Category Archives: fall

Fuckin’ John Peel, he’s the fuckin’ worst, he’s worse than Tony Blackburn ever was. Bastard. (Mark E.  Smith, dispensing charity by the cartload during a celebrated ‘interview‘ with Loaded magazine in 1997) One tends to hear only the Christmas-related parts … Continue reading →

The new wave is a sell-out. I mean, compared to the old wave it’s all so tame, what they actually do… You think of what other people have tried out. (Mark E Smith, NME 1978) By the time the band … Continue reading →

It’s a standing-joke in Manchester that The Fall are very deep and always arguing about things … and it’s true. There’s never a common agreement within the band. Instead there’s a tension that makes us stronger. We’ve never been signed … Continue reading →

‘Still a world leader’ was John’s reverential comment on The Fall’s appearance in the 2000 Festive Fifty with three tracks, all from the album The Unutterable (a wonderful investment, if you want something to splash out your pocket money on). … Continue reading →

Time for some more from JP’s favourite band: all four tracks derive from Peel sessions, and today I step down in favour of the words of those involved. Delving around in the past could be disorienting for John whenever his … Continue reading →

Apparently there are some people out there who don’t love The Fall. I spurn them with my toe. [John Peel] This linked post features three tracks by The Fall, all taken from Peel sessions rather than albums. Standing at a … Continue reading →

It was inevitable, given their prodigious number of entries in the Festive Fifty, that I would have to feature the Fall once again: but, with songs of this calibre, it is a pleasure.Both songs come from when the band were … Continue reading →

‘They’ve never disappointed me yet, and I suspect won’t…I can’t think of any other artist who’s managed to do that for 10 years…I simply don’t know what it is that I like about the Fall…He [Mark E. Smith] never takes … Continue reading →