Why does anyone like the Fall?

Oh shit, that write-up is from John Dwyer from Osees. That is, indeed, righteous.

yeah that sound is great comnpared to recent spate of "official" live stuff

lol already sold out in preorder, guess I'll wait for the CD

thanks for the heads up!

Damn, I didn't catch that, I was debating ordering it tonight.

Midheaven has it.

There will be a CD? There usually aren’t with these kind of things. Or even a paid download.

Yeah, I wouldn’t count on a CD release, though I will happily take one! Stuff like this from Castle Face has lately been fairly exclusive to small vinyl runs. Here’s hoping we get another shot though!

This is great fun, would love a pint with Grant Showbiz:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6SoICqXUgMM

Thanks for posting that — fun to see a couple of old Fall Forum characters in it, and yes, Showbiz's enthusiasm and bafflement are infectious.

Are those guys from the Fall forum? There was a sense of... disdain from one of them.

Here's the whole St Helens show

https://theperlichpost.blogspot.com/2020/07/listen-to-fall-live-at-st-helens.html

Gotta say, sounds like they didn't take enough speed, they're a little slow. Quality is great but I think I prefer Fall in a Hole and Part of American Therein. Still cool I guess but not worth 30 bucks for me

watching that documentary now. Grant Showbiz did just make a factual error though, he said the Fall played on the main stage at Reading festival after sacking their drummer after a fight with MES. They weren't on the main stage, they were in the tent. (I was there but I didn't trust my recollection so I checked)

he did say that though didn't he?...he says second stage.

the setlist from what appears to be this show in that documentary is great

Two Librans / Cyber Insekt / And Therein / Bourgeois Town / Ben's > F-'Oldin' Money > Kick the Can / Mr. Pharmacist / Way Round / I Am Damo Suzuki / Enigrammatic Dream / The Joke / Ketamine Sun / Antidotes / Dr. Buck's Letter / I Wake up in the City (instr.)

Hanley brothers podcast coming soon!!!

Very cool... Paul's book on Hex was excellent.

Really heartbreaking this, Mark E Smith's old house is for sale. Still many possessions there. Oh, Mark. So missed. What can be done? https://t.co/O95SKRMYgG @theJeremyVine @fallnews @VariousTimes @theQuietus pic.twitter.com/6JJQT9R8Jg

— Dave Haslam (@Mr_Dave_Haslam) July 1, 2021

I know Haslam is a thoughtful soul but I'm not sure what he is getting at, apart from a few piles of books I don't see much more than general detritus. What can be done? A museum?

A good clean is what can be done.

would go to a tbe Fall museum but think it should be done London dungeon style

Turn it into a pub. Or an amphetamine den

Grind up the plaster and sell it in baggies to members of zoomer angular post punk groups.

I love The Fall, but it’s hardly Francis Bacon’s studio. Not much for acolytes to see where he got that spark.

Just imagining my Fall museum, it should be an overwhelming audio/visual environment, there should be a mix of experimental theatre actors and severely mentally ill homeless people mingling with the guests, it should be really dark and difficult to navigate, basically if you ever went to Shunt under London Bridge you'll know what I mean.

It could become.....

THE GREATEST LIBRARY YET!!!

(Slow, you lot!)

The interior is a prison unconscious.

Is that the "my new house" he sang about?

he messed up the paintwork

He told us we should see it!

safehouse safehouse time

No bulbs in this house

Put your claim into Tempo House
Go round there and have a grouse

Is that the "my new house" he sang about?

I believe so, yes

I wanted to buy it and made an offer, an offer, it was not an unreasonable offer

The "No Bulbs" place was his previous house.

Anyway, it's £200K

you could buy 0.002 Jack Grealishes for that money

Try not to mention Aston Villa in a Fall thread.

ok, will make a note for next time

One time The Fall turned up and, for their rider, took ten cases of beer, six bottles of wine and all the champagne. They cleaned us out. They put it all in their chalet to have a party. I get this call that they’re side of stage, and Mark E Smith is kicking off because there’s no rider. I explained they’d already had it, but they were refusing to play without one. So we took the skeleton key and broke into The Fall’s chalet and took their own booze and brought it to them. After the show, I hear this message on the radio: “It’s the Fall, they’ve been robbed!” Mark used to give me an invoice with a fake VAT number on it, and when I called him on it he pulled out a whisky bottle and tried to hit me over the head with it. Twice he tried to bottle me.

Probably equally upset he didn't think of the fake VAT invoice first

Woebot meditates:

http://www.woebot.com/2022/03/hip-priest.html

“The only hangovers I’ve ever had were off ecstasy. It’s not nice… You’re drying up your brain with that stuff.”

Would love to have seen MES on E. Though I have a feeling the immovable object might have resisted the unstoppable force.

They've got until Tuesday to raise £4000... so far they've managed £210! Seems like not many people like the Fall after all.

https://www.burynewroad.org/bury/save-the-fall-archive/

In case you feel like breaking the hearts of the citizens of Bury:

https://bid.omegaauctions.co.uk/auction/search/?sto=0&au=79&w=False&pn=1&mc=6&sc=96&ssc=130

xp Looks like it’s now £1,190 (which actually seems like a lot, considering the details here?)

Oh right, I didn't check the crowdfunding page. Still quite a bit short though.

I see among the categories is "Mike Leigh"

Nice try...

can’t quite work out what that last comment relates to, but the fall did have a drummer called mike leigh (no not that one) around dragnet time.

A balding Teddy Boy iirc.