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 9 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 Bo Diddley, U2, 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 9 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, […]