Just watched the DVD for the first and second time. Comparing the table of contents with that for the VHS which I don't have there are apparently none of the announced extras. :o

A mixed bag consisting of a promo video (High Tension Line), a live performance (Big New Priest) and some semi-professional looking parts with the then four members mostly sitting or walking around. However it possesses a certain kind of charm far preferable to any MTV style clip. Still wondering what "Pearson's Revenge" is about, though. :confused:

Seems to me like just the right time to finally make it widely available as the Shift-Work album turned out to be an integral part of the recent vII book.

Surely not one of the most essential Fall releases, nevertheless a very worthwhile purchase IMO.

It arrived today. It is exactly the same as the video that I already have. No extras or nothing.

Nice one! :lol:

Don't think I'll watch that ever again :D

But it was advertised as having extras
crap

anyone surprised??

It'll be two quid soon, don't worry.

Well it says,

Perhaps the "very rare extra material" relates to the poem and Error-Orror which don't feature on the Shiftwork album. Perhaps it's a grey area that they've thoroughly exploited...

Don't know why I'm trying to jusify it... would have been more honest if they'd just said that it is a straightforward DVD re-release of the video. They could even have lied a bit and said it is a "fantastic document" or somesuch bollocks.

:lol:

Its great-not having the VHS. I was quite touched seeing ODL having fun with his peers/cohorts
must be lonely being the ol foreman of the lot

Got to thinking how over 3 or so decades he/they have lived a stressful nerve-wracking life; wondering where the next meal will come from

yes; good to see some fun going on

A few new things learned:

MES Jazz Dancer
1st (and only?) black fall member

My vid is still in great nick. No extras on dvd apparently so I'll stick wit it.

A great video - love the album, love this too. I'll never forget the same issue of Select (dunno if thats still going - sorta glossy A4 version of defunct Melody Maker) had two diff reviews of the vid in the same issue at the time.

A great little work of video art: look elsewhere for fast edits and booty shots, natch. Varied and interesting clips of the band: Nic Roeg references in Venice, monochromatic dolly shots in the woods of the classic line-up!, boomy live clip, gentlemanly dancing with young Saffron by Mark, and super 8 aviary takes in the Lake district w/sub-esoteric poetry reading.

I wish there were more like it, that's f'sure....a wonderful collectors' item. And yeah, Select hated it X2. It just wasnt "The year Punk Rock Broke" at all for them, the dicky little darlings.

Select folded about 5 years ago. It wasn't the "glossy Melody maker", that was Vox. I used to enjoy Select in my early teens, turned me on to Ornette Coleman, so it must hav been good! Vox, however, was dire.

wasn't vox the glossy nme? ( apologies for redundant pedantry )

remember a class mate bringing in an mes interview in vox back in 1991 or so.

select sometimes appeared in a box, as was the vogue a while back. still got some cover tapes somewhere...

wendy james seemed to be on the covers back then...

Glamorous Fall. That DVD is the most females I've yet witnessed in near proximity to The Fall, and the closest-up I've seen Marcia Schofield. She's behind the keyboards in the Big New Prinz clip, obviously, but who's the frizzy-haired woman cavorting with Mark in the Shiftwork video? Cassell Webb? Charlotte Bill?

Good stuff anyway, worth every penny. Particularly like Pearson's Revenge.

I've got the credits bow and nothing for either Charlotte Bill or Cassell Webb.

Saffron Prior is credited as 'red-haired woman' but I'm not sure who that's supposed to bein the clips.

You could P.M Saffron - isn't she Butterflies for Brains?

I loved Pearson's Revenge too. Smithy at the stones before the druid quarter took up camp.

Does anyone have any info the track "Pearson's Revenge"? I take it that it's not a Fall song but some other bloke reading out his own poem?

Similarly - the live version of "Big New Priest" anyone know what gig that is from?

And the origins of Error-Orror? It's a totally different version here to the onethat got released on the "Home" compilation (and on the reissued Fontana album)

Apparently "C Pearson" is the guy reading. But I'm assuming MES wrote it.

Think Big New Priest was filmed in Australia?

The stone circle is Castlerigg near Keswick in the Lake District.