The Fall - Singles Live Vol. 1: '78 - '81 Format:CD with Dave Cerminara returning as

with Dave Cerminara returning as engineer and mixer

hard rock if your rock is Fairport

Created in mentor Paul Epworth's own studio it is undoubtedly among the year's most striking debuts

"Gothics" - a time before the word goth had even taken shape - believed in the do-it-yourself punk ethos that anyone could pick up an instrument

Kill Him (The Football Dummy)

The Fall - Singles Live Vol. 1: '78 - '81 Format:CD with Dave Cerminara returning asLabel: Bella Union Reissued 5 30 2025 "I have seen the madness in my area" sings Mr Smith on track 4 of this record. That sentence sums up a lot of The Fall's appeal to me: they looked at The North, the place I was brought up in, and saw something alien and inexplicable in it. Not "Gritty Northern Realism" but rather "Snotty Northern Sur realism". A welcome alternative to all that Hovis advert, brass band, "Ee by gum", "Last of the Summer Wine"