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

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it is awesome

I cannot wait for this, the "Sparta FC" on here is defintive, like a lot of the vers of these songs

The "I can hear the grass grow" session was on that MES documentary on BBC4. no doubt to be repeated soon on BBC2...

Fall Street parties in April.

Not arguing so much as questioning how much I'd play the thing given that I have most of the tracks already on the albums proper.

bastard.

i must buy this.

god, it looked topp.

Would this qualify for the real album chart?

well, i say "we". i mean my friend. but we're working out some kind of joint-ownership deal because he doesn't like the fall as much.

fuck me ragged!

Suffice to say JEALOUS -- but I hope to get my copy next week, possibly next weekend. :-)

hah! the second i posted that, i did think ... oops.

WTF? Where do you work that this is just sitting around, forgotten?

the world's daftest newspaper office, it seems. i genuinely can't believe it. it's not even as if it was with other CDs ... it had been shoved in the book cupboard with a load of audio books. someone obviously got sent it, didn't have a clue what it was, and shoved it away.

either that or there's a mystical music fairy hovering about the place and i can expect to find the boo radleys best-of in the gents' in a couple of months' time.

*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.