VdGG: cover of The Wire

I've now read the article(s... there are two of them) in the new Wire and they're great. Very well written and, with the first especially, different angles than what's often written about (i.e. it doesn't harp on Johnny Rotten's love of the band, lol). There is a bit more about the VdGG re-issues coming out in a few months. From the arictle:

Over the last year, VdGG have been working with veteran recording engineer Stephen Tayler, known for his work with Peter Gabriel and his longstanding collaboration with Kate Bush. Tayler started his career in the mid-1970s at Trident Studios, then noted for its state-of-the-art technology and multitracking capabilities… Tayler brought the spirit of the early Trident years to the remixes, opening up space in the recordings and bringing previously hidden elements to the fore. “He’s done mixes of all the old albums in surround sound, like a Dolby Cinema Sound, and I was the only only of the three of us with that kind of set-up at home on TV,” says Banton. “With ‘A Plague of Lighthouse Keepers’ in particular, he’s gone to town and things come from behind you, and so on.” Evans fills in some of the details of these extraordinary recordings. “I’m normally pretty underwhelmed by the task of vetting masters of old albums, even though I’m very fond of them,” he says. “I just don’t like spending lots of time mentally in the past. But the moment I heard one of these mixes, it was a revelation, because particularly the drums, I was really, Oh! That’s the kit like it should have been! I can hear this cymbal, it’s all balanced. I hadn’t heard that since 1975, and I don’t know how he’s done it. And it wasn’t just the drums, there were parts that I’d forgotten were there. That actually *weren’t* there, in the first case, that Stephen has chosen to use a different vocal line on it, or add a vocal line that we decided not to have.”