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Album Review: The Fall – The Real New Fall LP (Formerly Country On The Click) 20th anniversary reissue

January 29, 2024

With 31 studio albums to choose from, there are very few fans of The Fall wo will ever definitively agree, which are the best 5 of all time. It can…

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News: The Fall release ‘Set of Ten’, box set of unreleased live recordings

Despite the sad death of founder and only constant in The Fall, Mark E. Smith, there is still a wealth of material to mine to keep Fall obsessives happy for,…

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New Track: Fontaines D.C. – Big, Plus Album and tour news

The stupendous Fontaines D.C. are back with a blistering new single, “Big”. It may clock in at a warp speed of 1 minute and forty-five seconds yet it is, no…

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Track: Fontaines DC – Boys in the Better Land/Chequeless Reckless

I do love a bit of sneering, posturing guitar driven rock, and Dublin’s Fontaines DC deliver with class. A double A sided single has just been released and the two…

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Soundtrack of our lives: The Fall – Album Definitive Quagmire. In memory of Mark E Smith

I don’t really know why I’m a fan of Mark E Smith and The Fall. Is it the uanabashed Northernness? Is it the mastery of prose? or maybe the fact…

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News: Brix Smith Start releases statement following the death of Mark E Smith

Joined the outpouring of grief and sadness at the news of Fall mainman Mark E Smith, his former wife and Fall member Brix Smith Start has issued a statement via…

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Obituary: The Fall’s Mark E Smith

The Fall. 32 studio albums (and counting…compilations etc. one can only guess), 66 band members, and one constant element – the enigmatic, grumpy, exasperating Mark E Smith. And with his…

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ALBUM REVIEW: The Fall: The Singles 1978 – 2016 [boxset]

The Fall Release December 2017 The Singles 1978 – 2016 There have been numerous Fall box sets over the years of varying quality, The Peel Sessions, The Rough Trade Anthology,…

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LIVE: THE FALL – WAKEFIELD – 20/10/17

Not just because it’s my home town, The Fall in Wakefield has always been special. I saw them here for the first time back in 1983 (For the record: First…

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