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Wire

Wire is a group from the UK, active since 1976.

Group GB since 1976 post-punk punk rock art punk
TOTAL PLAYS
1,286
SONGS PLAYED
211
STATIONS
4
FIRST PLAYED
2005-02-15 09:07 · 6 Music — "I Am the Fly"
LAST PLAYED
5 days ago · 6 Music — "I Am The Fly"
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◦ ACTIVITY

Plays per year

2005 — 2026
200 150 100 50 0
'05 '06 '07 '08 '09 '10 '11 '12 '13 '14 '15 '16 '17 '18 '19 '20 '21 '22 '23 '24 '25 '26
◦ WHERE

By station

6 Music 1,255 98%
1Xtra 16 1%
Radio 2 13 1%
Radio 1 2 0%
◦ WHEN

Common hour

0006121823

Peak hour: 19:00

◦ THE SONGS

Top tracks

BY PLAY COUNT
#TITLEPLAYSLAST
1 Outdoor Miner 181 2024-07-29
2 Eardrum Buzz 133 2025-03-25
3 I Am The Fly 68 2026-05-16
4 Map Ref. 41°N 93°W 63 2025-02-26
5 Mannequin 60 2025-01-12
6 Ex Lion Tamer 37 2025-03-24
7 Dot Dash 35 2025-09-25
8 Burning Bridges 33 2015-12-01
9 map ref. 41 n 93 w 31 2016-08-26
10 I Am the Fly 30 2011-07-27
11 Cactused 26 2025-08-14
12 Joust & Jostle 24 2017-11-08
◦ THE LOG

Recent plays

2026-05-16 07:00 I Am The Fly 6 Music
2025-12-12 15:56 I Am The Fly 6 Music
2025-11-13 03:59 106 Beats That (Radio 1 John Peel Session, 18 Jan 1978) 6 Music
2025-11-09 21:11 I Should Have Known Better 6 Music
2025-11-03 02:10 Pink Flag 6 Music
2025-10-30 21:05 I Am The Fly (Radio 1 Session, 18 Jan 1978) 6 Music
2025-10-29 22:09 106 Beats That (Radio 1 John Peel Session, 18 Jan 1978) 6 Music
2025-10-28 21:27 Culture Vultures (Radio 1 John Peel Session, 18 Jan 1978) 6 Music
2025-10-27 22:31 Practice Makes Perfect (Radio 1 Session, 18 Jan 1978) 6 Music
2025-09-25 19:53 Dot Dash Radio 2
2025-09-03 04:56 I Am The Fly 6 Music
2025-08-14 20:17 Cactused 6 Music
◦ EVERY TRACK

All songs played

211 UNIQUE TRACKS · A–Z
▶
& Much Besides — 1 ▶
1 2 X U — 9 ▶
106 Beats Bbc Session 18/01/1978 — 1 ▶
106 Beats That — 2 ▶
106 Beats That (Radio 1 John Peel Session, 18 Jan 1978) — 11 ▶
106 Beats That (Radio 1 Session, 18 Jan 1978) — 1 ▶
12 XU — 2 ▶
12Dx 2000 — 2 ▶
12XU — 6 ▶
12XU (Live from The Roxy) — 1 ▶
23 Years too Late (Marc Riley Session 16.9.2013) — 1 ▶
40 Version - Camber Sands 2000 — 1 ▶
A Mutual Friend — 1 ▶
A Question Of Degree — 3 ▶
Adapt — 8 ▶
Adapt - 6 Music session 10/01/2011 — 2 ▶
Adore Your Island (6 Music Session, 16 Sep 2013) — 2 ▶
Advantage In Height 2000 — 1 ▶
Advantage In Height - Camber Sands 2000 — 1 ▶
Ahead — 1 ▶
Ahead (6 Music session 30/10/17) — 1 ▶
Ambitious — 1 ▶
Another Letter - Camber Sands 2000 — 2 ▶
Another Letter 2000 — 1 ▶
Another the Letter — 1 ▶
Attractive Space (6 Music Session, 16 Sep 2013) — 1 ▶
Bad Worn Thing — 1 ▶
Be Like Them — 6 ▶
Being Sucked in Again — 2 ▶
Blogging — 4 ▶
Blogging (6 Music Session, 9 Apr 2015) — 3 ▶
Blogging (6Music Session, 09 Apr 2015) — 2 ▶
Boiling Boy — 1 ▶
Boiling Boy - Camber Sands 2000 — 1 ▶
Boiling Boy 2000 — 2 ▶
Brazil — 2 ▶
Brio — 2 ▶
Brio (6 Music session 30/10/17) — 1 ▶
Burning Bridges — 33 ▶
Cactused — 26 ▶
Champs — 1 ▶
Clay — 1 ▶
Clay (6 Music session, 10 Jan 2011) — 5 ▶
Clay - 6 Music session 10/01/2011 — 2 ▶
Comet — 1 ▶
Crazy About Love (Peel Session 11.09.1979) — 1 ▶
Culture Vulture (John Peel Session 18/01/1978) — 1 ▶
Culture Vulture - BBC Session 18/01/1978 — 3 ▶
Culture Vultures (Radio 1 John Peel Session, 18 Jan 1978) — 6 ▶
Dead Weight — 2 ▶
Diamond In Cups — 2 ▶
Diamonds In Cups (6 Music session 21 April 2015) — 1 ▶
Dot Dash — 35 ▶
Drill — 1 ▶
Drill - Camber Sands 2000 — 3 ▶
Drill 2000 — 4 ▶
Eardrum Buzz — 133 ▶
Ex Lion Tamer — 37 ▶
Ex-Lion Tamer — 20 ▶
Forever A Day — 1 ▶
Forever and a Day — 4 ▶
Fragile — 1 ▶
French Film Blurred — 2 ▶
German Shepherds — 5 ▶
Go Ahead (Notre Dame) — 1 ▶
Harpooned — 1 ▶
Harpooned (6 Music Festival 2015) — 3 ▶
Harpooned - BBC 6Music Festival : 22/01/2015 — 1 ▶
He Knows - Camber Sands 2000 — 4 ▶
He Knows 2000 — 1 ▶
Heartbeat — 4 ▶
High — 2 ▶
Hung — 2 ▶
I Am The Fly — 68 ▶
I Am the Fly — 30 ▶
I Am The Fly (BBC session 18/01/1978) — 1 ▶
I Am The Fly (Radio 1 Session, 18 Jan 1978) — 7 ▶
I Am The Fly - BBC Session 18/01/1978 — 4 ▶
I Feel Mysterious Today — 6 ▶
I Should Have Known Better — 2 ▶
In Manchester — 9 ▶
In Manchester (6 Music Session, 9 Apr 2015) — 2 ▶
In Manchester (6Music Session, 09 Apr 2015) — 2 ▶
In Manchester - 6 Music Session 09/04/15 — 1 ▶
In Manchester - 6 Music Session, 9 Apr 2015 — 1 ▶
In the Art of Stopping — 2 ▶
Indirect Enquieires (John Peel session 20th Sepr 1980) — 1 ▶
Indirect Enquieires (Radio 1 Session, 20 Sep 1978) — 3 ▶
Indirect Enquieires - BBC Session 20/09/1978 — 4 ▶
Indirect Enquiries (John Peel session 20.9.1978) — 2 ▶
Indirect Enquiries - BBC Session 20/09/1978 — 1 ▶
Internal Exile — 2 ▶
Joist & Jostle (6Music Session, 09 Apr 2015) — 1 ▶
Joist And Jostle (6Music Session, 09 Apr 2015) — 1 ▶
Jostle And Joust — 1 ▶
Joust & Jostle — 24 ▶
Joust & Jostle (6 Music Session, 9 Apr 2015) — 3 ▶
Joust & Jostle - 6 Music Festival - RX 22/02/2015 — 1 ▶
Joust & Jostle - 6 Music Session, 9 Apr 2015 — 1 ▶
Joust And Jostle — 1 ▶
Joust And Jostle (6 Music Session 090415) — 1 ▶
Joust and Jostle (6 Music session 21 April 2015) — 1 ▶
Keep Exhaling (6 Music session 30/10/17) — 1 ▶
Kidney Bingos — 7 ▶
Kingston Girl — 2 ▶
Love Bends — 11 ▶
Lowdown — 4 ▶
Lowdown 2000 — 1 ▶
Magic Bullet — 1 ▶
Mannequin — 60 ▶
Map Ref 41 Degrees N 93 Degrees West (Bed) — 2 ▶
Map Ref 41°N 93°W - 6 Music session 21/11/2011 — 2 ▶
map ref. 41 n 93 w — 31 ▶
Map Ref. 41°N 93°W — 63 ▶
Marooned — 3 ▶
Mekon Headman — 5 ▶
Mercy — 1 ▶
Mercy 2000 — 3 ▶
Mercy - Camber Sands 2000 — 4 ▶
Midnight Bahnhof Café — 1 ▶
Moreover - 6 Music session 21/11/2011 — 2 ▶
Mr Marx's Table — 2 ▶
Mutal Friend - BBC Session 20/09/1978 — 1 ▶
Mutual Friend (John Peel session 20.9.1978) — 1 ▶
Mutual Friend (John Peel sesion 20th Sept 1978) — 1 ▶
Mutual Friend (Radio 1 John Peel Session, 20 Sep 1978) — 3 ▶
Mutual Friend (Radio 1 Session, 20 Sep 1978) — 1 ▶
Mutual Friend - BBC Session 20/09/1978 — 5 ▶
Nakupenda Pia (feat. Alaine) — 13 ▶
Nocturnal Koreans — 11 ▶
Nocturnal Koreans (6 Music session 21 April 2015) — 1 ▶
Numbered — 9 ▶
Off The Beach — 8 ▶
Oklahoma — 5 ▶
On Returning — 4 ▶
On Returning (John Peel session 20.9.1978) — 2 ▶
On Returning (John Peel sesion 20th Sept 1978) — 1 ▶
On Returning (Radio 1 John Peel Session, 20 Sep 1978) — 4 ▶
On Returning (Radio 1 Session, 20 Sep 1978) — 2 ▶
On Returning - BBC Session 20/09/1978 — 5 ▶
One of Us — 2 ▶
One Of Us — 1 ▶
Options R — 1 ▶
Our Swimmer — 4 ▶
Our Swimmer (Second Length) — 1 ▶
Outdoor Miner — 181 ▶
Perspex Icon — 1 ▶
Pilgrim Trade — 1 ▶
Pink Flag — 3 ▶
Pink Flag - Camber Sands 2000 — 6 ▶
Pink Flag 2000 — 3 ▶
Playing Harp For The Fishes — 1 ▶
Playing Harp For The Fishes (Live) — 1 ▶
Please Take — 2 ▶
Please Take (6 Music Session, 10 Jan 2011) — 3 ▶
Practice Makes Perfect — 4 ▶
Practice Makes Perfect (Radio 1 Session, 18 Jan 1978) — 6 ▶
Practice Makes Perfect - BBC Session 18/01/1978 — 10 ▶
Primed & Ready — 3 ▶
Primed And Ready — 7 ▶
Re-Invent Your Second Wheel — 3 ▶
Red Barked Tree — 1 ▶
Red Barked Trees — 1 ▶
Red Barked Trees (6 Music Session, 10 Jan 2011) — 2 ▶
Red Barked Trees - 6 Music session 10/01/2011 — 1 ▶
Reinvent Your 2nd Wheel (Marc Riley Session 9.5.2013) — 1 ▶
Reuters — 1 ▶
Sexy and Rich (Janet) — 1 ▶
Shadows — 1 ▶
She Say Dat — 1 ▶
Short Elevated Period — 18 ▶
Short Elevated Period (6Music Session for Marc Riley 19th April 2017) — 1 ▶
Short Elevated Period (Live) — 1 ▶
Silk Skin Paws - Camber Sands 2000 — 1 ▶
Silk Skin Paws 2000 — 1 ▶
Silver/Lead (6 Music session 30/10/17) — 1 ▶
Single KO — 1 ▶
Sleep Walking - (6Music Session, 09 Apr 2015) — 3 ▶
Sleepwalking (6 Music Festival 2015) — 4 ▶
Sleepwalking (Live from the Concourse stage at Sage - 6Music Festival) — 1 ▶
Sleepwalking - BBC 6Music Festival : 22/01/2015 — 1 ▶
Small Black Reptile — 6 ▶
Small Black Reptile (live) — 1 ▶
So & Slow It Grows (2024) — 3 ▶
Sonic Lens — 3 ▶
Split Your Ends — 2 ▶
Split Your Ends (6 Music session 21 April 2015) — 1 ▶
Stepping Off To Quick — 1 ▶
Stepping Off Too Quick — 4 ▶
Still — 2 ▶
Strange — 1 ▶
Swallow (6 Music Festival 2015) — 7 ▶
Swallow (Live from the Concourse stage at Sage - 6Music Festival) — 1 ▶
Swallow - BBC 6Music Festival : 22/01/2015 — 1 ▶
The 15th — 10 ▶
The Art Of Persistance — 5 ▶
The Art Of Persistence — 1 ▶
The Flat Tent — 1 ▶
The Other Window — 3 ▶
The Other Window (John Peel session 20.9.1978) — 2 ▶
The Other Window (John Peel session 20th Sepr 1980) — 1 ▶
The Other Window (Radio 1 John Peel Session, 20 Sep 1978) — 3 ▶
The Other Window (Radio 1 Session, 20 Sep 1978) — 1 ▶
The Other Window - BBC Session 20/09/1978 — 6 ▶
Three Girl Rhumba — 14 ▶
Too Late — 2 ▶
Underwater Experiences — 5 ▶
Unrepentant — 1 ▶
Used To — 2 ▶
Witness to the Fact — 1 ▶
Wolf Collides — 1 ▶