The Fall play London Dingwalls on 20 October. It doesn't look like there'll be a Manchester date.
MES will appear on GLR, Wed 20th between 2-4 pm.
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Thanks to Tony Herrington of The Wire:
> Just thought you and your browsers might like to know that we have
just
> posted the unedited transcript of my recent(ish) interview with MES
on the
> Wire Website (URL below). The extra material that didn't make it into
the
> article in the May issue of the mag is worth a look at I reckon,
especially
> the bit about Virgin. An MES classic quote (I wonder why I didn't put
it in
> the article?)
> THE WIRE Magazine: Adventures In Modern Music
> 45-46 Poland Street London W1V 3DF UK
> Tel: +44 (0)171 439 6422 Fax: +44 (0)171 287 4767
> E-mail: the_wire@ukonline.co.uk
> Web:
http://www.dfuse.com/the-wire
----
Spot the mistake in the last news page:
"TBLY # 17 is out
....[NB, not many extra issues are printed - 17 is sold out]"
I meant, of course, that TBLY #16 is sold out. Copies of #17 still very much available.
----
Colin Kerr:
From the 10th anniversary Stone Roses reissue thing.
"Bloody Roses man! I always felt sorry for them because of all the 'Madchester'
crap. I hated it. I got out and moved to Edinburgh when all that was going
on because it was just embarressing. Lads I'd known for fifteen years suddenly
prancing about in the Hacienda! And the Stone Roses were never really about
that, it just happened around didn't it? All that fucking flares shit. It
was hilarious, really. But I liked the Roses. They were more real than a
lot of things and people understood that. People were sick of the likes of
Morrissey going on and on about bloody Salford Lads Club and all that. Morrissey
doesn't know Salford from his fucking arse....does he? No. The Roses were
alright"
Mark E Smith
----
Al:
In today's Guardian, a piece on rock lyrics as poetry:
"Nor is rhythm the only poetic strategy that song lyrics share; for instance the creation of semi-penetrable symbolic worlds (the reason Mark E Smith of The Fall gets compared to Blake)..."
--
The fall are in Q again, at the bottom of the "who's hot and who's not" barometer thing, becuase of Smith sacking the drummer, fighting with Nev etc.
--
In a searingly critical condemnation of the Fall's Mark E Smith, Julian Cope had this to say in today's edition of the Guardian:
"My problem with someone like Mark E Smith is that he's fastidious to his trip and he's totally true on a 1977 level but the goalposts have changed so many times since then that to me the mere fact that he's still allowed himself to be in that position...well he's quite lucky really."
----
Ta to Barrie Francis, who reran the "Favourite Fall Song" poll on FallNet. The poll was restricted to songs more than 5 years old to lend a bit of distance to people's choices....
> 96= Service
> Kicker Conspiracy
> Idiot Joy Showland 1
> 89= Session Musician
> Australians In Europe
> Ludd Gang
> Papal Visit
> Pearl City
> Psykick Dancehall
> Hit The North 2
> 85= Music Scene
> And Therein......
> Oswald Defence Lawyer
> Disney's Dream Debased 3
> 82= Lucifer O'er Lancashire
> The Remixer
> Guest Informant 4
> 77= Lost In Music
> Your Heart Out
> No Bulbs
> Free Range
> LA 5
> 74= So-Called Dangerous
> Cruiser's Creek
> Kurious Oranj 6
> 72= Detective Instinct
> Fit And Working Again 7
> 68= Immortality
> City Dweller
> Petty(Thief) Lout
> Mr Pharmacist 8
> 64= Iceland
> Paranoia Man In Cheap Sh*t Room
> It's A Curse
> Big New Priest 9
> 62= Fortress/Deer Park
> Repetition 10
> 59= Rose
> New Big Prinz
> Entitled 11
> 56= Put Away
> Carry Bag Man
> My New House 12
> 53= You Haven't Found It Yet
> Mere Pseud Mag Ed
> Rowche Rumble 13
> 50= No Xmas For John Quays
> An Older Lover etc
> Lie Dream Of The Casino Soul 14
> 48= Lay Of The Land
> English Scheme 15
> 43= Athlete Cured
> Solicitor In Studio
> A Figure Walks
> Dice Man
> C'n'C/S mithering 16
> 41 Look,Know 17
> 38= Living Too Late
> Pat Trip Dispenser
> Various Times
> Rebellious Jukebox 18
> 36= Bill Is Dead
> Fiery Jack 19
> 34= Tuff Life Booogie
> Room To Live 21
> 32= Flat Of Angles
> Words Of Expectation 22
> 27= Smile
> Eat Y'self Fitter
> Gramme Friday
> City Hobgoblins
> Pay Your Rates 23
> 26 Bremen Nacht 29
> 25 And This Day 30
> 23= The Man Wose Head Expanded
> Garden 31
> 21= M5
> Tempo House 33
> 20 Paintwork 35
> 19 New Puritan 36
> 18 A Past Gone Mad 37
> 17 Middle Mass 38
> 16 The Container Drivers 39
> 15 I'm Into CB 48
> 14 Fantastic Life 51
> 13 Spectre vs Rector 54
>
> TOP TEN
>
> 10= Frightened
> How I Wrote' Elastic Man'
> Hard Life In Country 55
> 9 Leave The Capitol 56
> 8 Backdrop 57
>
> TOP FIVE
>
> 5= Hip Priest
> Totally Wired
> The NWRA 60
> 4 Wings 62
> 3 The Classical 66
>
>
> Last Year's Number One......
>
> 2 New Face In Hell 77
>
> Fanfare for the new Number One.......
>
>
> 1 Winter 87 pts
>
>
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