CHANGE BECOMES US Wire (Southbound) Three and a half decades of arthouse punk is tough to sustain so the Londoners dipped into their past for the basis of their 13th studio offering. But the small nuggets mined from their late 70s seam of peculiarity get the type of reworking that reminds you that Wire are both the band of Heartbeat and Eardrum Buzz – and aren’t afraid to warp a track with poppy enthusiasm or Eno melancholy
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NIGERIA: A Dream of Utopia
For one month, delighted Londoners watched the 80 ceremonially dressed Nigerianssome with necklaces of animal teeth, others with feathered straw hats, at least one with a jeweled crownparade into Lancaster House for their historic conference. Everything possible had been done to make them feel at home