Why does anyone like the Fall?

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.

interviewed in The Fallen!

Early drummer, a balding Teddy Boy
Mistaken
For famous
Film directahhh

Not surprising that Mark E. Smith was a bit of a slob.

Best artist of all time.

The five former-Fall members have joined together as HOUSE Of ALL. Their self-titled album will be released Spring 2023 & we're planning a very limited run of live shows to celebrate this unexpected coming together of former soldiers of The Fall. Aren’t we lucky! pic.twitter.com/DLWovi5nRB

— Tiny Global Productions (@tinyglobal123) November 16, 2022

prediction: not as good as the Imperial Wax album, but happy to be surprised

Hanley, Hanley, Bramah, Wolstencroft, ???

greeeeeenwaayyyyyy

because they want to wear a large suit jacket

And the House of All album is up for preorder

https://houseofall.bandcamp.com/album/house-of-all

April 22, gahhh

preview track sounds amazing

I don't think it's an exaggeration to say this (from the Bandcamp writeup)

Martin Bramah, The Fall's singer until Mark E Smith's lesser guitar skills caused them to swap places, was, per Daryl Easlea, "possibly the last true equal to Smith in the group" and likewise the longest survivor of the original line-up.

re: "last true equal"

ha this song is great.

Yeah Bramah being involved gives this an immediate and interesting focal point.

someone tell me what the best book(s) on the Fall are, as I'd quite like to read firsthand accounts of how awful it was to be in this band

Steve Hanley's book is what you want.

^^^^^^

I need to finally get that.

Also, Simon Wolstencroft's.

and The Fallen! and Brix's book. get them all.

The best writting piece post Mark E. Smith disappearance.
Der Sun Ra aus Manchester
https://www.freitag.de/autoren/mladen-gladic/der-sun-ra-aus-manchester

"Mark Edward Smith, born on 5 March 1967 in Broughton in Lancashire"

So, he was ten when The Fall first formed?

Renegade is the best one. I'd rather have Mark's lies than the others' truths lol

I mean, I'd read the others ofc, I'm mostly comparing it to The Fallen which felt like a doomed exercise

Renegade is the only one I've read and it's great if you are the kind of person who frequently found his interviews piss funny, it might be a bit wearing if you are not.

The best bit is when he loses his lyrics in the desert somewhere in the US and a little lad shows up and picks them all up and he says, "Thanks, cocker".