Document and Eyewitness

Document and Eyewitness
Live album by Wire
Released	July 1981
Recorded	Electric Ballroom, London, 29 February 1980 Notre Dame Hall, London, 19 July 1979 Le Pavillon, Montreux, 9 March 1979
Genre	Punk rock post-punk experimental rock
Length	68:43
Label	Rough Trade
Wire live album chronology
Document and Eyewitness (1981) It's All in the Brochure (2000)
Alternative cover
1991 Mute CD reissue
Alternative cover
2014 Pinkflag CD reissue

Document and Eyewitness is the first live album by the post-punk band Wire, released in July 1981 by Rough Trade Records.^[1] 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^[2] – 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.^[3]

The Electric Ballroom show records Wire after the release of 1979's 154 album, tired of playing the same old songs and continually moving 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 album's, and one would be recorded by Graham Lewis and Bruce Gilbert for their Dome project.^[4]