I hear Bowie's trying to stop one, Queen and Rod Stewart have had one each, but what about a Fall musical?
Suggestions and input required to formulate a rough outline of story/content.
COSTUMES
Act I: Mark to be wearing the diamond patterned "golfing" sweater as featured on the cover of '50,000 Fall fans", with bowl haircut.
Act II: Black leather jacket/white shirt (current look) including the single black glove.
The story so far....(in Two Acts)
ACT I
OPENING
"Anarchy in the UK" followed by Johnny Rotten attempting to hand over the baton of Punk Rock to a young Mark Smith, who rejects it to follow his own path.
1982
The young Mark Smith becomes disillusioned with ROCK MUSIC INDUSTRY and records his final LP "Hex Enduction Hour", but is visited by the ghost of Ian Curtis who helps him to realise his dreams.
End of Act I
The Fall disintergrate live on stage and Brix leaves Mark.
ENDING
Full Cast version of "50 year old man" with audience participation.
Yer basic story could be: boy meets girl/boy gets girl/boy loses girl/boy gets girl back again. Using the Brix angle to create a love story over which The Fall story hangs.
I'm tempted to amalgamate Fall USA tour tragedies into one USA tour incident for the sake of ease of understanding.
Your thoughts on songs and incidents which MUST be included.
BASED ON A TRUE STORY; ONLY THE FACTS HAVE BEEN CHANGED
ACT ONE:
"PREFACE: WE are the Fall. Mistaken as Music Group. Then reinstated 30 odd years later as per our previous REALISATION. Dreams of Idiots and journalists outlast Everetts Kenny and True."
A rumble descends on the audience. Earthquake film sequel as directed by M Winterbottom with no people or seismic terror played. Just a graph and truck stop thunder. Seats disintegrate. A lonely man in leather jacket cries. Their last fan to leave the house in Picadilly: Circles smokes Britain's final closed-enclosure cigarette as audience tribute.
ACT TWO:
All previous band members play "Metal Machine Music" as per Stockhausen cellphone direction.
ACT THREE: The story of El Torito is read loudly by Mark E Smith. Backing by Faust Roadies and Manchester taxi drivers between shifts.
The curtain descends.
Rock and Roll is complete. And sincerely.