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#thefall summarised, not entirely accurately, by Jackie magazine, 7 June 1986, p4. From a page on "indie bands" titled "Never 'Eard of 'Em?" Also covered: Chakk, Half Man Half Biscuit, Hipsway, Laurie Anderson, The Shop Assistants, The Cramps, New Order and... Balaam And The Angel.

Interview with Brix Smith from Jackie magazine, 29 July 1989, p.46

I'm here, though.

YouTube video by DC The Fall - It's Not Repetition, It's Discipline - Documentary

It's on YouTube: youtu.be/6SoICqXUgMM?...

The story is reasonably well known. I don't think it's him either, but there's nothing definitive. Would need dates to check against known movements :-)

Yes: recorded 9 November 1977, released 11 August 1978.

Printout. Large buttons saying The Durutti Column. Hopper. The Sixths.

A factory sample too

Mark E Smith gets upset Kim Philby killed 2 of his friends

Hey Factory completists, have you got Fac2.07? Printout of the Factory Too website. 1994 maybe. Mark E Smith is unhappy with Kim Philby.

See the archived Annotated Fall: web.archive.org/web/20240614.... Eventually I will get around to it on my rebuild: annotatedfall.thebiggestlibraryyet.org.uk/tempo-house/

"We" don't know (I'm sure someone does) what Tempo House represented. A Tempo House has been identified, but whether it's the right one is unknown. "Grouse" has generally been interpreted to mean "complain", and this is the first time I've seen "Famous Grouse" mentioned - worth noting!

Just noticed: should say p.44,not p.40!

"How I Wrote 'Elastic Man'" reviewed in Zigzag magazine, #105, September 1980. p.40 #thefall.

The Fall at Sir Henry’s — Paul McDermott The Fall at the Arcadia in 1980, The Fall at Sir Henry’s in 1997. Mark E. Smith, Dave Simpson’s The Fallen, Freakscene and Gigantic at Sir Henry’s, The Beatles, Freakscene flyers, Uaneen Fitzsimons an...

Another great read from the amazing pen, memory and attic of @learnandsing www.paulmcdermott.ie/blog/the-fall

YouTube video by Top Of The Pops Redubbed I Want You - Inspiral Carpets Featuring Mark E. Smith (TOTP 1994) Original Audio

Inspiral Carpets, not the Charlatans! And he didn't sing through a megaphone. Here it is on youtube: youtu.be/pIHZ_rilmzE?...

Scanned this neg at the weekend - just in time for Week N for Noise. The sadly very much not immortal Mark E Smith, taken with a Yashica Electro at The Fall gig at Balne Lane WMC, Wakefield, May 21 2010. I have the setlist too - also pictured.
#AlphabetChallenge
#Black&White
#TheFall
#Yorkshire

I don't see what is Smith-like about this. It's more Half Man Half Biscuit territory.

In 1980, with IPC titles NME & Melody Maker on strike, publisher Felix Dennis launched the short-lived New Music News. #2, dated 17 May, has a review of #thefall's live album "Totale's Turns" by friend-of-the-group Claude Bessy @steve69.bsky.social @fallnews.bsky.social @thefallthings.bsky.social

That's looking up Little Peter Street towards the former Gaythorn Gas Works. So not Salford, surely.

1978. The Fall hit the road...

#thefall "2 x 4": "Used table leg to club son-in-law" lyric. Another example of MES use of newspaper headlines. I found this in Manchester Evening News, 20 Aug 1983 p29. Song's live debut was Nottingham 27 Sept 1983. Source: www.newspapers.com/article/manc...

I tracked down the Tong interview back in August 2019:

"Religion costs much - but irreligion costs more". Comment on "Fit and Working Again", #TheFall, Slates, Apr 1981. Not MES' phrase: earliest instances I found are from US as far back as 22 Jan 1925 (clip from Cassopolis Vigilant p4). But MES likely saw Martin Amis's Observer article, 21 Sept 1980:

Chapter and verse here: web.archive.org/web/20240810...

Of course, it wasn't actually the final concert at the Palais. That was Groove Armada.

Neil Kulkarni left us a year ago. He ripped through the music press like a benevolent hurricane, laid waste to monumental mediocrities but never punched down. He was fired by a raging sense of inclusivity, the belief that things could, should be so much radically better for everyone. Sorely missed.

Poster for #thefall at Riley-Smith Hall, University of Leeds, 7 December 1982

1982. Yes, I think new to me too.

"Oh! Brother" by #thefall: "He scrutinised a little monster / And disappeared through red door" (followed in early live versions & Blue lyrics book with "I adopt this child") inspired by Victor Hugo's The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Hapgood trans. book 4, ch. 1)

MES on Scritti from Record Mirror interview by Chris Westwood, 22 March 1980, p.34: "Like Scritti Politti - strip away the politics, strip away this and that - they've got the best rhythm section in the country...."

It's going to take a while...