Outdoor Miner

"Outdoor Miner"
Single by Wire
from the album Chairs Missing
B-side"Practice Makes Perfect"
Released12 January 1979
Genre
Length2:51
LabelHarvest
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s)Mike Thorne
Wire singles chronology
"Dot Dash"
(1978)
"Outdoor Miner"
(1979)
"A Question of Degree"
(1979)

"Outdoor Miner" is a song written by Colin Newman and Graham Lewis, and performed by the English post-punk band Wire. It was released in January 1979 as the band's fourth single (reaching number 51 in the UK singles chart)[3] and appeared on their second album, Chairs Missing.

  1. ^ "Start To Move: A Short History Of 1970s Wire". Clash. 25 May 2018. Retrieved 25 July 2022.
  2. ^ Larkin, Colin (1999). All-Time Top 1000 Albums. Virgin Books. p. 162. ISBN 0-7535-0354-9. Archived from the original on 8 October 2021.
  3. ^ "Wire | full Official Chart History". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 11 June 2017.