{"id":13,"date":"2007-08-07T17:20:00","date_gmt":"2007-08-07T17:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.systemsofromance.com\/blog\/?p=13"},"modified":"2007-08-07T17:20:00","modified_gmt":"2007-08-07T17:20:00","slug":"colin-newman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.systemsofromance.com\/blog\/2007\/08\/colin-newman\/","title":{"rendered":"Colin Newman"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Having gone though rather huge phases listening to nothing but post-punk greats Wire for a few days in a row, it’s no shock that I’ve also inspected and been overjoyed with the various side projects and solo outings during the band’s off-time. Today’s artist is one of the double frontmen of Wire and the primary tunesmith, Mr. Colin Newman. <\/p>\n

When the British band temporarily split in 1980 after three records, Colin quickly pursued a solo career, taking the art-damaged direction that Wire had experimented with on both Chairs Missing<\/i> and 154<\/i>. The result didn’t fall far from the tree, for Colin recorded a series of three records in a similar art-pop style. The first, 1980’s A-Z<\/i>, was released on Beggar’s Banquet and featured ‘Alone,’ a haunting track tapped near-ten years later for the soundtrack to Silence of the Lambs<\/i> and covered by friends in 4AD project This Mortal Coil. Both 1981’s Provisionally Entitled the Singing Fish<\/i> and 1982’s Not To<\/i> were released on 4AD, once they were able to properly finance Newman’s recordings. The first featured instrumental tracks as a series of numbered fish while the second consisted of new recordings and reworked Wire outtakes.<\/p>\n

Though Wire reformed in 1984 and has remained intermittently active since, Colin released three more solo records and an EP for various labels. The last, 1997’s Bastard<\/i> was a largely collective and collaborative electronic outing. Over the years, Colin has also produced records for the Virgin Prunes and Minimal Compact, produced recorded full-lengths with Wire as well as longtime collaborator and wife Malka Spigel, managed Wire’s Pinkflag label, and also done double-duty as a member of Githead, an experimental rock outfit. <\/p>\n

I’ve uploaded two solo Newman tracks for the downloading; ‘Alone’ from A-Z<\/i> and ‘Don’t Bring Reminders’ from Not To<\/i>. <\/p>\n

download Colin Newman- ‘Alone’<\/a>
download Colin Newman- ‘Don’t Bring Reminders’<\/a><\/p>\n

Most of his solo and collaborative band material is easily available through Amazon and your local record shoppes, so pick some up if you’re into it! For a more thorough biography and discography on Colin, click this link:<\/p>\n

Colin Newman web-hub<\/a>
Colin Newman via 4AD<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Having gone though rather huge phases listening to nothing but post-punk greats Wire for a few days in a row, it’s no shock that I’ve also inspected and been overjoyed with the various side projects and solo outings during the band’s off-time. Today’s artist is one of the double frontmen of Wire and the primary […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,9,6,4,3,8,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1980s","category-art-punk","category-british","category-colin-newman","category-synth","category-wave","category-wire"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.systemsofromance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.systemsofromance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.systemsofromance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.systemsofromance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.systemsofromance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.systemsofromance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.systemsofromance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.systemsofromance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.systemsofromance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}