Reviewed in words: The Fall, Gold Class, Nite Fields @ The Zoo, 20.10.2015

NO RESPECTS! These are the first words discernable from the disembodied diatribe, but the personality behind them was perfectly clear when the first slurred syllable pushed out of the PA. The voice emanates vaguely from a stage semi-populated by tight-lipped musicians behind a spot-lit empty platform, but its presence is physical. People look, grin, cheer […]
The Fall – Re-Mit (Cherry Red)

Re-Mit isn’t a breakthrough by anyone’s standards, but it’s something. It’s another book in the bible of The Fall.
Song of the day – 545: Edward Scissortongue
Moody. Dark. Poetry in troublingly fluid and interrupted motion. One of the singles of 2012, no doubt.
Ignorant Fantasies | Race and Class Delusions From David Thomas
The fantasy world that David Thomas inhabits reeks of privilege and conceit. Perhaps I expected a bit more intelligence, a bit more individuality, a bit more adventurousness to his thinking. Then again, he is a white middle-class American male. We can’t expect too much.
The Dismal Spectacle of The Fall at Jeff Mangum ATP, Minehead Butlins, March 2012
I am afraid of Uncle Mark. Blatantly inebriated, this pixie-faced old man roams the stage like an imperious foreman.
Grimes – Visions (Arbutus Records/4AD)
Visions seduces me a little more, yet at the same time, I know I will never truly love it
a reprint of a review of the last Fall album, because I’m tired, and someone mentioned it on Facebook
In comic book terms, this would be called the second Silver Age of The Fall, or something.
live recording of The Deadnotes + The Legend!
I was quite proud of my performance the other night at The Zoo.