The
Electric Frog, SWG3, Eastvale Place,
Glasgow, according to their site
Sun 18 Sep
Incubate
Festival, Tillburg, The Netherlands,
according to their site
Sat 22 Oct
SWN
Festival, Great Hall, Cardiff University,
with the Nightingales and Ted Chippington. A
limited number of cheap
tickets available (£16.50 inc. booking)
Stefan here... I'm going through a rough patch and am
taking an indefinite break from the Fall online (first
since 1996, when I started the gigog). You can find
most of the Fall news, gigs, etc. posted on the forum.
Conway will try to keep the news page updated. Please
email any contributions to him at conwaypaton@gmail.com.
Out
now on Cherry Red: part two of the Hacienda footage
from four gigs between 1983 and 1985. In italics are
the tracks from the first DVD, which Cherry Red
released in 2004.
27 July 1983:
Wings / Prole Art Threat / Eat Y'Self Fitter / Kicker
Conspiracy / Hip Priest / Mere Pseud Mag. Ed.
Hexen Definitive-Strife Knot / Ludd Gang /
Neighbourhood of Infinity / I Feel Voxish
29 June 1984:
Smile / Lie Dream of a Casino Soul / Craigness / 2 x 4
/ Oh Brother / Hey, Mark Riley / I Feel Voxish /
Pat-Trip Dispenser God-Box / Kicker Conspiracy / C.R.E.E.P. / Lay of
the Land / Elves / Garden
18 October 1984:
No Bulbs / Lay of the Land / Draygo's Guilt / Kicker
Conspiracy / God Box / Wings 2 x 4 / Slang King / Mere Pseud Mag. Ed.
9 October 1985:
The Man Whose Head Expanded / 2 x 4 / Kicker
Conspiracy What You Need / Barmy / L.A. / Dktr Faustus / I Am
Damo Suzuki / Gut of the Quantifier / Spoilt
Victorian Child
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added 11 July; updated 12 July
Sunday, 10 July 2011
Sub 89, Reading
Nate / Hot Cake / Muzoweri's Daughter / I've Seen
Them / Strychnine / Cowboy George / Cosmos / Laptop
Dog / I've Been Duped / Taking Off / Greenway / Bury /
Monocard / Wolf Kidult Man // Mr. Pharmacist / Psykick
Dancehall
Thanks to Mark for the setlist. Reviews on the
forum.
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added 11 July
Robert Palumbo:
I'm not one to endorse detective work on the
meanings of Mark's lyrics, but I thought I would
point interested Fall fans in the direction of what
I believe is the inspiration for the lyrics to
Cowboy George. The song seems to be about my wife's
Uncle George, who we made a film about, and gave a
copy to Mark in 2006. We consider the song to be in
large part a tribute to his spirit in the face of
the law: he was convicted of making terroristic
threats in California, and served a year in San
Quentin at age 65.
A version of the film is available on itunes, as
part of Showtime Network's "This American Life",
Season 2, Episode 5: "Every Marriage is a
Courtroom."
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added 4 July
Saturday, 2 July 2011
Stanley Theater, University of
Liverpool
Scaramanga / I've Seen Them / Muzorewi's Daughter /
Nate / Cowboy George / Cosmos / Chino / Weather Report
/ Laptop Dog / I've Been Duped / Monocard / Funnel of
Love // Psykick Dancehall
Reviews on the
forum. Many thanks to John for the setlist.
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added 2 July
Friday, 1 July 2011
Stanley Theater, University of
Liverpool
Nate / Happy Song / OFYC Showcase / Strychnine / I've
Seen Them / Taking Off / Chino / I've Been Duped /
Cowby George / Bury / Laptop Dog // Greenway
Reviews on the
forum. Many thanks to John for the setlist.
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added 1 July; updated 5 July
Thursday, 30 June 2011
Stanley Theater, University of
Liverpool
Nate / Hot Cake / Muzorewi's Daughter / I've Seen
Them / Strychnine / Laptop Dog / Cowboy George / Bury
/ Cosmos / I've Been Duped / Greenway / Wolf Kidult
Man / Psykick Dancehall
Reviews on the
forum. Thanks to Michael for the set list.
-------------------
added 11 June
I Hate Cruel Fashion Brands Says
Brix Smith-Start" : interview in yesterday's Evening
Standard.
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added 9 June
Michael Clark (w/MES & Fall
content) on last night's Newsnight; thanks to Buy
Kurious for the upload
-------------------
added 2 June
Friday, 3 June 2011
Moho Live, Manchester
Cosmos / Hot Cake / I've Seen Them / Strychnine /
Muzorewi's Daughter / new song / Cowboy George / Bury
/ I've Been Duped / Greenway / Funnel of Love / Chino
/ Psykick Dancehall // Weather Report
Thanks to The Abdominizer for the setlist and this
great video. Reviews on the
forum.
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added 2 June; updated 29 June
Wednesday, 1 June 2011
Koko, Camden, London
Cosmos / Hot Cake / I've Seen Them / Strychnine /
Muzorewi's Daughter / Cowboy George / Bury / I've Been
Duped / new song / Funnel of Love / Greenway / Chino /
Psykick Dancehall / Weather Report / Wolf Kidult Man
// Mr. Pharmacist // Reformation
Met my frend Alex at the pub, a good pub in
Camden is hard to find, but this was out of the way
and OK. I hadn't even been going to go in fact as a
friend was having a birthday at the excellent Lahore
Kebab House where he had pre-ordered several Nargis
kebabs - basically colossal curried scotch eggs.
Also, the last couple of times I'd seen the Fall
they'd been mediocre-rubbish, and I don't like Koko.
Headed down to the venue, got in, frend revealed
it has a roof a terrace, a thing I did not know. We
went up there with the rest of humanity, and drank
our expensive lager from plastic glasses, but it was
almost pleasant, almost civilised - rooftops and
fresh air, well as fresh as a hundred smokers packed
on to a small roof terrace will allow.
The thing is, it clearly wasn't absolutely sold
out, which was a good thing, as it meant without the
crowd being sparse you could at least find a place
to nestle in the main area. Another thing, they came
on v prompt. Ship-shape and Bristol fashion. This,
as probably everyone here knows is almost unheard
of. Smith liking to keep you waiting. In fact there
used to be a rumour wasn't there that the start of
the intro tape indicated when Smith had entered the
building, no doubt having got impossibly lost en
route from the next-door pub. But nope, straight on,
caught us unprepared, by surprise, guard down, and
just flew helter-skelter into matters.
Cosmic, as I believe it's called, rocked and Hot
Cake bounced, like a rubber wardrobe falling down a
flight of stairs, immediately sustaining and
enhancing the immense good cheer that seemed to
pervade everyone in the hall. Immediately clear that
Smith was snappin', flying around inside the songs
like a monkey in the rigging.
Hang on, I've got to get mysen a Fernet if I'm
going to keep this up. Revolting stuff - smells like
turpentine and looks like India ink - but it keeps
the demon at the door.
Then came a new'un, I've Seen Them, which got
stuck in my head for days if not weeks after. It was
somehow haunting. I think it was the fey tones of
Smith's refrain - 'I've seeeeeeeen them....' like a
Cassandra of the modern, voice curdled with
contempt. But it was also driving because of the
propulsive drums and The Eagle I think it was was
shouting in the background 'I'VE SEEN THEM GO! I'VE
SEEN THEM GO!'. There was a moment in the middle
where Smith's voice seemed like a viper of ferocity
coiled round the mic - really worked himself up he
did, it was great to see.
After that he said...
"Onto/under(?) the bridges of the senile...."
Then after that they did an extended Strychnine,
which I was delighted about, cos I wasn't expecting
it at all. It had that great rockabilly Fall sound;
the loosely-associated tightness, ramshackle and
unstoppable, which is one of their great live
sounds. It always puts a grin on my face, the
absurdity of it all. In fact writing now, it reminds
me of a very very bad circus I saw in Brittany as a
child, where an old and extremely reluctant and
irritable goat was made to clamber up a small tower
made out of wooden furniture, tables and chairs, and
stand precariously at the top, proud but also
utterly preposterous. That was what The Fall were
like, a rickety tower of tables and chairs, base in
Ys, spire reaching up to the moon.
Smith's screams in Strychnine, nothing like G
Roslie's spine-chilling aural lightning, were more
like a man suddenly genuinely terrified by something
or an immediate reaction to the realisation that
you're falling off a cliff. AAAAAAAAAARGH. Like
that. It was most amusing and invigorating.
The tombstone beat of Muzorewi's Daughter was
very impressive. I'm normally a bit sceptical about
new Fall doing old Fall - it's usually not as a
good, but this really was great, had the aura of
tribal magic, distant stars and deserts seen outside
the window of a dank industrial back-to-back.
Maybe it's because the new material is so
similar, so mystical sounding that this old and
spectral material felt like invested with such
power. A thought provoked by Cowboy George being
next, and although my friend later described it like
Ennio Morricone being kicked in the balls by Mickey
Mouse, it's a strange plangent song, which turns
into that section which is so brilliant live, which
is just Smith wearily declaiming over the
oscillating synths. Some pleasingly strange stuff
about sterilised monks and Cowboy George gradually
stumbling his way across heathland to...
I'M NOT FROM BURY! This was fucking hilarious
mainly because a) Eleni was being v amusing, waving
her hands about in between keyboard strikes, and
grinning like a loon while shouting I'M NOT FROM
BURY. This was f'ing great in fact. A single one of
the blasts of guitar contained more real magic than
the entire commercial franchise of Harry Potter. oh,
er b) it rocked.
And just reading back, I'm remembering what was
so good was the pacing. You had energy, new stuff,
terror, fun - it's a classic Fall combination
really.
I think there were some new programmes mentioned
in I've Been Duped, a song that has really benefited
from its live performances (think I first saw this
in an All Hallow's Even performance at the Hackney
Empire), like pop krautrock.
A new one again. I think he kept saying 'But I'm
from Düsseldorf' - again, v enjoyable. And again,
mainly, as with all the gig, because Smith was
clearly enjoying it all so much. You know, we were
just nodding away, completely under the spell. Also,
Smith had great control of the amps, suddenly
unleashing surges of raw guitar over the already
strange sound.
Another new one, I kept thinking was a version of
Beetle Bones n Smoking Stones, cos it sounded like
the session version they did of that, and Smith kept
on gurgling 'It's good enough for me, it's good
enough for you', but I was reliably informed later
that it was the song Greenway. Long and
incomprehensible spoken-word narrative stuff over
the top, interspersed with mocking guitars and Smith
taunting 'Greeeenwaaay' over the top. Probably a
good point to say that the group just looked and
sounded great. So intent upon their instruments and
the Fall Gemeinschaft.
Chino was utterly marvellous. Like the album
version (one of the best songs on that LP I think)
x10. Languorous, bleak hospital-drug psychedelia,
like Denton Welch + JG Ballard or something. One of
the best Fall songs in recent years I'm tempted to
say after that performance.
Then WEATHER REPORT! Oh man, this is great. After
its sunbleached weariness, it sank into its
synthesised black whirlpools, and then suddenly
flowered into a rocking-out conclusion.
Sorry I'm running out of puff/Fernet a bit and I
gotta go to bed. Mr Pharmacist was a jumpin' encore.
I always like it when they do this because I know a
number of people around the place will be saying
'Not THIS again', which redoubles its fun, which is
already considerable.
Then Smith orders everyone off, the lights go up,
and people start filing out. Then suddenly,
inexplicably, 'for reasons unfathomable but to me
wholly admirable', THEY COME BACK ON! And perform
one of the most startling versions of Reformation
I've heard, in fact, top ten Fall live moments of
all time (there's a fee for listing them, a $500
bottle of wine, so don't ask). It was so abundant,
despite its simple repetition, a seething black
tentacle of bass + marsh-light keyboards, and then
Smith, opening and shutting the aldis lamp onto the
landscape, briefly illuminating moments of terror -
floorboard, black river, motel. And did he start
singing That Ol' Swannee River at one point in it? I
think he did. The crowd loved it.
And then it finished.
Tremendous strange and compulsive fun. When
they're like this they're better than any film or tv
programme, books, whatever - because it's a one off,
unrepeatable, it has no chance to fade, a
conjuration that lives briefly and then dies when
done, and so is eternal. Grinning like fools at the
foot of the divine we were, as we tottered out.
Tom.
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added 31 May
Paul Hanley wrote in about CavFest
(the Cavendish Community Music Festival, West
Didsbury, M20) on Saturday, 17 September.
A great lineup (inc. Tom Hingley and
the Lovers w/S&P Hanley) and all profits go to the
Cavendish Primary School. Tickets are selling fast.
Sunday, 22 May 2011
Friends of Mine festival,
Capesthorne Hall, Cheshire
Little Frank: A very rough approximation of the
setlist for those interested:
Can Can Summer / new song? / Hot Cake / Muzorewi's
Daughter / Change (instrumental, aborted) / Strychnine
/ I've Seen Them / Chino / off stage / I've Been Duped
/ Psykick Dancehall / Wolf Kidult Man
Mark E Smith was born in 1957 and grew up in Prestwich,
Greater Manchester. He left school at 16, and worked in
a meat factory and then for an import-export company in
Manchester docks. In 1976, he formed the post-punk band,
The Fall, who were championed by the late DJ John Peel.
He has been the only constant member since the band
formed. Tomorrow, The Fall will play the Friends Of Mine
Festival in Cheshire; in September, they will release
their 29th album, on Cherry Red Records. His
autobiography, Renegade, was published in 2008.
When were you happiest?
Every day is great for me. I dislike rose-coloured
glasses.
What is your greatest fear?
Being trapped in a lift with Chatty Man or at a UK
music festival with no transport. Fear is something I
try not to absorb.
What is your earliest memory?
Having a hot wash at the age of four, before my first
day of school.
Which living person do you most admire, and why?
All nurses and television programmers at 4am who
"update". But mainly myself, as Napoleon.
What is the trait you most deplore in yourself?
Having to clean my teeth and look after my health.
What is the trait you most deplore in others?
A lot of people seem obliged to have a viewpoint.
What was your most embarrassing moment?
It is weekly.
Aside from a property, what's the most expensive
thing you've bought?
Human souls are not cheap.
What makes you unhappy?
All UK comedians.
What is your most treasured possession?
A tree in my front garden.
Where would you like to live?
Peking during the Boxer rebellion, 1900.
What would your super power be?
No food necessary. True bats know false powers drag
you down.
What do you most dislike about your appearance?
I could use a new brain and other organs.
If you could bring something extinct back to
life, what would you choose?
A decent bitter/lager.
Who would play you in the film of your life?
Orson Welles or Brian Cox.
What is your most unappealing habit?
Random spitting, stealing lighters – both are
unconscious.
What is your favourite smell?
Rain.
What is your favourite word or phrase?
"See you later."
What is your favourite book?
North, by Céline, and My Autobiography: Kevin Keegan.
What would be your fancy dress costume of choice?
A Jack Straw outfit, including voice and face.
What is the worst thing anyone's said to you?
Don't think you can leave me/this company/this train
etc.
Cat or dog?
Not dog – mutual hatred.
Is it better to give or to receive?
The first.
What is your guiltiest pleasure?
Spiked Opal Fruits/Starbursts (in whisky) – cheap.
What do you owe your parents?
Pointing the way to the front door.
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added 19 May
A post on the forum full of Fall news:
many thanks to Conway (please have a
wonderful time in the UK, et al.):
Marshall Suite reissue - it
finally went to production middle of last week,
after a few delays. We were waiting on the BBC for
the 2 tracks from the Robert Elms session, but they
couldn't locate any tapes. As it was a live-to-air,
it may not have been recorded.
I tried to broker a deal between Julia and Cherry
Red for her to provide some audio and visual
material for the booklet, however Cherry Red weren't
prepared to negotiate. I suspect they were worried
about the time ticking and they'd have to get the
tapes from Julia, have it mastered and then MES
would have to approve it's inclusion (which couldn't
be taken for granted, given the material).
In the end, it went to pressing those 2 BBC
tracks short of what Cherry Red had announced - one
of the dangers of pre-publicity, along with not
meeting the scheduled release date by a month.
And of course the artwork had to be redone to
delete the Elms tracks. It is packaged as a 3 disc
multi fold out digipak with a 12 page booklet. Notes
are by Daryl Easlea in a similar style to his
Sanctuary notes (as opposed to the extended
interview format he did for Beggars). The project
was basically run by the old Sanctuary team for
Cherry Red, as they are all now freelance - Steve
Hammonds project manager, Becky Stewart artwork,
Daryl and myself.
The BBC gave us a double whammy, as it recently
found the missing Clitheroe Castle live tapes,
unfortunately 6 months too late for inclusion in the
reissue of This Nation's Saving Grace.
No news on any further Beggars reissues at this
stage.
The new album - apparently recording is going
well. Mark is supposed to be putting down vocal
tracks the first week of June. Target for release is
September. Cherry Red are unlikely to give him a
hard time like Domino, so the chances are pretty
good it won't be delayed into next year. And it will
be released on vinyl.
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added 13 May
Thursday, 12 May 2011
Maria am Ostbahnhof, Berlin
Hot Cake / Muzorewi's Daughter / I've
Seen Them / Strychnine / Change / Bury / I've Been
Duped / Greenway / Chino / Hungry Freaks, Daddy /
Mountain Energei // Psykick Dancehall / Wolf Kidult
Man
Reviews on the
forum. A cracking gig judging by the
recording.Thanks to The Consortium for the setlist.
-------------------
added 12 May
Longtime Fall news readers may
remember Timekode (Cheap Space Chant, et al., seee Fall
news Jan. 2002). Deni has posted a great video
of her collaboration with M.E.S. on youtube:
31 August 2011
This is the latest news and gossip off the
message board, Fallnet, and elsewhere. If you have
something to contribute, please email Stefan at fallnews@gmail.com.
28apr11
TNSG Omnibus; Danny Baker; Euro/UK/OZ/NZ/Israel gigs;
Don Van Vliet, Rex Sergeant, Steve Ormod, r.i.p.; Before
The Fall comp; White Lightning promo vid; Pop Fiction;
Marshall Suite 3xCD; FoF's "Hex Enduction Ours";
Bracewell & Wilde "The Art of The Fall" (1992);
Middles' "Story of The Fall" doc; The Fall in Iceland
press; Sex, Drugs & HIV; M.E.S. I.P.A.; MES Quietus
interview; Factory Star's "Enter Castle Perilous"
25oct10
East Village Radio session; Ideal; new Scanlon demos;
UK/Euro festivals; NZ/Aus tour preview; Eat Y'Self
Fitter redux; Susan Vale; Quietus, Vice & Brag ints;
Mike Joyce, Adrian Sherwood ints.
03jun10
YFOC reviews; UK tour + Primavera; Times (London &
New York interviews); "worker bees" interview; Bury,
England's Heartbeat videos; caption comp.; Beleaguered
Fall Fan; Paintwork conference book; Bury/Cowboy Gregori
7"; Mojo, Tim Cumming Q&As.
02apr10
Berlin gig; FIGFALP; Domino YFOC press release; Tate's
"Sound & Vision" series; Gorillaz' Glitter Freeze;
Gavin Friday int.; Beggars archive update; #1 Cult
Figure (Alex Chilton, rip); MES as Narrative Lyric
Writer; Quietus, Independent interviews; couple of
Youtubes.
30dec'09
Oct-Nov UK tour +Berlin +Milan; Slippy Floor single;
Paintwork #3; Elena int. in La Bouche, Martin Bramah
int.; Your Future - Our Clutter announced and delayed;
HudLit transcript; Beggars archive update; Fallnet Xmas;
Frances Stark; 100 Fall albums; Radio 4 Pick-ups;
Factory Star; Pearl Divers (Mike Leigh).
29sep'09
Summer UK/Euro gigs; Factory Star; The Fallen twitter;
another Smith/Blaney cd; Huddersfield Q&A; Beggars
reissues; Greenwich Sound radio 1983; 1982 photos; Alan
Wise; Chris Knox; Palais DVD; Jeffrey Lewis interview.
19may'09
Annual MES Missive; London, Glasgow, Cambridge gig
reviews; Domino press release; Paintwork#2 exhibition +
photos; Observer int; Nazi cattle; John Robb MCR book;
Safi interview; Globo; Monks screenings.
04mar'09
Fall / MES+Blaney gigs; Paintwork#2; Broken Hip#2; Derby
punk book excerpt; Huddersfield Lit comp.; Monks DVD;
Gene Vincent radio; Lux Interior, Ron Asheton, r.i.p.;
Fall rehearsal video; Dick Witts lecture; DNA's
"Misery".
30nov'08vII - 2nd lyrics book; David Luff, r.i.p.; UK
tour + 3 Euro gigs; The Fallen press; Smith
& Blaney album; 2 Smith ints.; David "Bumble" Lloyd;
Shiftwork & Holidays on DVD; Unutterable
2CD reissue; 2008 Fall Albums League results; Martin
Bramah solo; Marcia Schofield's Private Passions;
Orpheo on tour; Adam Buxton's Mojo promo;
Globo
07aug'08
UK gigs and Euro festival reviews; Renegade & IWS
reviews; MES Q&As; The Story of the Fall; Mojo
Maverick award and auction; MES/ Blaney project; Bo
Diddley RIP; Annual Bulletin from the Desk of MES;
Scotland on Sunday, MCR Evening News, and BBCR4 Front
Row interviews; WPRB review of 4/4/98 gig; Bard of
Salford documentary; Maxwell Hall debacle
27apr'08
March UK tour / Renegade excerpts / The Fallen book /
Imperial Wax Solvent / Squirrelgate / Daily Telegraph,
MusicOMH, Uncut, Word interviews / Hex on Radio 4 /
Blaney on Voiceprint deal / Messing up the Paintwork
programme & abstracts / Fall news feed
21jan'08
VS / Fall gig reviews, Vice TV's "Soft Focus" int.,
Messing up the Paintwork conference, message from MES,
MES reads Lovecraft, "Latch Key Kid", Suzanne Smith
& Claus Castenskiold prints for sale, Flying Nun
documentary, Dave Day r.i.p., Renegade preview, MES on
BBC radio sitcom "Start", Unofficial Fall site now The
Fall Online
16oct'07 Fall
/ Von Südenfed gig reviews, Zone / Jungle World / Chord
/ Taz interviews (mainly VS-related), Independent
Q&A, Fall Box Set reviews, Hammersmith Palais DVD,
Mick Middles' Complete Guide, Wyndham Lewis, myspace MES
imposter, Fall Cup 2007, Derek Erdman Fall nights,
Intermittent Signal (Simon W.), MES fabric doll.
3jul'07
Newsnight Review int., Independent Q&A, Barcelona
gig, Von Sudenfed reviews & interviews, Fall box
set, Julia Adamson, Hurdy Gurdy Man video, Word of
Mouth, John Leckie TapeOp int., Reformation video, Ideal
TV clip, Record Collector / Manchester Confidential /
Harp Magazine ints., Lee on I'm Into CB, official site
problems, Foggy Notions letters, PBL fiction collection.
12apr'07
UK tour, RPTLC reviews, Narnack edition, Reformation
single, Von Sudenfed, MES's 50th, Uncut Q&A, Foggy
Notions / Telegraph / Liberation / Rock & Folk
interviews, Renegade delayed, Saturn 5, Universal
reissues, Culture Show / Transmission TV spots.
22feb'07
RPTLC UK released, Malaga gig, MES interviews:
Independent, Welt am Sonntag, Stool Pigeon, The Times,
Fantastic Man; Johnny Vegas' Ideal preview, Memorex of
the Krakens, Anjulireeves on youtube, Packing a Gun, 7
Wives of MES, Saturn 5, Grayson Perry, Brix's "Star,"
Frank Sidebottom.
30dec'06
Reformation Post TLC announcements, NYC &
Strangeways gigs, Julia Adamson photos, Dave Milner
songs, Gusgus Not Clean remix, Fall forum crash, Sonic
Arts Network cd, PBL book, Mitsubishi Blindness, Monks
live session, MES on Dylan.
30oct'06
Silver Monk Time & Monks gigs, Oct. UK & Ireland
gig reviews, Ben Pritchard interview, "Renegade: The
Gospel According to MES," MES DJ set on Radio 1,
Environmental Health News, Stewart Lee in Sunday Times.
21sep'06
Simonfb, r.i.p., Bournemouth & London gigs / UK
festivals, Silver Monk Time, Sunday Herald & Maximum
RnR interviews, Julia Nagle's latest projects, another
Peel tribute CD.
17aug'06
Brooklyn Vegan / Arena Homme Plus interviews, Oya
Festival, Tesla-K, The Blimp, Tycoons Follies, Artrocker
review, Tony Friel archive, PBL book update, KFNY
poster, Billboard, more Voiceprint CDs.
13jun'06
US tour (second leg), more US press (NYT, The Pitch, SLC
Weekly, Stop Smiling), Manchester gig (inc. MEN preview
& FT review), What Sven Could Learn from Me
(Guardian int. from last year)
23may'06
US tour (first leg), US press (LA Alternative, LA City
Beat, SF Chronicle, OC Weekly), Smog Monsters, Morley on
MCR/L'pool
1may'06
Berlin gig, Reclaimers' footy song, MES "In Their Own
Write", Praxis Hagen exhibit.
6apr'06
UK tour, Greek/ Swiss gigs, "The Two-Year Gap"
announcement, John Peel Fall intros/ outros mp3, Wire's
Fall Primer, Q's Manchester special, Monks Beat Club
clips, Fallnet's "Dr. Buck's Letters", Fall album survey
results, Nikki Sudden / Ivor Cutler r.i.p., Brix's new
house, cult musicians, Gavin Esler.
21feb'06
Official Fall site now Unofficial, Guardian ex-Fall
members article, Mojo interview and poll results, IS,
IAH, MCR & CC remaster details, Mixing It session,
Antwerp & Wigan gigs, Ding's two new bands,
Ghostigital, New Year's Honours, fashion corner: Brix
interview & Lagerfeld show, Blue Orchids new album,
history of Salford bands.
3jan'06
Word MES interview, ticket refund information, Festive
50, misc. year-end press roundups and Fall forum poll
results, preview of Guardian's ex-Fall members article,
MES lego minifig, Armitage Shanks & Necropolis
Fall-related songs, Ghostigital's "Not Clean" &
"Codomatopoeia," Corsa ad back on TV, John Peel's Record
Box.
8nov'06
Fall Heads Roll reviews, UK tour, Incendiary, Rock Sound
& Pitchfork interviews, PBL book preview,
Commercially Unfriendly cd.
30sep'05
Fall Heads Roll details, MES to read footy scores, Peel
tribute CDs, ChronicArt preview, Blast Off DVD sampler,
Frank Skinner, Jacob's Cream Crackers, Stewart Lee,
Deisel-U-Matic award.
18aug'05
Paul Hanley BBC radio int., MES Metro "60-second" &
Kitchen Sink ints., 1979 Jamming! int., Deisel U Matic
award, Paul Wilson's Fall Mix, Stewart Lee's favorite
things.
26jul'05
Berlin & Paris gigs, Fall site news, Diesel-U-Music
& Mojo awards, Live from the Vaults: the "real"
story, Sanctuary / Slogan Records announcement, Mayo
Thompson, Commercially Unfriendly CD, links to loads of
Peel box reviews.
14jun'05
UK & Lyon gigs, Conway's guitar tab and Adult Net
pages, Jools Holland, Deeply Vale cd, MES int. w/BBC on
Peel, Lime Lizard 1993, Festive 50 book, Live from the
Vaults delayed, Wake Up in the City, Cuz'n Roy's yard sale
on ebay, Jahn Rhondos.
27apr'05 UK gigs, Left of the
Dial & Scotland on Sunday interviews, Deeply Vale CD
preview, Bingo Masters press release, Scherzo Schist, Live
from the Vaults, Simon Reynolds, Simon Armitage,
Prenzlauer Berg, Fall Cafe, Poloraoids special offer, Brix
& Gromit, MES on Funhouse, Fall documentary
transcript, the Fall wants your photo.
25feb'05 BBC4 Fall doc, Hex
reissue, KFNY gig, Fall Forum's TNSG, Ice Magazine (UK)
MES int., Sun Zoom Spark articles, Playlouder
appreciation, unofficial Sparta FC video, Peel set
postponed 1 month, MES's New Years Honours list, 9may81
photos, Hunter S. Thompson, RIP.
7jan'05 Jim Watts resigns, UK
gigs, Pseud Mag, Festive 50, Deeply Vale, documentary,
City Bar "fall-out", Polaroids on the Fall, Wipe That
Sound, Narnack sampler.
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