Tuesday, January 18, 2005

Citizens in my street are also partial to this

Am looking forward immensely to this Friday’s TV screening of The Wonderful and Frightening World of Mark E Smith, a new documentary on the history of The Fall. It is unusual for Mark E Smith to cooperate with the media but, by all accounts, he features heavily in the programme which promises plenty of archive footage to purr about. It appears the infamous New York on stage punch-up of a year or two back is included along with other treats for the Fall cognoscenti. I first saw The Fall in 1987 and last saw them a few weeks ago. The buzz was similar. This is a cool group. This is a cool group.

The set lists, courtesy of the official Fall site, were as follows:
1987 (Cheltenham Town Hall): Shoulder Pads / US 80s-90s / Gut of the Quantifier / Mark'll Sink Us / Hey! Luciani / Haf Found Bormann / Australians in Europe / Terry Waite Sez / Get A Hotel / Guest Informant / Ghost in My House / Bombast / Twister / Frenz / Mr Pharmacist / Lucifer over Lancashire

2004 (Bristol Bierkeller): The Joke / Mountain Energei / Mod Mock Goth / Theme from Sparta FC / Wrong Place, Right Time / Mr Pharmacist / What About Us? / Big New Prinz / White Lightning / Blindness


A great Mr Pharmacist double.