Из всех панковских и пост-панковских коллективов, пожалуй, не найдется ни одного такого долгоживущего и плодовитого коллектива как "Fall". Несмотря на частые смены состава, центром группы всегда оставался Марк И. Смит, ставший благодаря своему рычащему вокалу и фонтанирующему цинизму стал культовой фигурой на инди-сцене. Еще в 1977 году манчестерский докер начал пробовать свои силы в различных метал-бандах. Однако его в то же время привлекали экспериментаторы типа " Velvet underground" и " Can". Подобрав команду единомышленников в лице гитариста Мартина Брама, басиста Тони Фрила, клавишника Уна Бэйнса и барабанщика Карла Бернса, в том же 1977-м Смит основал "The fall". Это название было позаимствовано Марком из новеллы Камю.
Записав свой первый EP "Bingo Master's Break-Out!" музыканты почти год промучились в поисках издателя пластинки. Релиз был наконец-то выпущен в свет инди-лейблом "Step Forward". В 1978-м команду покинули Фрил и Бэйнс, хотевшие сделать музыку "Fall" более доступной для слушателя. Их места заняли Марк Райли и Ивон Полетт соответственно. Новый состав записал первый лонгплей "Live at the Witch Trials", вышедший в 1979 году. Гастролируя по маленьким клубам, команда потихоньку формировала свою армию фанов, одним из которых стал известный радиоведущий Джон Пил.
Пил организовал парням серию сессий для своего шоу, чем привлек к группе дополнительное внимание. Перед записью второго альбома Смит изгнал из рядов Бернса, Брама и Полетта, заполнив вакансии Крэйгом Сканлоном (гитара), Стивом Хэнли (бас) и Майком Леем (ударные), а Райли вместо баса вручил лидер-гитару. Хэнли и Сканлону каким-то образом удалось поладить со Смитом, и они оставались в "Fall" на протяжении долгого времени. После выхода "Dragnet" группа перешла на лейбл "Rough Trade", начав на нем свою деятельность с выпуска концертника "Totale's Turns (It's Now or Never)", студийника "Grotesque (After the Gramme)" и серии успешных синглов типа "Totally Wired" и "How I Wrote Elastic Man".
Перед записью "Grotesque" в группе появился барабанщик Пол Хэнли, а спустя некоторое время с "The fall" воссоединился Карл Бернс. В 1982-м команда выпустила один из своих сильнейших альбомов, "Hex Enduction Hour". Диск вышел на "Kamera Records", поскольку с предыдущим лейблом начались проблемы. В том же году ушел Райли, а в 1983-м его место заняла Брикс Смит, ставшая женой Марка. С ее приходом музыка "Fall" стала не такой атональной и абразивной как раньше, а более мелодичной.
Влияние Брикс стало сказываться уже на "The Wonderful and Frightening World of the Fall", первом альбоме, вышедшем на "Beggars Banquet". Тогда же музыканты познакомились с хореографом Майклом Кларком и написали музыку и либретто для его балета "I Am Kurious Oranj". Начиная с 1986 года синглы "The fall" начали попадать в чарты, а такие песни как "Hit the North" и "Victoria" даже вошли в британский Топ 40. Этому коммерческому успеху группа была обязана мелодичным аранжировкам Брикс. Однако, в 1989-м Смиты развелись, и на место гитариста вернулся Мартин Брама. Стиль группы сразу же изменился и "Fall" вернулись к мрачному и хаотичному саунду ранних релизов. В таком ключе был сделан диск 1990 года "Extricate". И хотя пластинка получила хорошие отзывы, Смит вновь поменял состав, выгнав Брама и клавишника Марсиа Чофилда.
Работа 1991 года "Shift-Work" была записана с Дэйвом Бушем на клавишных. В 1993-м опять вернулся Бернс, поучаствовавший в записи "The Infotainment Scam", первого релиза на штатовском лейбле "Matador Records". Однако ни эта, ни последующая пластинка "Middle Class Revolt", несмотря на неплохие обзоры, не нашли большого спроса в Америке и в 1995-м "The fall" покинули заокеанский рынок. На период чуть больше года в группе опять появился Брикс Смит, а после ее ухода состав начало лихорадить со страшной силой. Но, тем не менее, команда продолжала деятельность, радуя фанов частыми концертами и новыми пластинками.
Состав
Mark E Smith - вокал
Craig Scanlon - гитара
Simon Archer - бас
Elanor Smith - клавишные
Dave Milner - ударные
Ben Pritchard - гитара
Дискография
Live At The Witch Trials - 1979
Dragnet - 1979
Totale's Turns (It's Now Or Never) - 1980
Grotesque (After The Gramme) - 1980
Slates - 1981
Hex Enduction Hour - 1982
A Part Of America Therein, 1981 - 1982
Room To Live (Undilutable Slang Truth!) - 1982
Perverted By Language - 1983
In A Hole - 1983
The Wonderful And Frightening World Of... - 1984
Hip Priest And Kamerads - 1985
This Nation's Saving Grace - 1985
Nord-West Gas - 1986
Bend Sinister - 1986
Palace Of Swords Reversed - 1987
The Frenz Experiment - 1988
I Am Kurious, Oranj - 1988
Seminal Live - 1989
Extricate - 1990
Shift-Work - 1991
Code: Selfish - 1992
The Infotainment Scan - 1993
Middle Class Revolt - 1994
Cerebral Caustic - 1995
The Light User Syndrome - 1996
Levitate - 1997
Northern Attitude - 1998
The Marshall Suite - 1999
The Unutterable - 2000
Are You Are Missing Winner - 2001
2G+2 - 2002
It's The New Thing! The Step Forward Years - 2003
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