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Mere Pseud Mag Ed

Name: DAVE BROMWICH [aka fallfandave/ FFD]
Location: Bolton, Giant town North-West of Salford, England
How long have you been a Fall fan: since 1983
How you got into The Fall: Watching 'Smile' performed live on telly at me cousin's house-I just thought what an amazing new band! Then our Trevor said they'd released loads already, and the rest is history.
Fave Fall song[s]: Touch Sensitive, Hey Luciani, Theme From Sparta FC, Carry Bag Man
Fave Fall album[s]: COTC, Cerebral Caustic, Middle Class Revolt, The Unutterable.
favourite artistes: The Fall, Magazine, Can, Pere Ubu, Wire, Iggy, The Monks, The Seeds.
Other interests: Singing, writing and recording music, avoiding arguments on message boards, walking, getting drunk, wife and three kids.

Website: where I do my own songs or cover stuff I love , like the mighty Fall, bestest gruppe ever- fallfandave and the laptop dancers . Also you can hear thousands of my recordings, Fall covers, and other covers of Magazine, The Stooges, Capt Beefheart, Pere Ubu, Screaming Lord Sutch, The Doors, The Velvet Underground, The Passage, Wire, The Monks, The Seeds, Syd Barrett, The Kinks and lots more , plus my own songs of course. ALL FOR FREE HERE http://n90.mediamaster.com:8000/fallfandave 24/7 !

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Name: MARTIN PETERS [aka Martin/ Mike?!]
Location: Valencia, Spain...but have lived in loads of places.
How long have you been a Fall fan? Since 1979
How you got into The Fall? Bought a copy of Live At The Witch Trials from Woolworth's in Caernarfon on a whim...the opening of Frightened captivated me.
Fave Fall Songs: Mess Of My, R.O.D., Free Range, I Am Damo Suzuki, and dozens more. Wish they would do fewer cover versions.
Fave Fall Albums:Bend Sinister, Slates, This Nation's Saving Grace, Perverted By Language.
Favourite Artists: Magazine, Joy Division, Gang Of Four, Dream Syndicate.
Other interests: Travelling, food and drink, reading, writing, watching football. I live with my German girlfriend and we have a young son who was born here in Valencia.

Detective Instinct

Name: MARK HARRIS [aka Splart]
Location: Countryside, South-West England
How long have you been a Fall fan? As at the time of writing, 58% of my life
How did you get into The Fall? Hearing the alternative version of "Hey! Luciani" played on the John Peel show, circa 1986
Fave Fall song: Too many to mention all of them, but the list changes hourly and probably includes "Leave The Capital", "Garden", "Neighbourhood Of Infinity", "Blood Outta Stone", "Backdrop", "How I Wrote Elastic Man", "Middle Mass", "Noel's Chemical Effluence", "I Wake Up In The City", etc...
Fave Fall album: Probably "Hex", "Slates" or "Perverted By Language"
Other favourite artistes: The Residents, Dead Can Dance, Hacksaw, Neutral Milk Hotel, The Beach Boys, Brian Eno
Other interests: Cycling up mountains, pretentious and woefully amateur B&W photography, astronomy, reading, sleeping
Favourite website: Heavens Above (http://www.heavens-above.com)

Prole Art Threat

Nom: PAUL S WHISTON [aka MCR]
Location: Here and there
How Long Have You Been A Fall Fan: Since 2002 approx
How Did You Get Into The Fall? A suicidal goth English Student-come-dr who fan manics obsessive turned me on to them while at The University Of Wales, Bangor. I strongly suspect he is dead now but he played his part. (if not David let me know) I wasnt instantly hooked either, its more like a poison slowly working thru your veins... First song that made me take notice was probably Various Times, I guess that and the Rough Trade Singles box acted as port of entry...
Fave Fall Songs: This changes with the seasons... at the minute I am pretty into Sparta FC and I really like Blindness from "later" as best rendering yet. Also Mark 'll Sink Us refuses to leave my brain. But the old classic favs for me will remain The Man Whos Head Expanded and Various Times. BUT a special place goes to L. A. for being the song that got me an Elaine together.
Fave Fall Albums: Also varies... Some weeks its Grotesque, some its Hex, a little while back it was The Marshall Suite. I can tell you my two LEAST favs tho... Are You Are and Kurious Oranj.
Favourite Artists: The Fall, Joy Division, XTC, The Velvet Underground, Hang On The Box, Madness, Slumber Party, Black Flag, Charlie Patton, Smashing Pumpkins, The Kinks, Nirvana, Hole, Nick drake, Adam Ant, Grateful Dead, Magazine, David Bowie, Nick Cave, Billy Childish, Pixies, Captain Beefheart, Johnny Cash, Leadbelly, Neil Young, KaitO, Iggy Pop/Stooges, PIL, Manics... Current favs are Maximo Park... and The Rogers Sisters... Ill shut up now before we run out of space...
Other Interests: Horror films, horror stories, horror comics, staying in and plotting my revenge against this evil world that has shunned me. I also used to write stuff other than shite fall fan comics, but that dont happen so much now... esp slow on recording new music as Im a pretty OK (passable) guitarist... But the world is too evil to hear my songs.

Telephone Thing
Name: Pete Stanley
Location: Where They Used To Make Glass, West Midlands
How long have you been a Fall fan? Probably about 4-5 years, there was
something very amusing about hearing 'Hey There Fuck face' for the first
time, which in turn lead me to a closer inspection.
Fave Fall songs: 'Ludd Gang' for slating Shakin' Stevens, 'Idiot Joy
Showland' for slating Madchester & 'Leave The Capitol' for making me
wake up drunkenly a few years ago in a London Hostel talking in MES
voice to startled friends...
Other favourite artistes: XTC, The Beatles, Pavement, The Clash, Guided
By Voices & R.E.M, oh too many to mention actually.
Other interests: I usually spend most my time talking about music on my
webzine & playing guitar in my band, when not doing either of these I'm
either at work sulking or in the pub talking rubbish about music!
Favourite website: The Plastic Ashtray
(http://www.theplasticashtray.co.uk)

Backdrop

Name: Mike Battman (aka Altfish)
Location: Timperley, England (about 10-miles southwest of Manchester)
How long have you been a Fall fan: since 1980
How you got into The Fall: John Peel � boring but true. Bought Totally Wired and Elastic Man as they were released. First saw them live in October 1981. Took a sabbatical due to family commitments during the �90s.
Fave Fall song[s]: Where do I start�Mountain Energie; Blindness; Athlete Cured; NWRA; Backdrop
Currently - Hungry Freaks, Daddy
Fave Fall album[s]: COTC, Peel Sessions; Touch Sensitive Bootleg Box Set; Grotesque; Slates, Dragnet � I could go on, it�d be easier to list the one�s that I don�t like.
Favourite artistes: The Fall, Joy Division, Captain Beefheart. Misty in Roots; P.J. Harvey; Throwing Muses, Magazine, Love; Pere Ubu; The bard of Timperley - Frank Sidebottom
Other interests: Fishing, drinking beer; committed atheist

Two Steps Back

Name: Bob Osborne aka The Earl, The Eccles Connection
Location: Eccles, Salford
How long have you been a Fall fan: since 1980
How you got into The Fall: John Peel � heard Elastic Man on Round Table where Peel was guesting and went out and bought Grotesque, Totally Wired , Rowche Rumble and Fiery Jack the next day. 27 years later I have more or less everything the band has ever produced.
Fave Fall song[s]: Almost impossible to answer I love them all - but I have to say "Reformation" off the new album is a killer
Fave Fall album[s]: Again impossible to answer but at a push Grotesque, Hex, Are you are missing winner, Reformation post TLC
Favourite artistes: The Fall, The Go-Betweens, Sonic Youth, Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Dave Douglas, Tim Berne, Frank Zappa, Van Der Graaf Generator, Peter Hammill
Other interests: I am partial to glass of red wine or two, I make strange music on my lap top and I run the Fall Live Gig Repository. I am currently attempting to expand my collection of Goon Shows

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Distilled Mug Art

When: [Issue 1 - Issue 11]

Name: ELAINE WILL [aka Len / E2W]

Location: Saskatchewan, Canada...yeah, I know..."where the hell is THAT?!" ;-)
How long have you been a Fall fan: Only since about 2002 I guess...c'mon, I live in Canada!
How you got into The Fall: Um...don't really remember...had to hear a lot of albums...
Fave Fall song[s]: Impression of J Temperance, The Man Whose Head Expanded, Athlete Cured, Psykick Dance Hall No. 1, Fiery Jack, God-Box, L.A.....etc etc....
Fave Fall album[s]: Dragnet, Perverted By Language, Middle Class Revolt.
Favourite Artists: The Fall, Joy Division/New Order, Q And Not U, Billy Childish, Les Savy Fav, Mission of Burma, My Dad Is Dead, and, er...54-40... yeah. Some of my favourite VISUAL artists include Bryan Talbot, Adrian Tomine, Al Hirschfeld, Terry "Aislin" Mosher, Dave Crosland, Jay Ryan, Piet Mondrian, Max Ernst...etc etc etc...
Other interests: Drawing, drawing, drawing...reading...making lists of things that I like and dislike... ;p Writing sometimes too. I am trying to write a comic called "Carry Bag Man." (That's him in my Frenz avatar) As to when that will actually get done...hopefully before I turn THIRTY..

Auto Tech Pilot
Name: David Arthur Gee
Location: Toronto, Ontario, CANADA
How long have you been a Fall fan: Since 1986.
How you got into The Fall: They used to play them on the CBC. God
bless the CBC.
Fave Fall song[s]: Dice Man, Jawbone & The Air Rifle, R.O.D, The Steak
Place, Edinburgh Man.
Fave Fall album: Bend Sinister (This gets me in such trouble)
Favourite Artists: The Fall, Neu!, Kraftwerk, The Gun Club.
Other interests: Dabbling in the practical arts: designing gigposters
(www.gigposters.com/designers.php?designer=17956), CD covers, book
jackets, etc. Also, I play drums in The Two Koreas who still don't
sound like the Fall despite our best efforts.
(www.myspace.com/thetwokoreas) Also, Stephen Potter, Tony Hancock and
my Giles collection.

Leave The Capital

Name: Chris Bird

Location : Istanbul

How long have you been a Fall fan ? : Since 1982

How did you get into The Fall? :When I heard �Fantastic Life� and �The Classical� on John Peel

Fave Fall songs: Leave the Capital, Slates,Just Step Sideways, The Classical, New Face in Hell,Room to Live

Fave Fall album :Hex Induction Hour , Slates, Nation�s Saving Grace,Bend Sinister

Other fav artists :The Kinks , The Clash , Velvet Underground, Joy Division, X Ray Specs,Laibach,Ian Brown,Brian Eno, Smashing Pumpkins,Kraftwerk

Other Interests :Drawing , Kurt Vonnegut, travel, West Ham United

Website : http://surrealistanbul.com

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