Dome (band)

Dome
Background information
Labels	Mute Records
Associated acts	Wire Bruce Gilbert
Past members
Bruce Gilbert Graham Lewis

Main article: Wire (band)

Dome was a musical group consisting of Bruce Gilbert (guitar, vocals, synthesizer) and Graham Lewis (bass, vocals, synthesizer).

Background

Gilbert and Lewis were members of Wire, and formed Dome during Wire's 1980–1984 hiatus. Over its first three albums, Wire's music had progressed from rapid-fire punk rock to moody, ambitious post-punk. Dome continued the experimentation, often abandoning traditional song structures in favor of found sounds, melodic fragments, and what critics Steven Grand and David Sheridan described as "lurching mechanical noises infrequently keeping a vague beat".^[1] Between 1980 and 1981 Dome recorded three LPs; Dome One, Dome 2, and Dome 3, on its own Dome Records label.

As well as releasing Dome band albums, Gilbert and Lewis produced and released records by Desmond Simmons (who played on Colin Newman's solo albums A-Z and Not To) and AC Marias, on the band's label.

Dome's "3R4" LP was released in 1980 (as by Gilbert & Lewis), followed by its Kluba Cupol EP (as Cupol), and "Ends With The Sea" 7" (also as Gibert & Lewis), on the 4AD Records label. In 1982 it released MZUI (Waterloo Gallery), an LP of recordings made at the Waterloo Gallery with Russell Mills.

In 1983 Gilbert and Lewis worked with Dome collaborator Angela Conway, (aka AC Marias), to release Whilst Climbing Thieves Vie For Attention, an LP under the name P'O. The same year they released an LP Or So It Seems, under the name Duet Emmo - an anagram of 'Dome' and 'Mute' - with Daniel Miller, head of Mute Records, and released Will You Speak This Word, a.k.a. Dome 4, on the Uniton label.

Wire reformed in 1984, although Dome continued to perform and record occasionally. Yclept, a collection of Dome's later work, was released on WMO in 1998.

Discography

• Dome 1 (Dome Records 1980)
• Dome 2 (Dome Records 1981)
• Dome 3 (Dome Records 1981)
• Will You Speak This Word (Unition 1982)
• Yclept (WMO 1999)
• Dome 1&2 (Mute Records/The Grey Area 1992)
• Dome 3&4 (Mute Records/The Grey Area 1992)

References

1. ^ Trouserpress.com Retrieved on March 19, 2009