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clayts	Posted: Dec 20 2005, 11:18 PM
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Posted: Dec 20 2005, 11:21 PM

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QUOTE (clayts @ Dec 20 2005, 11:18 PM)

See Fall News

Should be very interesting

That link doesn't seem to link to anthing, Clayts, except a slightly out-of-date FallNews page.

clayts	Posted: Dec 20 2005, 11:24 PM
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Posted: Dec 20 2005, 11:30 PM

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QUOTE (clayts @ Dec 20 2005, 11:24 PM)

Try refreshing your browser (press F9)

"Refreshing your browser"?

I'm afraid I can only do "plug in" and "press start".

Oh well, I can imagine what the story says anyway.

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Posted: Dec 20 2005, 11:32 PM

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If you use Internet Explorer press the button marked F9 when on the Fall News page. There does seem to be some weird caching fault on the visi.com/fall address, as I always seem to have to refresh the window - need to investigate this....

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Ever wondered what some of the former members of Fall gruppe were up to nowadays ? Well, someone at The Guardian asked themselves that question and they have now decided to run a feature on it.....

We have it on very good authority (thanks to one of the participants for the heads up) that the newspaper will be running an article in the New Year (could well be the first Saturday edition - 7th January 2006 : we'll try to establish the precise date).

Some of the ol' gang were rounded up for a photo shoot and we know that such luminaries as the Brothers Hanley, Marc 'Lard' Riley, Julia Nagle, Kate Themen etc were snapped and will feature in the article written, we believe, by Dave Simpson.

It's also worth mentioning that Martin Peters of The Pseud Mag, the Fall fanzine which has featured interviews with several ex-members of the group, was involved in the research for the article. Not bought this august journal yet ? Be off with you to the Pseud Mag site....

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pomfob	Posted: Dec 21 2005, 03:22 AM
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Vvillager	Posted: Dec 21 2005, 05:47 AM
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Posted: Dec 21 2005, 06:12 AM

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QUOTE (Vvillager @ Dec 21 2005, 05:47 AM)

Oh shit....er, who's Kate Themen? Must remember to pay more attention to those sleeve notes.

Kate drummed for Polythene and was The Fall's drummer for the Granny on Bongos gigs in '98. She's also on Post Nearly Man.

A Worried Man	Posted: Dec 21 2005, 07:34 AM
Woolly liberal Group: Members Posts: 6,762 Member No.: 2,148 Joined: 9-October 05	This sounds great- exactly the sort of article I want to read. I'm a look back bore and I don't care. -------------------- I think you will find that it is a bit more complicated than that.

niallo11	Posted: Dec 21 2005, 11:46 AM
members Group: Members Posts: 94 Member No.: 314 Joined: 20-October 03	With v minor exceptions (Riley, gloriously, and doesn't he like it) everyone else with a either a smidgeon of talent or smart stuff (erm Bramah, Burns, add your own) has disappeared off the face of the earth... only to reappear talking about the bloody Fall (well, admittedly, Karl was probably more concerned about his sausages, see post passim). Kay Carroll word remembrance from an NME article: 'he's just a guitarist'. It's probably a Manchester thing, but who knows. I'm just pleased that Smith got all these folk to hand at the particular time (inc Dave Bush) to do their one bit (and don't give me Elastica - whoah!). I don't consort with the folk who worked with me 20 years ago - and I expect they wouldn't want to knock about with me either. Given the history, I still think the ad was good: "There are no ex-members of the The Fall in the The Fall".

clayts	Posted: Dec 21 2005, 12:47 PM
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Posted: Dec 22 2005, 12:08 AM

Orroight, owamya?

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QUOTE (clayts @ Dec 21 2005, 12:47 PM)

Spencer's an ex-member of the The Fall in The Fall

Actually, given the complete band-sackings that resulted in (1.) Scanlon leaving and (2.) the Belfast no-show in '97, technically, Wolstencroft, Burns, Brix, Julia, Crooks, and Hanley were all, at one point, ex-members of The Fall who were still in The Fall.

thefrenzexperiment	Posted: Dec 22 2005, 12:16 AM
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Steve Local	Posted: Dec 22 2005, 12:59 AM
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thefrenzexperiment	Posted: Dec 22 2005, 01:49 AM
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Conway	Posted: Dec 22 2005, 09:49 AM
Administrator Group: Admin Posts: 12,629 Member No.: 1 Joined: 16-May 03	I've just updated the newspage with the following: Dave Simpson tells me he is still transcribing hours and hours of interviews with everyone who has ever been in the group except for Jonnie Brown, Mike Leigh and Karl Burns (the 3 of whom he wasn't able to track down). He says he has some very funny stories and a few quite moving ones. The target date for the article to appear is 5th January. I've also been contacted by Tim Cumming, who wrote a piece for the Guardian last year about ex-Fall members, featuring interviews with about a half-dozen former members. He says print copies of his extensive MES interview from Spring 2004 are available from Liar Republic at this email: paul.liarincltd@blueyonder.co.uk -------------------- New members - please read the "terms of use" of the forum, see link at top left of page. And please check the index of past topics in each section before you ask a question that may have been asked previously. Thanks! If anyone is having any technical problems with the forum, please email me at conwaypaton@gmail.com Profile the next studio album

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Posted: Dec 22 2005, 09:54 AM

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QUOTE (Conway @ Dec 21 2005, 09:49 PM)

... everyone who has ever been in the group except for Jonnie Brown, Mike Leigh and Karl Burns ...

But has he found "Dave"??

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Posted: Dec 22 2005, 10:02 AM

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QUOTE (otherdave @ Dec 21 2005, 09:54 PM)

But has he found "Dave"??

Exactly - Tory Landslide

simpo	Posted: Dec 22 2005, 10:43 AM
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Posted: Dec 22 2005, 10:47 AM

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QUOTE (simpo @ Dec 21 2005, 10:43 PM)

No I haven't!

He has got to be The Holy Grail of ex-Fall members - contact with him would be the missing link.

Shit this will be merged with Intelligent Design - Creation vs whatever

chachacha	Posted: Dec 22 2005, 10:55 AM
last words of Hassan i Sabbah Group: Members Posts: 7,818 Member No.: 61 Joined: 6-June 03	this is really strange the landslide victory dave cant be tracked-surely someone knows what has become of him-could be the greatest untold story. must check if our uni library gets the guardian-loud cough and rip from the pages we only getthat international version of the guardian -------------------- "We are all Subcomandante Marcos."

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Posted: Dec 22 2005, 12:21 PM

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QUOTE (chachacha @ Dec 22 2005, 10:55 AM)

must check if our uni library gets the guardian-loud cough and rip from the pages
we only getthat international version of the guardian

It should be on the internets.

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I think you will find that it is a bit more complicated than that.

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Posted: Dec 22 2005, 08:13 PM

No malice... so transparent

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QUOTE (otherdave @ Dec 21 2005, 09:54 PM)

But has he found "Dave"??

Didn't MES, in the Middles book, say that "Dave" had died?

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Posted: Dec 22 2005, 09:21 PM

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QUOTE (chachacha @ Dec 21 2005, 10:55 PM)

this is really strange the landslide victory dave cant be tracked-surely someone knows what has become of him-could be the greatest untold story.

I've heard a rumour that his name is actually David Cameron and that he has just been promoted to a position of power.

EAgas1	Posted: Dec 22 2005, 09:56 PM
members Group: Members Posts: 897 Member No.: 1,808 Joined: 31-May 05	Blimey! the Guardian interviewing ex-fall members. That will be one heavy paper - better ask for a bag

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