Oh! The Fall John Peel Sessions box set! OH! you guys.

*shrugs*. *smiles*.

daryl easlea's sleevenotes - despite the odd typo - are fantastic. very warm and touching about peel (as you'd hope); fantastically enthusiastic about the music (ditto).

this is a public health warning. never, ever try to MP3 six discs of fall peel sessions while hungover on a saturday morning. at least, not unless you know the titles are on CDDB.

which they will be once i work out how the fuck i managed to mis-label half of the third disc and ... oh, don't ask. ooh, me head.

the fall box is now sitting on my desk on top of the johnny cash box-set. you see two such mighty compendiums of genius sitting together and you think, yeh, give me music like that and i can beat the world.

Yay! I'm off to Europe in July 2005 once again

Rah, etc.

Futures and Pasts!

Due May 2005 (?) from Voiceprint, a series of 5 Live From The Vaults archive live recordings - Oldham 1978, Retford 1979, Los Angeles 1979, Glasgow 1981 & Hof [Germany] 1981. Hof is a double CD, the others are all single disc.

Due late May 2005 from Ozit Records, Live At Deeply Vale - live from the People's Free Festival 28 July 1978.

Due 13 June 2005 (put back from 16 May to avoid clash with Peel box set): Sanctuary reissues of Room To Live and Perverted By Language. Bonus tracks are to be announced; Perverted By Language will be a double CD.

Future releases from Sanctuary - In A Hole, then the reissues series will start on the Permanent albums The Infotainment Scan and Middle Class Revolt. All due second half of 2005. Also for late 2005 is pencilled in Bootleg Box Set, Volume 2, containing all the Voiceprint Live 2 finger salute CDs.

The Deeply Vale info is as far as the website knows:

The Fall Live at Deeply Vale (July 28, 1978) CD will be released on Ozit records at the end of May (May 30?). Yes, Ozit realizes that the front cover shows the 1979 Deeply Vale lineup; the photos they have from '78 aren't good enough for the front, although there will be one or two in the booklet.

Stay tuned for a special offer on this CD. It'll be available for "slightly" less than the normal price through a link from the Fall News, and the CD booklet will be signed by author Mick Middles.

I believe the track listing is Repetition / Psycho Mafia / Rebellious Jukebox / Frightened / Steppin' Out / Like to Blow / Mess of My / Mother-Sister / Industrial Estate / It's the New Thing / Futures and Pasts / Music Scene

I'm a touch surprised at the In a Hole reissue, in that the two disc rerelease on Voiceprint a couple of years back was near-perfect -- mastered from vinyl but actually done right, great liner notes, slew of wonderful bonus tracks etc. But such is the weird world of Fall reissues, but I figure I'll skip that one unless there's a noticeable sound difference.

Also nice to see that the Sanctuary series will in fact continue, skipping over the Beggars and Fontana years admittedly.

hmph!

There's a promo set on e-bay, currently £15 or thereabouts.

this is totally, totally great! and the sun is shining! what a day!

http://www2.hmv.co.uk/hmvweb/displayProductDetails.do?ctx=281;1;-1;-1&sku=376690

Anyone know if this price applies to bricks and mortar HMVs?

I suppose I could take something back to make it cheaper.

If I wanted to.

Goddamn. I've been listening to this all morning, trying to think of something to write about it.. all I can come up with is .. GodDAMN!

"HIT EM ON THE HEAD!!! WITH A 2 BY FOUR!!!"

Only because I've spent a few hundred dollars on their pre-BB catalog over the past decade.

Anyhow, I hope to find a way to procure this BBC box soon!

a) when i told london energy my real meter reading (rather than the one they made up for me) my last bill went down from 46 to 23 pounds.
b) it frees up about 5 pounds worth of space on all those tapes i've made over the years.

there, easy. oh, wait, payday today...

pity this is almost exactly 6 months to late...

finding it so so hard to fault - i think the only things that leave me cold are the extended 10min or so versions of tracks like hip priest and words of expectation - but that's just personal preference and i bet it's just because i have had so much of it to take in, and i'll eventually come round.

every household should have one.

So, Saturday we spent driving down to the lookout with Amber (7) and Alice (5) singing "NO! (because I'm not old enough)" with gusto, and having to wait until "Top of the Pops" had finished when we got there...

But anyway, I digress.

Has there been any decent reviews of this set in the 'press'? Yeah, NME gave it a "this is excellent" type brief writeup, but hey that's not nearly enough. I presume the Mojos/Uncuts' reviews are forthcoming, but come on....

http://www.uncut.co.uk/music/the_fall/reviews/8577
http://www.manchesteronline.co.uk/entertainment/music/albumreviews/s/155/155565_the_fall__the_complete_peel_sessions_sanctuary_.html

My copy's in the mail, I wear a bib for the drool.

I had ordered my copy through The Ideal Copy but just got a note saying this...

We are experiencing a bit of trouble getting this product. It turns
out that it was manufactured and released in the UK last week - but
that Sanctuary didn't manufacture nearly enough to cover the demand.
To make matters worse - they are having trouble manufacturing more
and don't expect to have them available again until May 23rd - I've
included a copy of the email our supplier received from Sanctuary
below. On top of this - Sanctuary has now scheduled a US release of
this title - it's expected to come out on June 7th.

So basically, do what I'm doing (and what TIC is kindly giving me the option to do), hold off or cancel the import orders and wait a bit.

The last box set to make the chart (I think) was the Jam one, which made top ten. Not that That is important really, but this would have sold as much if they'd shipped it as such...

Anyway, I'm back on the box.. "hhot... Aftershave boppp"

Groovin with Mr. Bloe..

Mark: Chewbacca
El: Chewca

.. Makes me think of Pirini Sclarosa every time.

Meanwhile, "Whizz Bang!! Butterflies for brainzzz"

OK, hold your thoughts, I've hit a dud track!

Yup.

"The City never sleeps at night". OK, granted it has no Mark E on it, and is given to the band and the girl backing vocalist steps up, but its a bad karaoke version of a (presumably) good track.

But, I have just heared "Hark the Herald Angels Sing" which sounds exactly like you think. And is fant.

So, Yep, I'm still on this. Just as well I'm not reviewing this for a magazine/newspaper. Mind you did anyone else that reviewed it listen to it all? That's a tall order.