The Fall Full Set | From The Basement

[@xelexpunx]

This is just absolutely one o the very best live shows ever. The band is like a wall of sound, and mark has his same 80's voice. Incredible.

[@speeduser3597]

i wouldn't say that's his 80's voice. voice is different but still great in a different way

[@josejones7025]

This is the exact same lineup I saw. Wolf Kilduldt man and Damo Suzuki were great live

[@c11p]

Give that man a third mic RIP, mate

[@edwardeduardus7398]

We see Him in His "Garden" One Day!

[@raborian]

A half an ounce of speed vs a crate of lager in a beautiful tug of war

[@talkingstone6308]

0:03 best entrance ever

[@Sr19769p]

Thought it was Agent Cooper or Bob; thank God it was Mark.E.Smith

[@ssmith954]

That made me laugh... brilliant!

[@escaton74]

he probably wanted to exit straight again but the door was shut

[@29memyselfandi]

Ha ha 👌

[@fanderarosetto4358]

He got lost on the way to the 🎤 mic.

[@sionannoneill3305]

MES ran a tight ship. Those musicians are killin' it. So so good.

[@pitmatix1457]

There's a lot of discipline in sounding so discordant.

[@StuartwasDrinkell]

Tight ship? Lol! 66 musicians in 40 years says it all!

[@laszlozoltan5021]

@@StuartwasDrinkell that's irrelevant

[@StuartwasDrinkell]

@@laszlozoltan5021 it's relevant to him running a tight ship! Many bands don't survive such a rotation but Mark kept the ship tight, to remain with the analogy, didn't he? Maybe you misunderstood my sentiment to be negative, that wasn't my intent.

[@Lee.Carlson]

I'm going to be a fifty-year-old man in roughly ten weeks and the world outside my door gets incrementally duller as I age. The pub is now virtually a no-go if I want to live to be sixty.

[@StuartwasDrinkell]

Was almost an annual event going to see Mark's Fall for 4 decades, really miss it nothing like fall fans... 50,000 cant be wrong!

[@NothingToDismay]

50,000 can definitely be wrong.

[@StuartwasDrinkell]

@@NothingToDismay Not when they're Fall fans! If you're not, that's fine. But it's like saying if you didn't like eating fish people that do are wrong.

[@glensmith4851]

I saw them in Stockholm around that time, at The Strand. The band were a monster, and Mark was just Mark. He went backstage and performed the last three songs from the dressing room, and it was still a better show than almost any I have seen.

[@majorgruber5925]

"I tell ya, the Dutch are weeping, in four languages at least" - gone but not forgotten Mark E. Smith.

[@danholliday5564]

And Timmy the tortoise has had a heart attack.

[@JoshuaRoss2]

goddamn the pedantic welsh

[@tuckersluck]

wow. This has everything I loved about this era of the fall. MES amp fiddling, dictaphone, toy megaphone, keyboard interference, random mic moving. MES was a menace! 🙂 Band are on fire ! 'Timmy the tortoise has had a heart attack!'

[@johninjersey]

"MES was a menace! " 😆🙃

[@NickOLarse999]

A menace lol, so true

[@PeterMarvellous3]

Love it, it's like watching a confused man wandering around Tesco yelling into the Tannoy

[@68majortom]

That is a great description especially when he walked out there, we will never see or hear new material of this Genius ever again sad state of affairs RIP Chief

[@weeman1357]

Fantastic comment!

[@pov_music]

I wish he had done that and put it out as an EP.

[@steveedgell8382]

I spotted the Tannoy when in my local Tesco. Not that I'd be incline to yell into it. I could wander round confusedly though, looking for Marmite when it's out of stock.

[@leehazlewoodism]

I know it's a gross generalisation but to my mind virtually everything the Fall recorded after Extricate were were degrees of "drunk bloke shouting in an underpass".

[@MatthewOfLondon]

I was so lucky to see them multiple times, but now he's gone I regret the times I didn't see them. None of my friends dug them so I used to go on my own. The ONLY band I've ever seen on my own.

[@SmileyTygerTyger]

The older I get, the more I start to get the fall.

[@earlsfort1974]

Millions of bands out there with the same instruments. These 5 made it work so well.

[@laszlozoltan5021]

well said there man- kudos to you

[@blahblahoink]

Kick arse band! Love it. Didn't realise late Fall was this good.

[@josejones7025]

One incarnation of the Fall

[@UncleErnie71]

This is the first thing I've ever seen or heard from The Fall.... I think I love this guy.

[@victorgutierrez9169]

Yo same. Wondering what album these songs are from .

[@mvsr990]

@@victorgutierrez9169 Imperial Wax Solvent You've got a lot of albums ahead of you - I recommend Youtubing "Repetition," "Cruiser's Creek" and "Sparta FC" for a starter set.

[@markwordsworth1678]

Welcome to the wonderful and frightening world of the fall

[@defoperator7993]

welcome

[@millymeridan4521]

Check out Tracks " Slang king" and " Stephen song" ( ft Gavin Friday). In fact check out the Album "The weird and frightening world of The Fall" .I'm sure you will love it

[@mikemcgreevy2105]

"If it's me and yer granny on bongos, it's the Fall" Mark E Smith

[@kevlavis8736]

Great quote, it wasn't true though imo. The best Fall lineups, gigs and recordings were made up of well rehearsed, hard-working and dedicated individuals.

[@markmoon8014]

ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ

[@kwd-kwd]

@@kevlavis8736 he said it, it was after the last group with Steven Henley in it left.

[@kevlavis8736]

@@kwd-kwd I believe the actual quote was "If it's me and your Granny on Bongos then it's a Fall gig". Steve Hanley was still in the Fall when Mark said it. On the plane after Mark had sacked half the band, and they were on their way to the next gig, Steve said "Where's your Granny on Bongos now?" to which Mark replied "Fuck off Hanley". *edit* And just because Mark said it, doesn't mean I have to agree with it! I think sometimes people mistake Mark E Smith for the Fall. Don't get me wrong it's a great quote, and Mark was a genius, I just think it discredits the band members a tad. I saw Mark perform with Ed Blainey, with Mark on glockenspiel and Ed on guitar, it was far from a Fall gig! Peace.

[@kwd-kwd]

@@kevlavis8736 you reading too much into this, all I said was he said it. And he did. what you think about any gig is another issue.

[@richdelgado3405]

For those out there who can't appreciate MES and The Fall, I will quote MES himself and say "You don't deserve Rock and Roll".

[@JoshuaRoss2]

Those bits at the end of the albums where he whispers something are always great... ‘believe it kids, I have seen it allllll’

[@iain2080]

His book is tremendous. Highly recommend it to anyone vaguely interested in the man.

[@AKAtAGG]

@@iain2080 It really is a fantastic read. No clue how long it took him to write but it can't have been a quick one.

[@iain2080]

@@AKAtAGG haven't a notion but it's a fascinating window into his mind. Always clearly intelligent from his evocative symbolic lyrics but the drink hides that from people who aren't willing to put the effort in to see. Book hits that aspect of him with a spotlight.

[@vollsticks]

@@iain2080 It may not all be strictly true but it IS great. Especially those sorta "stream-of-consciousness" interludes; "...where have all the lithe smooth-headed youth gone with their bags of sub-quality bugle and their girlfriends with coffee-stain tans..." (I'm paraphrasing but they have a real elegiac and wistful quality to them). Both The Hanley Bros. books are well worth a read too especially if you like recording minutiae...I love Steve and Paul's differing ways of describing the gestation of "Iceland" in the studio, it makes the hairs on the back of your neck tingle, like the song! I'm still not convinced as to what "roll up for the underpants show" means though tbh!

[@davidchrysostom695]

Band: Playing their asses off in super tight precision and in total awe of MES MES: "eh, they're barely adequate - imma gonna do my own thing and ignore them" Awesome !

[@breakup66]

And fuck with their amps! 😂

[@sammencia7945]

Guys was a legend. Performing in a wheelchair, gets standing ovation.

[@paulevans8295]

I always love the sense of chaos Mark always oozed - it is the sense of freedom needed

[@s.k.393]

Kieron Melling - one of the top Fall drummers.

[@drzazgi666]

super tight. he's a complete fucking beast on drums.

[@officialsuperrad]

Agreed. Him, Simon, Karl and Hanley were the best

[@Finsami71]

Band sounds insanely great.

[@TRUEiMPROrecords]

Tighter than a North Korean.

[@curroprr]

heavy stuff. love it.

[@booitsnick]

This band is insanely great

[@zeitakulobusta]

Right? I mean M.E.S. isn't going to disappoint but the band....fkn smoking

[@legend2myth958]

Oh what a find! I turned 50 this year, '50 year old man' is fing beautiful, the whole performance is class

[@xTheOxx]

Mark E Smith: too much personality for just one microphone.

[@boogieman.1698]

why he use two?

[@xTheOxx]

@@boogieman.1698 I think they were EQ'd differently, but I can barely hear it. I'm not even sure. What made sense to Mr Smith rarely made sense to the average person.

[@raudiaz6245]

@@boogieman.1698 right speaker was jealous.

[@Finsami71]

He is dead and all respect but i feel that the band behind him is a lot stronger than Mark himself.

[@patttrick]

@@Finsami71 As Lemmy said. The Fall is Mark E Smiths band .like Motorhead is his

[@andymiles3886]

The only gig you go to smiling and leave smiling we need the Fall now more than ever.Sadly Mark has gone but he remains in the annals of music history.Would have loved to hear his take on UK 2020 .

[@laszlozoltan5021]

mumble mumble chuckle mumble and smile....

[@hippriest9448]

Drummer absolutely killed it. What a beast

[@rasta3578]

He aint nada without a fearless Bassman.

[@BinRoy-iy8jh]

@@rasta3578 the Fall always had a proper rhythm section. Unmatched tbh

[@ianrobson9601]

Come spend the best 17mins and 49secs of your life with, THE FALL

[@michaelhornby2961]

Thats a slick band right there, the drummer and bassist are incredible.

[@winesullivan]

So privileged to have seen MES & The Fall back in the day. Absolutely immense and....intense. This line-up, is also 'the dawgs'! (A rhythm section to die for!!!!).

[@manyspaceships]

that drummer is just beating the bejesus outta those drums

[@68majortom]

Have you seen the performance of "Mister Rode" using 2 Drummers magic performance!

[@steveedgell8382]

At some point he will have seen Mark telling drummers to 'hit that drum harder'.

[@circlesquarer]

his voice literally hasn't changed at all since 1980

[@JoshuaRoss2]

I think the Fall shifted in 87 from the dense lyricism of NWRA or New Face In Hell or Garden with a million words to sloganeering and catchphrases ‘I’m a latch key kid/I’m a 50 year old man/we are Sparta FC’’ I like the second version better - without it The Fall could be compared to new order or wire but by evolving the form where in a few words he could be simplistic and direct he made The Fall the best rock n roll group of the 2000s

[@ArthurKuntsler]

@@JoshuaRoss2 You do not understand the difference between simplistic and simple.

[@pauls7803]

Really? I can barely make it what he is saying due to the poor fake Southern American accent. He used to sound Manc.

[@Goatboy73]

Its-ah the basement-ah sessions-ah

[@lurker9634]

sessionsssssssssssssssssssssssssssssuh

[@AnthonyMonaghan]

Ha ha ha ha - ah - ha

[@antdan5787]

He's just the epitome of cool. Never will there ever be another. He's like a precious gemstone. His lyrics are like the discovery of egytian hieroglyphics. Genius level.

[@robertogreen]

this is one of the best things this website has ever provided anyone.

[@vollsticks]

Absolutely cracking set from the Imperial Wax Solvent LP (one of their best, full stop--certainly one of their best oughts albums). The group are at their bulldozing best and M.E.S is on top form! WICKED, thanks so much for the upload!

[@DrCrabfingers]

That was the best I've ever heard The Fall play....incredible..

[@mackereltacos2850]

I really love Mark's technique on the synth at 16:14

[@nathanwittock4133]

can only imagine sound engineers' reaction when he turns up bass and guitar amp after 2:50

[@davidellis5141]

"There's A Party Going On Around Here ! " Mark E Smith , 😎

[@gilwood7530]

Shirt tails flappin in the breeze............. 45 minutes last night ....parallel crease, POW

[@defoperator7993]

damn the band is tight

[@hyena131]

Def Operator They certainly are. Shame about the senile old bloke in the black jacket.

[@defoperator7993]

hyena131 um wtf he’s the leader of the band hahaha gtfoh

[@hyena131]

@@defoperator7993 Really? I thought it was some slow geezer they let on stage for a novelty. I'll be damned.

[@DerekBolli]

They always had to be. Going right back to 1978. Part of the genius (in my opinion) of MES is the loose riffing over the solid riffs

[@zetetick395]

That goes without saying: It's The Fall ;)

[@waz3128]

I have to admit that despite knowing about them forever it's the new wave of bands like Girl Band, Protomartyr and Ought that are finally getting me to Mark E Smith and The Fall

[@ryanv3015]

It demonstrates what legacy they left, and probably more appreciated now than they were back in the 80s.

[@killemall69]

This is the beginning of every thing for the first time again

[@danholliday5564]

Know what you mean. Long time fan but stumbled onto this performance. Not a line up I'd heard much of. Tight as owt and great set. The boy on form as (mostly) always. Time to trawl the back catalogue once again. Whup.

[@CB-rv9kb]

His perfectly timed stroll into the mic at the start and the walk out at the end ... And the band ... Phew!

[@dontbeanahole]

I love that the band is tight, and old MES is dottering around doing whatever. No clue how it comes together, but somehow it just does.

[@1e0s]

Wow. I just realized I still want to live for the next 17:49 minutes!

[@rasta3578]

I was never understood about my love for The Fall, 30 years later, I get hugs.

[@Dean-1970]

Guys I'd never heard of the fall till my 50th birthday, and i don't wanna talk bout it,lol, I love my tunes ,buzzing band 49 members in total

[@pertenezcoaunsueño]

waited too long for this performance to be released officially in all its glory. best group ever :)

[@peterc62]

I love the fact that the band are really tight and have obviously rehearsed hard and then Mark comes in on vocals...

[@johnnybsteelriff]

Love the Fall in their garagey rock'n'roll moods.....

[@wendykalman9975]

Just discovered them . Awesome 🤘

[@1e0s]

None of this sh*t would be happening if ME Smith were still here. He wouldn't have it!

[@jessefillmore]

2:34 , 2:40, 5:48 ......That's a Rock N Roll Grandpa standing up for his Rock n Roll kids . TURN IT UP !!!!

[@carteryo]

I still hear The Steak Place when I go out to eat.

[@johngalantini6910]

My favourite Fall lineup, might actually have been the longest lasting.

[@68majortom]

Don't quote me but I think you could be correct cock ✌️

[@odiumimbues]

imagine the trust level they must have to understand that he will in fact show up to a gig

[@fragglet]

RIP Mark E Smith

[@SamHutchinsonBass]

Tight AF band and MES's genius ramblings. Only MES could stick the mic straight in the stage monitor and get away with it without being lamped by the sound engineer.

[@furdixon3789]

How many times can i "like" this! Sound quality of this recording is tops. MES ❤

[@carlosx1237]

Thanks for this! Mark E Smith is alive, baby!

[@dr.phibes7359]

The most original Artist....Ever!.. Pure Artistic Expression...His way! RIP Mark...love ya!

[@FirewindII]

Watch The Pogues.

[@keithgrube]

The Fall war auch so eine Band die mein Leben verändert hat, wie Hüsker Dü oder die Cramps,. Ein völlig anderes Konzept von Rock"n' Roll eben Punk in seiner wahren bedeutung. Danke für mich eine bewusstseinserweiternde erfahrung. Dankeschön!!!

[@OFR]

Mark E Smith uh, is really great uh, in this uh. The whole band uh, is really great uh, and so is the mix uh.

[@pauljacobson2207]

If it's Mark then it's THE FALL

[@1e0s]

Tooo fooookin right!

[@peterc62]

"And Terry the tortoise has had a heart attack"

[@croiners4166]

He never quit!

[@newpuritan9292]

Remember the “will you lot fucking get it together and stop showing off” on Totales Turn - looks like this lot got the message! Such focus and discipline writ large. Oh the power that was MES. Gotta love him. Thanks for the memories.

[@SequitoBanda]

Por essa eu não esperava. Se soubesse, teria até me arrumado pra ver esse vídeo.

[@tishpish4939]

Stable line-up is the best Fall. Eleni with bass heavy keyboards (at fucking last), The Eagle and Keiron locked R section includes nodding and Greenway's Ennio guitar. AND I LIKE IT!

[@music_is_good]

absolute genius

[@the_emmo]

Oh my god, yes!!

[@fabiobianchini4036]

OH MY GOD, YES!

[@harrisonwintergreen1147]

All due respect to Scanlon, Hanley and the rest ... but this final lineup of The Fall might have been their best because they stayed together so long. The communication here is almost telepathic, they could turn on a dime.

[@xelexpunx]

U rite

[@JoshuaRoss2]

Although I agree with you, this lineup had only been together a year at the time of recording

[@ryanv3015]

No I don't agree, this lineup is incredible, but remember Scanlon and Hanley recorded Grotesque to This Nations Saving Grace. These tracks don't overpower them albums.

[@JJONNYREPP]

The Fall Full Set | From The Basement 0905am 7.9.23 are the young un line-ups just kids of ex band members or kids of fall fans? this isnt the best fall line up, sorry... you could say original fall line up was the best as they began it all... then you'd obviously say: hanley and scanlon etc are the be-all and end-all of the band, the fall. all i know is that i know sod all about the fall or the fans or the musicians... i am ignorant. which is cool. the band are the types to follow you about in shopping centres, i feel... whether that's due to their desire to get out the chloroform or attack one, i do not know...

[@TiStv75]

happy to have seen them in London a few years ago

[@panderjitsinghvv8199]

Kinda like an 80s90s version of Trout Mask Replica. The underlying structure is similar but the time scale is different and more suitable to the period.

[@laszlozoltan5021]

interesting reference, I was just listening to spotlight kid album on repeat last night- interesting that a '69 LP connects 50 years later- seems like culturally speaking you have already had a long journey, good on you man. cheers!

[@Dead_Man_1984]

The melody MES belts from 15:55-16:01 is brilliant in its odd beauty. Who said he can't sing?!

[@duantorruellas716]

This set is brilliant 👍👍 yeah I've never seen them live but I get the feeling it would be like this , pure amazing.

[@gregselby2925]

Liking the smirk on Elena's face at the pissing on towel line

[@iaingorry]

Mark keeping an air of menace whilst gathering up his bit's and bob's, , , what a guy! sadly missed

[@nwo4life708]

Yes!!!!!!! Been looking for this for ages!! So glad its back on KZbin!! MES IS A GOD!!

[@davidsussex336]

He's not a god. He just thought he was

[@Chilli6025]

Awesome thanks for posting. Nobody sounds like MES and The Fall

[@dunkcraven6632]

Ace love and peace glass banana real as egg and chips with a sausage on the side love it top vibe

[@mind55scavenger55]

Utter perfection!

[@MarquisVonLion]

Damn, that was good!

[@ceebee491]

'............ah' poet/genius/piss artiste! TOTALLY wired is an all time fave. 🎸🎵😎

[@kevinvalde]

Excelente...... Que mejor que esto para hacer tributo al legado de Mark E. Smith

[@dobleceroclubjerez]

Absolutely great!!

[@albertineno2443]

Steaming set, So good to hear. Cheers to all. 😎🖤

[@BinRoy-iy8jh]

Now THAT is a drummer worthy of being in the Fall.

[@thomasking6287]

Greatest performance ever. RIP MES.

[@dazzdeadmeadow]

That's how to fucking do it. If you never saw The Fall live, my commiserations. RIP Mark

[@kengethin3086]

Just pure fuckin brilliance.

[@jonnysteel3595]

pure magic,love it at the end when he picks up his plastic bag to leave

[@akcreamhorn]

MES sacking a band member for his crime of ordering a salad for lunch

[@vollsticks]

I thought it was a soundman?

[@excepter]

chocolates instead?

[@JoshuaRoss2]

Very misunderstood story. True version is - stage lights came up during a gig and the soundman was eating a salad Smith had given specific instructions about the light show, and rightly felt for an hour or two a night he had to work he should focus on his job. Much like the 'brown m&ms' story which is used to call rock bands divas with ridiculous riders, but the reality was explained later by David Lee Roth - "Van Halen was the first to take 850 par lamp lights - huge lights - around the country,"Roth said. "At the time, it was the biggest production ever." In many cases, the venues were too outdated or inadequately prepared to set up the band's sophisticated stage. "If I came backstage, having been one of the architects of this lighting and staging design, and I saw brown M&Ms on the catering table, then I guarantee the promoter had not read the contract rider, and we would have to do a serious line check" of the entire stage setup, Roth said.

[@waldenzanin]

The sound quality is good, apart from the soundguy(s) having neutralised most of Smith's trademark interventions. The track listing is wrong; the whole first part of '50 year old man' is tucked after 'wolf kidult man'.

[@tonyd981]

Thinking exactly the same mate....

[@edwardhannah]

Saw them at the Metro in Chicago. People were standing on the seats screaming! It was amazing. Mark was married to Brie at the time.

[@lancashirebomber9744]

lovely cheese

[@edwardhannah]

Brix so shoot me

[@MartinMayhewCRO-ENGtranslator]

Blistering! Love it!

[@rerarder]

smith was right the bass needed to be louder

[@NP-lz2bx]

Yes! Finally! Ty FtB

[@charllesoliveira5817]

"We're The Fall ! For long... long days !" 🤘

[@bluemeadows7892]

oh yessss