Robert Gotobed

Robert Gotobed is wary of describing himself being a musician, instead of somebody who simply has the drums. However he contributed a massive total Wire’s sound, specifically in the triad of traditional albums: Green Flag, Chairs Lacking, and 154. As an adolescent, Gotobed was captivated with the drumming of Cream’s Ginger Baker, but he didn’t begin playing until his mid-twenties. In 1975, Gotobed became a member of his first music group, an R&B group known as the Snakes, much less a drummer but as vocalist. Featuring Richard Wernham and Nick Garvey — who afterwards produced the Motors — the Snakes released the one “Teenage Mind.” Following the group folded, Gotobed started teaching himself to drum. Gotobed fulfilled Colin Newman in the summertime of 1976 and was lured to Watford Artwork College for the rehearsal using the nascent Wire. By his very own admission, Gotobed acquired little capability, but he became the person for the work and his pared-down, metronomic existence remained a unique landmark over the changing sonic surroundings of Wire’s initial three albums. When Wire continued hiatus in 1980, Gotobed toured with Fad Device, briefly playing in the record Incontinent. Adding to one monitor in the initial Dome record, he also performed more significantly on Newman’s single debut, A-Z, and toured with him in 1981. Pursuing focus on Newman’s NEVER TO, Gotobed still left London and music behind to go after a pastime in organic farming. By 1985, Cable had surfaced from hibernation and Gotobed concentrated full-time on music once again. During the producing of THE PERFECT Copy, nevertheless, he begun to experience unpleasant with Wire’s path as the music group started getting into a computer-based digital environment. The documenting of Manscape brought issues to a mind. Neither composing drum applications nor adapting his part within a fresh, digital Cable appealed to Gotobed: He was a drummer and experienced the group no more had a location for any drummer. Times before a 1990 tour, he remaining his bandmates, who continuing as Wir. Although Wire briefly regrouped in 1996 for Bruce Gilbert’s 50th birthday, Gotobed do little kit-drumming within the ’90s. Rather, he explored African drumming and dedicated his energies to organic agriculture. In the invitation of Susan Stenger in 1996, nevertheless, Gotobed performed Rhys Chatham’s “Acoustic guitar Trio” with Justine Frischmann, Sonic Growth, and Robert Poss at London’s Purcell Space. In 1998, he became a member of Stenger for the Barbican’s American Pioneers night time, contributing percussion to some John Cage piece. Having rejoined Wire for live times in 2000, Gotobed started recording new materials with the music group in early 2002.