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Conceptually edible art

Back in May I attended ‘Paintwork 2’, an exhibition of art inspired by The Fall. Among the many highlights was David Alker and Peter Liddell’s The Fall Record Collection : The Top 20 where the sleeves had been painted onto cream crackers – yes, that’s right, the ones you eat with cheese. The artists have kindly allowed us to use two of the paintings in the forthcoming Omnibus edition re-issues but here’s a sneak preview.

A third showing, unsurprisingly entitled ‘Paintwork 3’ is running in Hamburg between 31 October and 21 November at Galerie Borchardt and The Fall themselves are playing the city on 5 November.

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25 years ago yesterday

I was scanning some of The Fall’s artwork yesterday and came across this letter from Mark Smith (25 years later!) – this is where the jumbled track sequence for ‘The Wonderful And Frightening World Of The Fall’ originated as the cassette listing was later used on the CD. Oh well, at least we should be able to correct that one after a quarter of a century.

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Falling in love again

As many fans are aware from The Fall site
Beggars Banquet will be releasing Omnibus Editions of two of their finest albums – The Wonderful And Frightening World Of The Fall (1984) and This Nation’s Saving Grace (1985)
Master tapes were sent to Loud Mastering – our studio of choice – back in January but with the log jam caused by our Gary Numan / The Cult / Bauhaus packages (not to mention Franz Ferdinand) we’re still awaiting for the digital transfers to be done. The virtues of patience.

However, our friends at Vinyl 180 have jumped the gun and used the new masters to release This Nation’s Saving Grace on – you guessed it – 180 gram vinyl.

And a very handsome package it is too – sounding wonderful (and a little frightening). I’m really looking forward to working on these two albums…

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