Grotesque (After the Gramme)

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Paul Hanley was still at school, so after half a dozen gigs in the UK he had to briefly cede the drum stool for a fortnight in June when the band toured Holland. From the end of that run of gigs and up to a US tour in 1981, though, everything The Fall did - gigs, studio recordings, Peel sessions, the semi-official live album released at various points as Live In London 1980 and The Legendary Chaos Tape - was with the Smith/Riley/Hanley/Scanlon/Hanley line-up. The first fruits were two songs recorded on 8 May at Cargo Studios in Rochdale and which perhaps better typify the Fall of the time than anything else. 'How I Wrote "Elastic Man"' and 'City Hobgoblins' were released on either side of a 7" single by Rough Trade on 11 July and are perfect encapsulations of everything that was great about this particular incarnation of this perennially fascinating band. The Fall were an English post-punk group, formed in 1976 in Prestwich, Greater Manchester. They underwent many line-up changes, with vocalist and founder Mark E. Smith as the only constant member. [1] [2] The Fall's long-term musicians included drummers Paul Hanley, Simon Wolstencroft and Karl Burns; guitarists Craig Scanlon, Marc Riley, and Brix Smith; and bassist Steve Hanley, whose melodic, circular bass lines are widely credited with shaping the band's sound from early 1980s albums such as Hex Enduction Hour to the late 1990s. [3]

O'Hagan, Sean (16 January 2005). "He's Still the Fall Guy | Film | The Observer". guardian.co.uk . Retrieved 25 May 2013. On 30 July 1979, " Rowche Rumble", the Fall's third single, was released featuring the line up of Smith, Scanlon, Riley, Hanley, Pawlett and Leigh. Pawlett left the group shortly afterwards. Dragnet, the Fall's second album, was recorded in August 1979 at Cargo Studios, Rochdale, and was released on 26 October 1979. Dragnet signalled a sparser, more jagged feel in the Fall's music compared to Live at the Witch Trials. The studio allegedly complained about the sound quality and protested against putting its name on the album sleeve, fearing it would put other artists off using the facilities. Thompson, Dave (2003). A User's Guide to The Fall. London: Helter Skelter Publishing. ISBN 1-900924-57-9.

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Well this was a super classy presentation of arguably the most important single set of recordings in American pop music history. But you know what? This video has been removed. This could be because it launched early, our rights have expired, there was a legal issue, or for another reason. ‘Riot in righteousness’: Mark E Smith dies aged 60 – video obituary 2. Eat Y’Self Fitter Dave Simpson– The Fallen". Thefallenbook.co.uk. Archived from the original on 9 September 2011 . Retrieved 9 July 2011. Although it was a six-song EP, Slates still ranked number 13 among the "Albums of the Year" for 1981 by NME. [11] AllMusic gave it four stars, with David Jeffries writing "Not a bad taster if you're new and want some post-punk, pre-pop Fall– and 90 percent of this is prime material." [4] Trouser Press commented on the improvement in production compared to Grotesque (After the Gramme), calling it "A solid record of greater potential appeal than just to cultists." [12]

If Wells’ story is an example of a melancholic weird, then we can appreciate another dimension of the weird by thinking about the relationship between the weird and the grotesque. Like the weird, the grotesque evokes something which is out of place. The response to the apparition of a grotesque object will involve laughter as much as revulsion, and, in his study of the grotesque , Philip Thomson argued that the grotesque was often characterised by the co-presence of the laughable and that which is not compatible with the laughable. This capacity to excite laughter means that the grotesque is perhaps best understood as a particular form of the weird. It is difficult to conceive of a grotesque object that cannot also be apprehended as weird, but there are weird phenomena which do not induce laughter — Lovecraft’s stories, for example, the only humour in which is accidental. The Fall, “How I Wrote ‘Elastic Man’ / City Hobgolbins”, 1980 In 2014, former members Brix Smith Start, Steve Hanley and Paul Hanley formed a new group called Brix & the Extricated. [35] In addition to new original material, the group also performs songs that the members had written or co-written during their tenure with The Fall. [36] Smith Start and Steve Hanley also both released autobiographies covering their tenures with The Fall around this time frame; 2016's The Rise, The Fall & The Rise and 2014's The Big Midweek: Life Inside The Fall, respectively. [37] [38] Pulver, Sarah (September 2005). "LCD Soundsystem". Thrasher. Archived from the original on 22 January 2009 . Retrieved 1 July 2015. {{ cite journal}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown ( link)

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Hanley, Steve. " The Big Midweek: Life Inside The Fall". London: Route, 2014. ISBN 978-1-9019-2758-0 Pareles, Jon (25 January 2018). "Mark E. Smith, Uncompromising Leader of The Fall, Dies at 60". The New York Times. p.B14. a b Christgau, Robert (1990). "The Fall: Grotesque (After the Gramme)". Christgau's Record Guide: The '80s. Pantheon Books. ISBN 0-679-73015-X . Retrieved 7 March 2013. According to the Slates & Dates press release, this album was, at one point, to be titled After the Gramme– The Grotesque Peasants. Larkin, Colin (2011). "Fall". The Encyclopedia of Popular Music (5th conciseed.). Omnibus Press. ISBN 978-0-85712-595-8.

Smith, Mark E. (2008). Renegade: The Lives and Tales of Mark E. Smith. New York: Viking Press. ISBN 978-0-670-91674-0. a b c d e "The Fall Online – Biography". visi.com/fall. Archived from the original on 26 September 2013 . Retrieved 25 May 2013. that was vastly superior, which I enjoy to this day. What could have been more lovingly presented than the Complete Motown project. Every single The Quietus | News | Fall Sign to Domino, Says Mark E Smith". The Quietus. 3 April 2009 . Retrieved 25 May 2013. Early in 2007 the Fall released the Reformation Post TLC album, recorded with the same lineup that salvaged the 2006 US tour. Yet another lineup released Imperial Wax Solvent, in 2008; this lineup would hold for the following three albums, and the core of Peter Greenway (guitar), David Spurr (bass), and Keiron Melling (drums) for the remainder of the band's existence. In April 2009, the Fall signed with UK-based independent record label Domino Records. [28] [29] A new studio album, titled Your Future Our Clutter, was released on 26 April 2010. [30] This was followed in November 2011 by the album Ersatz GB. [31] In March 2012, the band were chosen by Jeff Mangum of Neutral Milk Hotel to perform at the All Tomorrow's Parties festival he curated in Minehead, England. [32] The Fall released their twenty-ninth studio album, Re-Mit, in 2013. [33] [34]Smith, Mark E. (2009). Renegade: The Lives and Tales of Mark E. Smith. Penguin Books. ISBN 978-0-14-102866-8. Ford, Simon (2003). Hip Priest: The Story of Mark E Smith and The Fall. London: Quartet Books. ISBN 0-7043-8167-2. Goddard, Michael; Halligan, Benjamin, eds. (2010). Mark E. Smith and The Fall: Art, Music and Politics. Farnham: Ashgate. ISBN 978-0-7546-6862-6.