The Fall - "Theme from Sparta F.C."

Øyafestivalen (Oslo), 11th august 2006

[@DOAJAM]

The Fall amaze and delight me, no matter what line up, what year. A real band. Thank you Mark E. Smith.

[@ianknealy2843]

I've only got into The Fall after Mark died. Id always known about them but knew nothing about them . They seemed too aloof when I was doing my thing in the 90s and I had no mates that were remotely interested in them and regrettably I never took a leap of faith and bought one of their records or went to a gig. After mark died I was out for a run and I thought I'd listen to some Fall songs to see what they were all about , after a bit Sparta FC came on. It went straight into my top 10 favourite ever tunes, I wanted to scream and smash something to bits I loved it , still can't get my mates into them.

[@MichaelShawcross]

Hey Luciani was the song that got me and the album that it was on. The Brix years were the best, in my opinion.

[@Itsyrm8]

it all about each ones experiences. then one can relate. some might express it, some might not, and the rest never felt it

[@stephensaunderson237]

The only band on the planet who get better as time goes on. As Peely once said The Fall are all you need. How right he was.

[@MrLepiBren]

And, this is officially the 547th time I have played this video!

[@Qwerty543-q3d]

Fkn epic . You don't know what you got til it's gone .

[@MadderMel]

R.I.P. The most influential rock God of them all !

[@staggerlee6794]

I've seen them do this song many times but this has to be the best ever performance.

[@stephenpowers51]

I love the clips from this gig. The band look like they're really having fun, each in their own way.

[@joeebloggs6356]

Christ....is this the best ever?

[@kevinadamson5768]

Never heard this till last week and I have to say it's one of the catchyiest tunes I've heard in a long time. Loved them in the early days but never heard them much after that.

[@MickDickinson]

as usual the bass keeps it together

[@davidosullivan8160]

Why the fuck is no-one moving ? How can you stay still, listening to this ? It should move the most withered soul - even in Norway.

[@pau1ant]

Thank gawd that was recorded - the reports from the audience might not have been too reliable.

[@Stiffkittens01]

You were unique, Mark. R.I.P.

[@srebuck]

Brilliant version of a brilliant song.

[@boosh1988]

As much as it is possible to have a favourite song from a band with that many albums, this, for me, would be it. And as much as it is possible to have a favourite live video of that song from a band with so many videos, this, for me, would be it.

[@bobbycormier]

I love this. the fall are amazing. started listening to them in the '80s. bragging rights there; but it doesn't matter when you started to listen to them.

[@flyinspirals]

that info is more history than bragging. no loves like the old loves.

[@andrewstorey9419]

I know this isn't a competition but 1979 me.😂

[@MadderMel]

Saw them at Trinity Hall Bristol !! Before Brix joined , and at students union Clifton after Brix joined !!

[@lewiswyndham9285]

Just started listening to the fall lasted year when Hex Enduction Hour popped into my recommended videos. I mean it when I say the experience was life changing

[@suncoast1977]

Starting listening in the 80s. Rediscover last year through Spotify. Created a Fall playlist that is so fascinating.

[@lavvuwildcamper]

That track was Super tight with a brilliant Guitar Riff to boot THE FALL simply Superb 👍 R.I.P. MES

[@SrMoreno]

That crowd don’t deserve that performance.

[@markmummery8765]

Too right.

[@stephenpowers51]

That's just silly. Be happy for them, that they got such a good show. Do we deserve your resentful opinion?

[@heytheregeorgeygirl]

I would have loved to have been here. This was a really great set.

[@edwardbartlett2864]

Great performance this. RIP Mark.

[@yoochoobb]

Fucking hell, this is one of the rockingest Fall songs since the early days. M. E. Smith still got his mojo 30 years later!

[@leesawford]

Missing a second guitarist - he is now on bass. The Fall were great. Never knew what u would get. The Fall WERE Mark E Smith. No more mark, no more Fall. Sad, sad, sad.

[@lewismurphy3692]

Mark E Smith is undeniable genius.

[@joebish6629]

I deny it.

[@perfectsoundforever4129]

Wow- even better than the studio version. Still, the Fall strikes me as a band to enjoy in a small sweaty club (as I did many times) and not an outdoor fest.

[@inova11901]

Best Fall production evah. And I've been with MES from the primordium. We live on blood.

[@321bytor]

This is the Fall, Manchester's finest

[@WeAreTheFallPod]

Love this lineup. Totally rips.

[@fredhandy2063]

These guys are great!!!!!!!!!

[@graemelake657]

Another one of their classics.....

[@IDASOFAR]

Rest in Power Mark

[@MrStinkpot64]

So good memories wstching this madness...i miss it do much ❤

[@bobbins53]

God this is still sublime!

[@chrisfryer3118]

he's 49, that's a hard life, embodied

[@headschlong]

By 2020, every person in England will have played in The Fall. Fact !

[@AfghanApothecary]

if only :(

[@nickforbes-warren6602]

AfghanApothecary I know!! They should audition me!!

[@headschlong]

Mind you, the current lineup is seven years old. Mr. Smith mellowing ? Surely not !

[@condors1972]

headschlong I audition next week

[@fooman65]

headschlong I failed the audition

[@cogsinister]

Immense.

[@rebelVHS]

Is there anyone who still hasn't heard 'Cheap Space Chant' ? In KZbin, search for 'Timekode, Mark E Smith' and listen to the strangest and best MES/Fall collaboration of them all...

[@keithbentley6081]

Some of them would have remembered them and it stuck in their minds. When I was a kid in the 80s I went to see the Smiths, actually New Order where top of that bill, but the Fall were on before both of them and they always stuck in my mind. I started buying their stuff.

[@FadGadget1]

Class.

[@froschisuperfrosch1766]

Mark WE don't forget you....

[@drumgold23]

@MegaKevorkian Love it. Too right. X = the comfort zone. Stay in the red. We ain't running on empty.

[@dafteverton7218]

Best Sparta. Rip laa.

[@peternumber19]

I came here from John Cooper Clarke's book 'I wanna be yours'. Great show in Oslo.

[@Jhensy2012]

Pretty old crowd... kids don't know what they're missing. Great clip!

[@sidDkid87]

We are NOT Galatasary we are Sparta FC!!! LOVE IT!

[@annenorth6329]

Absolutely fekin marvelous.

[@annemcfaduen6209]

riff gets me every time

[@neiltay2002]

Much better live version when you search for this ong at Leicester Princess Charlotte. Four or five songs from that night up on here. Blindness is incredible.

[@venusinfurs3142]

i saw this !!!!....i love the fall ...i like this one too theme from sparta fc 300 the fall

[@rageagainstthenumpty4608]

That bass!!!

[@llenlleawch]

@brownowl70 okay, yeah, muddy, not sandy. But I wish I'd seen them in Castlefield too!

[@mooville32]

Got to see them at The Channel in Boston on The Frenz Experiment Tour and the rest has been history, grateful just about everyday

[@MadderMel]

Powerful music.

[@citizenerased1974]

RIP Mark.

[@brhodes7659]

Utter class......

[@guillermoortega4119]

AWESOME

[@paulc9574]

WE ARE THE FALL!!! RIP MES.

[@orenatz]

best fall live act i've seen for a long time.

[@dja51]

saw this at The Islington Halls amazingly good.......

[@johnreed2242]

Incredible!

[@suffern63]

Thanks for the illumination

[@transmissionggb2820]

I saw the Fall around this time and the gig lasted about 15 to 20 minutes before Mark walked off but it was the best 15 to 20 minutes I have had, they were fucking great and played this.

[@colmanchester9]

Fookin Brilliant post , maybe in the future that crowd may get it LOL

[@MartinBlack]

Class!

[@iamtheilluminator]

the guitarist now does his own project called 'white fence', its pretty good, sort of 60s psychedelia. not sure about the bassist though

[@aNewFaceInHell]

And then, it is! The freedoms we were there! and the marke Smith! It is that what I wish you!

[@t3l3phasicworksh0p]

The Cardiacs brought me here after The Fall sent me to the Cardiacs who sent me to The Fall who sent me to the Cardiacs - logic of the universe-ah!

[@pilgrim....]

We need to cut our own trails now I've woken up I see I was often following carefully laid trails of crumbs non of them leading to truth goodness or lasting beauty just mamon. I will now sharpen my machete then salve my head wound and pray for mercy ✌

[@Bradius123]

we are the fallll :)...its sooo good

[@mrnedthomas]

this is as good as it gets!

[@andreaneilcmc]

""You mug old women in the paper shop." LOL!!!

[@michaelstmark]

Yeah. Like Lemmy said about Canada when on tour with Motorhead... "you need to bring your own crystal (speed) up here".

[@LondonDada]

Unrecognizable line-up, pretty much par 4 the Fall course. MES - a huge penchant for hiring&firing. Cute.

[@markwordsworth1678]

until you've been booted out you're not actually a member.....

[@LondonDada]

ha ha, def LOL

[@huji891]

Oh, the energy.

[@suereed]

The Fall Live, in my house that's what any music is judged against. Yes storming version.

[@stevencruickshank1846]

Fuck me the crowd are proper into this!!!

[@philp2088]

FUCKING AWESOME

[@MrKelleyzinho]

The Americans acquit themselves well in this version of the Fall. Tim Presley playing a nice (repeated) guitar riff.

[@MrBradius123]

, thank you ,mark for the songs were singing, wish my sound system went louder

[@dazzdeadmeadow]

Rip....90% of British cool just died.

[@hooblah]

Awesome. Thanks for posting

[@orenatz]

killer bass

[@Timmeh551]

Just unfecking unique … ✊

[@andymanberge]

its always like that on Øya

[@flyinspirals]

yes, this is what should occupy the monster people of the world - watch from down low, then leap up with 2 microphone horns & shout it back at them. yes, minotaur. In imperial Rome, Smith could have stood on roof of foremost attack chariot with 2 mics, shouting this song.

[@jiggersotoole7823]

flyinspirals brilliant! chariot roof haha.

[@andrewstorey9419]

love the audience...very very cool....

[@flyinspirals]

yes, cool. the crowd makes me want to move to Norway. tomorrow.

[@normthebaker7305]

Aaah Mark, you had to go. The solitary traveller has left the planet, he won't be passing this way again. And I was getting curious to see wife no 4.

[@mick_gonzo]

Brilliant, and Mark appears to be fairly sober/drug-free for a change.

[@lotuslena08]

This lot is just standing there holding their beers !!! I'm in my bedroom watching this and I'm doing cartwheels...

[@Simon72Victoria]

Jesus. Any ounce of rhythm in that crowd?

[@christopherwelch136]

Must be Amerika.

[@user-vw1ow7mk1c]

​@@christopherwelch136u.k.

[@graemelake657]

Mate. One of the great British bands playing to basically cabbages.... Must be frustrating for them.

[@asubjectiveopinion]

That crowd needs a slap.

[@ooyreet1]

Rest easy, unique as fuck this guy...Peace out Mark

[@sidDkid87]

*"WE LIVE ON BLOOD!"* 🎶

[@MrOldmanbrown]

Mark E Smith = legend

[@patrickahearne8770]

Base & Primal. Fucking Great!

[@paulelliott3220]

Great post

[@manpower3000]

Be my, be my toy ! English Chelsea fan, this is your last game, classic songwriting ......

[@WhiskeyPieSometimes]

The Fall make you want to get beer drunk and read existentialist novels and cut up technique Burroughs writing. Watch the Naked Lunch movie while drinking vodka Cokes and smoking cigarettes.

[@dereklastname3237]

PJ Harvey's ..down by the water.. has a very similar riff and feel of this Fall classic

[@Skinny-v8k]

That fuckin. Bass. 🇬🇧

[@christophersmith9613]

Thank God for Mark E. Smith. They don't make them like that anymore.