Wire Chairs Missing 6/16/17 ‘Trails & Tribulations

‘Trails & Tribulations

Description UK - the last of the great British progressive-rock bands of the 70s featuring legendary musicians Eddie Jobson

post-rock kissing cousins to fellow veteran Canadian pop army New Pornographers

it was often labeled as "synth-pop

Wire Chairs Missing 6/16/17 ‘Trails & TribulationsWire: Colin Newman (vocals, guitars); B. C. Gilbert (guitar); Graham Lewis (bass, vocals); Robert Gotobed (drums). Additional personnel: Kate Lukas (flute); Mike Thorne (keyboards, synthesizers). A euphemism for insanity, Chairs Missing is an apt summation of Wire's disturbing music. A product of London's punk scene, the quartet nonetheless owed a debt to the art school experimentation of the mid 60s, a contrast that gave their craft originality.