The Continuing Obsession With MES & The Fall: Live On The Tube 1983
In 1983, British television show The Tube asked John Peel to be a guest host. He agreed to do it for free- only if he could bring The Fall along for an appearance.
Here The Fall are at one of the many peaks of their career, lip-synching to their lurching ominous masterpiece "Smile" from the Perverted By Language LP. Note the hot-shit double drummer line-up of Karl Burns and Paul Hanley.
The Fall Live on The Tube 1983 - Smile (20 meg AVI)
HERE are a couple new books by Mark E. Smith (thanks Fall Forum)
a double drummer line-up..nothing is better
Posted by: Elisabeth | February 06, 2006 at 08:30 AM
I'm loving these posts... keep the obsession alive.
Posted by: sean | February 06, 2006 at 05:09 PM
why cant I ever see avi files? (the apple.com DL plugin pg dont help)
Posted by: whats his name | February 08, 2006 at 02:49 PM
use VLC.
Posted by: fatty jubbo | February 08, 2006 at 03:15 PM
here as a QTmov file
http://x818.com/junk/NTFMT/the_fall_-_smile_tube_1983.mov
Posted by: mr. that guy | February 09, 2006 at 01:31 AM
this time with a clickable link HERE
Posted by: mr. that guy | February 09, 2006 at 11:03 AM
I'm having problems seeing the video too, getting an "error downloading codec" message in Media Player. Real Player doesn't work either. What's VLC?
Thanks,
Eric
Posted by: Eric | February 10, 2006 at 07:26 AM
Thanks I figured it out. VLC is a cross-platform media player.
Posted by: Eric | February 10, 2006 at 07:55 AM
Seen them live with that line-up in Melbourne same year. The double-drums were sensational, it was only a small pub so they blew the room apart!
Posted by: Tex Lumbago | February 13, 2006 at 01:24 AM
I stumbled on to Full Frontal Fashion on WNYE last night & heard
Blindness from the Fall's latest album being used as background music for the Karl Lagerfeld
fall collection show. I let Stefan at The Fall's official web site know.....
more info to follow:
http://www.visi.com/fall/news/fallnews.html
Apparently a fashion show put on by designer Karl Lagerfeld on 10 February in New York (and broadcast on television), used Blindness as background music. The show is available for download for iTunes on the Lagerfeld website. I don't want to install iTunes, but if someone wants to download it and confirm the Fall sighting, please do (thanks to George for writing in).
Posted by: isticon | February 13, 2006 at 03:41 PM
It is bizarre how this video seems to avoid showing Brix almost completely. It is probably not contractual, since she appears in the next song. Just weird.
Posted by: nora | May 30, 2008 at 02:07 PM