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Memorials (members of Electrelane & Wire) announce ‘All Clouds Bring Not Rain’ on Fire Records

Bernard - Side-Line Staff — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 09:45:24 +0000

Memorials, the British experimental pop duo of Verity Susman (Electrelane) and Matthew Simms (Wire), will release their second album “All Clouds Bring Not Rain” on March 27 via Fire Records. The 12-track album will be available digitally, on CD, and on limited citrus orange, lemon and lime vinyl editions each with four hand-stamped art prints and a sticker sheet.

The album was written, performed, recorded and mixed by Susman and Simms. Most of the material was recorded in a barn studio in southwestern France, with additional sessions involving a harpsichord at 4AD’s London studio and a vibraphone and vintage Leslie speaker at Press Play, the studio of Stereolab drummer Andy Ramsay. The duo said they are drawn to older recording methods because it is about “capturing a moment in time and committing to that.”

Preview tracks already out from the album include “Cut Glass Hammer”, “In The Weeds”, “Wildly Remote”, and “Dropped Down The Well”.

All Clouds Bring Not Rain by MEMORIALS

Memorials tour dates 2026

March 27 – Resident Records (instore), Brighton, UK
March 28 – South Records (instore), Southend-On-Sea, UK
April 1 – Stranger Than Paradise (instore), London, UK
April 8 – Le Hasard Ludique, Paris, France
April 9 – Le Club, Évreux, France
April 10 – Variations Festival, Nantes, France
April 11 – CALM, Limoges, France
April 12 – La Petite Populaire, La Réole, France
April 14 – Le Consortium, Dijon, France
April 15 – Grand Mix, Tourcoing, France
April 22 – The Croft, Bristol, UK
April 23 – Little Bully, Oxford, UK
April 24 – The Prince Albert, Brighton, UK
April 25 – Verdant Tap Room, Falmouth, UK
April 26 – Heartbreakers, Southampton, UK
April 29 – The Lexington, London, UK
April 30 – Hyde Park Book Club, Leeds, UK
May 1 – Castle Hotel, Manchester, UK
May 2 – NeoAncients, Stroud, UK
May 7 – Studio 919, Victoria, BC, Canada
May 8 – The Pearl, Vancouver, BC, Canada
May 9 – Tractor Tavern, Seattle, WA, USA
May 10 – Mississippi Studios, Portland, OR, USA
May 12 – Great American Music Hall, San Francisco, CA, USA
May 13 – The Roxy, Los Angeles, CA, USA
May 14 – Casbah, San Diego, CA, USA
May 15 – Swan Dive, Las Vegas, NV, USA
May 16 – Pappy & Harriet’s, Pioneertown, CA, USA
May 17 – Club Congress, Tucson, AZ, USA
May 19 – 13th Floor, Austin, TX, USA
May 20 – Pie Shop, Washington, DC, USA
May 21 – Tubbys, Kingston, NY, USA
May 22 – O’Brien’s, Allston, MA, USA
May 31 – Nachtasyl, Hamburg, Germany
June 1 – Kantine am Berghain, Berlin, Germany
June 2 – Noch Besser Leben, Leipzig, Germany
June 3 – Kohi, Karlsruhe, Germany
June 4 – Manufaktur, Schorndorf, Germany
June 5 – Bellevue di Monaco, Munich, Germany
June 7 – Rotown, Rotterdam, Netherlands
June 8 – Cactus, Brugge, Belgium

About Memorials

Memorials are a British Canterbury-based duo featuring Verity Susman and Matthew Simms. Susman is best known as a founding member and frontwoman of Electrelane. Simms is best known for his work with Wire and had previously formed It Hugs Back before joining Wire in 2010.

Susman and Simms began working together during the pandemic on documentary scores, including music for “Women Against The Bomb” and “Tramps!”. Their soundtrack albums “Music For Film: Tramps!” and “Music For Film: Women Against The Bomb” were released on May 12, 2023, and later appeared together on the 2xLP “Music For Film: Tramps! & Women Against The Bomb”. Susman, Simms and Kat Duma were later nominated for a Canadian Screen Award for their work on “Tramps!”.

Fire Records released the duo’s first full-length album “Memorial Waterslides” on October 4, 2024. That record followed the 2023 soundtrack work and a Centre Pompidou commission. On December 12, 2025, Fire also issued the limited single “Cut Glass Hammer / Reasonably Invisible”.

“All Clouds Bring Not Rain” now follows as the duo’s second studio album.

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Wire announces 2 new exclusive releases for Record Store Day

Bernard - Side-Line Staff — Wed, 02 Apr 2025 19:06:52 +0000

A double LP edition of Wire’s “Nine Sevens” box set and a never released on vinyl update of WIR’s 1996 release now entitled “Vien +” will be available on Record Store Day, April 12.

“Nine Sevens” is a collection of their 7” singles first released in 2018. The only thing really that these tracks have in common (besides being by Wire) is that they were released or destined to be released on 7” by Wire in the period 1977-1980. WIR’s “Vien +” on the other hand is an updated version of their 1996 release that has never been available on vinyl until now

For those who don’t understand the WIR name, that is the moniker for Wire’s second chapter. WIR was created after drummer Robert Grey left in 1990 and to fulfil the final phase of Wire’s Mute Records contract. WIR was, however, not a long-term project and besides completing their only album,”The First Letter”, their only other activities were a very small number of gigs and two multi-artist conceptual happenings under the name ‘I Saw You’.

One of these was in Clapham in April 1992 on election night and the other in Vienna in Feb 1993. On tha Vienna trip, in addition to playing the gig, the band recorded a radio session for the Austrian nationa broadcaster ORF which was organised by the late Peter Rehberg – later the person behind MEGO. This was released in 1996 by Touch on CD and consisted of two long tracks with a running time of almost 25 minutes. Once the short run of CDs had sold out, the rights technically fell to the band, and pinkflag released it – digital only – in 2007. It has never been released on vinyl before now.

Below is a video of an edited version of “The First Letter”.

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Immersion joined by SUSS for new album ‘Nanocluster Vol. 3’

Bernard - Side-Line Staff — Tue, 14 Jan 2025 18:58:42 +0000

Now here is a release which you should definitely check out if you are into the more eclectic side of things. Immersion – Colin Newman from Wire and Malka Spigel from Minimal Compact – have announced a new album, “Nanocluster Vol. 3” with the ambient Americana trio SUSS. The album will be out February 14 on the swim ~ label, but a new single “State Of Motion” is available now.

According to Colin and Malka: “The title reflects the piece as it matches Immersion’s hypnotic propulsion to SUSS’ open-skies atmospherics and the video renders a visual interpretation of the stop/start nature of the music and life itself.”

“One of the challenges of a collaboration is being led into places you never could have imagined,” adds SUSS’ Pat Irwin.

This the band’s third album in their ‘Nanocluster’ series and it was first teased with the pre-release single “In The Far Away”.

The debut Nanocluster album, released in September 2021 saw the Immersion core group of Colin Newman (Wire) and Malka Spigel (Minimal Compact) collaborate with Laetitia Sadier, German post-rock duo Tarwater and electronic musicians Ulrich Schnauss and Scanner. Released in June 2024, the follow up “Nanocluster Vol. 2” had guests Thor Harris – the charismatic percussion player from Swans and Cubzoa – Jack Wolter from Penelope Isles.

Immersion tour

Following the release of “Nanocluster Vol. 3”, the two bands head out on a joint tour of the U.S. The dates include performances at SXSW and Big Ears Festival in Knoxville, TN and will feature performances by Immersion and SUSS followed by a collaborative set

March 14 – Austin, TX @ SXSW Music Festival
March 15 – Houston, TX @ The Orange Show
March 16 – Dallas, TX @ The Texas Theatre
March 18 – Memphis, TN @ The Green Room
March 19 – Nashville, TN @ Third Man Records
March 21 – Louisville, KY @ The Whirling Tiger
March 22 – Chicago, IL @ Constellation
March 23 – Detroit, MI @ Third Man Records Cass Corridor
March 25 – Pittsburgh, PA @ The Warehouse at Tech 25
March 26 – Columbus, OH @ The Old First Presbyterian Church
March 27 – Knoxville, TN @ Big Ears Festival
March 31 – Washington, D.C. @ Pie Shop
April 1 – Philadelphia, PA @ Johnny Brenda’s
April 3 – Boston, MA @ The Red Room at Cafe 939
April 4 – New York, NY @ Joe’s Pub

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