Document and Eyewitness

Album by Wire ‧ 1981
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Document and Eyewitness is the first live album by the post-punk band Wire, released in July 1981 by Rough Trade Records. It marked the end of the first period of Wire's activity (1977–1980) and the end of their association with EMI. Recorded in February 1980 at the Electric Ballroom in London – at the final gig of Wire's first period – the original release came with a 45 rpm 12" EP that featured recordings from a July 1979 show at the Notre Dame Hall in London, along with one track from a March 1979 gig at Le Pavillon in Montreux, Switzerland.

The Electric Ballroom show records Wire after the release of 1979's 154 album, who were no longer interested in playing previous material and were stylistically progressing forward. Of the seven songs from the Notre Dame Hall show, three were never recorded in-studio by Wire and the rest were captured as B-sides and other ephemeral recordings. Nine of the songs recorded live for the album were reworked and recorded for the band's 2013 album Change Becomes Us. Three songs would also surface on Colin Newman's solo albums, and one would be recorded by Graham Lewis and Bruce Gilbert for their Dome project.

Songs (34)

1.
5/10 (Electric Ballroom)
05:36
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2.
12 X U (Fragment) (Electric Ballroom)
02:02
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3.
Underwater Experiences (Electric Ballroom)
02:47
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4.
Everything's Going To Be Nice (Electric Ballroom)
01:08
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5.
Piano Tuner (Keep Strumming Those Fucking Guitars) (Electric Ballroom)
05:19
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6.
We Meet Under Tables (Electric Ballroom)
03:01
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7.
Zegk Hoqp (Electric Ballroom)
05:28
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8.
Eastern Standard (Electric Ballroom)
03:03
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9.
Instrumental (Thrown Bottle) (Electric Ballroom)
02:10
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10.
Eels Sang Lino (Electric Ballroom)
03:05
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11.
Revealing Trade Secrets (Electric Ballroom)
02:34
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12.
And Then.. Coda (Electric Ballroom)
09:00
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13.
Go Ahead (Notre Dame)
03:49
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14.
Ally In Exile (Notre Dame)
04:15
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15.
Relationship (Notre Dame)
01:23
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16.
Underwater Experiences (Notre Dame)
02:32
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17.
Witness To The Fact (Notre Dame)
02:35
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18.
Two People In a Room (Notre Dame)
01:52
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19.
Our Swimmer (Notre Dame)
02:58
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20.
Heartbeat (Montreux Version)
03:16
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21.
Our Swimmer (Single Version)
03:30
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22.
Midnight Bahnhof Café (Single Version)
04:32
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23.
Second Length (Our Swimmer)
02:49
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24.
Catapault 30
05:05
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25.
Ally In Exile (Original Demo)
04:31
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26.
Go Ahead (Rehearsal Recording)
05:56
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27.
Remove For Improvement (Rehearsal Recording)
02:03
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28.
Over My Head (Rehearsal Recording)
04:07
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29.
Safe (Rehearsal Recording)
01:58
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30.
Relationship (Rehearsal Recording)
01:13
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31.
Underwater Experiences (Rehearsal Recording)
02:38
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32.
Eels Sang Lino (Rehearsal Recording)
01:41
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33.
Cancel Your Order (Rehearsal Recording)
03:07
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34.
Part Of Our History (Emerges) (Rehearsal Recording)
14:36
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