'The best book yet on a band that have evolved into a cross between a large Victorian family and a rehab unit.' The Times
Dave Simpson writes on music and the arts for the Guardian newspaper from an isolated base in the North of England. He has been a fan of the Fall since 1979, and once admitted to hating The Beatles.
* Riveting stuff **** Q magazine * Three decades of personal stories, of social change, shifting cultural landscapes and musical minimum wage slavery, seen through the eyes of a random collection of people whose only constant is that at some point, for some reason, they were members of The Fall. A Canterbury Tales for the MP3 generation. Stewart Lee * A tremendous read. I warmly recommend it. -- Stuart Maconie Radio 2 * A great book - a fucking amazingly great book ... a simple but excellent concept ... Absolutely brilliant. It has made me race back to all 554 Fall songs and put them on repeat. Everett True * The best book yet on a band that have evolved into a cross between a large Victorian family and a rehab unit. The Times * A right riveting read. -- Simon Reynolds Blissblog * I hate that f***ing t**t! I just f***ing burned it! -- Mark E. Smith * Brilliant and bloody awkward. Just like its subjects. The Word * A British, provincial take on Apocalypse Now! where Kurtz (Smith) is encountered by Capt. Willard (Simpson) before the latter gets on the boat -- John Doran The Quietus * Hilarious... horror stories... Dave Simpson's written the book we've been waiting our entire adult life to read. -- Peter Wild Bookmunch * The Fall are my favourite band. I also hate my favourite band. With a passion...I vow never to go to another Fall show and yet somehow always end up at the next one. I am sick. Julian Cope * An amusing study of what is without exaggeration Britain's most uncompromising band. Sunday Herald
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