was anyone at the february 8th 1986 gig with the fall, the smiths and new order all on the same bill? it was at liverpools royal court theatre. does anybody have this gig by chance of the fall or the smiths? thanks

I saw The Smiths two days later, 10 February, in Dublin.

National Stadium.

Supported by The June Brides.

My second ever concert.

Great gig.

Bought a cassette bootleg the following year, long since gone though.

My neighbour was in college in Liverpool at the time and went to the gig you mention. He rates it highly.

how many times did the smiths and the fall play on the same bill?

I saw them on the same bill at the Festival of the Tenth Summer at Manchester's G-Mex Arena in summer 1986. Coincidentally New Order also played at that one too.

I had tickets for The Smiths + The Fall at the Royal Albert Hall the following year but it was cancelled when Johnny Marr suffered whiplash injuries in a car accident.

what did you do for the tickets to that show? thats a shame that the show was cancelled.

I'd imagine they ended up in a Guildford pub ashtray soon after the cancellation was announced.

February 8th 1986, where you there

yes I was, I was just somewhere else at the time.

i was two years old at this time

I was also two, so sadly i was too young to remember anything of it - and i didnt even go

Yep, I was there. One of my top 5 gigs ever. And really only because of The Fall, despite the great line-up on the bill. John Cooper Clark played too. He was funny back then....

It was my first ever Fall gig, I was more looking forward to The Smiths in truth having never seen them before either.

But by the time I was watching the Smiths, they seemed so ordinary : The Fall had totally changed my life right there and then that night, an hour or so earlier. Couldn't believe a band could sound like that, ramshackle, genius, awkward, penetrative, mysterious, threatening, powerful, beautiful. All at the same time.
It just connected with something inside me (I was 19) like a lightning bolt. I only really knew the TNSG stuff, and even that was a bit sketchy.

I have a CD bootleg of it (just The Fall), it ain't perfect but it's a great reminder of that epiphany!

I went to watch Sunderland v Carlisle at Roker Park cos a lad a knew was on Carlisle's books. He didn't play that day but it was a good game. Alan Kennedy, one of the Anfield greats imho, was coasting to retirement with Sunderland but scored two staggering goals that day - one of them was a long range volley into the "postage stamp" (copyright very famous sports reporter) direct from a seemingly useless Sunderland corner kick that whizzed past the Carlisle keeper on his inside post. One of those goals where the crowd doesn't cheer for a second because nobody can believe it's gone in (least of all Alan Kennedy).

Inspired, he then took a one-two on a forward run and crashed it past the keeper into the other top corner (the "airmail sticker" copyright GoB).

For the record, Ian Bishop (later of West Ham and Man City) was the best Carlisle player.

I would have loved to have went to the Fall gig but probably went to the local WMC and had about 18 pints of snakebite.

smiths and fall played electric ballroom in 83. smiths supported

Off topic, but there was 3-days fest in Athens, in September 1982, with:
i) Birthday Party
ii) The Fall (6 piece band)
iii) New Order

At the 2nd day with The Fall, a few guys had a little fight with Bernand Sumner (he was drunk and pushing people in front of the stage - a kind of pogo :blink: )

The setlist was: (from gigography) The Classical / Lie Dream of a Casino Soul / Tempo House / I Feel Voxish / Hip Priest / I'm Into C.B. / Mere Pseud Mag Ed / The Man Whose Head Expanded

how was this gig?

I went to this gig. Probably about my 3rd Fall gig and the first time i'd seen them without Marc Riley, which at the time was a shock because I loved his keyboard playing on the Hex tour. It was also the first time I taped a fall gig.

As for the Smiths, I remember the gladioli in M's back pocket and a rocking version of miserable Lie (i didn't record their set). It may have been their first gig in London but it was certainly in the week that hand in glove was released because I bought a copy of the single.

ah, the old where/were problem.
i put it down to not recieving spelling information .

i have a c90 of the fall's set somewhere. there's a very good tempo house on there and also nice pilsner trail

I was two and a half and it didn't stop me going to Gmex!

I went to see New Model Army at Queen Mary College on 25 Feb 1986 if this helps!!!! ;)

this sounds very juicy.

I went to Fall and Smiths at Electric Ballroom also. Afterwards I couldn't recall a durned thing about The Smiths, and had to be reminded that I had actually seen them, which is why (at least one of the whys) I don't believe the hype.

i have a few smiths gig and i love listening to them live

I was there and taped all 3 bands - a splendid gig.

My mate Tock digitized the masters last year and put them all up on Dime so they should be in wide circulation.

PM me if you can't get hold of them elsewhere.

I also did Croydon and Woolwich that tour, golden days!

croyden and woolwich with the smiths and the fall?

Yeah, I was at that gig.

Unfortunately, and I'm pissed off with myself now, I don't remember anything of The Fall's set at all.

I before e except after c old chap.. -_- .. "receiving"

did anyone tape this gig?

oh r.totale, i am so dissapointed in you .......hook,line & sinker.

which was a result for those of us who couldn't get tickets as they then played the Brixton Academy (supported by Pete Shelley I think) in December. Last UK gig, an evening to remember.

did you tape this gig? did everyone know it was going to be last gig for the smiths?

I did tape this gig at GMex, not sure if I still have it though. The first track of the Fall's set 'Cruisers Creek' is on Seminal Live preceded by a speech/introduction by Bill Grundy.

I remember my tapes of that gig sounded very echoie like they were recorded in a railway station. Which they were. GMEX being an ex railway station.

Highlights from that gig (Smiths New Order and the Fall) were broadcast by Piccadilly radio a week or so later so there might be some good quality FM recordings still kicking around