Fall Out
Interesting and amusing article in the Guardian today as Dave Simpson tries to track down ex members of The Fall, all forty-three of them. The fact that current guitarist Ben Pritchard is losing his hair from stress at the age of twenty-two says it all really.
A good read (with better pictures in the print version) but here's nit-pick time
a) It's somewhat odd to imply Philip K Dick is a current fan when he's been dead for over two decades
b) When will the mainstream press learn that Mark E Smith does not pronounce the word fucking as "fooking", and that neither does anyone else from Manchester, Lancashire or Yorkshire? Sorry, but I'm not letting this one go.
The excellent FallNet
http://www.visi.com/fall/news/fallnews.html
links to a pdf of the print version which includes all the photos and captions, making for a rather better article. By the way.
Update to the interested:- Mark Smith has given his reaction to the article on Fallnet:-
“Hiya cock,
A word for you to ponder on the state of British Journalism in the modern age.
Given the hatchet job carried out by a Guardian journalist on Fall members past and present yesterday; I would like it to be known that any future dealings with the press by the Fall will not be through the aforementioned publication, but through a more worthy journal of a much higher calibre… such as the Daily fucking Star!!!!
Happy New Year.
MES.”
Obviously he’s just as riled about people falsely transcribing northern pronunciations as I am.