IT’S SO OBVIOUS

While I enjoyed your comprehensive dissertation on the “golden years” of PiL contained in the July 2018 issue, I must confess to being disappointed that in the section on other bands from the Class Of ’78, nowhere was there even a passing mention of one of the most important UK bands to fully emerge during the so-called “heady days of 1978”. I speak of Wire, whose first three LPs, Pink Flag, Chairs Missing and 154 were not only more consistently experimental but also more influential than anything released by The Fall, Gang Of Four, Mekons or The Cure. Perhaps you could redirect some of the critical hosannas you consistently afford a band like The Fall for their contribution over that period toward some recognition of the relentless quest for musical progression achieved by Wire over the same period.

On a different note, it has been nice to see more frequent coverage of the quality bands emerging from Australia in Uncut, following on from the international acclaim achieved by Courtney Barnett in recent years. Better late than never! ben Peach, Melbourne, australia Hi Ben. Take your point, but it was really just a matter of space as to

which bands we could squeeze into a small space. In case you missed it, we’d devoted a full page to the reissues of those three Wire albums in the previous issue that, I think, underscored their substantial contribution.