Wire

Wire are an English band formed in London in 1976 by Colin Newman, Graham Lewis, Bruce Gilbert and Robert Grey (then Robert Gotobed), with George Gill, who soon left. They came out of the first wave of British punk and moved quickly from very short, spare songs to longer, more atmospheric pieces. Their first three albums, Pink Flag, Chairs Missing and 154, are the records they are best known for. Wire released Pink Flag on Harvest in 1977, produced by Mike Thorne, who also added synthesizers to Chairs Missing (1978).