The Fall online - latest Fall News

17 Jan	Casa da Musica, Porto, Portugal, according to their site.
30 Jan	MES and Ed Blaney at Debaser, Malmö, Sweden, according to their site.
15 Mar	MES at the Huddersfield Literature Festival, according to the Festival Director. (The link is to last year's festival page.)
27 Mar	The Ferry, Glasgow, according to their site. Advance tickets 16.50 + booking fee, or 30 if you want dinner too.
28 Mar	The Ferry, Glasgow, according to their site. Same ticket prices as the 27th.
28-31 Aug	Beachdown Festival, Devil's Dyke, Brighton, according to their (v. annoying) site.

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added 6 January

Bad news... Ron Asheton (Stooges guitarist) was found dead at his home in Ann Arbor last night. Here's a local report.

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added 6 January

Good news... Julia Adamson has posted a video of her first rehearsal with the Fall on youtube. It's from January 1995 and was filmed by Mick Middles. Mick filmed hours of the Fall in the mid '90s for a documentary that never happened.

part one:

part the second:

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added 22 December

2100 hours GMT: Invisionfree.com, the company that hosts the Fall Online Forum, has been offline for an hour or two. Not sure what's going on but I hope it's temporary.

2300: now it's back.

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added 18 December

Dick Witts has posted clips of his presentation at last May's Messing Up the Paintwork conference on youtube.

And here's a bizarre clip of Grant Showbiz talking to MES and Elena at the conference evening's festivities, with one of Mark's sisters asking for her phone back.

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added 15 December

Buy Kurious on the forum has unearthed a video of DNA featuring Mark E. Smith doing a song called "Misery" on youtube. An appropriate title.

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added 5 December

Michael Pollard has sent me 80 photos of the Holmfirth gig (29 November), and they're up to his usual high standards. Thanks Michael!

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added 5 December

Angus Kennedy is one of today's better writers on The Fall, I think. He has a review of The Fallen on the Culture Wars site.

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added 2 December

From the Sky Arts site:

From The Basement

A back-to-basics live music show where the focus is on the music, the artists and their performances. No presenter, no audience, no talking, no nonsense. It's a place where credible, established acts can perform their music free from the strictures of the charts and the marketing cycle. You’ll feel like you’ve got a VIP pass to a private recording session…

The new series starts at 10pm 3 Dec on Sky Arts 1 and Sky Arts HD. Here's what you can expect from this stunning show in the weeks to come:

3 Dec Gnarls Barkley, Sparks, The Kills
10 Dec My Morning Jacket, The Fall, White Denim
17 Dec Iggy Pop and The Stooges, CSS and Shortwave Set
24 Dec Radiohead, Andrew Bird, Fleet Foxes
31 Dec The Raconteurs, Seasick Steve, Band of Horses
7 Jan Queens of the Stone Age, Terry Callier and Mercury Rev