*Audience Video Recording, *Official Live Audio Release, 15 Ways, Cowboy George, Dublin, Eire, Fall Sound, Happi Song, Hittite Man, Hungry Freaks, Daddy, Jetplane, Kinder of Spine, Location of Gig, Muzorewis Daughter, No Respects, Over Over, The Remainderer, What About Us?

Saturday, 17 August, 2013 – Button Factory, Dublin, Ireland

  1. Hungry Freaks, Daddy
  2. Kinder Of Spine
  3. Over Over
  4. No Respects
  5. Muzorewi’s Daughter
  6. Hittite Man
  7. Happi Song
  8. The Remainderer
  9. Jet Plane
  10. 15 Ways
  11. What About Us
  12. Cowboy George
  13. Fall Sound

NOTES

  • 67:03
  • Rob Barbato’s final performance with the group due to Dave Spurr’s absence
  • Reviews  by Stephen White in The Journalist “Legendary post-punk poet Mark E. Smith took to the stage at the Button Factory in Dublin with his band the Fall, playing a blistering set of pulsating music. Swaggering onto the stage, Smith held the crowd in the palm of his hand from the beginning as he gave sermon, growling his lyrical musings to the distorted wash of the Fall’s energetic raw sound. The avant-garde vocal delivery echoed and cut through the harsh tones and harmonic unison of the band’s wailing music. Lurking and stalking around the band’s equipment and incorporating them in his nihilistic, improvisational performance style that created a chaotic spontaneity and constant shift in visual and sonic focus, Smith directed and challenged the group to follow his artistic thesis. Using great swells and dynamic stabs of screeching feedback, rumbling overdrive and syncopated rhythms that shattered and shook the venue, the Fall’s ability to maintain order and a keen sense of musicality amid the anarchy and conceptual weight of Smith’s approach can not be overlooked or understated. The pulsing fuzz laden synth and thrashing guitar of ‘What About Us’ brought the show to an expectant crescendo of call and response crowd participation. A swirling noise aesthetic engulfed the Button Factory as the Fall audibly built the tension to a visceral culmination of sound. An experience of artistic realisation, the Fall’s performance was a palpable sonic balance of style and concept that resulted in a show of unmistakable individuality. Almost forty years in existence Mark E. Smith’s the Fall remain vital and uncompromising.”
  • Released as part of Another Set Of Ten released 1st December 2019
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