The Fall

95bFM and The Groove Guide present The Fall

Pre sales available from Tue 31st August 9am until Thurs 2nd September at 8.59am.

Presale info available by signing up at www.powerstation.net.nz

Public onsale from Thursday 2nd September 9am from www.ticketmaster.co.nz and Real Groovy Auckland.

Seminal English post-punk band The Fall are to return to Auckland, New Zealand – 28 years after playing the shows which Flying Nun released as the peerless live album, Fall In A Hole.

There have been many live albums since Fall In A Hole, but only one further opportunity to bear witness to The Fall’s uncompromising and unforgettable live experience in New Zealand: and that was 20 years ago. But now Mark E. Smith and The Fall are to set it all straight, and bring their bristling brand of social complaint to the Powerstation on December 13.

Now in their 34th year of existence, The Fall are the rarest of anomalies in pop culture: a band whose currency has risen with each successive release. This year saw Your Future Our Clutter – their 28th studio album – issued to acclaim, astonishment, and admiration.

Mark E. Smith has reshuffled the line-up of The Fall countless times over the years, and as a result,The Fall have remained fresh, vital and energised. Legendary UK DJ John Peel memorably summed up The Fall with the phrase, “Always different, always the same”. The Fall recorded 24 Peel Sessions between 1978 and 2004 – a feat unequalled by anybody else.

Additionally, Smith has lent his inimatable vocal approach to many other artists over the years, including Coldcut, Mouse On Mars, Edwyn Collins, and most recently, Gorillaz on their album Plastic Beach.

The Fall return to New Zealand for the first time in 20 years, this December at the Powerstation. Make sure you don’t miss out on witnessing this band’s legendary scorn and energy on this very rare appearance.

Scattered observations on The Fall, on the occasion of the release of the 28th LP, Your Future Our Clutter.

Every LP by The Fall is the greatest LP by The Fall. Simultaneously.

The Fall do not exist on the ordinary evolutionary continuum upon which pop culture is routinely mapped. Conceivably, any of the albums could have been released at any point in the group’s history, in any order, by any of the line-ups.

The Fall have never played any music that could be considered “of its time”. All configurations of The Fall played Fall music, which is neither a category or genre. No other group play this music.

If The Fall do not exist, it is necessary for Mark E. Smith to reinvent them. Over and over. Again and again.

The three R’s are repetition, repetition, and repetition.

It is possible there is a secret lottery system by which one is called up for service in The Fall. It works like the draft, and your number could be drawn at any time. In 34 years, about 49 have served: and as Mark E. Smith famously stated, “If it’s me and your Nan on bongos, it’s The Fall”. No matter who the musician is, whatever their skill level or experience, once they are in Smith’s orbit, they become part of The Fall: literally, metaphorically, and -- arguably -- magically.

Mark E. Smith begins every show with the greeting, ‘Good evening, we are The Fall,” and he has never lied about this. As yet, nobody’s Nan has been playing bongos when he has said it.

Some of The Fall’s album sleeves display photos of the personnel playing on the album within. Your Future Our Clutter is one of these: strangely, in this case, Mark E. Smith is absent. In his place appears to be a cropped photo of Robert Mugabe, who has never been in The Fall.

The Fall has existed just over a decade less than the Rolling Stones.

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