The Fall (band)
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The Fall
The Fall live in 2008.
Background information
Origin Prestwich, Greater Manchester, England
Genres Post-punk, alternative rock
Years active 1976–present
Labels Step Forward/Faulty Products, Rough Trade, Beggars Banquet, Situation Two, Narnack, Phonogram/Fontana, Matador, Permanent, Slogan, Domino, Action, Cherry Red
Members
Mark E. Smith
Elena Poulou
Dave Spurr
Pete Greenway
Keiron Melling
Past members
List of The Fall members
The Fall are an English post-punk band, formed in Prestwich, Greater Manchester in 1976. Despite an ever changing line up, the group essentially consists of its founder and only constant member, Mark E. Smith, who has said "If it's me and your granny on bongos, then it's [the] Fall".[1] First associated with the late 1970s punk movement, the band's music has evolved through numerous stylistic changes, often concurrently with changes in the group's membership. The Fall's music is often characterised by repetition, an abrasive guitar-driven sound, and is always underpinned by Smith's often cryptic lyrics, described by critic Steve Huey as "abstract poetry filled with complicated wordplay, bone-dry wit, cutting social observations, and general misanthropy."[2]
The group's output is prolific―as of November 2011 they have released 29 studio albums, and more than triple that counting live albums and other releases. They have never achieved widespread public success beyond a handful of minor hit singles in the late 1980s, but have maintained a strong cult following. The band were long associated with BBC disc jockey John Peel, who championed them from early on in their career and cited The Fall as his favourite band, famously explaining, "They are always different, they are always the same."[3]
Contents
[hide]
1 History
1.1 1970s
1.2 Early 1980s
1.3 1983
1.4 1984–1989
1.5 1990s
1.6 2000–present
2 Influence
3 Discography
4 Notes
5 References
6 Bibliography
7 External links
[edit] History
[edit] 1970s
The Fall was formed in Prestwich, Greater Manchester in 1976 by Mark E. Smith, Martin Bramah, Una Baines, and Tony Friel. Friel came up with the name "The Fall", after a 1956 novel by Albert Camus.[4][5] The original line-up featured Smith on guitar, Bramah on vocals, Baines on drums, and Friel on bass guitar, but Smith and Bramah soon switched roles, and Baines switched to keyboards.[6] The band's first drummer was remembered only as "Dave" or "Steve" for thirty-four years,[7] until music writer Dave Simpson discovered that he had almost certainly been a man named Steve Ormrod.[8] Ormrod was quickly replaced by Karl Burns, at least in part due to political differences with the other members of the group.
The four original members of The Fall would meet in order to read their writings to each other and take drugs.[9] Their musical influences included Can, The Velvet Underground, Captain Beefheart, and garage rock bands like The Monks and The Stooges.[10] The members were devoted readers, with Smith citing H.P. Lovecraft, Raymond Chandler, and Malcolm Lowry among his favourite writers.[11] The Fall's music was intentionally raw and repetitive.[10] The song "Repetition", declaring that "we've repetition in the music, and we're never going to lose it", served as a manifesto for The Fall's musical philosophy.[12]
The group played its first concert on 23 May 1977.[6] They recorded material for their debut EP in November 1977.[12] The session was funded by Buzzcocks manager Richard Boon, who planned to release the EP on his New Hormones label. After discovering that he could not afford to release the EP,[4] Boon gave the tapes back to the band. Two tracks, "Stepping Out" and "Last Orders", were released on the compilation Short Circuit: Live at the Electric Circus in June 1978 on Virgin Records, a compilation album recorded at the Manchester venue The Electric Circus in October 1977.
The Fall's line-up underwent several changes in 1977–78. Smith's girlfriend Kay Carroll became the group's manager and occasional backing vocalist.[5][13] Founding members Tony Friel (who went on to form The Passage) and Una Baines left in December 1977 and March 1978, respectively.[13] Jonnie Brown and Eric McGann had brief stints as The Fall's bass guitarist, the latter quitting in disgust of The Fall's van driver wearing a Hawaiian shirt.[13] Marc Riley (bass) and Yvonne Pawlett (keyboards) were eventually recruited to the group.[13] Martin Bramah blamed the dissolution of the original line-up on Smith's style of leadership: "The break-up wasn't so much about the music, though; it was more how we were being treated as people on a daily basis."[5]
The Fall were filmed on 13 February 1978, for the Granada TV show So It Goes hosted by Tony Wilson, performing "Psycho Mafia", "Industrial Estate" and "Dresden Dolls", featuring the early brief line up of Smith, Bramah, Burns, Baines and McGann. The debut EP, "Bingo-Master's Break-Out!", was finally released in August 1978 on Step Forward Records. The single "It's the New Thing" followed in November 1978. By this point, influential radio DJ John Peel had begun championing The Fall. The first of their 24 Peel Sessions, collected on The Complete Peel Sessions 1978-2004 in 2005, took place in May 1978.[14]
Their debut album, Live at the Witch Trials, was recorded in one day[15] and released in January 1979.[16] Karl Burns quit the group shortly after the album was recorded, and was replaced by Mike Leigh from Rockin' Ricky a cabaret band. In April 1979, Burns was followed by Martin Bramah, co-writer of most of the songs on Live at the Witch Trials[16] and, according to Fall historian Daryl Eslea, "possibly the last true equal to Smith in the group",[15] who went on to form Blue Orchids with Una Baines.[17] Marc Riley switched from bass to guitar, and Craig Scanlon (guitar) and Steve Hanley (bass), former bandmates of Riley and members of Fall support act Staff 9, joined to the group.[15] Hanley's melodic basslines became a vital part of the Fall's music for almost two decades.[18] Smith praised his playing in Melody Maker: "The most original aspect of The Fall is Steve ... I've never heard a bass player like him ... I don't have to tell him what to play, he just knows. He is The Fall sound."[19] Yvonne Pawlett left in July 1979 to look after her dog. She later appeared in a band called Shy Tots.[13]
On 30 July 1979, "Rowche Rumble", The Fall's third single, was released featuring the new line up of Smith, Craig Scanlon, Marc Riley, Steve Hanley, Yvonne Pawlett and Mike Leigh.
Dragnet, The Fall's second album, was recorded on 2–4 August 1979 at Cargo Studios, Rochdale and was released on 26 October 1979. Featuring the stripped-down line-up of Smith, Scanlon, Riley, Hanley and Leigh. Dragnet signalled a sparser, more jagged feel, which on subsequent albums filled out into a more grinding, industrial sound.
[edit] Early 1980s
"Totally Wired"
Released as a single through Rough Trade in 1980
"Leave the Capitol"
From the 1981 release Slates
"Middle Mass"
From Slates
"Hip Priest"
From Hex Enduction Hour (1982)
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The Fall release their fourth single, "Fiery Jack", their last for Step Forward on 13 January 1980. Mike Leigh's last gig was on Thursday, 20 March 1980 at Manchester Polytechnic, he apparently left and went back to the cabaret circuit. Paul Hanley, Leigh's replacement and Steve Hanley's younger brother, first plays live with The Fall on Friday, 21 March 1980 Electric Ballroom, London. On 5 May 1980, Totale's Turns LP was released on Rough Trade. The live album (apart from 2 tracks) documents the band during various appearances, with Smith announcing last orders at the bar and berating band members and audience throughout.
The Fall release their fifth single on 11 July 1980' titled "How I Wrote Elastic Man." The single also introduced the line up of Mark E Smith, Craig Scanlon, Marc Riley, Steve Hanley and Paul Hanley. 17 November 1980 Grotesque Lp released. With the album came a significant improvement in production and content, which continued throughout the period.
In 1978, 1979 & 1980 The Fall played the Deeply Vale Festivals and Smith said in a 2004 TV interview that the Deeply Vale events were his all time favourite festivals, despite in later years having performed at many larger festivals. Smith also said his favourite place to record albums was in Rochdale which has featured heavily throughout their career as a town where The Fall have gone to record initially at Cargo / Suite Sixteen and later at Gracieland.
Slates, the mini 10" album, released 24 April 1981 their last recording for Rough Trade. Several of the tracks include Dave Tucker on clarinet; he had appeared live with The Fall on numerous occasions. May – July 1981 The Fall tour America with the line up of Mark E. Smith, Craig Scanlon, Marc Riley, and both Steve Hanley and Karl Burns. U.S. immigration said Paul Hanley was too young to play America's "21 and over" clubs.
September 1981 Karl Burns appears as a second drummer with The Fall for the first time and 77 – Early Years – 79 LP (a Step Forward compilation) is released.
On 13 November 1981 The Fall release their sixth single called "Lie Dream Of A Casino Soul." Produced by Richard Mazda, recorded at Workhouse Studios in London and released on Kamera Records featuring the line up Mark E. Smith, Craig Scanlon, Marc Riley, Steve Hanley, Paul Hanley and Karl Burns.
On 8 March 1982 Hex Enduction Hour also produced by Richard Mazda is released on Kamera Records and Live in London 1980 cassette only live album is released later in the month on Chaos Tapes.
The Fall's seventh single is released 19 April 1982 titled "Look, Know" on Kamera.
May 1982 A Part of America Therein live LP released on Cottage Records, having been recorded during their last tour of America.
27 September 1982 Room to Live album released on Kamera.
Marc Riley's final appearance with The Fall is on Wednesday, 22 December 1982 at the Lesser Free Trade Hall, Manchester.
[edit] 1983
The Fall Perverted By Language Tour, Hamburg (Markthalle), 13.April 1984. L-R: Scanlon, M.E. Smith, Burns, S. Hanley
1983 was a year of changes in The Fall camp and marked The Fall's return to Rough Trade Records, after being promised better treatment this time around.
On 7 June 1983, Rough Trade Records issued The Fall's ninth single "The Man Whose Head Expanded" and on 19 September 1983 issued the 10th single and double pack "Kicker Conspiracy". Bizarrely in November 1983 Kamera Records issued around 2–3 thousand copies of the planned 1982 single "Marquis Cha Cha", the release date having been put back due to Kamera's financial troubles in late 1982, making it The Fall's eleventh single issue.
1983 heralded another dramatic change with the arrival of Smith's American girlfriend and later wife, Brix Smith on guitar. Born Laura Elise Salenger, she was nicknamed after the track "The Guns of Brixton" by The Clash, a favourite song of hers. Brix's tenure in the group marked a shift towards the relatively conventional, with the songs she co-wrote often having strong pop hooks and more orthodox verse-chorus-verse structures. Additionally, Brix's keen sense of fashion gradually influenced the group's members to give more attention to their clothing and styling―but her platinum blond hair and glamorous style were always somewhat at odds to the otherwise working class appearance of the Fall. Brix's first live appearance with The Fall was on Wednesday, 21 September 1983 at the Hellfire Club, Wakefield.
Perverted by Language, released 5 December 1983, was the group's final album for Rough Trade Records, but the first to feature Brix. Also released in December 1983 was the live album In A Hole, recorded during The Fall's tour of New Zealand in 1982, on Flying Nun Records.
[edit] 1984–1989
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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Fall
The Fall live in 2008.
Background information
Origin Prestwich, Greater Manchester, England
Genres Post-punk, alternative rock
Years active 1976–present
Labels Step Forward/Faulty Products, Rough Trade, Beggars Banquet, Situation Two, Narnack, Phonogram/Fontana, Matador, Permanent, Slogan, Domino, Action, Cherry Red
Members
Mark E. Smith
Elena Poulou
Dave Spurr
Pete Greenway
Keiron Melling
Past members
List of The Fall members
The Fall are an English post-punk band, formed in Prestwich, Greater Manchester in 1976. Despite an ever changing line up, the group essentially consists of its founder and only constant member, Mark E. Smith, who has said "If it's me and your granny on bongos, then it's [the] Fall".[1] First associated with the late 1970s punk movement, the band's music has evolved through numerous stylistic changes, often concurrently with changes in the group's membership. The Fall's music is often characterised by repetition, an abrasive guitar-driven sound, and is always underpinned by Smith's often cryptic lyrics, described by critic Steve Huey as "abstract poetry filled with complicated wordplay, bone-dry wit, cutting social observations, and general misanthropy."[2]
The group's output is prolific―as of November 2011 they have released 29 studio albums, and more than triple that counting live albums and other releases. They have never achieved widespread public success beyond a handful of minor hit singles in the late 1980s, but have maintained a strong cult following. The band were long associated with BBC disc jockey John Peel, who championed them from early on in their career and cited The Fall as his favourite band, famously explaining, "They are always different, they are always the same."[3]
Contents
[hide]
1 History
1.1 1970s
1.2 Early 1980s
1.3 1983
1.4 1984–1989
1.5 1990s
1.6 2000–present
2 Influence
3 Discography
4 Notes
5 References
6 Bibliography
7 External links
[edit] History
[edit] 1970s
The Fall was formed in Prestwich, Greater Manchester in 1976 by Mark E. Smith, Martin Bramah, Una Baines, and Tony Friel. Friel came up with the name "The Fall", after a 1956 novel by Albert Camus.[4][5] The original line-up featured Smith on guitar, Bramah on vocals, Baines on drums, and Friel on bass guitar, but Smith and Bramah soon switched roles, and Baines switched to keyboards.[6] The band's first drummer was remembered only as "Dave" or "Steve" for thirty-four years,[7] until music writer Dave Simpson discovered that he had almost certainly been a man named Steve Ormrod.[8] Ormrod was quickly replaced by Karl Burns, at least in part due to political differences with the other members of the group.
The four original members of The Fall would meet in order to read their writings to each other and take drugs.[9] Their musical influences included Can, The Velvet Underground, Captain Beefheart, and garage rock bands like The Monks and The Stooges.[10] The members were devoted readers, with Smith citing H.P. Lovecraft, Raymond Chandler, and Malcolm Lowry among his favourite writers.[11] The Fall's music was intentionally raw and repetitive.[10] The song "Repetition", declaring that "we've repetition in the music, and we're never going to lose it", served as a manifesto for The Fall's musical philosophy.[12]
The group played its first concert on 23 May 1977.[6] They recorded material for their debut EP in November 1977.[12] The session was funded by Buzzcocks manager Richard Boon, who planned to release the EP on his New Hormones label. After discovering that he could not afford to release the EP,[4] Boon gave the tapes back to the band. Two tracks, "Stepping Out" and "Last Orders", were released on the compilation Short Circuit: Live at the Electric Circus in June 1978 on Virgin Records, a compilation album recorded at the Manchester venue The Electric Circus in October 1977.
The Fall's line-up underwent several changes in 1977–78. Smith's girlfriend Kay Carroll became the group's manager and occasional backing vocalist.[5][13] Founding members Tony Friel (who went on to form The Passage) and Una Baines left in December 1977 and March 1978, respectively.[13] Jonnie Brown and Eric McGann had brief stints as The Fall's bass guitarist, the latter quitting in disgust of The Fall's van driver wearing a Hawaiian shirt.[13] Marc Riley (bass) and Yvonne Pawlett (keyboards) were eventually recruited to the group.[13] Martin Bramah blamed the dissolution of the original line-up on Smith's style of leadership: "The break-up wasn't so much about the music, though; it was more how we were being treated as people on a daily basis."[5]
The Fall were filmed on 13 February 1978, for the Granada TV show So It Goes hosted by Tony Wilson, performing "Psycho Mafia", "Industrial Estate" and "Dresden Dolls", featuring the early brief line up of Smith, Bramah, Burns, Baines and McGann. The debut EP, "Bingo-Master's Break-Out!", was finally released in August 1978 on Step Forward Records. The single "It's the New Thing" followed in November 1978. By this point, influential radio DJ John Peel had begun championing The Fall. The first of their 24 Peel Sessions, collected on The Complete Peel Sessions 1978-2004 in 2005, took place in May 1978.[14]
Their debut album, Live at the Witch Trials, was recorded in one day[15] and released in January 1979.[16] Karl Burns quit the group shortly after the album was recorded, and was replaced by Mike Leigh from Rockin' Ricky a cabaret band. In April 1979, Burns was followed by Martin Bramah, co-writer of most of the songs on Live at the Witch Trials[16] and, according to Fall historian Daryl Eslea, "possibly the last true equal to Smith in the group",[15] who went on to form Blue Orchids with Una Baines.[17] Marc Riley switched from bass to guitar, and Craig Scanlon (guitar) and Steve Hanley (bass), former bandmates of Riley and members of Fall support act Staff 9, joined to the group.[15] Hanley's melodic basslines became a vital part of the Fall's music for almost two decades.[18] Smith praised his playing in Melody Maker: "The most original aspect of The Fall is Steve ... I've never heard a bass player like him ... I don't have to tell him what to play, he just knows. He is The Fall sound."[19] Yvonne Pawlett left in July 1979 to look after her dog. She later appeared in a band called Shy Tots.[13]
On 30 July 1979, "Rowche Rumble", The Fall's third single, was released featuring the new line up of Smith, Craig Scanlon, Marc Riley, Steve Hanley, Yvonne Pawlett and Mike Leigh.
Dragnet, The Fall's second album, was recorded on 2–4 August 1979 at Cargo Studios, Rochdale and was released on 26 October 1979. Featuring the stripped-down line-up of Smith, Scanlon, Riley, Hanley and Leigh. Dragnet signalled a sparser, more jagged feel, which on subsequent albums filled out into a more grinding, industrial sound.
[edit] Early 1980s
"Totally Wired"
Released as a single through Rough Trade in 1980
"Leave the Capitol"
From the 1981 release Slates
"Middle Mass"
From Slates
"Hip Priest"
From Hex Enduction Hour (1982)
Problems listening to these files? See media help.
The Fall release their fourth single, "Fiery Jack", their last for Step Forward on 13 January 1980. Mike Leigh's last gig was on Thursday, 20 March 1980 at Manchester Polytechnic, he apparently left and went back to the cabaret circuit. Paul Hanley, Leigh's replacement and Steve Hanley's younger brother, first plays live with The Fall on Friday, 21 March 1980 Electric Ballroom, London. On 5 May 1980, Totale's Turns LP was released on Rough Trade. The live album (apart from 2 tracks) documents the band during various appearances, with Smith announcing last orders at the bar and berating band members and audience throughout.
The Fall release their fifth single on 11 July 1980' titled "How I Wrote Elastic Man." The single also introduced the line up of Mark E Smith, Craig Scanlon, Marc Riley, Steve Hanley and Paul Hanley. 17 November 1980 Grotesque Lp released. With the album came a significant improvement in production and content, which continued throughout the period.
In 1978, 1979 & 1980 The Fall played the Deeply Vale Festivals and Smith said in a 2004 TV interview that the Deeply Vale events were his all time favourite festivals, despite in later years having performed at many larger festivals. Smith also said his favourite place to record albums was in Rochdale which has featured heavily throughout their career as a town where The Fall have gone to record initially at Cargo / Suite Sixteen and later at Gracieland.
Slates, the mini 10" album, released 24 April 1981 their last recording for Rough Trade. Several of the tracks include Dave Tucker on clarinet; he had appeared live with The Fall on numerous occasions. May – July 1981 The Fall tour America with the line up of Mark E. Smith, Craig Scanlon, Marc Riley, and both Steve Hanley and Karl Burns. U.S. immigration said Paul Hanley was too young to play America's "21 and over" clubs.
September 1981 Karl Burns appears as a second drummer with The Fall for the first time and 77 – Early Years – 79 LP (a Step Forward compilation) is released.
On 13 November 1981 The Fall release their sixth single called "Lie Dream Of A Casino Soul." Produced by Richard Mazda, recorded at Workhouse Studios in London and released on Kamera Records featuring the line up Mark E. Smith, Craig Scanlon, Marc Riley, Steve Hanley, Paul Hanley and Karl Burns.
On 8 March 1982 Hex Enduction Hour also produced by Richard Mazda is released on Kamera Records and Live in London 1980 cassette only live album is released later in the month on Chaos Tapes.
The Fall's seventh single is released 19 April 1982 titled "Look, Know" on Kamera.
May 1982 A Part of America Therein live LP released on Cottage Records, having been recorded during their last tour of America.
27 September 1982 Room to Live album released on Kamera.
Marc Riley's final appearance with The Fall is on Wednesday, 22 December 1982 at the Lesser Free Trade Hall, Manchester.
[edit] 1983
The Fall Perverted By Language Tour, Hamburg (Markthalle), 13.April 1984. L-R: Scanlon, M.E. Smith, Burns, S. Hanley
1983 was a year of changes in The Fall camp and marked The Fall's return to Rough Trade Records, after being promised better treatment this time around.
On 7 June 1983, Rough Trade Records issued The Fall's ninth single "The Man Whose Head Expanded" and on 19 September 1983 issued the 10th single and double pack "Kicker Conspiracy". Bizarrely in November 1983 Kamera Records issued around 2–3 thousand copies of the planned 1982 single "Marquis Cha Cha", the release date having been put back due to Kamera's financial troubles in late 1982, making it The Fall's eleventh single issue.
1983 heralded another dramatic change with the arrival of Smith's American girlfriend and later wife, Brix Smith on guitar. Born Laura Elise Salenger, she was nicknamed after the track "The Guns of Brixton" by The Clash, a favourite song of hers. Brix's tenure in the group marked a shift towards the relatively conventional, with the songs she co-wrote often having strong pop hooks and more orthodox verse-chorus-verse structures. Additionally, Brix's keen sense of fashion gradually influenced the group's members to give more attention to their clothing and styling―but her platinum blond hair and glamorous style were always somewhat at odds to the otherwise working class appearance of the Fall. Brix's first live appearance with The Fall was on Wednesday, 21 September 1983 at the Hellfire Club, Wakefield.
Perverted by Language, released 5 December 1983, was the group's final album for Rough Trade Records, but the first to feature Brix. Also released in December 1983 was the live album In A Hole, recorded during The Fall's tour of New Zealand in 1982, on Flying Nun Records.
[edit] 1984–1989
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