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Handsome, well-meaning, but slightly a careless type.
Not malicious, I hope you understand and grasp.
The Fall were part of the soundtrack of my life for about 35 years. After Mark E Smith's death in January 2018 it's still hard to believe that there will be no more Fallsound.
I can't remember the first Fall record I heard. It may have been Totally Wired, Rowche Rumble or Bingo Master's Breakout. I'm sure my friend David would have been the person who played it around 1980 or 1981.
I can't remember the first Fall record I bought. It could have been either of the above or maybe How I Wrote 'Elastic Man'.
The first fall gig I went to was at Swindon's Brunel Rooms on 26 March 1982. All I remember is two drum-kits and someone who kept shouting for Spectre vs Rector.
I'm fairly sure the first Fall album I bought was Dragnet. Most likely from Kempster's on Commercial Road in Swindon.
What I do remember is buying a bootleg cassette* of the first five John Peel Sessions, I think for a fiver, at the Futurama 4 Festival in September 1982 at the Deeside Leisure Centre in Queensferry, Flintshire. This more than anything got the Fall under my skin and they've stayed there.
* As I spent several hundred pounds on Fall records subsequently I guess home taping didn't kill music.
Not malicious, I hope you understand and grasp.
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The Fall were part of the soundtrack of my life for about 35 years. After Mark E Smith's death in January 2018 it's still hard to believe that there will be no more Fallsound.
I can't remember the first Fall record I heard. It may have been Totally Wired, Rowche Rumble or Bingo Master's Breakout. I'm sure my friend David would have been the person who played it around 1980 or 1981.
I can't remember the first Fall record I bought. It could have been either of the above or maybe How I Wrote 'Elastic Man'.
The first fall gig I went to was at Swindon's Brunel Rooms on 26 March 1982. All I remember is two drum-kits and someone who kept shouting for Spectre vs Rector.
I'm fairly sure the first Fall album I bought was Dragnet. Most likely from Kempster's on Commercial Road in Swindon.
What I do remember is buying a bootleg cassette* of the first five John Peel Sessions, I think for a fiver, at the Futurama 4 Festival in September 1982 at the Deeside Leisure Centre in Queensferry, Flintshire. This more than anything got the Fall under my skin and they've stayed there.
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| My '5 John Peel Sessions' cassette |
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