The Fall – Live at St. Helens Technical College ’81

Description

Last year, former Fall guitarist (and now celebrated radio broadcaster) Marc Riley stumbled on a rare bootleg recording of a concert the band had given to a sparsely populated audience at St Helens Technical College in the spring of 1981. To celebrate the gig’s 40th anniversary, the recording has now been re-mastered and pressed to wax. It’s a brilliant document of the Fall at their post-punk era best, with legendary front man Mark E Smith talking, singing, yelping and shouting has way through a series of raw, post-punk era workouts built around raucous, fuzz-toned guitars, low-slung basslines and loose-limbed drumming. For fans of Smith and his long-running band, it should be an essential purchase.

Tracklist:

Side 1
1. Blob ’59
2. Prole Art Threat
3. Jawbone & The Air Rifle
4. Middle Mass
5. Rowche Rumble
6. An Older Lover

Side 2
1. City Hobgoblins
2. Leave The Capitol
3. The NWRA
4. Gramme Friday
5. Fit & Working Again

7″
1. Slates, Slags, Etc
2. Muzorewi’s Daughter