The Fall Year By Year in Pictures #2 (1983-1988)

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 Following on from my first collection of Fall photographs, here's a selection from the first Brix era...


1983


Clockwise from top left: 

  • Bradford, 17 January (photo by Ian Ellis - you can see more here) - there's a review of the gig here
  • Brussels, 9 February (photo by Philippe Carly - more here)
  • New Jersey, 4 April (photo by Charles Charas) - pictures from this gig featured on the back cover of the 'C.R.E.E.P.' single
  • Guildford, 15 October (photos x2 by Guy Van Steene) - more photos here
  • St. Gallen, Switzerland, 2 February (photos x2 by Marcel Elsener)
  • Leeds Warehouse, 16 January (photo by Ian Ellis - more here)

1984


Clockwise from top left:

  • Dundee, 24 October (photo by Dougie)
  • Prestwich, 16 March (photo by Michael Pollard)
  • Trans Musicales Festival, Rennes, 12 December (photo by Richard Dumas)
  • Prestwich, 16 March (photo by Michael Pollard)
  • Colchester, 27 October (photo by Gary Walker)
  • Leuven, Belgium, 6 December (photo by Philippe Carly - more here)
  • Sounds, October - review of Pandora's Box Festival, Rotterdam, Sept. 22, 1984 ('Although rusty in places, it was generally a cast-iron bash, most effective when Karl and Paul's twin drum-beating assault was deployed.')
  • Hamburg, 13 April (photo by Gabi Hütköper - more here)


1985



Clockwise from left:

  • San Francisco, 25 March (photo by J. Neo Marvin)
  • Hammersmith Palais, 11 November (photo by Paul Lewis)
  • Interview with Muriel Gray / performance on The Tube, 8 November (video here)
  • NME, 29 June - 'The Art of Markness', Richard Cook (text here)

1986


Clockwise from top left:

  • Cover of City Life magazine, 18 July 
  • NME, 30 August - interview with Gavin Martin (photo by Bleddyn Butcher - transcript here)
  • NME, 4 October - accompanied review of Bend Sinister by Dave Haslam
  • NME, 26 July - from a review of the Festival of the 10th Summer at Manchester GMEX on 19 July (the review also includes a picture of Bill Grundy, whose inebriated introduction to 'Cruiser's Creek' at the gig can be heard on Seminal Live)
  • Photo from the City Life article above
  • Karl, Craig and Steve on their way to see Cabaret Voltaire, 12 February (photo by Simon Jenkins)
  • Cambridge, 13 February (photo by James Lollobrigida - more here)


1987


  • Top left x2 from the 'Hit The North' video
  • Bottom left: Amsterdam, 21 February (photo by Peter Pakvis - more here)
  • Second from left, bottom row: 'There's a Ghost in My House' video
  • Far right: Antwerp, 4 February (photo by Peter Staessens - more here)
  • Second from right: Aachen, Germany, 10 February (photo by Jean Hupperetz - more here)


1988


Clockwise from top left:

  • I Am Curious, Orange, Sadler's Wells Theatre, London, 8 October (photos x2 by Paul Lewis)
  • HMV Oxford Street, 3 March (photos by Paul Lewis - more here)
  • Oxford Poly, 12 March (Photos by Paul Lewis - more here)
  • Frankfurt, 12 April (photo by Algimantas Schalna - more here)
  • Oxford Poly, 12 March (Paul Lewis)
  • 'Victoria' video
  • Sticker from Smash Hits





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