The Fall – Live At St. Helens Technical College, 1981

Last year, former The Fall guitarist (and now celebrated radio broadcaster) Marc Riley stumbled on a rare bootleg recording of a concert the band had given to a sparsely populated audience at St Helens Technical College in the spring of 1981. To celebrate the gig's 40th anniversary, the recording has now been re-mastered and pressed to wax. It's a brilliant document of the Fall at their post-punk era best, with legendary front man Mark E Smith talking, singing, yelping and shouting has way through a series of raw, post-punk era workouts built around raucous, fuzz-toned guitars, low-slung basslines and loose-limbed drumming. For fans of Smith and his long-running band, it should be an essential purchase.

TRACKLIST LP A1 Blob '59
A2 Prole Art Threat
A3 Jawbone And The Air Rifle
A4 Middle Mass
A5 Rowche Rumble
A6 An Older Lover
B1 City Hobgoblins
B2 Leave The Capitol
B3 The NWRA
B4 Gramme Friday
B5 Fit And Working Again
7" A Slates, Slags,.
B Muzorewi's Daughter Release Date: 19 February 2019