Thu 1 Oct	Theatre Royal, Windsor, Berkshire, according to their site. Support: Open Sore and Eliot to Hong Kong
Fri 2 Oct	O2 Academy, Leeds. Support: The Nightingales!
Sat 24 Oct	Musicdrome, Milan. Headlining second night of the Bats Over Milan festival, according to the Musicdrome myspace page. Tickets.
Thu 5 Nov	Uebel und Gefährlich, Hamburg, according to their site. Coincides with Paintwork#3 at Galerie Borchardt, Hamburg, 31 October - 21 November.
Tue 10 Nov	Moho Live, Tib Street, Manchester. Tickets
Wed 11 Nov	Moho Live, Tib Street, Manchester. Tickets
Fri 13 Nov	Renfrew Ferry, Glasgow. Tickets with or without early dinner available on their site.
Sat 14 Nov	Renfrew Ferry, Glasgow. Tickets with or without early dinner available on their site.
Sun 15 Nov	O2 Academy, Oxford. Supporting: Ed Blaney and Girl Peculiar. Tickets
Tue 17 Nov	Koko, London. Support: Darker My Love(!) and Orphans and Vandals. Hosted by the Guardian.
Wed 18 Nov	The Brook, Southampton. Wegottickets.
Thu 19 Nov	Mr. Kyps, Poole.
Fri 20 Nov	Phoenix, Exeter. seetickets
Sun 22 Nov	O2 Academy, Liverpool (moved from the Masque; original tickets remain valid). Supporting: Ed Blaney and Girl Peculiar. seetickets
Mon 23 Nov	Metropolis, Bristol. Supporting: Ed Blaney and Girl Peculiar. seetickets
Thu 26 Nov	The Assembly, Leamington Spa. seetickets
14-16 May	All Tomorrow's Parties, Butlin's Holiday Camp, Minehead. Curated by Pavement! Already sold out.

 

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added 19 November

Thursday, 19 November    Mr. Kyps, Poole

Your Future Our Clutter (?) / Strangetown / Wolf Kidult Man / Cowboy George / spoken word / I'm Not from Bury / Wings / Sloppy Floor / I've Been Duped / Scenario / Psykick Dancehall / Mr. Pharmacist / Blindness / White Lightning / Reformation

Reviews and closeups on the forum. Thanks to Mark for the setlist.

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added 19 November

Wednesday, 18 November    The Brook, Southampton

Your Future Our Clutter (?) / My Door Is Never / Slippy Floor / Cowboy George / I'm Not from Bury / Funnel of Love / I've Been Duped / Chino Splashback / Wolf Kidult Man / Over! Over! / Hot Cake / Reformation / White Lightning

Setlist TBD. Thanks as always to HanleyFP for the setlist. Reviews on the forum.

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added 18 November

Two upcoming Factory Star dates:

Sunday November 22nd: Islington Mill, Salford
Teeth of the Sea, Gnod, and Thought Forms plus the Sandels and Factory Star
6pm £5

Thursday November 26th Kings Arms, Salford
Factory Star + The Sexual Objects (ex Fire Engines)
8pm £5

Factory Star not only have the obligatory myspace, but also the de rigueur Facebook.

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Tuesday, 17 November    Koko, London

Your Future Our Clutter (?) / Strangetown / Wolf Kidult Man / Slippy Floor / Cowboy George / I'm Not from Bury / I've Been Duped / Funnel of Love / Chino Splashback / 50 Year Old Man / New Cowboy (instr.) // Over! Over! / Mr. Pharmacist / Reformation // Psykick Dancehall

Reviews on the forum and videos on youtube: Strangetown / Slippy Floor / instrumental. Thanks to Mark for the setlist.

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added 18 November

An evening of The Fall in New York, Monday night:

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added 18 November

Proceedings of the Messing Up the Paintwork conference to be published by Ashgate in May 2010.

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added 16 November

Sunday, 15 November    O2 Academy, Oxford

Your Future Our Clutter (?) / Over! Over! / Wolf Kidult Man / Slippy Floor / Chino Splashback / I've Been Duped / Cowboy George / I'm Not from Bury / Theme from Sparta F.C. / Psykick Dancehall // White Lightning / Reformation

Reviews on the forum.

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added 15 November

Saturday, 14 November    The Ferry, Glasgow

Your Future Our Clutter (?) / Strangetown / Wolf Kidult Man / Slippy Floor / Chino Splashback / 50 Year Old Man / I've Been Duped / Funnel of Love / New Cowboy / I'm Not from Bury / Scenario / Mr. Pharmacist / Blindness / Psykick Dancehall

Reviews on the forum.

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Friday, 13 November    The Ferry, Glasgow

Your Future Our Clutter (?) / Wolf Kidult Man / My Door Is Never / Cowboy George / Chino Splashback / Hot Cake / I've Been Duped / Psykick Dancehall / I'm Not from Bury / Slippy Floor // White Lightning / Over! Over! / Reformation

Reviews on the forum. Polite ushering off of bouncer on youtube.

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added 13 November; updated 14 November

Action Records, who are running the merchandise stall at the Fall gigs, have issued a one-off limited edition tour CD/single.

7" (ACTOUR01)
1. Slippy Floor (Mark Mix)
2. Hot Cake - Part 2

CD (ACTOUR01CD)
1. Slippy Floor (Mark Mix)
2. Hot Cake - Part 2
3. Strangetown (Live at Camden Crawl)

The 7" is delayed but it looks like the CD is in stock and available from Action's site @ £4.95 + shipping. Don't forget your 10% Fall Online discount (type "fallnet" in the coupon box).

Trainspotters will note that this release continues the tradition of releasing at least one new Fall song every year since 1978.

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added 12 November

News from Beggar's Archive : first up, TNSG.

The Fall re-issues are slowly making their pilgrimage towards a release date. The choice of tracks for This Nation’s Saving Grace has been made and discs sent to MES for his blessing. There were 14 reels of studio recordings digitally transferred for TNSG. Most of these contained original master recordings but there were 4 reels of out-takes. These actually proved to be a bit disappointing since there is little difference between performances on the alternative takes. More interesting were 2 reels of early, rough mixes of the album recordings which lack the polish off the final mixes but have an accessible… well, roughness. Roughsticity. Rough-a-loogability – somesuch lack of refinement. There’s a tape with an extended version of Barmy which was recorded at the March ’85 sessions along with Cruiser’s Creek, Rollin’ Dany and Couldn’t Get Ahead. It’s the same basic version that was used on the album but with subtly different sonics.

One of the ideas behind the Omnibus releases is to include a contemporaneous live recording of the songs but this won’t happen on this release as the master tapes for two radio recordings, from Clitheroe Castle and Bremen, have been lost or thrown out. Careless. It’ll still be a 3 disc set though, with a second disc of the rough mixes and selected out-takes and a third disc of singles and relevant tracks from John Peel sessions. Also found is a completed master for Ma Riley, an unreleased, Bo’s beat song originally intended as the bonus track on the Cruiser’s Creek 12”. Hopefully The Wonderful And Frightening World digital transfers will be delivered soon.

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Wednesday, 11 November    Moho Live, Manchester

Your Future Our Clutter (?) / Strangetown / Hot Cake / Wolf Kidult Man / Chino Splashback / 50 Year Old Man / I've Been Duped / Scenario / Cowboy George / I'm Not from Bury / New Cowboy / Mr. Pharmacist / Blindness // Psykick Dancehall

Reviews on the forum.

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added 11 November; updated 15 November

Tuesday, 10 November    Moho Live, Manchester

Your Future Our Clutter (?) / Wolf Kidult Man / My Door Is Never / Cowboy George / Chino Splashback / Hot Cake / I've Been Duped / Over! Over! / Psykick Dancehall / I'm Not from Bury // Slippy Floor // White Lightning / Reformation

Reviews on the forum.

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added 6 November; updated 9 November

Thursday, 5 November    Uebel und Gefährlich, Hamburg, Germany

Strangetown / My Door Is Never / Wolf Kidult Man / Cowboy George / I've Been Duped / Fall Sound / 50 Year Old Man / Psykick Dancehall // Slippy Floor / I'm Not from Bury // White Lightning / Blindness

Reviews and photos on the forum. Also many photos of the Paintwork#3 exhibition (click the gallery link).

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added 2 November

Many thanks to Michael Stewart for sending in the complete transcript (PDF) of his Q&A with Mark E. Smith at the Huddersfield Literature Festival last June.

On internet look back bores: "This is why the internet should be closed down. There should be a cull every 5 or 7 years." Quite right!

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added 2 November

Bit in the Manchester Evening News about a 6x7-foot portrait of M.E.S. in The Northern pub on Oldham Street in Manchester.

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Saturday, 24 October    Musicdrome, Milan, Italy (Bats Over Milan festival)

Set approximately: Over! Over! / Wolf Kidult Man / 50 Year Old Man / Cowboy George / I've Been Duped / Fall Sound / Sloppy Floor / Theme from Sparta F.C./ Bury / Mr. Pharmacist

Reviews on the forum.

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added 23 October

There's a great article by Paul Hanley about the Stuff the Superstars gig in Manchester (28 July 1979) in issue 7 of Reformation Post TPM.

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added 23 October

The newly released Hex Enduction Hour deluxe (same as Sanctuary's 2005 expanded edition) reviewed by Mick Middles in The Quietus.

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added 13 October

M.E.S. appears in two episodes of the new season of the Radio 4 comedy "Pick Ups." The first one was Thursday, 15 October.

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added 13 October

Dave Simpson:

Just a note to let you know that there's a Fallen/Perverted By Language night at Lancaster Litfest this Saturday (17th) at 9.30pm

The evening includes Fall songs, myself reading from The Fallen, Peter Wild introducing two writers who will read from the Perverted By Language book of fiction inspired by The Fall. There will also be a discussion/Q & A/book signing. As a very special guest, Dragnet-era drummer Mike Leigh will be making his first public appearance since leaving the Fall, talking about what it was like to be in the gruppe and his new band, the Pearl Divers.

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added 7 October

A rare interview with Elena Poulou, in issue #3 of La Bouche. She confirms that the new LP - "Our Future Your Clutter" - is out on Domino at the end of January.

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added 3 October; updated 20 October

Friday, 2 October 2009    O2 Academy, Leeds

Over! Over! / Chino Splashback / Wolf Kidult Man / Fall Sound / I've Been Duped / Sloppy Floor / Bury / Theme from Sparta F.C. / Reformation // Pat-Trip Dispenser // Psykick Dancehall // White Lightning (unmiked drum with MES orchestrating a crowd singalong)

Pat-Trip Dispenser included Daren from the Nightingales (who supported) on second drumkit. Reviews and good photos on the message board. Thanks to Mark H and Daren for the setlist.

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added 2 October

Thursday, 1 October 2009    Theatre Royal, Windsor

Can Can Summer / Fall Sound / Wolf Kidult Man / Sloppy Floor / Cowboy George / I'm Not From Bury / I've Been Duped / Psykick Dancehall // 1969 (Stooges) > Reformation

Reviews on the forum. Thanks to Shayne for the photos.

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added 2 October

There's a six-page interview with MES in issue #3 of the Niche Homo zine: "52 pages of superior toilet literature". Looks like a worthy purchase, which you can do on nichehomo.blogspot.com. £1.50 in the UK.

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added 2 October

If you count the near-countless dodgy live albums and compilations, the new Fall album will be their 100th! Many thanks to Stephen Fall for listing them all. Naturally there's a heated debate about what should and should not be on the list on the forum.

01: 1979a – Live At The Witch Trials
02: 1979b – Dragnet

03: 1980a – Totale's Turns (It's Now or Never) [live 1979 & 1980]
04: 1980b – Grotesque (After The Gramme)
05: 1981a – Slates [mini-album]
06: 1981b – Early Years 77-79
07: 1982a – Legendary Chaos Tape a.k.a. Live At Acklam Hall, London 1980 [11/12/80]
08: 1982b – Hex Enduction Hour
09: 1982c – A Part Of America Therein, 1981 [live]
10: 1982d – Room To Live (Undilutable Slang Truth)
11: 1983a – Fall In A Hole [2CD] [live 21/08/82]
12: 1983b – Perverted By Language
13: 1984a – The Wonderful & Frightening World Of The Fall
14: 1985a – Hip Priest And Kamerads
15: 1985b – This Nation's Saving Grace
16: 1986a – Nord-West Gas
17: 1986b – Bend Sinister
18: 1987a – In: Palace Of Swords Reversed
19: 1988a – The Frenz Experiment
20: 1988b – I Am Kurious Oranj
21: 1989a – Seminal Live [half studio/half live]

22: 1990a – Extricate
23: 1990b – 45 8489 A Sides
24: 1990c – 45 8489 B Sides [2CD]
25: 1991a – Shift-Work
26: 1992a – Code: Selfish
27: 1993a – The Collection
28: 1993b – The Infotainment Scan
29: 1993c – BBC Radio 1 ‘Live In Concert’ [25/05/87]
30: 1994a – Middle Class Revolt
31: 1995a – Cerebral Caustic
32: 1995b – The Twenty-Seven Points [2CD] [live]
33: 1996a – Sinister Waltz
34: 1996b – Fiend With A Violin
35: 1996c – Oswald Defence Lawyer
36: 1996d – The Light User Syndrome
37: 1997a – In The City... [live 20-22/03/95]
38: 1997b – Archive Series
39: 1997c – The Less You Look, The More You Find
40: 1997d – 15 Ways To Leave Your Man [live 26/06/96]
41: 1997e – Levitate
42: 1997f – Oxymoron
43: 1997g – Cheetham Hill
44: 1998a – Smile…It's The Best Of The Fall
45: 1998b – Live To Air In Melbourne '82 [2CD] [02/08/82]
46: 1998c – Northern Attitude
47: 1998d – The Post-Nearly Man [Mark E. Smith]
48: 1998e – Live Various Years [93, 97, 98]
49: 1998f – Nottingham '92 [live 15/03/92]
50: 1999a – The Peel Sessions
51: 1999b – The Marshall Suite

52: 2000a – Live 1977 [23/12/77]
53: 2000b – A Past Gone Mad
54: 2000c – I Am As Pure As Oranj [live 17/08/88]
55: 2000d – Psychic Dancehall [3CD]
56: 2000e – Live In Cambridge 1988 [19/03/88]
57: 2000f – The Unutterable
58: 2001a – Austurbaejarbio Reykjavik May 6 1983 [live]
59: 2001b – Backdrop
60: 2001c – A World Bewitched [2CD]
61: 2001d – Liverpool 78 [live 22/08/78]
62: 2001e – Live In Zagreb [15/04/90]
63: 2001f – Are You Are Missing Winner
64: 2002a – 2G + 2 [live 11/01]
65: 2002b – Totally Wired: The Rough Trade Anthology [2CD]
66: 2002c – Pander! Panda! Panzer! [Mark E. Smith]
67: 2002d – High Tension Line [2CD]
68: 2002e – Listening In: Lost Singles Tracks 1990-92
69: 2002f – Early Singles
70: 2003a – It's The New Thing!: The Step Forward Years
71: 2003b – Words Of Expectation: BBC Sessions [2CD]
72: 2003c – Touch Senstive...Bootleg Box Set [5CD] [live 2001]
73: 2003d – The Idiot Joy Show [2CD] [live 1995/1996] (also available as two separate LPs/CDs, The Idiot Joy Show and Pearl City)
74: 2003e – The Rough Trade Singles Collection [vinyl-only]
75: 2003f – Live At The Phoenix Festival [1995/1996]
76: 2003g – The War Against Intelligence: The Fontana Years
77: 2003h – The Real New Fall LP (Formerly ‘Country On The Click’)
78: 2003i – Rebellious Jukebox [2CD plus DVD]
79: 2004a – 50,000 Fall Fans Can't Be Wrong
80: 2004b – Interim
81: 2005a – The Complete Peel Sessions 1978-2004
82: 2005b – Live At Deeply Vale [22/07/78]
83: 2005c – Live From the Vaults: Oldham 1978 [21/08/78]
84: 2005d – Live From the Vaults: Retford 1979 [16/11/79]
85: 2005e – Live From the Vaults: Los Angeles 1979 [14/12/79]
86: 2005f – Fall Heads Roll
87: 2005g – Live From the Vaults: Glasgow 1981
88: 2005h – Live From the Vaults: Hof Alter Banhoff 1981
89: 2006a – The Permanent Years (Paranoia Man In Cheap Sh*t Room)
90: 2007a – Live At The Knitting Factory, New York, 9 April 2004
91: 2007b – Live At The Garage, London, 20 April 2002
92: 2007c – Reformation Post TLC
93: 2007d – Live At The Knitting Factory, LA, 14 November 2001
94: 2007e – Live At The ATP Festival, 28 April 2002
95: 2007f – Box Set 1976–2007
96: 2008a – Imperial Wax Solvent
97: 2008b – I Never Felt Better in My Life: 1979–1982
98: 2009a – Last Night At The Palais: Live at Hammersmith Palais April 1st 2007 [CD and DVD]
99: 2009b – Rebellious Jukebox, Volume 2

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Von Südenfed and Smith/Blaney releases are not included. However, The Post Nearly Man and Pander! Panda! Panzer! are included because they include Fall music and lyrics.

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added 29 September

From this moth's Mojo, thanks to Ocelot. Contradicts what MES said in recent interview about album coming out in January.

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Aftergig party in Leeds:

 

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