I'll be adding more. You too, but date of gig essential! All quotes from MES unless otherwise stated.

22 July 78 Deeply Vale:
- "We're going to knock you down, we're going to come inside your head. Thank you and good afternoon...right, Psycho Mafia take one" (before Psycho Mafia)
- "We like to be in tune, this being our first experience of open air festivals." (before Rebellious Jukebox)
- "Right, all you skinheads...like to blow...you're on the slack(?)..." (before Like To Blow)
- "This one's about radios, videos, on a (?)...a note of your own choice, boys and girls..." (before Mess Of My)
- "I dream about taking some terrorists out for a quiet drink and getting them to stick a bomb up the architect's arse, the tv popman's (?) arse, you know, dreams, you know, when the only solution is retribution." (extra lyrics in Mess Of My)
- Right the new one" (before It's The new Thing)
- "Another slow one for you - a song of contrasts, for my mother and my sister."
- "Martin, reach out and tell one of Industrial Estate. I can't see one that makes a change. Get up for Industrial Estate-ah." (before Industrial Estate)
- "Do Futures and Pasts, Martin, yeah? We're a democratic band, y'know. We're just going for a conference to talk about our futures and our pasts." (last bit in American accent).
- "Last number now, right, come on Martin, sing a song, you can do it." (before Music Scene)

23 August 78 Oldham:
- "When I was at the Witch Trials in August it was You're Rurrrr ruurrr, rrrrururrr right NOISE! (before Repetition)...."We'd like to slow things down now so we'll just calm down" (before Frightened)..."This next one is a sequel to the last one" (before Stepping Out)..."This is the history lesson in our set. We're bringing you a bit of culture." (before Various Times):
- "Nice relaxed atmosphere down here in Oldham. The next one is just for you. Er...it's about videos. Which you don't get a lot of in Oldham. A note of your own choice, boys and girls. (before Mess of My)
-"Thank you. Another one from the vaults."(before Futures and Pasts)
- "This one's for John." (before Industrial Estate)
- (Martin Bramah) "Is it all right if we do another ? (calls to off-stage) Mark...? This is our party piece...Mark's just putting his make up on, it splits in the heat, you know..."
- "Thank you Martin, man of the people...Er, the next one is Music Scene, you asked for this.Ten minutes of it at least."

22 September 78 Belfast:

- "Good evening, we had a few, er, equipment problems, but ah we're all sorted out now. For all the tourists in tonight ... it's worse than last night, because we've only got two amps."
- "Thank you. This next one is our new single, and should be out about 1995, [with a bit of luck?]" (Into It's The New Thing)
- "Right, we'll have a bit of a rest now ( ... ) Sorry about that last one, we really got into it [Bramah: yeeah] we really got into ourselves on that one. So now we're gonna make up for it! Stepping Out, Stepping Out!"
- "This song is about nothing. The words just fit the music. So anything I say, take no notice of it, but it sounds good, know what I mean? Mother Sister."
- (MES): "I never liked him, I never liked that Smith. So I'm gonna take his place, Ok?, haha. Industrial Estate, c'mon, before Smith comes back!"

17 December 78 London:
- "First time we played here we had a lot of hassle with chains and pins, and things have changed around here..."..."this next one is about what people from Cleveland would call, 'Neat, really neat'." (before Industrial Estate)

14 February 79 Altrincham: (early show)
- " Good evening, we are The Fall playing in front of a town without pity, about a city with no pity..."
- "You'll get what you're given and be happy with it."... "We don't do Industrial Estate anymore. You'll get what you're given and be happy with it."
- "We have to calm down for the next one. The last time we played this number we had to evacuate the stage so I don't want that to happen again, all right? It's one we wrote in 1976 when me and the lads got together, ha ha. Psycho Psycho!"
- " This next one is about a visit to the doctors which you definitely do not need and it's called Underground Medicin...and it starts off with acapello with me and Martin...(unclear...some problems with Bramah's guiar?)...we'll carry on, Martin." (before Underground Medicin)
-"It's another old song from the days they were made out to be great they were not that good so you you didn't miss anything." (before Stepping Out)
-"This is a new one...it's so bloody new we don't even know it. It's very good though, couldn't have missed it out, not for you kids." (before Let's)
- "The alternative hit for you shits." (It's the New Thing)
- "And it's Psycho again for the second time, very sorry...Martin's very sorry as well because he's very slow." (before Psycho Mafia)

14 February 79 Altrincham: (late show)

- "The next one is Put Away. Nearly together. We nearly got it together in the matinee. We might just get it together now."
- Member of audience : "Last Orders !"
- Mark : "Last orders half past ten. Martin - are you ready ? Hey you horror-face...."(into Printhead)
- "This next one is another deep, meaningful one. It's called Mess of My and it starts off with a bit of avant-garde from the band-ah. A note of your own choice, boys and girl....."
"This is a nice pleasant song, but it's out of season, but it's er.....it's earned its place in our set... "(before No Xmas For John Quays)
- "This is a song....this is a song...this is a song...this is...... "(into Rebellious Jukebox)
- "This next song is a new song and...er...we haven't quite got it together yet. I hope we do get it together for your ears....er....it's an objective song....Let's."
- "Right, this is a song me and the boys wrote back in '76" (before Psycho Mafia)
- Martin - "Calm down, we're only human you know..."
- Mark - "This is very embarrassing, we've got to (incomprehensible) the fucking banner here...and then you can have Stepping Out. This is a different version. A different version (silly voice) from the album version, know whorrimean ? Well, good for you, Marc, good for you...right.... "


(?) February 79 London:
- "This is the last one 'cos we've had enough even if you haven't" (The Fall were second on the bill in between Generation X and UK Subs and had spent the entire set being pelted by cans and plastic glasses.)

27 March 79 London:
- "This one's a slow one, dedicated to H.P. Lovecraft, xxx said that he thought a shadow was his father, a shadow was his dad" (A figure walks.)
- "The next one's going to be cool, too, for my mother. It's Mother's Day: is that why you're all so uptight." (Underground Medicin)

(?) May 79 Cambridge:
- "This songs about what makes Alf Roberts really happy"
(Intro to Rowche Rumble.)

9 August 79 London:
- "Good evening, All the groups imitate us but they always underate us. We are The Fall, hello, hello, a scratchy wall of sound. White crap talks back. Witch Trials, brandy, Dragnet, Dragnet..."..."Come on Riley!" (in introduction to Put Away)
- MES: "This next ones called Stepping Out."
- Audience member: "Booo! Staff 9!"

15 September 79 London:
- "We get paid by the hour mate. Drag it on, man. Rowche!"..."We get a lot of letters asking who Frankie Lymon is."..."I'll tell you a secret. We are private detectives coming back from a musical pilgrimage. Who would suspect this? It is too obvious. We work under the name of The Fall, our office is secluded. We are six white guys...xxxx. Up here in the north there is no wage packet jobs for us, thank Christ. As young married couples discuss the (policies?) of their self-filled traps. The junior clergy xxx, though. We spit in their plates and wait for the ice to melt." (intro to Before the Moon Falls)... "I met some people who weren't in a group the other day."

27 October 79 Doncaster:
- "Good evening, we are The Fall. The difference between you and us is that we have brains."...""Will you fucking get it together instead of showing off?" (during No Xmas For John Quays)

4 November 79 Middlesborough:

- "This next one was a hit for me and the lads in Tibet." ( Introducing 'Rebellious Jukebox)

- "Guitars through monitors A BIT" to soundman (that's a long "a")
- "You picked all the wrong ones tonight, I'm afraid. This one was a hit for me and the lads in Tibet, it's about drinking. Jukebox!"
- "This next one is epic. Okey dokey!" (Muzorewi's Daughter)
- "I know it's been hard going so far, but you've got to face up to it one day. You are stock you are pop you are pop stock."
- "There's no requests tonight, sorry."
- "We'd like to finish off with a religious song, seeing as it's Sunday." (That Man)

12 November 79 Preston:

- "Blackpool's near here, isn't it? BLACKPOOL'S NEAR HERE, ISN'T IT?" crowd chants: "We hate Blackpool and we hate Blackpool."
- "Can we have more drums on stage, please? Very weedy, indeed."

16 November 79 Retford:

- "This is about a fellow who's hiding in a flat so he changes the window so you can see into him... maybe." (before Flat Of Angels)
- "This was a hit for us in Eskimo land, and I'm very pleased to be here tonight." (Rebellious Jukebox)


(?)November 79 London:
-"Good evening we are the Fall that's spelt F A Long Legs".

1 December 79 NYC:
"Good evening, we are The Fall. That's 'F A double L' - as if from heaven. A voice for cults. This is flack(?) and the number is Fiery Jack."
- "This song is about psychics so you've got to exercise the ectoplasm and become part of the quest, part of the quest!"

14 December 79 L.A.:

- "Your decadent sins will reap discipline, we are the new puritans, we are The Fall as in from heaven, as in from heaven...there are no wage-packet jobs for us as married couples discuss the polities of their self-built traps and your country demands more cash..is there anybody there? Yeah!" (before Psykick Dancehall)
- "Your decadent sins will wreak discipline. We are the new puritans. We are The Fall, as if from heaven, as if from heaven. Ch-ch-ch-chew-ah! Ch-ch-ch-chew-ah! There are no wage packet jobs for us as married couples discuss the polities of their self-filled traps. And your country demands more cash. Is there anybody there?"
- "Do you want this up, Grant, or what. Turn yourself up a bit. Right, we did all the hits, we played some fucking hangar* before we came here. So we're going to mutilate this one." (Rowche) *Hope Street Hall, L.A.
- "This is Budweiser water you're selling here. [in posh accent] Okay, wot? Okay, right. This is a [hit?] for me and the lads in Eskimo land." (after Rebellious Jukebox: "That's a hit, murdered."
- "Pure pop for now people" (Could be Riley?) (after Your Heart Out)
- "Right, that was the loosest thing we've ever done. Thank you. Thank you xxxx. It's just like being at home in the front room. But you are pop, you are stock, you are still buying the single shit. Okey dokey!"
- "Sorry we have to be so miserable. This is tribal. This looks like a political club, huh? This is where all the intellectuals go, isn't it?" (during Muzorewi's Daughter intro)

3 December 79 Cambridge, Massachusetts:
- "Virgin Records is the home of the Antichrist."

14 December 79 L.A.:
- "the (?) keyboards need some discipline...this next one is more trash" (before Your Heart Out)..."Sorry that we have to be so miserable" (before Muzorewi's Daughter).

11 May 80 London:
- "Good evening. We are The Fall and I am Roman Totale and these are my sidekicks. I will lead you on to new visions of proletariat posterity. this is a story." (before New Face In Hell)

13 June 80 Eindhoven:

- "Davis, fucking hit that cowbell quick!" (before City Hobgoblins)
- "We'll stick punk rock up your fucking arse. Right, here's a good one - it's a bit of fucking culture for you, right, Hobgoblins! Davis! Hit the fucking cowbell quick!"
- "Why doesn't the government subsidize amphetamine?" (No Xmas for John Quays)
- "This is the lull in the set, another Greek story for you." (Flat) Of Angles)
- "It's Gramme Friday, 13! 13!" (New Face) In Hell) (Gig was on Friday the 13th.)

28 June 80 Newcastle:

- "Go into your record shop and ask you local record dealer why he is such a dick." (City Hobgoblins)
- "You get really fucking embarrassed about what you read nowadays." (Printhead)


28 July 80 Deeply Vale:

("Deeply Vale" - an outdoors gig but was there really a DV festival in 1980?)
- "Do you have any preachers around here in this village? Preachers, PG's?" (That Man)
- "This is like a fucking cabaret act, isn't it. Well, it is a holiday for us." (Underground Medicin)
- "Don't be bereft. Don't be like a big FM writer. Working Men's Club, like us. Calculated incompetence. Pseud! G. Bushell, half a line of cocaine, why do you think UFO get good reviews? Think about it, think about it. Why do all these shits get reviews? xxx the record company meets them when they get out of the cab." (during Chock Stock)
- "Get me a bean burger" after last song.

27 September 80 Chorley:

- "Good evening, you know who we are. You know who we are, who are you? This is a long song. It's got a bit of intelligence in it." (The NWRA)
- "It's been great here tonight. We'll come back... well, never. We'll probably never see each other again after tonight."


2 October 80 Manchester:
- "Good evening, you know who we are - we are the most hated group in Britain."..."We do not suck cocks to make our living."..."OK, guitar practice is over, start the fucking song" (Goes into Jawbone and the Air-Rifle).

1 November 80 Manchester:
- "Come on ...okay...you fucking ugly twat" (to someone in audience during The NWRA)..."What about the Liverpool bands who are a (fucking?) disgrace, escapist disgrace..."..."What a load of crap that was" (after In My Area)..."Ian: My favourite Fall moment was from the very first time I saw them at Manchester Poly in 1980. Someone in the crowd lobbed a beer can up and hit MES with it. MES didn't blink and carried on the song without pausing. At the end of the song he went over to Hanley and Scanlon who pointed out somebody in the crowd about half way back. MES shouts you fucking ugly twat and walks off stage reappearing a minute later in the crowd striding over to the can lobber and smacking him one in the face. A magic moment."(from Stefan's Fall gigography).

18 November 80 Nottingham:

- "The next one's about leaving capitals. Well, we've been to worse places than this. Or...(?)"
- "That last monologue was from Middlesbrough...(?)" (after The NWRA)

20 November 80 Birmingham:

- "This is for the city of Rhodes [roads?]. Trapped in the web. Help me! Help me!" (City Hobgoblins)
- "Okay, we're just putting our false moustaches on." (English Scheme)

5 February 81 London:

- "I bet all these fucking students hate them letting the locals in here, but none of the locals fucking stand this." (Middle Mass)
- "I must apologise for the con trick that was played on you when you first came in, if you did, about the, erm, the hype downstairs. (Pink Press Threat)

23 February 81 Glasgow:

- "I guess that goes to show, yeah, it would be a good idea to turn the bloody PA on!"
- "Can you turn the monitors ON, please? Grant, can you sort the sound out on stage?"
- "Yes, it's definitely like the Shining in here. Okay, one thing I've got against you. Hey, you ???"
- "You didn't think we were going to go without a bit of misery, ha ha. We went to St. Helens on Friday. There, if you got a ??? and had a bath they think you are a poof. They've just discovered '78 in St. Helens and they all interbreed, anyway."

25 February 81 Paisley:

- "I still can't hear meself up here. I think I've got a bit of wax in me ears" (before How I Wrote Elastic Man)
- Right we're gonna do a long cabaret number now" (before The NWRA)
- We didn't work a set out tonight so what you got was a series of lectures. This is the final one..l(aughs... ) (before Slates, Slags, Etc.)
- "Still can't hear meself up here.I think I've got a bit of wax in me ears. Is there any monitors, Grant ? Please...Fabulous, son (?)... I just want to hear myself-ah..."
(when?)

20 May 81 Munster:

- "Heee i-is not SHUT YER FUCKING TRAP, RIGHT? appreciated" (to persistent heckler during quiet parts of Hip Priest)


21 May 81 Berlin:
- "Spiders (?) know these things, gremlins know these things, happy, healthy...these people aren't in the group, by the way, with the lights..."

22 May 81 Hof, Germany:
- "We are the Fall. We are swinging Pantaloons. "..."Yeah can we have these white lights on the right dimmed please. We've lost enough words (?) as it is." Voice from audience: "Well stop over-indulging then you wanker." (before The NWRA)."Good evening I am Mister Smith. The "volk ist uns" (?) English consulate." (before Prole Art Threat)

31 May 81 Oklahoma City:

- "This next one is about soccer, sort of...it's pure prophecy as regards to Italy..." (before Middle Mass)
- "And then he decides to have rest right there, right there...Black (Hawk?) 6 foot Eskimo (fable?) quarter brain as apart from half brain..." (extra lyrics in No Xmas For john Quays)

23 June 81 New Orleans:

-"Good evening we are the Fall, don't expect any left wing shit because at home we've got enough of it."

16 July 81 Chicago:

- "Right, the keyboards have broke down so you're getting something unique. Anyone who wants a 50 cents refund send an airmail letter to (?) Hebrides..." (after The NWRA)
- "I am The Fall" (during Deer Park)
- "That one usually clears the halls." (after Hip Priest)
- "This next one is about Wigan." (laughs) (before Lie Dream Of A Casino Soul)

12 September 81 Austerbaejarbio:

- "The next one is Lie Dream Of A Casino Soul and it is aimed at Buttock Records...(before the song)...faster, faster..." (at beginning of song)

23 October 81 Manchester:

- "Paul, will you fucking get it together man? Right? Stop fucking dicking about! It's like a fucking... whirlpool." (between Look, Know and Jawbone And The Air Rifle)

27 October 81 Newcastle:

- "Good evening we are the Fall... as in blister-packed, date stamped. Date stamped. Blister packed."
- (This gig also includes the lines "I saw a Surogate Mirage" in 2 songs, The NWRA & C'n'C. )
- "Right, this is er....a little story about Miss Mundrick's (?) tomb...tragic life" (into Jawbone)
- "Could I ask the er... the light, the light, the light people....the lighting people to er turn it down a bit and to turn it off between numbers...because we're a very active, physically group - we move around" (before Hip Priest)- "
I may look a little bit dopey because I've got a bit of a cold, you know" (before 2nd Dark Age)
- "I'm now on Riley's microphone." (before Session Musician)
- "Alright, Craig, do your part please" (before Deer Park)

24 March 82 Leicester:
-"Sorry the boys are a bit ropey tonight, but they believe everything they read about themselves, you know worrimean, yeah, right."

2 April 82 Edinburgh:
-"Good evening. We are The Fall, a riptide of integrity. Meet MES and his go-go monkeys."

10 April 82 The Hague:

-"Good evening, this is MES and a riptide of integrity and his go-go men...we are The Fall (during start of Look, Know)
- "Come on, wake up! Wake up!" (to the group?) (at the start of I'm Into CB)

28 April 82 Derby:

- Mark : "Grant - can you get Paul to get, er, Riley's, er, money for him ?"
Marc : "Bring me a cup of coffee " (before the opening song, Look Know)
- "I bet you put your bread in the fridge" (before Wings)

2 August 82 Melbourne::
- 'This is for all you people who want to live free: Hell’s Angels, hitch-hikers, fans of James Dean...'

21 August 82 Auckland:

- "If you look closely Marc Riley has a Joker Hysterical Face, but he's happy"

11 February 83 Amsterdam:
- "Good evening, we are The Fall and these are the Words of Expectation. Every now and then I would like to do something like this.It's the change and the perspective of my career. There, these are the words of success, contemplation."

14 February 83 Eindhoven:

- "Good evening we are the Fall, and these are the Words of Expectation ... from a dopey mong, who forgot his cassette".


21 March 83 London:

- "Okay, sports fiends..." (before Kicker Conspiracy)
- "This is one I wrote on...er...my last pay slip" (over intro to Man Whose Head Expanded)

4 April 83 Bloomfield:

- "I can't hear the monitors..can you turn the monitors up thanks or do you want us to turn down (?)...Pardon? Turn the instruments down, yeah." (after aborted start to Eat Y'Self Fitter)

7 April 83 New York:

- "Can you leave the lights on between songs; you can't see what's in the list next." (before Middle Mass)

21 April 83 Toronto:

- "will end up like King Crimson, Echo and the Bunnymen, Joy Division" (adapted lyric in Words Of Expectation)

29 April 83 Cleveland:

- "We are Men At Work, by the way. From Australia - Men At Work - that's us. You wouldn't have guessed it would you, eh ?" (before Lie Dream Of A Casino Soul))

14 July 83 Derby:

- "The next song features Mr Sociological Memory (Casio VL Tone starts on The Man Whose Head Expanded) - he used to tour The Palladiums in the '40s and '50s. He could give you all the housing numbers and percentages from the 1920s. Sorry this is a bit difficult and sorry this is over anybody's head in the audience..." (into lyrics to song)
- "I've had this fucking shirt years, so shut up." (before Eat Y'self Fitter)
- T"his is what it's down to...this is what it is...looks like working for the Government" (before Middle Mass)

4 October 83 Edinburgh:

- "So now they turn up." (referring to what I don't know) (before Kicker Conspiracy)
- "Don't fuck us at this next change" (to someone in the group?) (during Fiery Jack)

1 November 83 Middlesbrough:

- (first encore, following some fantastic corny disc jockey type intro & then Tainted Love by Soft Cell; one he must be proud of ..)"We only came back to get the faggot music off" (loud cheers).. Kicker.... Kicker....

4 August 84 Brixton:

- "I've memorised the works of David Bowie... yeah!" (during Copped It)

22 September 84 Rotterdam:

- "Could we stop the lights flashing, please? We're all epileptics in this band." (before Kicker Conspiracy)
- "Yes, boy, it's an Ipswich conspiracy" (alternative lyric in Kicker Conspiracy)
- "Can we have the....can we stop the lights flashing, please ? We're all epileptics in this band. Right, er, this next one is heavily influenced by Lloyd Cole and is called 'The Day The Fat Slug Crawled From Undeneath The Dustbin'." (before No Bulbs)


25 October 84 Edinburgh:

- Brix: "Never use a Marshall amp, they suck." (between The Classical and Criagness)

31 October 84 Bristol:

- "We (look?) like we're acting daft but it's the lighting man you see, the lighting guy here, he's a psycho, he's trying to like turn us into Arabs or something." (after Pat Trip Dispenser)

12 March 85 Santa Monica:

- "Good afternoon, we are The Fall..." (what does he say next?)

19 July 85 WOMAD:
- "Good evening. We are The Fall and we are from the first world."...'Have we got a drummer tonight or what' (Karl Burns being a little slow with the opening of 'Gut of the quantifier ' cos he was adjusting his hi-hat, leaving MES doing the vocals unaccompanied.)

14 October 85 Reading:
"This one's for the promoter, Harry Roberts?? ...who is a corrupt incompetent, you've been ripped off, well you haven't we have...."
Brix:(in the background) 'Kill him Kill him'.

31 October 85 Liverpool:

- "Right need some monitors like right now...one one one one one one...okay he's a big deal he's a singer and he's pretty big... one one one one louder...my voice, more of my voice. Right let's try again." (at end of aborted I Feel Voxish and before second attempt, this time fully completed)

10 February 86 Haringay:

- "Riddler! Riddler!" (extra lyrics during Words Of Expectations, some months before the first performance of Riddler!)

27 July 86 London:
- "Nice tent." (Damned 10th anniversary gig which was held in a marquee in Finsbury Park.)

19 November 86 Huddersfield:
- "Right the next one that walks across the stage gets a clout around the head." (after gut Of The Quantifier)

22 December 86 Manchester:
-(A free gig for Manchester's unemployed.) "At last we have something in common with you, for we too do nothing all day(and get into gigs for free(?))."

3 March 88 HMV London:

- "Good afternoon. This song is for everyone who made everything.....people in the group, the label - without you, anything would have been possible." (before Bremen Nacht)

13 April 88 Munich:
-"This is some old shit we dug up." (before Pay Your Rates)

12 May 88 Boston:
-"Sorry no new wave music tonight!"... "Whoever's smoking those Indonesian cigarettes, please leave!
-"Fascist country Indonesia, Jacarta.You're supporting a fascist country by smoking those grotesque, fags..."

18 December 88 Liverpool:
- (Brix): "Lights, please!" (before final song tuff Life Boogie).

13 July 89 Manchester:

- "Do it again. That was disgusting. Start it again." (after about a minute of Right Time, Wrong Place).

16 December 88 Liverpool:

- "grey bit of (stapling?) on it...I was ever so grateful...landlord down from Manchester..in fact, he was the same one as the Britannia...many many years he was my landlord in Manchester when I was a boy..." (additional lyrics in Guest Informant).

20 December 88 London:
- "Mike Clark says I'm a bastard" (additional lyrics in Wrong Place, Right Time).

29 March 90 Amsterdam:

- "Good night we are The Fall - you're not getting any more...good night." (after And Therein...)
- (To the band) "Right...get off...come on." (To audience) "Thank you good night....thank you from the second class citizens of England." (after the real final song US 80s-90s)

23 June 90 Sydney:

- "Water on the stage...we've just gotta go off for a bit; it's a bit dangerous you know...see you in a bit," (after Sing! Harpy)

26 October 90 Norwich:

-"Well, it's nice to welcome you to the new open prison system in Anglia" (before Don't Take The Pizza)
(I think this was actually a reference to the Norwich Waterfront decor which was all exposed pipes and stark walls - Mark was certainly scanning the venue when he said this. - Ocelot)

15 March 92 Nottingham:

-"I'm already fed up with this, it sounds like Italian disco, let's wrap it up .... Rhinestone. Rhinestone Cowboy" (during Immortality)
-"Boarding now for Pittsville Direkt, to get away from the support act, who Craig, the guitarist, wants to join" (Was this I,Ludicrous?)
-"I'll act like Iron Maiden and Guns n Roses, I'll go to Nottingham, and play the wrong city" (during Return)

29 March 92 Brixton:
- "Goodnight, my fucking head hurts."..."more frightening..than Gone With The Wind...." (at end of Dead Beat Descendent)


25 May 92 Amsterdam:

- "Well, that was the (live?) version of the new INXS video. We are the English INXS." (after time Enough At Last)

8 June 92 Berlin:

- "best song I've ever heard...Stephen king...better than Gone With The Wind" (extra lyrics in US 80s 90s)
- "and if you got rid of the drum rolls..." (ad lib comments during Blood Outta Stone, presumably directed at Simon Wolstencroft)

27 June 92 Glastonbury:
-"Good afternoon, we are The Fall."
-“OK so we've been banned from fucking Glastonbury for ten years. They invite us back and we're supporting the Levellers. Marvelous innit”.

7 April 93 Sheffield:
-"Good evening. We are The Fall from Hallam somewhere or other ..... bandero (?) shake down ..... silent man turn into a grudgeful man,,whuup...this is from the new record."

6 May 93 Sheffield:

- "Yeah, er...th-th-this show is another experiment so, er....bear with us....(to Dave Bush) Carry on...........(to audience) ...as is always the case in Newcastle.......(to band) It's Strychnine we're doing..." ( as Dave Bush adds one of his legendary (and probably never repeated) soundscapes in between War and Strychnine)

8 May 92 Glasgow:

- "Good evening, we are The Fall - Bank Holiday in Britain!" (Before the first song, Everything Hurtz)

20 May 92 Brighton:

- "Good evening we are The Fall...and, er, I am the singer, Mark." (before first song, A Lot of Wind)


16 May 93 London:

- "Good evening we are the Fall... as sponsored by Cliff Richard."

18 May 93 Portsmouth:

- "Good evening. We are The Fall. We have negotiated the swimming pool."

31 May 94 Basingstoke:


- "Right s-sorry about that kids - we've just...just come from Lithuania and we got treated better there than we did here - it's a fucking shithole" (throws the microphone down) - (After the last song, Strychnine, this is either an apology for walking off midway through Surmount All Obstacles, or for keeping the audience waiting 5 minutes for the encore.)

15 August 94 Edinburgh:

- "Could you do, er Hey Student please? Could you turn to the audience please Craig?" (Followed by keyboard intro to Life Just Bounces, hastily abandoned.)

13 September 94 Toronto:

- Brix's lyrics all the way through the start of Ladybird :
"The lyrics are back.....in the hotel or
The lyrics are back....in his hotel room"
(No Mark for ages, then he comes in...with the right lyrics. Brix continues with the same two lines and then eventually reverts to Ladybird lyrics....but returns to the missing lyrics lines all the way through the song.)

28 April 95 Rennes:

- "Concentrate, you time-consuming morons" (after "The Joke")

30 June 96 Roskilde Festival (The Barn Session):

- "Annie, I'm not your daddy..." (extra lyrics during Spinetrak)

28 September 96 King's Lynn:

- "Try it again, please, try it again at the right pace please." (after more than three and a half minutes of The Mixer before a second atttempt at the same song)


3 October 96 Aylesbury:

- "Good evening we are The Fall and the second number is He Pep !
Hit it.....1-2-3-4 (silence from band) (towards end of Ten Houses Of Eve)

8 October 96 Worthing:

-! 1-2
1-2
1-1
1
(Very loud on recording, Shouted into fully functional mic):
1-1
Fuckin'...yeah...er....fuckin' hell - the microphone works...
You've got to understand that the...er...the PA company is from Newcastle so you've got to, like, hang around for two hours for everything.
All right ?
All right ?
All right ?
What's the next song, Steve ?
Hey ! Mr Pharmacist "


11 October 96 London:

- (Brix) "This is new. Crash. Fresh out of the womb. It's getting stale now." (before Das Vulture Ans Ein Nutter Wein)

-" Nice sweets in nice little wrapper bags. A nation of nosy idle gossips." (additional lyrics in The Joke)

- (Brix) "Goodbye." (at end of last song The Joke, and after her last gig with the group)

1 December 97 Leeds:

- (Someone in the audience) : Behind The Counter."
Mark : "Actually, yeah, let's do Behind The Counter. That's a good idea that, actually. Counter. Counter instead of Jungle. 1-2-3-4"
(and into Behind The Counter)

5 December 97 London:

- "and who has the drum riser out for Channel 4's live broadcast ?"

9 December 97 Bristol:

"He is not apppre....You two, will you fuck off, get backstage will you! Neville go with him, Neville go with him, take him...ciated...Apologies for the, my interuption. I'm in the group though, you know, can't even get the staff here, this is my microphone, erm ?????.." (during Hip Priest)
- "For your sins you must watch Tommy's slides" (during Spencer Must Die)

23 December 97 Glasgow :
- "Good evening. We are Rage." (Equipment was obscuring the first two letters of the venue's onstage backdrop.)

31 March 98 New York:

- "They forgot to turn the fucking microphone on..." (during Spencer Must Die, opening song)
- "I'll be back soon, get a job as a stage hand." (at end of performance)

7 April 98 New York:
"-And these three are gonna beat me up like the big men they are." (start of Masquerade)..
Crooks : "Anybody got a spare fucking guitar in the audience, I've broken me fucking strings...")
-"What we got here is a Scottish man, a fucking animal on drums, and a fucking idiot." (MES)
(Burns - "yeah, no singer, man. Where's the fucking singer ? You cock")
-"I've been er-assaulted in public here by two people, or three people, you've been witness to this. Bear witness laddies. They're very big....I tell you what, these three...I got a taxi and some fucker pulled a gun out oh-on me, from fucking Pakistan or someone." (MES)
(Hanley mimes a violin and adds appropriate woe is me noises)
"Look, the very thing...these three were cowering in the fucking dressing room....as...usual......" (MES) (throws mic onto stage)
(band goes into tune-up racket)
(picks mic up) "They don't work for (the team ?)..They're very hard....all together." (MES) (walks off) (all end of Free Range)

28 April 98 Camden:

- "Good evening we are The Fall - sorry about the nervous laughing " (during Everybody But Myself)
- "if only...if only the shards would reconnect in a rap sort of style...(to heckler)
and you would shut your face for five seconds." (during the quiet bit in Ten Houses Of Eve, with big cheer from rest of audience)

12 August 98 London:

- "This is the last time you will ever see me reading lyrics again. Don't trust me. I love the carpet of the Astoria 2, it's the only carpet that's worse than my house, cut it up, cut it up." (during Spencer Must Die).


14 December 98 Bristol:
-"Hit me-ah, this next song is called 'this perfect day', it's new year and it's in honour of all the fucking licence fees you pay over and over again...And when the band remember...."
-"Now as a homage to sadness groups a special christmas concert for miserable groups who play slow. I, I've brought these people with me and they're doing very well. Now you can have The Joke like now, 1234..."

28 February 99 Ashton-Under-Lyne:

- "Hey - no bag !" (presumably a reference to a missing handbag belonging to Julia, who was absent from the gig) "That's one third of the real song" (after opening performance of Touch Sensitive)

-"Some kind of poetry from songs I can't remember.
Hit it ! x 7 (with reverb - gets progressively louder and more yelpy)
Touch Sensitive (reverb again...)...
Adam ? Say something Adam....
Adam (shouts) Fucking go for it, man
Mark (impersonating Adam) Go for it mate
Adam Good night
Mark Thank you" (after The Joke)

15 April 99 London:
-"There aren't enough programmes about hospitals on TV these days, that is my complaint" (at start of Ten Houses Of Eve).

5 May 99 Birmingham:

- "As I stagger towards you over clad stones.......Birthday Song.....Good Evening We Are The Fall." (before This Perfect Day)
- "(In deep voice) "The keys are replaced..."(in normal voice) ..."by mic stand..."
(shouts) "and can you see....hey"... (into Ten Houses of Eve)

6 May 99 Brighton:

- DAT for F-'oldin' Money kicks in by mistake, courtesy of Speth Hughes - runs for about 30 seconds then :
- "Well, I don't know about this. Now with my new democratic image. Now that my (adopts silly voice similar to the 'see yer mate' line on C'n'C) PR company is selling out my award for....(laughs)....Streetcat of the World in (indecipherable)...."
- "Okay, we're gonna take a five minute break, thank you very much ! We'll be back with a 20 minute set." (they actually come back for two encores lasting a total of 6 and a half mins (after Ten Houses Of Eve)

10 May 99 Cheltenham:

- "Hello, Joni Mitchell" (between Perfect Day and Touch Sensitive)
- "Saturday’s will never be the same again." (between Anecdotes in B#and F’oldin Money)
- "Adrian and Neil and Stephanie, they took it all together – and they felt very warm and they were very happy – because an angel descended. His name the Lord Blackbeard!" (between Ketamine Sun and Ol' Gang)

13 May 99 Luton:

- "And I get a strange feeling of deja vu" (first line of The Joke after insisting the band play it again).

15 May 99 London:
- "fucking taxi" (extra swear word added to Touch Sensitive lyric: self pre-cog?)

27 Aug 99 Reading Festival:

- "And if you are backstage, you chitter-chatter on the Reading backstage gap. Is louder than the music of the group - what do you do about that ? They also owe me £2750 (starts laughing), £5 in VAT (laughs heartily)...so is it your birthday ?" (impromptu lyrics during Birthday)

28 August 99 Leeds:

- "Can you all get out of the way for half an hour?" (at end of Touch Sensitive, talking to photographers?)
- "If only Neville could get his pedal in order, in your green and blue
black shirt.....and your multicoloured version of Yorkshire" (during Ten Houses Of Eve)

12 June 00 Ashton:

- MES leaves the stage and Neville fills in on vocals, shouting for the crowd to call MES back. It goes something like this:
"If only... if only Mark would come onstage and sing (garbled) like he would... if only you'll call Mark onstage to sing like (garbled)... call him on, please!... call him on... call him! Call Mark! Thank you!... He's not taking any notice... Cheers mate, here y'go... CALL HIM, FOR FUCK'S SAKE! Don't ask me to do poetry! Call him! Call him!" (from Ten Houses Of Eve)

14 June 00 Middlesborough:

- "1-2-3-4..."(nothing from band)..."Come on, let's go...Tommy ?...Touch..." (band go into WB)

22 September 00 London:

- "You've got to hurry up now cos Neville and Tom have got to get back to the pub..." (followed by various unintelligable MES comments) (after Cyber Insekt)

26 November 00 Glasgow:

- "I am the man to help you with your internet problems." (before Way Round)

1 December 00 Whitley Bay:
- "Good evening, we are The Fall, we thought we were in Whitby, we thought we were in the wrong town."

17 April 01 Brighton:

- "There were two Librans sat on a hill, and they were in Penny Lane in Brighton, which was very amusing for them both." (Crowd laughs out loud) as MES gets confused with the Lanes shopping area in Brighton)... (during Two Librans)

22 April 01 Oxford:
- "This is the revenge for 'Who Wants to be A Millionaire' We've come back to pay you off. 1,2... You invented it, you invented it. We're Back, Oi! 1234" (before Cyber Insekt)

20 November 01 Seattle:

- "We plough the hills and scatter the low grade lichen of mankind" (before Cyber Insekt) (also spoken in other gigs before this song)

23 November 01 New York:

-" Janice on the FM radio please explain to me..." (in middle of Cyber Insekt)

20 February 02 Vienna:

- "Every night I have to play this song, good evening, we are The Fall (?)...blah blah blah." ((during Mansion)

20 April 02 London:

- "You'll have to excuse the bass player - getting too much into the Camden scene." (after an aborted Two Librans)

22 September 02 Blackburn:

- "Could be worse" (referring to the roadie's reading of Enigrammatic Dream)..."This is a special one for all the BT people, all the BT people who died on September 23rd" (before Telephone Thing)

30 September 02 Brighton:

- "The group like the beach so much....it reminds them of their mundane but fast lives." (before Mr Pharmicist)

3 October 02 Gloucester:

- "Not used to playing cafes." (Into 'Ghost In My House' and in reaction to cups of coffee being drunk stage front.)


21 November 02 Camden:

- "I don't know why we're doing this next one, but I'm sure...(slurs)" (before There's A Ghost In My House)
- "Chip Pan...Chip Pan, you'd better come up here now!.....wahhhh.....I lost a message to my friend, you gotta support a (???)...that's my job!" (introduction to Dr Buck's Letter)
"Good evening we are The Fall, there were 2 Librans sat on a hill, 1 2 3 4.." (before 2 Librans)"..."Good evening we are The Fall, from the depths of your electricity DVD TV dinner."
- ""Both did genuflect.....over the long long long days, purple apple pie in a (?)....strawberry fields on a mountain, whenever(?)....over the long long long lost days, hit it!......One said to the other yippy yippy yippy i-oh.....Two Librans sat on a hill dancing in semen......Tolstoy and Ch-ch-ch-ch-cheknov....over the long long long days of blob(?) September......and though I never met my father, and all the water pumps outwards and outwards forever.....and over the rusty nails of his parchment, over and September and December mould into the greyness of Camden....hit it!....Well livin' in a lab, sorry to say, bought a hat from a devil on a judgement day.....And in the mansion of our souls, they are looking over a pile of spotted dick! Hit it!"(lyric changes on Two Librans)

2 October 03 Manchester:

- "So nice to be here, in the hometown..." (before Behind The Counter?
- "Trebor Mints are a minty bit stronger, Stick 'em up your arse and they last a bit longer" (before Bourgoise Town)
- "Are you tired enough you two? Do you want a rest? What is it..." (before Mere Pseud Mag Ed.)

27 October 03 Manchester:

- "Good afternoon, we are The Fall."

11 December 03 Sheffield:

- "This is not fucking Pop Idol" (walking onto stage after a long delay)

2 February 04 London:

- "Thank you very much. So nice for you to allow us into your great presidential system...Hit it !" (before Middle Mass)
- "This is a 2004 tune" (after two oldies, Middle Mass/Pharmacist, and before Janet, Johnny & James)
- (To group) "There's still people here !" (before a 7 minute Contraflow)


16 April 04 Atlanta:

- "Well, we've tried the Athens sound system and the main thing is we're not taking this sound system away with us, we're not taking it away...we like it very much...but here is our new film soundtrack recorded especially for the (honourable? ?) (before Theme From Sparta FC)

1 May 04 Austin:

- "And the next one is......each little bird...honeydripper" (into Mod Mock Goth)


11 July 04 York:
- ”Good evening we are The Fall. So nice to be back again in York. When was it last time we were in York? 12AD."

9 October 04 Cologne:

- "That's the last roadie you will ever see on the stage" (after Boxoctosis)
(A soundman came onto stage to correct the mic. He made the whole way from the mixing desk through the packed crowd. It was after MES turned the mic off Spen's bass drum - thanks to mjungblu for this information)

9 October 2004 New York:

- "You must keep still...at all times" (wheelchair-bound MES after high energy Mr. Pharmicist, with much moshing)

28 April 04 Glasgow:

- "Good evening, we are The Fall (?)...You have a curfew at 11.30" (after opening song, Theme From Sparta F.C.)

17 June 05 Berlin:

-"Aand, who wrote the GLX rock song car advert ? Who wrote it, who wrote the car advert? Was it Neville Wilding? Was it Julia Nagle? Was it Ben Pritchard? Or was it Alfred Hitchcock? Who wrote the GLX rock song car advert?" (during Touch Sensitive)

7 October 05 Sheffield:

- (wag in audience) : "Welcome back to Sheffield, Mark."
Mark : "It's all go." (weary voice) (second sucessive night in Sheffield)


10 July 05 Paris:

- "Good afternoon, we are The Fall."

24 October 05 Nottingham:

- "Good Evening, we are The Fall. Nottingham! City of disability!"

29 October 05 Southampton:

- "Now who wrote the GM Vauxhall advert?
Was it a) Neville Wilding
Was it 2) Julia Nagle
Or was it c) Richard and Judy
Or was it d)...

And the answer is e) and f) put together..." (extra lrics in Touch Sensitive. Clayts writes: The Touch Sensitive conundrum was included on most later dates, so a definitive list is required here. Neville and Julia seemingly were mainstays on the list (Julia rightfully is co-credited, Neville is rightfully not), but at least one other name referred to regularly is Alfred Hitchcock (a reference to Steve Hitchcock, allegedly a co-writer of the tune). Bear in mind the song was first debuted by the Feb 98 line up of the band (Hanley/Burns/Smith/Nagle/Crooks) in the Peel Session, and debuted live in the US in April 98, so Julia and Mark must be the right songwriters - not sure about the Hitchcock geezer...Or Richard and Judy come to that.... )

Excellent.

Seems we all need to dig through our live stuff...

And as mentioned in this thread here http://invisionfree.com/forums/thefall/ind...?showtopic=6321
...
Brixton 29.3.92 also features a brilliant Birmingham School Of Business School, with Dave Bush in stunning form...it splutters to an end, with MES intoning "more frightening..than gone With The Wind...."

Hmm, I was there, didn't realise he said that... :)

1981-05-22, Hof, Germany

We are the Fall. We are swinging Pantaloons

It's on the tape...

More on the 1981-05-22 Hof gig.

There are a couple more quotes, but my ears can't work them out completely. Could anyone fill in the gaps? The not sure bits are marked (?).

Before The NWRA

MES: Yeah can we have these white lights on the right dimmed please. We've lost enough words (?) as it is.

Voice from audience: Well stop over-indulging then you wanker.


And then before Prole Art Threat:

Good evening I am Mister Smith. The "volk ist uns" (?) English consulate.

April 7 1993 - Good Evening we are the Fall from Hallam somewhere or other ..... bandero (?) shake down ..... silent man turn into a grudgeful man,,whuup...this is from the new record (!)

I wasn't disagreeing. Just pleasant to be reminded of something I missed...I had always meant to 'negotiate' the pool myself when I used the venue myself for doing a stall at the record fairs I used to do there amongst other places. Never got round to it though...did once swim on my back after navigating over the painful pebbles on the beach behind it...and watch an 1800's style cutter or whatever it's called (pirate ship like vessel for lack of a better term) sail by... :)

I think I've mentioned it was the venue where I had the closest 'contact' with The Fall as I watched Craig, Steve and Simon walk in as I waited at the front of the venue for my manager to arrive there... :rolleyes:

Enough about me...I've just noticed more evidence of Kevin Rowland's 'influence' on MES on the Peel sessions ... I'll try to find an appropriate thread to update for that.

As for concert quotes, to clarify the Boston 12.5.88 ones aluded to in the original poll thread...

Prior to LA..."Sorry no new wave music tonight!"

and the great one, prior to Bremen Nacht....

"Whoever's smoking those Indonesian cigarettes, please leave!
Fascist country Indonesia, Jacarta.
You're supporting a fascist country by smoking those grotesque, fags..."

The fact that MES laughs while saying country the second time suggests it might have a been a pre-prepared utterance...whatever it's memorable and funny / bizarre... :)

I've just noticed this thread is still mistitled! :D

EDITED you still hungover or something? :wacko:

hmm, I blamed clayts there, but it seems it Martin is to blame...

The intention, I thought, was to catalogue not just opening shots, but words of wisdom uttered at others times during gigs?

Erm, this thread did emanate from the 'He Talks' poll, which was about MES talking in gigs, not just introducing the band... :rolleyes:

Have added one or two more this morning but it's only just beginning...any pearls of wisdom (or just random mutterings from the great man), just post here and I'll edit them in...Who knows, we could get a small book together!

yer not confused with the prestwich ennui one are ye

i like the 'these are my folk festival boys" nice that, refers to his journeymen musos currently supporting his good self

The infamous "Good Evening, We are The Fall and we are from the first world!" from WOMAD '85 needs to be added.....

Superb!

I assume you've seen this thread:

http://invisionfree.com/forums/thefall/ind...?showtopic=2274

What to do about the recent gigs when he often slurs something like: "Good evening we are the Fall, from the long, long mumble mumble corridor mumble your mumble mind"?

And does this need to be gig-intros or can it be any gig banter?

gig banter hells angel "cant they sing where you come from " mes quick as a shot "have they no brains were you come from " bulldog bash

officially documented is

Oct 27 1979, Doncaster, Bircoats Leisure Centre
Good evening, we are The Fall. The difference between you and us is that we have brains.

Any banter.

Leicester Poly 24 Mar 82
"Sorry the boys are a bit ropey tonight, but they believe everything they read about themselves, you know worrimean, yeah, right"

Can anyone help work out the exact extra lyrics to A Figure Walks, beginning the song, as sung at The Rainbow, London, 11 May 1980? They go something like :

"(?...on quick?), it's under the carpet, (?...quick), it's under the carpet. There's a rope round his neck and he (?) round the stage."

Later, there's a reference to "Melody Maker writers bereft..."

Er... can't remember the dates but "banter" I remember is...

Manchester Footage and Firkin (about 2000)

(shouter) : "Smith is a Bastardo"
Smith (off Mic and in time) "How would you know?"

Leeds Irish Centre (2003?)

(shouter) : "You made me buy a Corsa."
Smith : "listen fucker. The promoter thought it was a... [weird indecipherable explanation follows]"

Nottingham (2003?)

(shouter) : "Come on Mark. It's a good one."
Smith : "It's alllriiiiight... his heart organ was where it should beeee...."

Can't check these...I am bereft of the gigs in question...but thanks anyway, even though they can't be included as of yet...

Edinburgh 30/04/05:-
"............................................................................................"

Classic intro to the York Fibbers 2004 gig. (famous historical city)

"Last time we were in York it was 12AD, wannit?"

Always helps to read the opening post in these kind of threads but thanks anyway!

Dagnabbit, I've tried and tried, Martin, I have

The horror ! Quick ! It's under the carpet !
The horror ! Quick ! It's under the carpet !
There's a rope around his neck
And it's tied to his knaves... ?

My opening gambit was a hurricane wig under the carpet, but that's clearly nonsense...

Good try. Anyone else?

Am now listening to Eindhoven 13 June 80, the famous cowbells gig, which could provide a quote or two..

In that self-interview on the Grotesque reissue there's that bit where MES says, "all the groups imitate us but they always underrate us". So maybe it's the same line at the gig?

I'll go with that and have changed the quote accordingly. Thanks.

In what is believed to be an unprecedented departure from tradition, at Glastonbury Festival (June 27/92) MES says "Good afternoon we are The Fall".

its good to be in wales we were in ohio at the time he said that.

Thanks for doing this, Martin. I'll have a listen to my intros over the next few days and post them here.

Cheers...I've been listening to the start of songs to see if there are any pearls around, not just the intros, so if anyone can add anything...

11th Feb., 1983 Amsterdam

Good Evening, we are The Fall and these are the Words of Expectation.

Every now and then I would like to do something like this
It's the change and the perspective of my career
There, hese are the words of success, contemplation
…


Pearls:
18th Dec., 1988 Liverpool
Brix: Lights, please! (Before starting final song Tuff Life Boogie)

From the Touch Sensitive DVD, Blackburn, 22nd September 02

"Good evening we are The Fall, from the depths of your electricity DVD TV dinner."

Just watching it from the depths of my electricity DVD TV dinner - he was right!

Also from the same gig -

"Good evening we are The Fall, there were 2 Librans sat on a hill, 1 2 3 4.." (before 2 Librans)

"Could be worse" referring to the roadie's reading of Enigrammatic Dream

"This is a special one for all the BT people, all the BT people who died on September 23rd" (before Telephone Thing)

Live To Air In Melbourne ‘82 gives us:

'This is for all you people who want to live free: Hell’s Angels, hitch-hikers, fans of James Dean...'

There was a great early one (80-81-ish) that mentioned something about 'guitar practice'.

"Good evening. We are Rage." - Glasgow Garage, 23/11/97

(Equipment was obscuring the first two letters of the venue's onstage backdrop.)

Excellent.

If you are suitably impressed by the performances, maybe you could take note of my sig... :rolleyes:

Manchester 02.10.80, same gig and intro as 'we don't suck cocks for living', etc. The intro (declaimed over the repetitive guitar figure from C'n'Cs) finishes with "OK, guitar practice is over, start the fucking song" [Goes into Jawbone and the Air-Rifle]

Brownies 7 April 1998

Start of Masquerade :
And these three are gonna beat me up like the big men they are

End of Free Range :
(Crooks : "Anybody got a spare fucking guitar in the audience, I've broken me fucking strings...")
What we got here is a Scottish man, a fucking animal on drums, and a fucking idiot.
(Burns - "yeah, no singer, man. Where's the fucking singer ? You cock")
I've been er-assaulted in public here by two people, or three people, you've been witness to this. Bear witness laddies. They're very big....I tell you what, these three...I got a taxi and some fucker pulled a gun out oh-on me, from fucking Pakistan or someone.
(Hanley mimes a violin and adds appropriate woe is me noises)
Look, the very thing...these three were cowering in the fucking dressing room....as...usual......(throws mic onto stage)
(band goes into tune-up racket)
(picks mic up) They don't work for (the team ?)..They're very hard....all together (walks off)

There was a gig in the late 90s where the dry ice machine was activated and MES said "turn it off I'm not that desperate".