links updated 10 July 2006

fan sites and resources

Steven Bending's Fall Multimedia Project.

Paul Wilson's MES font, available in PC and Mac versions.

Mike Wright's Fall Theme for Windows 95.

The MES text filter by Paul Sexton. Turns your prose into MES-speak!

Hey! Luciani, the play, finally appears on the web, thanks to Pete Conkerton for the transcription.

Dave Allen's Custom Fall Gig, Fall Tabs, and Who Is More Belligerant, MES or Shakespeare?.

Dave "Death" Humphries' Fall site has a bunch of articles and scanned memorabilia.

David Bivins' FallNet page, last updated sometime in 1997.

"Arid" Al Angen's Images of the Fall page.

Christopher Leuth's gentle introduction to The Fall including discographies, reviews, FallNet information, etc. Somewhat out of date but widely linked to.

Another fan page with interviews etc: Shoreshop - The Fall & Mark E Smith by Maurice.

PSB's German Fall site.

Celine has a jam-packed Dutch Fall memorabilia page.

Mark's Record Reviews: The Fall is exactly that, reviews of all the Fall's albums and a few EPs.

publications (print and online)

The Pseud Mag, a fanzine compiled by Fall fans the world over, has taken over where The Biggest Library Yet left off in April 2000. They encourage all Fall fans to submit material for future issues.

The Biggest Library Yet was a terrific fanzine published by Graham Coleman and later by Rob Waite. Graham has some of the TBLY content on his website, as well as the indispensable Fall Quote Generator.

The Wire has featured MES and The Fall quite a bit over the past few years, and there's a full recent interview transcript up.

Perfect Sound Forever has a Fall tribute from their May 1998 issue.

The Rough Guide To Music - you'll have to use the search function to bring up their info on the Fall.

Trouser Press, the reference bible of alternative/independent/underground music, has a page on The Fall.

The Fall en concert by Luz, a French comic strip. For non-French readers, Olli Czoske kindly translated the comic into English.

Insound has a few Beggars Banquet-era Fall videos.

Mark E. Smith - the greatest Mancunian of all time (with a little help from Fallnet)

discussion lists & forums

FallNet (very high volume, almost all of it unrelated to the Fall)): Send a blank message to fallnet-subscribe@yahoogroups.com

Bombast (very low volume -- one post a month of so!): Send a blank message to: bombast-subscribe@yahoogroups.com

Fall message board: http://invisionfree.com/forums/thefall

French Fall Forum: http://www.liebart-gallery.com/index.php (again you have to register - it looks like they approve you manually)

former band members & related websites

The Blue Orchids (Martin Bramah / Una Baines)

Marc Riley with the Creepers

Woodbank Street Band (Tony Friel)

The Lovers (Steve and Paul Hanley) (on Tom Hingley's site)

ARK (Steve and Paul Hanley)

The Farmhand Organization (Tommy Crooks)

The Adult Net (Brix Smith)

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