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The Fall

January 2024

  • Johnny THUNDERS

    Is it only rock’n’roll when pop stars turn up hours late for a gig?

    Letters: If a whole orchestra can start on time, why can’t Madonna, asks Jane Gillon; Warren Brown and Steve Drayton recall other tardy artists

February 2023

  • Mark E Smith performing with the Fall at Mainstreet, Auckland in August 1982.

    Uncharted territory: how the Fall’s fractious New Zealand tour nearly sank Flying Nun records

    When the Kiwi indie label got a chance to record a live album by the Manchester band, the tensions fraying the group almost destroyed the record company – as documented in a new book
  • Brix Smith arriving at the NME Awards held at the O2 Academy Brixton, London.

    On my radar
    On my radar: Brix Smith’s cultural highlights

    The ex-Fall guitarist on a compelling fashion rivalry, Björk’s latest masterpiece, and a surreal film moment she won’t forget
  • House of All.

    ‘It’s a homage to what Mark E Smith taught us’: ex-Fall members House of All deny exploiting band’s legacy

    Smith’s family have called the new band ‘extremely offensive’. Martin Bramah, a founding former member of the original Fall lineup, defends his new outfit

October 2022

  • Mark E Smith

    Rock snapper Kevin Cummins: ‘I still leave space for the NME logo in the corner’

  • ‘Her first appearance takes some beating’ … Amy Winehouse.

    Ranked
    The 100 greatest BBC music performances – ranked!

September 2021

  • Nigel Kennedy. Violinist, musician. Photographed at home in London. London. Photograph by David Levene 14/11/16

    Nigel Kennedy on his Classic FM fight: ‘Hendrix is like Beethoven, Vivaldi is more Des O’Connor’

    Fresh from a bust-up with ‘Jurassic FM’ over playing Hendrix, the violinist talks about musical snobbery, going on strike and his lifelong regret at turning Duke Ellington down

May 2021

  • Mark E Smith in 2007.

    Satanic bikers, time portals and the Fall: the story of Mark E Smith’s secret screenplay

    While the Fall’s songs were suffused with hauntings and the occult, it is only now that Smith’s talent for strange fiction, in the form of an unmade film The Otherwise, has been revealed

October 2020

  • Clark in a publicity photograph for his 1984 production of New Puritans.

    Michael Clark: Cosmic Dancer review – a dank detour

    The air of a memorial hangs over this exhibition dedicated to the groundbreaking Scottish choreographer

September 2020

  • ‘I didn’t think that was possible!’ … Michael Clark, Scottish dancer and choreographer.

    'He came out of the womb dancing!' Stars relive their wild times with Michael Clark

    Baryshnikov couldn’t keep up, Sam Taylor-Johnson had a panic attack and Sarah Lucas built him the rudest stage set ever … as a new show celebrates the dance legend, stars pin down his punk genius

June 2020

  • In later life Kay Bateman moved to Portland, Oregon, and became a nurse to people with HIV

    Other lives
    Kay Bateman obituary

    Other lives: First manager of the Manchester band the Fall who later became a nurse to people with HIV

March 2020

  • The Fall, with Mark E Smith front.

    Listener's digest
    The Fall: where to start in their back catalogue

    Our Listener’s Digest series continues, guiding you through the key moments in the 31-album discography of Mark E Smith’s post-punk band

April 2019

  • Kraftwerk In Front Of World Time Clock In Keio Plaza Hotel<br>Kraftwerk in front of world time clock in Keio Plaza Hotel, Tokyo, September 1981. (Photo by Koh Hasebe/Shinko Music/Getty Images)

    The 50 best songs about Europe – ranked!

    Brexit is delayed – so voyager avec nous on a trans-European tour of music, from Paris to Berlin via Finistère. Tout le monde à bord!

September 2018

  • The mural of the Fall frontman Mark E Smith

    The Fall on a wall: Mark E Smith mural painted on side of chip shop

    Singer-songwriter, who died in January, commemorated in his home town of Prestwich

July 2018

  • Ludivine Sagnier in Swimming Pool.

    From Do the Right Thing to Swimming Pool: culture's hottest heatwaves

    Tension simmers, passions rage and things are never the same again. We pick the books, film and music in which heatwaves inspire race riots, sexual abandon – and even a chainsaw massacre

April 2018

  • Father John Misty

    Readers recommend
    Readers recommend playlist: songs about writing

  • Drinks - cate and tim - press image

    Drinks: Hippo Lite review – Cate Le Bon's postcards from the edge

March 2018

  • The Moody Blues

    Readers recommend
    Readers recommend playlist: songs with sudden changes

    Artists such as Lorde, Sparks, the Moody Blues and Metallica bring changes of pace to a prog-heavy playlist with twists and turns

February 2018

  • Mark E Smith with the Fall in 2016.

    Mark E Smith's family disclose cause of death

    The Fall frontman, who died on 24 January, was being treated for terminal lung and kidney cancer

January 2018

  • ‘I try to be civil’: Mark E Smith of the Fall.

    Mark E Smith: an autodidact fired by a singular vision

    Sean O’Hagan twice interviewed the Fall frontman, Mark E Smith, who died last week. Here he recalls a true outsider: unpredictable, entertaining… a scabrous post-punk voice
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