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The truly iconic Mancunian post-punk band, The Fall are fronted by the incendiary Mark E Smith. According to the late BBC DJ John Peel, The Fall are "always different; always the same" and 50 singles, 26 studio albums and an estimated 50 live and compilation albums testify to this.
Support in the Spiegel comes from the new order of wonderful Irish cacophony makers - 'Rarely Seen Above Ground'.
POD Concerts in association with Dublin Fringe Festival presents
THE FALL
Support: R.S.A.G
Tuesday September 9th
Hennessy Spiegeltent – Iveagh Gardens – Dublin 2.
Doors – 9.30pm
Tickets €29.50 (inc. booking fee) available from www.fringefest.com 1850 FRINGE (374643) or in person at the box office at Filmbase, Curved St, Temple Bar, Dublin 2.
www.fringefest.com
www.myspace.com/rarelyseenaboveground
THE FALL
Imperial Wax Solvent is the new album from The Fall and their first one since 2001's 'Are You Missing Winner'. It also turned out to be their first UK top 40 since 1993's 'The Infotainment Scam'. It comprises 12 tracks and The Fall line-up on the album is as follows:
Keiron Melling, David Spurr, Mark E. Smith, Elena Poulou
REVIEWS for Imperial Wax Solvent
"Throw in an evocative, anthemically chanted lyrical snapshot, some cryptic tales and a blues rock cover and almost every successful Fall trick familiar from the last two decades is also deployed. All of which amounts to a vital late period masterpice." The Wire
"Imperial Wax Solvent is a swift two-finger rejoinder [to middle aged mellowing]" Mojo
"Some 50-odd musicians and several hundred songs down the line, the Fall's (we think) 27th album is one of their most adventurous and finest." The Guardian
"Imperial Wax Solvent is another remarkable batch of brilliantly deranged tales no whiskey-breathed war veteran across the bar could trump." Drowned in
Sound
There aren't very many groups that have been together longer than The Fall and it's difficult to think of any who, like The Fall, have released brand new material every year. Formed at the height of the punk rock movement in Manchester in 1976, The Fall has released around 50 singles, 26 studio albums and perhaps 50 live and compilation albums. The Fall is essentially built around its founder and only constant member Mark E. Smith. The group's music has gone through several stylistic changes over the years but it is often characterised by an abrasive, guitar-driven sound and frequent use of repetition, and is always underpinned by Smith's distinctive vocals and often cryptic lyrics.
The Fall were long associated with BBC disc jockey John Peel, who championed the group from the very early days and often cited them as his favourite group, famously opining, "they are always different; they are always the same."
R.S.A.G.
R.S.A.G. (Rarely Seen Above Ground) is a one man band soaking up influences as diverse as Joy Division, Talking Heads with the visual impact of the Gorillaz. Having recent signed to Psychonaviagtion Records, a truly great live show is imminent.
The following is taken from "The Art of Noise" review of the gig at Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, (26 Oct 2007), With Max Tundra.
"I guess the precedent of Rarely Seen Above Ground's stage set-up is those arena shows where Elvis' old band knock out the cobwebbed chops, while the spectral King phones it in from the big screen. Well, almost, if instead you had the band on screen, and Elvis on the stage, with Elvis singing from behind a drum set, and with a David Byrne kinda cadence. That'd be the precedent. Well, no, you'd also need the band on screen to be decked out not in faded crushed velvet or weary leather, but in fur-lined playground hoods, and in noir-ish yet psychedelic black and white, and you'd have to suspect that all of them were Elvis, filmed from a variety of angles.
Thinking about it now, I've painted a bit of a nightmarish vision there, so let's take the sideburns and jumpsuits out of it, and just place in an unassuming Kilkenny sticksman in t-shirt and jeans. The hoods remain the same. That, you might think is the hook of Rarely Seen Above Ground, a.k.a. Jeremy Hickey, the fact that rather than just sing and crash away to a backing tape, he has a projection of the 'band' (as 'twere) going throughout. Not just a half-arsed four-bodies-in-silhouette black and white image either. Instead, it's done like a music video, albeit a particularly enigmatic one, with cuts, angles, swoops and production effects.
However, it is ultimately the distraction to the main event, and that is Hickey himself to the left of the screen, with his dexterous, inventive, gleeful drumming, and the strangled soul of his voice. It is a kind of distant, hollow vibrato that appears as though to be coming through the walls from two rooms over, but yet at the same time sharp and arresting."
Support in the Spiegel comes from the new order of wonderful Irish cacophony makers - 'Rarely Seen Above Ground'.
POD Concerts in association with Dublin Fringe Festival presents
THE FALL
Support: R.S.A.G
Tuesday September 9th
Hennessy Spiegeltent – Iveagh Gardens – Dublin 2.
Doors – 9.30pm
Tickets €29.50 (inc. booking fee) available from www.fringefest.com 1850 FRINGE (374643) or in person at the box office at Filmbase, Curved St, Temple Bar, Dublin 2.
www.fringefest.com
www.myspace.com/rarelyseenaboveground
THE FALL
Imperial Wax Solvent is the new album from The Fall and their first one since 2001's 'Are You Missing Winner'. It also turned out to be their first UK top 40 since 1993's 'The Infotainment Scam'. It comprises 12 tracks and The Fall line-up on the album is as follows:
Keiron Melling, David Spurr, Mark E. Smith, Elena Poulou
REVIEWS for Imperial Wax Solvent
"Throw in an evocative, anthemically chanted lyrical snapshot, some cryptic tales and a blues rock cover and almost every successful Fall trick familiar from the last two decades is also deployed. All of which amounts to a vital late period masterpice." The Wire
"Imperial Wax Solvent is a swift two-finger rejoinder [to middle aged mellowing]" Mojo
"Some 50-odd musicians and several hundred songs down the line, the Fall's (we think) 27th album is one of their most adventurous and finest." The Guardian
"Imperial Wax Solvent is another remarkable batch of brilliantly deranged tales no whiskey-breathed war veteran across the bar could trump." Drowned in
Sound
There aren't very many groups that have been together longer than The Fall and it's difficult to think of any who, like The Fall, have released brand new material every year. Formed at the height of the punk rock movement in Manchester in 1976, The Fall has released around 50 singles, 26 studio albums and perhaps 50 live and compilation albums. The Fall is essentially built around its founder and only constant member Mark E. Smith. The group's music has gone through several stylistic changes over the years but it is often characterised by an abrasive, guitar-driven sound and frequent use of repetition, and is always underpinned by Smith's distinctive vocals and often cryptic lyrics.
The Fall were long associated with BBC disc jockey John Peel, who championed the group from the very early days and often cited them as his favourite group, famously opining, "they are always different; they are always the same."
R.S.A.G.
R.S.A.G. (Rarely Seen Above Ground) is a one man band soaking up influences as diverse as Joy Division, Talking Heads with the visual impact of the Gorillaz. Having recent signed to Psychonaviagtion Records, a truly great live show is imminent.
The following is taken from "The Art of Noise" review of the gig at Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, (26 Oct 2007), With Max Tundra.
"I guess the precedent of Rarely Seen Above Ground's stage set-up is those arena shows where Elvis' old band knock out the cobwebbed chops, while the spectral King phones it in from the big screen. Well, almost, if instead you had the band on screen, and Elvis on the stage, with Elvis singing from behind a drum set, and with a David Byrne kinda cadence. That'd be the precedent. Well, no, you'd also need the band on screen to be decked out not in faded crushed velvet or weary leather, but in fur-lined playground hoods, and in noir-ish yet psychedelic black and white, and you'd have to suspect that all of them were Elvis, filmed from a variety of angles.
Thinking about it now, I've painted a bit of a nightmarish vision there, so let's take the sideburns and jumpsuits out of it, and just place in an unassuming Kilkenny sticksman in t-shirt and jeans. The hoods remain the same. That, you might think is the hook of Rarely Seen Above Ground, a.k.a. Jeremy Hickey, the fact that rather than just sing and crash away to a backing tape, he has a projection of the 'band' (as 'twere) going throughout. Not just a half-arsed four-bodies-in-silhouette black and white image either. Instead, it's done like a music video, albeit a particularly enigmatic one, with cuts, angles, swoops and production effects.
However, it is ultimately the distraction to the main event, and that is Hickey himself to the left of the screen, with his dexterous, inventive, gleeful drumming, and the strangled soul of his voice. It is a kind of distant, hollow vibrato that appears as though to be coming through the walls from two rooms over, but yet at the same time sharp and arresting."
