling’s original 1987 CD front cover design; plus a set of 21 oversize postcards featuring illustrated lyrics of the compilation’s running order, all wrapped around and secured with a Magazine emblazoned belly band.
NOTE 1 : This is a re-worked compilation as a double LP set on vinyl for the very first time, featuring a re-jigged and updated track listing by Howard Devoto of 19 songs from the Magazine back catalogue.
Side 1 :
1. Shot By Both Sides (single version)
2. Definitive Gaze
3. Motorcade
4. The Light Pours Out Of Me
5. Parade (live version from ‘Play’)
Side 2 :
1. Feed The Enemy
2. Rhythm Of Cruelty
3. Back To Nature
4. Permafrost
Side 3 :
1. Because You’re Frightened
2. You Never Knew Me
3. A Song From Under The Floorboards
4. I Want To Burn Again
5. Sweetheart Contract
Side 4 :
1. This Poison
2. Naked Eye
3. Physics
4. Holy Dotage
5. Final Analysis Waltz
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…and as if that’s not enough, all these pristine perfect LPs and this printed paraphernalia are housed in a super-duper deluxe Give Me Everything box with a lid to keep the new crisp designs safe as houses.
NOTE 2 : There are only 500 of these box sets. No more will be manufactured. Once they are gone, they are gone. Order your copy right now…
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As well, all the LPs are available here separately for £33 each, except Rays & Hail 1978 – 2011 which costs a princely £45, but hey, it is a double…
NOTE 3 : The separate LP versions available in your high street and online record dealers come November & December DO NOT feature the various unpublished extras…
All items are shipped worldwide from the UK in mid-November. The box is shipped insured. Postage and packing is extra and varies depending on which part of the world we ship to. Customs charges many apply outside of the UK, and must be borne by the buyer upon request etc.
PRE-SALE ORDERS ARE AVAILABLE TO THE MAGAZINE HARDCORE FANS NOW! CLICK HERE IMMEDIATELY...
NEW! 2-LP SET : ‘Special Sauce’ / Buzzkunst & ‘Designoid’ / Howard Devoto. YES!
YES! Buzzkunst is PETE SHELLEY & HOWARD DEVOTO…
‘SPECIAL SAUCE’ is mostly a reconfiguration of the 2002 album ‘Buzzkunst’ by ShelleyDevoto.
NOW! For the first time on vinyl, with a REFRESHED RUNNING ORDER and TWO PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED TRACKS – ‘Psychosomatic’ and ‘Punk Of Me’.
CLICK HERE for a promo clip for ‘Psychosomatic’.
PLUS! If that isn’t enough, there is a SECOND mini-album included in the package…
11 NEVER BEFORE RELEASED Howard Devoto ARCHIVE RECORDINGS from the same period, titled ‘DESIGNOID’.
Instrumentals and songs, idiosyncratic as ever, and including a 21st century re-working of ‘Breakdown’, as originally featured on the Buzzcocks’ debut and seminal self-released EP, ‘Spiral Scratch’.
CLICK HERE for a promo clip for the track ‘Designoid’.
YES! It’s A TWO LP SET in a single bumper sized record sleeve FOR THE PRICE OF ONE, complete with FREE lyric insert sheet, and FREE CD featuring all the tracks from both albums.
AFFECTION PLACE : ‘SMOULDERING FIRE’ / Vinyl LP & CD. FOR SALE HERE. UK EXCLUSIVE.
Yes! Exclusive to Wire-Sound. UK shipping rates!
France’s very own, Affection Place, one of the pioneering bands born out of the Lyon new-wave / post-punk music scene of the late 1970/80s, are back with a new album, ‘Smouldering Fire’.
10 tracks (on CD) and 8 tracks (on vinyl LP) from the very top drawer recorded and produced by, and featuring on keyboards, Magazine’s very own, Dave Formula.
Presented exclusively here in hi-fidelity stereo, and housed in a handsome cardboard sleeve on the ever-popular CD and LP formats.
This is what they are saying about it…
“Extra ordinary Magazine-ish. Rubbery upfront bass guitar perfected by Barry Adamson and shards of John McGeoch like guitar…” – MOJO Magazine
“Shades of Killing Joke and Magazine. Sounds like goth-pop overlap of Sisters Of Mercy and The Damned” – UNCUT Magazine
“Chunky rhythms and punchy bass of ‘Empires & Dance’-era Simple Minds, with a smooth production sheen of Japan and Ultravox with the sensibilities of The Stranglers” – VIVE LE ROCK Magazine
Ships from the UK, with UK packaging and postage rates applying.
CLICK HERE for the vinyl LP and CLICK HERE for the CD.
Buy with confidence, my friends. Buy with confidence.
BUZZCOCKS – LIMITED EDITION PRODUCT.
Yes! Exclusive to Wire-Sound.
Malcolm Garrett & Linder Sterling‘s iconic punk design made flesh in fabric form. No pig’s ear out of a silk purse this. No. Top notch quality English hand printing in blue and yellow on 100% pure silk.
Measuring 42cm x 42cm, this Buzzcocks ‘Orgasm Addict’ print can be worn as a pocket square or small neckerchief. It comes in a presentation gift box with numbered edition sticker, and certificate of authentication signed by Professor Malcolm Garrett, ‘imself.
Designed and produced in 2017 on the occasion of the exhibition, ‘Malcolm Garrett. Fizzing at the Terminals’.
SORRY. ALL SOLD. NONE LEFT. THE CHICKENS HAVE FLOWN THE COOP.
MARY BYKER & NOKO present AM I DEAD YET?
The new musical project from Pop Will Eat Itself & Gaye Bykers On Acid frontman, Mary Byker, and Apollo 440 founder-member, Magazine guitarist & long-time collaborator, Noko.
The soundscape is wide-screen retro-cinematic. The mood is distinctly glass-half-empty, with songs lamenting the failure of technology to save us from ourselves.
For the first time, Mary sings over a lush David Lynchian laptop orchestra, replete with the sweet vocal harmonies and the sumptuous twang of Noko’s vintage Gretsch ‘White Falcon’, buried deep in a canyon of spring reverb. Like you’ve never quite heard them before…
Ashka Kedziora has directed two videos for ‘Leaving Me Behind ‘ & ‘Futuristic Paranoia’. View them HERE & HERE. Watch the videos. GO GET THE ALBUM. Make it yours.
Title : Am I Dead Yet?
Artist : Am I Dead Yet?
Format : CD / DL
Label : Wire-Sound
Cat # : WIRED 48
For up-to-the-minute, up-to-the-mark information about Am I Dead Yet?, audio, video, show dates & more go to www.amideadyet.co.uk
THE THIRD FEDERAL CHARM ALBUM.
Federal Charm, release their third album, ‘Passenger’, worldwide, on the Wire–Sound label. Available in the ever-popular CD format, as a digital download, and as a limited edition vinyl LP.
After the 2016 Planet Rock Roadstars co-headline tour with SIMO & Aaron Keylock, Federal Charm amicably parted ways with vocalist & guitarist, Nick Bowden and drummer, Danny Rigg. Founder members, Paul Bowe (guitar) and LD Morawski (bass), then recruited new vocalist & frontman Tom Guyer and drummer Josh Zahler.
Federal Charm’s new heavy blues-rock musical direction and style has organically evolved since the band’s second album, ‘Across The Divide’. Tom Guyer’s powerful and characterful voice led to immediate chemistry as he joined Paul & LD in writing this third album. His wide vocal range opened up new creative possibilities and added an exciting and new dynamic that complements Federal Charm’s exhilarating sound. New drummer, Josh Zahler, adds his own distinctive drumming style and grooves to the band’s pulsating rhythm section.
Title : Passenger
Artist : Federal Charm
Format : LP / CD / DL
Label : Wire-Sound
Cat # : WIRED 43
Click HERE to order the CD or HERE to order your vinyl LP. Alternatively, go to iTunes or Amazon for your digital versions.
THE EVER CONTINUING OLD WORLD CHARM OF MAGAZINE.
Yes! That’s right. ‘Welcome, ladies & gentlemen, to the genuine old world charm of Magazine’…
The 6-track ‘Old World Charm’ vinyl 12” EP is limited to 1000 pressings and contains broadcast mixes from the live recordings from the 2009 BBC Electric Proms performance @ The Roundhouse in Camden Town, London.
Magazine played a 45-minute set featuring selected A & B sides of their previous single releases. Half of the set is captured here revolving at 33 and 1/3 times per minute.
Tracks included are ‘Shot By Both Sides’, ‘Rhythm Of Cruelty’, ‘A Song From Under The Floorboards’, ‘Feed The Enemy’, ‘Sweetheart Contract’ and ‘I Love You, You Big Dummy’.
Title : ‘Old World Charm’
Artist : Magazine
Format : 12” VINYL @ 33RPM
Label : Wire-Sound
Cat # : WIRED 42
As we have only pressed up 1000 copies for Record Store Day, so it’d be best to take Fred Pontin’s advice and “book early”… OFFICIAL!
