The Fall - Lay of the Land (OGWT)

Michael Clarke and the Fall in 1983.

[@frankplatt323]

I saw this when I was 12 years old, and it thrilled me like nothing I can explain. I start s a band when I was 14, and danced on stage when I was 16. This is pure fucking art. It unlocked my spirit. Let no one underestimate it...uh!

[@timhall3575]

YES!

[@matiassantino4452]

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[@marcopervo]

This was the era I got turned onto The Fall by MTV’s “Cutting Edge”. In the US they were polarizing: too abrasive/anti for the college rock set and too arty/poppy for punk rockers. For a pissed off 15 yo it was like being part of an exclusive thing only I got until the early 1990s.

[@unbroken1010]

And now you worried about pronouns 🤔🤣

[@vyvafc]

what a fucking superb story! I first saw The Fall at end of 1980, was never the same again ... 44 years later they still thrill me

[@andyhumphreys4316]

Strangely almost note perfect performance. What a bassline from Mr Hanley. Epic song from the best Fall album ever.

[@JJONNYREPP]

The Fall - Lay of the Land (OGWT) 1302pm 28.1.22 in fact if you want strange then this will do... and will do you no harm, that i can see..... or discern. me and an old phart i once knew back in the day during the mid 80's went to see the fall and clark perform i am kurious, oranj. i must say it does rank as an excellent memory.... and the journey, the engaging with the performance as well as sittin' in a cold and wet edinburgh park waiting for the train home as a homeless guy played name that tune - is what journeys are made of... would i have comprehended the dance skits as refencing the glorious revolution of the ages ie: william of oranj and co entering england to take up residence? probably not. though what the reformation blue and the contemporary work ethic have to do with the prevailing wisdom of the ages as evinced by some guys dressed as macdonald's burgers and tins of beans is anyone;s guess... adios, half hearted music hacks. it was nice not knowing you, i feel... no such trouser problems were seen at the i am kurious oranj shin dig, though... and finding some shocked members of the audience gasping at mark e smith swear during one his poems (refer to i am kurious, oranj and the dog is life intro) was some what telling...

[@JJONNYREPP]

The Fall - Lay of the Land (OGWT) 1141am 13.4.23 well i was almost thinking: these guys need to get back to the old weather charts, the magnetic weather charts. might make for a more amiable weather forecaster/audience interaction... let's face it they can't see what they're chatting about these days just as the newscaster can't see what footage is being relayed re: chittin the chat in relation to the acts being committed around the globe...

[@nobordersnoflags9905]

This blew my mind forever when it was on the telly.

[@cclewes7373]

One of the greatest bands ever

[@cliveabbey8587]

I saw them in 82 I think in Bedford and they were absolutely brilliant 👏 👌 😀THE Fall one of my favourite bands of all time. Praise God 👏 🙌 👏 🙌 👏 🙌 👏

[@themelted4614]

Is right. My fave band. Was on stage with em in leicester in the 80s . Hand on mes shoulder. Hanley is awesome

[@davidh.8798]

Can't say I've ever enjoyed modern dance before, but it's fantastic here. So, so suits the music. As for the band themselves, it's the usual glorious racket.

[@mgmegt5920]

Have you ever seen anything more punk than this performance

[@reisalog]

Thanks Mark, for all this great music!

[@swhirst]

This song is SO rainbow rhythms

[@stevestrange965]

Like totally?

[@malcolmcog]

RIP Mark E. Smith, we will never see his like again

[@booklover1086]

The Fall, always The Fall, only The Fall.

[@karlsavage7495]

Got to be one of the most bizarre mash-ups of all time...ballet, performed to the caustic metronome that is The Fall. And yet, it worked and "Kurious Oranj" is one of my favourite Fall LPs. Suspect many, many Fall videos are getting inundated with views @ the moment & rightly so. Still can't believe it's all over... :(

[@edmundkockenlocker4672]

ALL their albums were works of genius. Mark was a God and the musicians were amazing, every last one. RIP Mark and Thank You.

[@janetfoad4788]

First time I've seen this since the original transmission - in a pre-internet age having The Fall on terrestrial TV was a big deal at the time and this was, from memory, some years before "The Tube" would touch them. I had to watch it with my gran but even she liked it. Thanks for sharing.

[@johnspence9718]

Thank you so much for posting this. I've loved this song since it first came out, so I thought I'd look it up on You Tube. I was a teen in the 80's, so I couldn't fly to the UK to catch a concert. Had to make do with the American Hardcore/Noise Art scene, which was enjoyable. I'm all for free expression, nothing more punk than that. RIP MES, you're sadly missed. John Peel too? I miss those days. Dammit, I'm really getting old......

[@davescott618]

I got ro know quite a few of the Michael Clarke Dance Company in the early 90s. Entertaining but very, very unusual...😊

[@sidDkid87]

ok, I've decided to start 2014 by listening to and watching THE BEST BAND EVER . . . HAPPY 2014, WORLD!!! I hope the "Lay of the Land" is good for all of you!

[@slint69]

You could have started 2014ba lot worse ;-) I hope you are still enjoying them 5 years later

[@sidDkid87]

6 and counting 😉

[@markbradley6602]

'One of my most Memorable videos of the fall, brilliant ; class ballet act in the foreground whilst they play on indifferent; so M E S!'

[@vollsticks]

An ex-gf of mine is really good friends with Michael Clark. Also Lahna/Alan Pillay was born in my hometown; their house was knocked down but it's about half an hour's walk from mine to the street where she lived. Also Tony McPhee from The Groundhogs was born in the area . Oh, Steve Cook and John Hurt too (who I met coming out of the Spar shop just found the corner from my parents house! That WAS a fucking weird experience!

[@diskochimp]

Kershaw introducing The Fall in a Marc Riley shirt - HA!!

[@HowjBegg]

Hilarious right? Marc Riley and The Creepers t shirt. Wonder how much MES fumed when he saw that. Or maybe he laughed. Who knows. RIP.

[@josephinearthur3942]

MES would've SNIPEd

[@myfamilyingreece]

RIP - Mark Smith - Always different, always the same!

[@TheIkaraCult]

Steve Hanley's greatest ever bassline, I don't remember any of Mark's vocals bar the chorus because I'm humming along to the bass in my head

[@vollsticks]

Hahah Andy Kershaw wearing a "Marc Riley" (And The Creepers?) t-shirt, well played

[@thomasroberthillmclean4638]

It's just class I don't know of any other Band to attempt anything like what The Fall/Michael Clarke did, anybody know of anything along these lines? ✌️

[@libertinoradio4597]

The only similar video that I know of is "Brassneck" by the Wedding Present. Also excellent.

[@spensert4933]

A special moment in their career.

[@taffysaur]

woah, punk ballet... great performance all 'round.

[@Jefferson1969-u4s]

What a complete one off , once in a millennium band.

[@badboy46528]

Bringing ballet to the masses ;)

[@TheeMikeForce]

The First Fall song I fell in love with. Not the last. I hope they go on tour

[@vicalieg]

Bit too late Shawn :(

[@NOWtheband]

I suppose you could go and see Brix And The Extricated, if concerts ever happen again.

[@dessiemckenzie5857]

Possibly one of the few times Mark E was upstaged , by Hanley with the bass and by the meanest of mean dance troupes , led by Micheal Clark .

[@adrianocintra]

RIP.

[@matthewcoombs3282]

That bloke at the end really didnt know what to make of it. I suppose it is a bit different from Bruce Springsteen.

[@1963johnbhoy]

Brilliant song surreal dancing moves i see an arse making a Michael Clarke of itself.

[@sootyfoot]

RIP Mark E Smith

[@danpeatey]

2 ov my favourite things bum checks sorry Michael and mark

[@groki9572]

Brilliant performance!

[@underwasser09]

so now I know who's choreography was nicked for Fat Boy Slim "Praise You" video :-)

[@raymondweiss2707]

Boy Karl Burns is an underrated bassist too, never realized he did all the bass solos in the band

[@dinoramone6761]

The mighty Fall with Brix. I think their best stuff was when she was in the band - poppier, but better.

[@publichousebrandmusic2762]

they were great but i prefer hex induction hr

[@josephmiller7356]

Hey Ho ~ Let's Go ~ Dino 👍, Love Your Comment About 'Brix' & Co 🙋‍♂️.

[@ryanv3015]

I can see why you think that but I would always take Marc Riley over Brix anyday.

[@billobrien8446]

It’s a bit cheeky isn’t it.

[@GARIJPUNQ]

yeah,great! -another old fave from a long lost video..great to see it again-tho' still not keen on the dancers!..

[@frankplatt323]

They have a bare faced cheek showing this video. Has anyone else done that joke? I don't care anyway, it's theee in the morning and I'm flying on cough medicine...uh!

[@axelderbunte6156]

besser als jede choegraphic bei casting Shows :P

[@dav01kar]

mental art but super stuff!!!

[@popetones7400]

Cool Marc Riley T. That guy's ass is cut out of his leotard lol. Great Fall album!

[@dav01kar]

I like this dance troop, even if their arse's hung out.

[@Tenskwatawa4U]

You can't avoid it - their arses are hanging out. That's hilarious any day of the week.

[@zetetick395]

They *all* tell you you're a "dance genius", and one day - you do this. For ART

[@BarbeloExpress]

This is so NOT the way we danced to the fall @The Hollywood Palace when they toured this album and opened with this song. Me and two devotchkas started forming a slam pit and almost got ejected . Our buts were not exposed

[@ShakespeareAvenue]

can anyone post Michael Clark on the 'tube' with the fall's 'Hit the north'???

[@michaelmurphy9312]

Marcriley t-shrt....hax6

[@antster1983]

At least there's somewhere to park your bike... ;-)

[@andrewjohn4876]

can't dance to the Fall..?

[@petesn]

That guy with the Marigolds just spoiled one of my favourite tunes.

[@dia.6213]

#AUTHENTIK PUNK

[@ciatangallaghe2485]

Well.

[@pythonbyte]

Andy Kershaw looks like he hasn't slept since 1975

[@zetetick395]

Yeah he looks like a victim of serial vampire attacks Then they replaced his blood with celery juice.

[@gromitpesley]

is that paul mccartneys son at the end there?

[@cazb877]

He does like to show his bottom that Michael Clarke. Great song though!

[@jonjones5152]

Re all the arse questions... Curious Oranges- out of curiosity - climbed into those botties. They got trapped there and could only escape via ballet farts. Specifically ballet farts , not number two farts. Don't you people know the story ? Come on man.

[@TheGodParticle]

Moon walking, dancing?

[@spensert4933]

Craigness!

[@arianrhodhyde7482]

is that "marc riley and the creepers" shirt meant to rile up mark e smith?

[@Binkler]

I wondered that too. Anyone know? I'm intrigued

[@lordprotector3367]

Surely it should be 'Lie of the Land'? LOL, remember this from '83 on OGWT at 6pm in the evening.

[@Fleasfan]

hahaha, trouser problems :-D

[@josephinearthur3942]

A ripping bass line. A few 'bum' notes...?

[@suffern63]

No one will ever convince me that ballet isn't nonsense

[@mackereltacos2850]

dancing can never be nonsense. it's good fun to move your body

[@suffern63]

@@mackereltacos2850 I can't disagree that moving your body is good fun,as you put it, but when I read about ballet companies representing the civil war in Yugoslavia,David Bowie protesting about the Chinese invasion of Tibet through mime I get angry at their pretentious nonsense.Dancing can be worse than nonsense."No poetry after Auschwitz" should have been extended to include jokers poncing around with their arses hanging out.

[@sidDkid87]

Move over Janet Jackson so called wardrobe malfunction - make room for Michael Clarke et al : )`

[@user-oo8xp2rf1k]

If trans story hour was more like this I'd be up for it..

[@rageagainstthenumpty4608]

The dancing ruined it for me.

[@ericrhodes5174]

Would've been better without the bare-assed people.

[@LondonDada]

Oh I disgree, I profoundly disagree!

[@walterscott6435]

haha

[@lordprotector3367]

I remember seeing this on OGWT at the time and thinking WTF, but digging the music.

[@jackl3586]

alot of people saw that as artistic expression.