2001 - Crop-Dust
? August - Single: Rude (All The Time) 5 November - Album: Are You Are Missing Winner It is cruel and blind and does not compensate After last year's (I realise now) excellent The Unutterable was there an inevitability about a big Fall personnel change? Adam Helal, Neville Wilding, Tom Head and Julia Nagle all departed to be replaced by Ben Pritchard, Jim Watts and Spencer Birtwistle. A significant addition was Ed Blaney who, as well as co-writer, would be Fall broker, manager, and producer as well as friend and collaborator with MES. Rude (All The Time) was a limited edition issue single so wasn't one that I was familiar with. (I'd stopped buying singles back in the mid-90s but even if I hadn't I'm not sure I'd have been switched on enough to get hold of this mail order special.) Smith, Blaney and an acoustic guitar turn out an interesting little tune that would have benefited from a full group and studio treatment I'm sure. B-side I Wake Up in