Mojo Magazine
http://www.visi.com/fall/gigography/image/07feb_mojo/index.html
'Smith says he'd like to legally prevent groups including The Strokes and Franz Ferdinand from name-dropping The Fall: "I think it'd put the teenagers off. It might do, mightn't it?"'
'This is the life-sentence Smith speaking, the one who remembers smoking on buses and last orders at half past ten, wearied by the long years of roadwork and looking down the endless highway at boundary markers that lead to his own death. By the end, he's laughing and, with a dangerous suggestion of familiarity with the workdforce, his band is laughing too.'
'All of which means that with Reformation Post TLC, The Fall forge on with standards maintained and high hopes that more music of the same potency will follow. It's equally possible that, however fit and working again he seems, Smith could throw a spanner in the works and make chaos ensure at any moment...this is why you should enjoy this moment. From all of the punk punk-era acts still in existence, no one else has sustained like this. Let the others do the routine and the regular. Like Frank Zappa or Jerry Lee Lewis before him, Smith isn't the easiest man to get along with but he knows what he's doing. If this story might not be the beginning, it's certainly far from over.
**** Mojo Album of the month.
'Smith says he'd like to legally prevent groups including The Strokes and Franz Ferdinand from name-dropping The Fall: "I think it'd put the teenagers off. It might do, mightn't it?"'
'This is the life-sentence Smith speaking, the one who remembers smoking on buses and last orders at half past ten, wearied by the long years of roadwork and looking down the endless highway at boundary markers that lead to his own death. By the end, he's laughing and, with a dangerous suggestion of familiarity with the workdforce, his band is laughing too.'
'All of which means that with Reformation Post TLC, The Fall forge on with standards maintained and high hopes that more music of the same potency will follow. It's equally possible that, however fit and working again he seems, Smith could throw a spanner in the works and make chaos ensure at any moment...this is why you should enjoy this moment. From all of the punk punk-era acts still in existence, no one else has sustained like this. Let the others do the routine and the regular. Like Frank Zappa or Jerry Lee Lewis before him, Smith isn't the easiest man to get along with but he knows what he's doing. If this story might not be the beginning, it's certainly far from over.
**** Mojo Album of the month.