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  •  - Fire Box Set
The Fire boxset contains:

FIRE
Deluxe remastered LP of original album

FUTURE EVENTS SUCH AS THESE
Bonus LP of unreleased milestones from the band’s history, including the pre-Wildbunch 1994 demo of Danger! High Voltage

FAKING THE ROCK EFFECT
Bonus DVD of videos, tv appearances, live material, found footage & more, presented on cutting-edge DVD technology

WHAT THEY SHOULDN’T BE DOING
Bonus CD featuring more rarities & b-sides

UNITED BY A COMMON FEAR
Exclusive 40 page booklet tracing the band’s mysterious evolution through hours of eyewitness testimony, much of it unredacted

SEALED EVIDENCE DOSSIER
A packet of never, never-before-seen EVIDENCE which will no longer be sealed once you open it

TRACK LISTINGS
FIRE
A1 Dance Commander
A2. Electric Demons In Love
A3. Naked Pictures (Of Your Mother)
A4. Danger! High Voltage
A5. She’s White
A6. I Invented the Night
B1. Improper Dancing
B2. Gay Bar
B3. Nuclear War (On the Dance Floor)
B4. Getting into the Jam
B5. Vengeance & Fashion
B6. I’m the Bomb
B7. Synthesizer

FIRE - CD ONLY BONUS TRACKS
Neurocameraman (7-inch release, 2001)
I Know Karate (7-inch release, 1996)
Danger! High Voltage (Original 1994 4-track Demo)
I’m On Acid (Live at Old Miami Aug 24, 1996)
Christian Radio (Manchester) (Unreleased, 1997)

LP: FUTURE EVENTS SUCH AS THESE (THE WILDBUNCH YEARS: 1996-2003)
A1 I’m a Demon (And I Love Rock ‘n Roll) (Live, Old Miami, 1996)
A2 MC Sucka DJ (Unreleased, The Unthawed Sessions, 2000)
A3 Neurocameraman (Flying Bomb, 2001)
A4 I am the Knife (Live, Old Miami, 1996)
A5 I Lost Control Of My Rock n Roll (Uchu Cult, 1996)
A6 8-bit Gay Bar (From the Unreleased ‘Wildbunch Video Game’ Soundtrack)
A7 Don’t Be Afraid of the Robot (XL Recordings, 2003)
A8 Synthesizer (Demo, 2000)
B1 Rockshow (XL Recordings, 2003)
B2 Danger! High Voltage (1994 demo, Unreleased 4-track recording)
B3 Computer (Demo, A&M Studios, 1997)
B4 Radio Ga Ga (Unreleased Fire outtake, Fall of Saigon Sessions, 2002)
B5 Nuclear Winter (Alternate Version, 1998) B6 Jimmy Carter (Demo, 2002)
B7 I Am Detroit (Unreleased, 1998)

CD: WHAT THEY SHOULDN’T BE DOING (BONUS TRACKS)
I Know Karate (7-inch release, Uchu Cult, 1996)
Tiny Little Men (7-inch release, Uchu Cult, 1996)
Gay Bar (7-inch release, Uchu Cult, 1996)
R U You Afraid of the Devil? (Live, Old Miami, 1996)
I’m on Acid (Live, Old Miami, 1996)
Nuclear War (On the Dance Floor) (7-inch release, Flying Bomb, 1997)
Christian Radio (Manchester) - (Demo, A&M Studios, 1997)
Xmas Exorcismus (Ho Ho Ho) (7-inch release, Flying Bomb, 1997)
Dance Commander (Unreleased, The Unthawed Sessions, 2000)
Danger! High Voltage (Original Single Mix, Flying Bomb, 2001)
Improper Dancing (Unreleased, Fire demo sessions, 2002)
I’m the Bomb (Unreleased, Fall of Saigon Sessions, 2002)

DVD: FAKING THE ROCK EFFECT
Videos:
The Wildbunch: Young as Hell (2001)
Dance Commander (2001)
Danger! High Voltage (2003)
TV Appearances:
Chic-a-GoGo-‘Danger! High Voltage’ (Fall, 2001)
Top of the Pops-’Danger! High Voltage’ (Jan 2003)
Top of the Pops-’Gay Bar’ (Jun 2003)
Live Footage:
Full Set, Mac’s Bar - Lansing, Michigan - April, 1997
1. Animal Attraction
2. Take Off Your Clothes
3. I Know Karate
4. Computer
5. Speak English
6. Baby is a Nuclear Winter
7. Tiny Little Men
8. I am the Knife
9. Gay Bar
10. Don’t Be Afraid of the Robot
11. Baby vs Baby
12. MC Sucka DJ
13. I Lost Control (of my Rock n Roll)
Clones (We’re All) - The Gold Dollar Bar, June 1997
Don’t Be Afraid of the Robot - The Magic Bag, 1998
Naked Pictures (of Your Mother) - The Gold Dollar Bar, 1999
Vengeance and Fashion - UK, 2002
Improper Dancing - UK, 2002
FOUND FOOTAGE
The Wildbunch Era
Electric Six Era
ADDITIONAL EVIDENCE
The Ralph Valdez Program - WDET FM Detroit, June 1997
The “Louise Vertigo” Tape
1. Commit No Crime
2. She’s Guatemalan
3. The Dance Commander
4. Fall on My Face
5. Numero de Telefono
6. Jimmy Carter
7. I Came Here to Party
8. Elevator Inspection Time
9. The International Symbol for Radiation
10. Neurocameraman
11. I’m the Bomb
12. Instrumental

Electric Six

Fire Box Set

Beggars Banquet
Released 28 February 2025

Containing 27 rarities and 12 unreleased tracks, Bonus DVD w/ never-before-seen-footage, all-new 40 page booklet and more!

21 years ago, Fire, the debut album by Detroit’s Electric Six was granted Gold Record status after the band exploded onto the scene and broke dancefloors everywhere. Yet no one knows who they were, what they were doing or what the hell that was all about. Only one thing is certain: the 2003 release contained hit singles “Danger! High Voltage!” with rumored backing vocals by Jack White, and the iconic “Gay Bar” which was an instant classic. On February 28th, 2025 we will celebrate the 21st anniversary of Fire’s release, with an expansive limited-edition investigation into their strange legend.

The multi-format box set contains the original album (remastered), a LP containing 15 rarities & unreleased tracks, a DVD of suggestive video evidence, a bonus CD with even more bonus tracks, an exhausting 40-page investigative summary booklet and piles of declassified additional evidence. Full details and track listings are below.

Fire was assembled in 2002-2003 at Detroit’s White Room Studios as well as London’s Abbey Road and Olympic Studios. The first single, “Danger! High Voltage” created a terrifying cultural traffic jam, disrupted the course of countless innocent lives and was quickly followed by a second hit single in the form of “Gay Bar”. The indelicate and controversial video featured a collection of Abraham Lincoln look-alikes frolicking in the White House and “Video Of The Year” awards from both Q and Kerrang helped it rise to #5 on the UK charts. “Dance Commander”, the album’s third single followed, and with it came another epic video which was directed by Reuben Fleisher who would go on to be an acclaimed film director.

Since the release of Fire, Electric Six has gone on to release 20 albums.

Electric Six are "The rock equivalent of a duty-bound pack of Wild West outlaws who've spent the last 25 years on Mars and are now returning to right the musical wrongs of us puny Earth creatures." - THE DETROIT METRO TIMES
“the summer's most brilliantly demented party record” - ROLLING STONE
“A guilty pleasure” - UNDER THE RADAR
“They exist only to rock your world. If you don't let them, you're the stupid one”. - VILLAGE VOICE
“It's a raucous rave-up of arena rock riffs over funky disco beats, the kind of freaky dance-rock jams that belong on the jukebox in every gay biker bar in America.”- URB