Jeffrey Lewis's "The Fall: 100 Songs" poster (actually 112 songs) is available for sale on his site. $10+p&p. Includes cheat sheet.
And you'll remember a version of this from the multitalented Mr. Lewis.
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added 20 November
Thursday, 19 November 2015 Broadcast, Glasgow (Brix & The Extricated)
U.S. 80s-90s / Feeling Numb / Leave the Capitol / Waking Up in the Sun / Hotel Bloedel / ? / L. A. / 2 x 4 / Ball of Confusion / Deadbeat Descendant / Lay of the Land / Bombast / Totally Wired // Something to Lose / Mr. Pharmacist // Big New Prinz
Thanks to Graeme for the setlist.
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added 19 November
The Fall and Cherry Red Records are proud to announce the release of Wise Ol’ Man, an EP featuring new tracks as well as alternate takes of songs from this year’s Sub-Lingual Tablet LP. Wise Ol’ Man will be released on the 29th January 2016 on CD and limited edition 12″ vinyl. The tracklisting runs as follows:
1. Wise Ol’ Man
2. All Leave Cancelled
3. Dedication Not Medication (Remix)
4. Wise Ol’ Man (Instrumental)
5. Venice With Girls
6. Face Book Troll / No Xmas For John Quay
7. All Leave Cancelled (X)
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added 17 November
The Fall at Le Bataclan in Paris on 7 March 2012, in memory of the 89 murdered inside last Friday night.
The same videographer, indiegilles, was at the Eagles of Death Metal gig but got out alive.
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added 15 November
Saturday, 14 November 2015 Tivoli, Buckley
No Respects / Venice with the Girls / I'm Not from Bury / Dedication Not Medication / Wise Old Man / First One Today / Junger Cloth / Mister Rode / Wolf Kidult Man / Tuff Life Boogie / Mr. Pharmacist / Auto-Chip 2014-2016
Reviews on the forum, and thanks to the Big Bopper for the setlist.
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added 13 November
Thursday, 12 November 2015 Concorde 2, Brighton
No Respects / Venice with the Girls / I'm Not from Bury / Dedication Not Medication / Wise Old Man / First One Today / Mister Rode / Junger Cloth / Theme from Sparta F.C. / Quit iPhone / Pledge // Tuff Life Boogie / Auto-Chip 2014-2016
Reviews on the forum, and thanks again to Mark for the setlist.
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added 12 November
Wednesday, 11 November 2015 Clapham Grand, London
No Respects / Venice with the Girls / My Door Is Never / Dedication Not Medication / Wise Old Man / First One Today / Tuff Life Boogie / The Remainderer / Junger Cloth / Theme from Sparta F.C. / Wolf Kidult Man // Auto Chip 2014-2016
Reviews on the forum, and many thanks to Stan Mission for filming and Mark for the setlist.
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added 12 November
Brix & The Extricated start their UK tour next week, and here's an interview with Brix herself, on Ellipsis.
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added 25 October
Sunday, 25 October 2015 Melbourne Festival, Foxtel Festival Hub, Melbourne, Australia
No Respects / Venice with the Girls / Wolf Kidult Man / Dedication Not Medication / Wise Old Man / Auto Chip 2014-2016 / Tuff Life Boogie / Mr. Rode // Theme from Sparta F.C. / I'm Not from Bury / Blindness
Review on the forum, and thanks to Cryptomoralist and hanleyfender for the setlist. And Richard Harms for the photo: "As you can see from the reports we had a superb three nights of it in Melbourne. For what it's worth I thought I'd send this, taken at the climax of last night's closer, Blindness. I think it almost captures something of what it all was about..."
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added 25 October
Saturday, 24 October 2015 Melbourne Festival, Foxtel Festival Hub, Melbourne, Australia
Wolf Kidult Man / Venice with the Girls / Cowboy George / I'm Not from Bury / Wise Old Man / Dedication Not Medication/ Tuff Life Boogie / Junger Cloth / Theme from Sparta F.C. / Snazzy // Pledge / Mr. Pharmacist
Reviews on the forum. And one hundred congratulations to hanleyfender, Fall Setlist Procurer extraordinaire, on attending his 100th Fall gig, many thousand miles away from home. Dedication. IIRC his first was at Brighton in 1981: a good year to start.
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added 23 October
Friday, 23 October 2015 Melbourne Festival, Foxtel Festival Hub, Melbourne, Australia
No Respects / Venice with the Girls / I'm Not from Bury / Wise Old Man / Dedication Not Medication / Fibre Book Troll / Quit iPhone // Theme from Sparta F.C. / White Lightning
Reviews on the forum, and thanks to Mark for the setlist.
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added 21 October
Wednesday, 21 October 2015 Metro Theatre, Sydney, Australia
No Respects / Venice with the Girls / I'm Not from Bury / Wise Old Man / Dedication Not Medication / First One Today / Hittite Man > Junger Cloth / Pledge // Theme from Sparta F.C. // Auto Chip 2014-2016 // I've Been Duped (w/o MES)
Reviews on the forum and thanks to Divvey and Mark for the setlist.
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added 21 October
Tuesday, 20 October 2015 The Zoo, Brisbane, Australia
No Respects / I'm Not from Bury / Venice with the Girls / My Door Is Never / Dedication Not Medication / Wise Old Man / First One Today / Hittite Man > Junger Cloth / Theme from Sparta F.C. // Weather Report / Auto Chip 2014-2016 / Mr. Pharmacist
Reviews on the forum, and thanks to Greame for the setlist and Matthew Kassay for Wise Old Man vs. Choc Chip Biscuit.
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added 18 October
Sunday, 18 October 2015 Bodega, Wellington, New Zealand
No Respects / I'm Not from Bury / Venice with the Girls / My Door Is Never / Dedication Not Medication / Wise Old Man / First One Today / Hittite Man > Junger Cloth / Mister Rode / Theme from Sparta F.C. // Auto Chip 2014-2016 / Mr. Pharmacist
Saturday, 17 October 2015 Powerstation, Auckland, New Zealand
My Door Is Never / Venice with the Girls / First One Today (plus ~30sec reprise of the ending) / Dedication Not Medication / Wise Old Man / Hittite Man > Junger Cloth / Theme from Sparta F.C. // I'm Not from Bury / Pledge / What About Us? // ? (aborted) / White Lightning / Mr. Pharmacist
Reviews on the forum and thanks to Conway for grabbing the setlist despite assault from a bouncer.
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added 16 October
Some press bits in advance of the antipodean dates:
Special edition Fall t-shirts: "Remit" and "Smoking Joker".
Black with designs by Suzanne Smith.
Available now in S, M, L and XL.
Price: £16 plus £3 postage and packaging in the UK. Rest of the world price on application.
Sunday, 11 October 2015 The Great British Alternative Festival, Butlins, Skegness
I'm Not from Bury / Venice with the Girls / My Door Is Never / Dedication Not Medication / Wise Old Man / First One Today / Hittite Man > Junger Cloth / Wolf Kidult Man // Mr. Pharmacist / Pledge / Quit iPhone
I'm Not from Bury / Venice with the Girls / My Door Is Never / Dedication Not Medication / Wise Old Man / First One Today / Hittite Man > Junger Cloth / Mister Rode // What About Us?
No Darren. Reviews on the forum and thanks to Chris Goodhead for the setlist.
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added 10 October
Friday, 9 October 2015 Rockaway Beach Festival, Bognor Regis
I'm Not from Bury / Venice with the Girls / Cowboy George / Dedication Not Medication / Wise Old Man / First One Today / Hittite Man > Junger Cloth / Mister Rode / Pledge / Quit iPhone / Theme from Sparta F.C.
Reviews on the forum, and thanks to Hanley Fender for the setlist.
Distressing news from Barrie Reilly: "Very sad news. my good friend Tom Head passed away last night. hed been very ill for 6months. a wonderful carachter. so funny.hed do anything for you. a top drummer too. a real salford lad. He had his
pride. he stood up to M.E.S. didnt put up with his antics! A true gentleman, and devoted family man.sleep tight Tom."
Thomas Patrick Murphy drummed for The Fall from 1998-2000 and also acted on Coronation Street, Emmerdale Farm, and The League of Gentlemen. He co-wrote one of the group's best songs, "Dr. Buck's Letter."
RIP Tom.
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added 29 September
Steve Hanley and Olivia Pierkarski talk with Dave Haslam at the Ilkley Literature Festival, West Yorkshire, this Saturday, 3rd October, at 8pm. Details here.
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added 17 September
Rough Trade East in London is doing a book launch/panel discussion for David Cavanagh's book about John Peel and his legacy. (Fall Forum regulars may remember Cavanagh's alter ego, Zoot Horn Polo.)
Thursday, 24 September, 7pm. A panel discussion with David Cavanagh, Stuart Braithwaite, Brix Smith-Start, and Jen Long.
An evening of The Fall on Sat. 17 October at Our Bar, London Road, Stoke-on-Trent.
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28 Nov 2015
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.
30aug15Euro gigs, UK tour Apr-May; festivals (incl. Glastonbury); "Sub-Lingual Tablet" LP; Connie & Cookie; "I'll Be Your Mirror" Una Baines comic; London 27 Nov '14 videos; Charlie Hebdo; a new Official Fall Website; Brix's book; Louder Than Words (Hanleys, Wolstencroft et al.); 1978 photos; Iceland Rector; "Totally Wired World of The Fall" BBC6; Luke Haines "Caravan Man"; IAC,O Mojo; WFMU Fall specials (April 2015); Action Records story; Dedication Not Medication cycling clothes; "Touch Sensitive" court case transcript; Q interview (July); Noisey/Vice int.; Jon the Postman r.i.p.
27dec14Sept>Nov gigs: UK + Helsinki; Uurop VIII-XII live CD; Simon Wolstencroft's memoir; more "The Big Midweek" press; Mark E. Smith Predicts; Brix & The Extricated; Ultraradio Fall comics issue; Deeply Vale box; Una Baines int.; MCR Evening News, Granada Reports, BBC 6music ints.; "It's Not Repetition, It's Discipline" screenings; Fat White Family's "I Am Mark E. Smith"; discography revamp.
01sep14 UK & Euro gigs, Steve Hanley's "The Big Midweek" book launch + Q&A for the Fall News, Danish Fall documentary, Q's "Let's Do Lunch With Mark E. Smith", Loud and Quiet interview, RIP Gary Burger & Scott Asheton," disavowal of "13 Killers" and "White Lightning", Luke Haines's MES micro-opera, BK's "The Skriking", American Tourister rips off "Touch Sensitive", "21 Again" on Mouse on Mars comp, Claus selling signed Perverted By Language posters.
17jan14Ireland, Portugal, France, London, NL, Leeds, Germany gigs; The Remainderer; Lou Reed (inc. MES poem); Louder Than Words video w/Hanleys + Simon W; Noisey interview; "What I See in the Mirror"; Bal Speer's "Black Charity"; Mutation LP; Tony Millionaire.
05aug13May/June gigs, Re-Mit, Vulture, Independent int., Stuart & Maconie chat, Beggars Archive 5cd box, Copenhagen exhibition, SHanley joins The Membranes, Craig Robinson's Fall timeline, SF 2001 on Ozit, The Real New Forum LP
29may13Nov/Dec '12 gigs, April '13 gigs; Re-Mit preview; Sir William Wray RSD 7"; Guardian, Q Mag Q&As; Lancashire Telegraph, Going Thru Vinyl, Viva Brighton, Scotland Herald interviews; Ding on Salford Radio; IAKO video; Beggars 5xcd box; Steve Hanley book deal; Fall Fans Round Table, 2 Librans Lockdown.
23oct12European gigs (Greece, France, UK, Ireland, Norway, Sweden); Ginger Wildheart's Mutation; Woog Riots LP; Fall-A-Thon in Ohio; Night & Day and Greek interviews; NME Heroes, Blaine Harrison & MES; The Frenz Equivalent cover LP; Night of the Humerons 7"; Another Nice Mess "Worst of the Fall" special; Sex, Drugs & HIV; MES T-shirts, Action Man, and Birthday Cake; Simon W's "You Can Drum But You Can't Hide" book; Pascal Le Gras paintings; Magic Band magic footage.
22dec11
Ersatz GB + reviews + press + interviews, Laptop Dog 7", summer festivals in Europe and UK, Nov UK tour, Live at the Hac pt. 2; Kill Pretty (Mike Leigh); Perverted by Mark E. promo vid; Brian Blessed Alarm Clock + Skinnybrain (Dave Milner); Uncut w/MES on old Fall lineups; Julia Adamson int.; Steve Trafford album; Pascal's "Blue Christmas" video.
31aug11
Live at the Hacienda DVD; MES Guardian Q&A; Timekode
& MES video clips; Fall sign to Cherry Red; Marshall
Suite, Wonderful & Frightening World and TNSG
reissues; Before the Fall compilation
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.
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