The Fall - Singles Live Vol. 1: '78 - '81 Format:CD Kill Him (The Football Dummy)

Kill Him (The Football Dummy)

"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

commercial success did not arrive till nearly 30 years later

Eccentric Modern Soul delivers an expansive soundscape that feels both nostalgic and new

with a freshness that defines an artist who is too excited by music-making to ever truly settle into any one sound

The Fall - Singles Live Vol. 1: '78 - '81 Format:CD Kill Him (The Football Dummy)Label: 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"