Posted in The Fall on Nov 8th, 2010 No Comments »
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HAMM:
Me—
(he yawns)
—to play.
(He takes off his glasses, wipes his eyes, his face, the glasses, puts them on again, folds the handkerchief and puts it back neatly in the breast pocket of his dressing gown. He clears his throat, joins the tips of his fingers.)
Can there […]
Posted in The Fall, music on Sep 18th, 2008 5 Comments »
By now I had got too close. It was my turn to feel the Curse of the Fall. For months, everything went wrong. I drove my shiny new MG (purchased after my other car blew up) into a river. My beloved Leeds United were relegated, then deducted 10 points, then 15. I was struck down […]
Posted in The Fall, gigs, music on Sep 16th, 2008 14 Comments »
“So, out of ten, what would you give it?” I asked Alan while nursing an expensive Czech beer outside the Spiegeltent in the Iveagh Gardens last week. We had just seen the Fall play and I wanted to know what he thought. Although we started listening to the Fall around the same time, he has […]
Posted in The Fall, obituary, music on Jun 5th, 2008 2 Comments »
I am once again informed by the French radio news, in a half awakened state, that another great has left this earthly stage. In this instance it was the man who invented probably the most recognisable beat in rock history - Bo Diddley. In time-honoured fashion, I’ve spent at least 15 seconds trawling You Tube […]
Posted in The Fall, aesthetics, Art on May 14th, 2008 11 Comments »
Mark E Smith’s most distinctive texts echo both Lovecraft and Dick’s methodology. According to caricature, The Fall proffer a naturalism whose dreariness is leavened only by its humour. But it was only in their earliest mode that The Fall were comic naturalists, introducing an amphetamine-driven garage punk to the bingo halls, industrial estates and cracker […]
Posted in The Fall, music on Apr 23rd, 2008 6 Comments »
How the flip did I miss this?
Come the mid-70s, I was sharing a flat in Prestwich’s Kingswood Road with my girlfriend, Una Baines. I wasn’t in love with her, but you’re stuck when you’re on the dole - nowhere to go. We lived at the back of the mental hospital where Una worked. Biggest mental […]
Posted in The Fall, gigs, music on Mar 26th, 2008 12 Comments »
The Fall played in the Tripod in Dublin back on the 16th of March, but I haven’t had a chance to give my impressions of it until now. Perhaps the reason for delaying is because I knew that plenty of Irish Fall fans would get there first, but they’d probably be able to post pictures, […]
