Fall News

I'm off to the wilds of Maine for a couple of weeks. I'm leaving the Fall News in the capable hands of Conway and Clayts, so feel free to bombard their mailboxes with Fall stuff. I'll be back on 6 September.

The Fall play ...

It appears very unlikely that they'll be playing the U.S. before October; possibly afterwards.

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added 24 August

BBC Radio 1 has declared 13 October to be Peel Day, a day dedicated to the memory of the late great John Peel. Concert venues around the UK are being invited by Radio 1 to stage gigs under the banner Peel Day and a special gig is being organised for London. The Fall will be playing in Dundee on this date.

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added 23 August

The BBC's love affair with The Fall continues with the news that DJ Gideon Coe, who is standing in for Phill Jupitus on the Radio 6 Breakfast Show, has made forthcoming double A side release I Can Hear The Grass Grow/Clasp Hands his single of the week. The Beeb states a UK release date of 26th September, although Sanctuary have told us it is actually due out on the 19th.

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added 22 August

That media-shy celebrity Fall fan, Stewart Lee, has again been found guilty of proclaiming his love for the band at every given opportunity in a public place by mentioning them in answer to two questions in Saturday's Fall-packed edition of The Guardian newspaper (20 August 2005) :

Which living person do you most admire?

People who plough their own furrow, irrespective of public taste: Mark E Smith, Billy Childish, Bob Dylan. And Stan Lee, who created Spiderman when his publisher told him not to because people don't like spiders.

What or who is the greatest love of your life?

The Fall.

In next Saturday's Guardian, a special 32 page Fall colour supplement (this statement may be a lie).

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added 21 August

Stefan forgot to mention that from 6 August 2005 an instrumental version (less the lads' and Elena's shouts of "Hey !") of The Fall's 'Sparta #2' is the current introductory music to not one, but two bastions of Saturday afternoon televised sports coverage in the UK, Football Focus and Final Score, both part of the infamous and long-running BBC Grandstand sports programme.

davedeath on the forum, notes that The Guardian of 20 August 2005 (second story down) has reported on this welcome turn of events thusly :

Football Focus has new music for the new season, provided by the legendary Manchester band The Fall. But did BBC producers listen to the lyrics of the song, Theme From Sparta FC, before picking it?

They have used an instrumental version of the football-themed tune, perhaps not having heard the words. The song is a violent taunt directed at Chelsea fans from those of Sparta (Prague?). The lyrics read, in part: We live on blood/We are Sparta FC/English Chelsea fan this is your last game/ We're not Galatasaray, we're Sparta FC.

"We chose it because it was No. 1 in the Festive 50 [John Peel's annual listeners' poll] and really liked the tune," said a BBC Sport source. "We obviously weren't aware of the content of the lyrics but we didn't include them anyway."

Rumours that Fallshop will soon be selling a new Sparta range of scarves and bobble hats in time for winter, along with a wooden rattle, are grossly exaggerated...

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added 9 August; updated 18 August

perhaps a slight resemblance to...

Conway:

The official word from Sanctuary -- the UK release date for Fall Heads Roll is 3 October 2005.

The release on Sanctuary's imprint Slogan Records will be on CD and limited edition LP (1,000 copies).

Prior to the album will be a double A-sided single I Can Hear The Grass Grow/ Clasp Hands. Out Monday, 19 September.

The album will have 14 tracks with the running order...

Ride Away / Pacifying Joint / What About Us / Midnight Aspen / Assume / Midnight Aspen Reprise / Blindness / I Can Hear The Grass Grow / Bo Demmick / Youwanner / Clasp Hands / Early Days of Channel Fuehrer / Breaking The Rules / Trust In Me

... and the Narnack version of the single has been pushed back to September 6: I Can Hear the Grass Grow (album version) / I Can Hear the Grass Grow (alt. mix) / Bo Doodak (alt. version of the album's Bo Demmick).

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added 19 August

In case you missed it, Steven has a clip from the television broadcast of Mark accepting the Deisel U Matic lifetime achievement award last month on his site. It's well worth downloading!

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Claus Castenskiold still has some of his artist-signed PBL tour posters for sale on his site -- http://www.clauscastenskiold.com.

24 August 2005

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18aug05 Paul Hanley BBC radio int., MES Metro "60-second" & Kitchen Sink ints., 1979 Jamming! int., Deisel U Matic award, Paul Wilson's Fall Mix, Stewart Lee's favorite things.

26jul05 Berlin & Paris gigs, Fall site news, Diesel-U-Music & Mojo awards, Live from the Vaults: the "real" story, Sanctuary / Slogan Records announcement, Mayo Thompson, Commercially Unfriendly CD, links to loads of Peel box reviews.

14jun05 UK & Lyon gigs, Conway's guitar tab and Adult Net pages, Jools Holland, Deeply Vale cd, MES int. w/BBC on Peel, Lime Lizard 1993, Festive 50 book, Live from the Vaults delayed, Wake Up in the City, Cuz'n Roy's yard sale on ebay, Jahn Rhondos.

27apr05 UK gigs, Left of the Dial & Scotland on Sunday interviews, Deeply Vale CD preview, Bingo Masters press release, Scherzo Schist, Live from the Vaults, Simon Reynolds, Simon Armitage, Prenzlauer Berg, Fall Cafe, Poloraoids special offer, Brix & Gromit, MES on Funhouse, Fall documentary transcript, the Fall wants your photo.

25feb05 BBC4 Fall doc, Hex reissue, KFNY gig, Fall Forum's TNSG, Ice Magazine (UK) MES int., Sun Zoom Spark articles, Playlouder appreciation, unofficial Sparta FC video, Peel set postponed 1 month, MES's New Years Honours list, 9may81 photos, Hunter S. Thompson, RIP.

07jan05 Jim Watts resigns, UK gigs, Pseud Mag, Festive 50, Deeply Vale, documentary, City Bar "fall-out", Polaroids on the Fall, Wipe That Sound, Narnack sampler.