www.guardian.co.uk/music/2008/sep/17/popandrock.music
Wednesday, 17 September 2008
The Curse Of The Fall
I've got a feature in today's Guardian which leans towards the human costs of my search - a car, my health, my girlfriend. I still shudder at the aesthetic costs - when I saw The Fall at Leeds Fforde Grene, I was sporting a hideous curly perm that had gone wrong. I blame the influence of Terry Hall's Fun Boy Three-era barnet for that one!
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A couple of questions/points; one raised by the Grauniad article:
1) You were looking for Karl E Burns but any self-respecting Fall fan would know that Karl's middle initial is a K (see "Hex" front cover);
b) If you were going to track down all the people who'd played live with The Group, did you find out who the long-hair was who played Brix's guitar parts during the Off Beat Night gig in Germany at the start of 1989? Eh? Did yer?
K. K. Amera - fogey label
K. K. Burns Babe
Not literal - Karl's always been "Karl Burns"
Directory enquiries put an 'E' in...
Any self-respecting Fall fan would know it's "the gruppe" not "the group"
!
ps
b) That would be anal mate! :)
Anal? Nowt to do with it, pal. More like doing things *thoroughly*. If you set the rules, you gotta follow 'em.
(P.S. book in the post; looking forward to reading it)
P.S.S. Group / gruppe; MES has referred to it as the latter - for example, see gigography entry for 2 May 2004.
my budget didn't extend to Germany! My first car didn't get past the M62.
"Gruppe/group" will both do really, you're right. The verboten word is "band"
Actually there were a few I drew the line at, including the "Stuart" who appeared before a live TV audience (but not a proper gig), and the assorted roadies/loons/road managers who read lyrics on encores etc. Stuart Estell was the exception to that cos it's such a great story.
I am a recovering Fall obsessive (it is 173 days since I last heard any of their music). Your Guardian article has set it off again! GRrrr
And you didn't look for the infamous "Dave"?
Dave's fate is in the book.
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