The Fall – Backseat Mafia

Meet: House of All – Martin Bramah & Karl Burns on Their Latest Album and the Spirit of The Fall

For those who have followed the ever-evolving lineage of The Fall, House of All represents something both new and deeply familiar. What began as a one-off project has solidified into…

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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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Introducing: Cherry Red Records

April 27, 2023

I bought my very first Cherry Red Records release in 1980, when San Francisco punk legends, Dead Kennedys, released their second single, the seminal “Holidays In Cambodia”, their first of…

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Keeping Control : Independent Manchester Music Scene 1977-81 Remembered

April 26, 2023

Keeping Control: Independent Music from Manchester 1977-1981 Various Artists on Cherry Red Records (76 track 3xCD set) This a great collection of Manchester music from a 4-year period in its…

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ALBUM REVIEW – THE FALL – ‘LIVE AT ST HELENS TECHNICAL COLLEGE, 1981’

The chance unearthing of a bootleg of this show, by Marc Riley has been well documented by now in the press. John Dwyer, leader of The Oh Sees eagerly stepped…

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Track: Leave the Capitol from The Fall’s forthcoming live release

Mark E Smith may be gone, but his genius shines as bright as ever with the news of a new bootleg live recording called ‘Live at St.Helens Technical College, ‘81’…

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NOT FORGOTTEN: Snub TV: when British telly had a decent indie strand

JANUARY 9, 1989. Perhaps not the most auspicious date in world history, though there would be more epochal happenings later in the year, of course. The day dawned with the…

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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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Track: HOO HAs – Rantra

The HOO HAs‘s new single, ‘Rantra’, is an angry, loud, swaggering beast with a sneer and a studied pose. It’s a brilliant. Think of the shouty side of The Fall…

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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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