F.a.l.l.o.u.t.p.o.d.c.a.s.t.

The lads, joined by Dannyno jump back into Dave Simpson’s The Fallen — and there’s plenty to celebrate: cheeky barking anecodes, bizarre showbiz  characters, and all the tiny bits of Fall archaeology that make this book such a rabbit hole. However as we hit the second half of the book, we unreasonalby quetstion Simpson’s methods, his judgements and his take on The Fall, offering our own perky,and pungent criticism from our podcast ivory tower...where our book eh!! It's not as easy as it looks..or is it?

And all the while we ask the bigger questions: Should journalists write books? Do journalists have to write books? And should we have a lie down? 

There are gems everywhere, but we’re not letting Simpson...or Smith off the hook. Deep dive. Brutal critique. Perky, pungent, poltergeist.

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Welcome to Bside the Bsides, where Ian and Brendan go rummaging around the edges of the Blur, digging into  b-sides to unpick the sound, the machinery around the band, the impact of Leisure, and what these supposedly peripheral tracks tell us about Blur.

Before Modern Life Is Rubbish. Before Parklife. Before Britpop. Before the number ones! and the falling-out.....we’re going right back to the debut, the baggy Blur, the shoegaze nods, to find a band trying on several different hats while the whole indie landscape was changing underneath them.

Leisure hit the top ten as did the single “There’s No Other Way”, but internally, the label dramas with Food Records, and David Balfe,  Albarn and Co flailing around trying to work out exactly what sort of band they were supposed to be.

And so while Leisure gets remembered as the beginning of the Blur story, there’s a whole other Blur hiding on the other side of those singles songs like; I Know, Inertia, Mr Briggs, Won't Do It, Luminous, Berzerk, Explain, Uncle Love, Down, and more lay scattered across the early singles and elsewhere...and we're gonna rank em!

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SHOULDER PADS VS TOUCH SENSITIVE

Impression of J Temperance Vs How I Wrote Elastic Man

Another FALL SHOWDOWN, with big and tough songs going head-to-head.

First up...Shoulder Pads is a relentless, pop bubble colliding with MES's sardonic, razor-sharp gallery of suburban grotesques YULE! up against Touch Sensitive's rockin' groove fit for commercials of cars and homes!!

And then...Impression of J Temperance's Lovecraftian atmospheric tension building through skeletal instrumentation and sketches only Smith could muster. HIDEOUS! Going H2H with the bouncing, infectious bassline of Elastic Man, a manic, self-referential narrative about obsession, media manipulation, and bizarre artistic survival.

Two Showdowns, four songs, and a further attempt to locate the exact point where genius and the real world mesh.

Last 60something songs going H2H. Breathing hard and stuttering, and since 2021.

A work in progress // Now due about 2027!!

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The Beefheart Odd ’n’ Sods episode.

A rummage through the stranger corners of the Captain’s world — obscure originals, R&B workouts, Zappa collisions, alternate versions, abandoned ideas, instrumental oddities and various things that probably should have been left in the vault.

We’ve got Triple Combination, Willie the Pimp, Diddy Wah Diddy, Debra Kadabra, Light Reflected, Korn Ring Finger, Funeral Hill, Run Paint Run Run and plenty more — with some proper Beefheart material sitting alongside the more curious stuff.

Some of it sounds like lost Beef. Some of it sounds like solid R&B. Some of it sounds like Zappa’s band attempting to will Don from memory. Some of it is simply DVV wandering into the undergrowth and seeing what happens.

Odd ’n’ sods. Deep cuts. Half-formed things. Strange detours. Good stuff, bad stuff and stuff that leaves you wondering quite what the plan was.

And, naturally: “You gold-plated monkey.”

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RECOVERY KIT VS FREE RANGE
Container Drivers Vs Jung Nev's Antidotes.

Tneet!! Another two-pronged FALL SHOWDOWN. People of Europa, rejoice and carry your past around!!  A deep, dark delve into a world of trucking goes up against a zepp rip!!!

And alongside that, we speed-run Extricate Vs Infotainment scan! — two albums mere years but aeons apart... Fall period, placed under entirely unnecessary forensic examination.

Fallout POD. 525 songs. Still going H2H. Since 2021. A work in progress // Due about 2027!!

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Kinder of Spine vs Eat Y'Self Fitter
NWRA vs Prole Art Threat

Al, DB and B return to Round 4 of the futile FALL SHOWDOWN and, for once, absolutely no danger of anyone getting upset about the results. Easy choices, right!!

Joining us is new friend of the show Harry, making his F.A.L.L.O.U.T. debut and bravely stepping into the madness.

Kinder of Spine vs Eat Y'Self Fitter
NWRA vs Prole Art Threat

Four classics. Two winners. And some extremely cheerful, balanced and entirely sensible decision-making. Expect smiles, sunshine, good manners and absolutely no shouting about how wrong everyone else is.

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The Classical vs Neighbourhood of Infinity
Hip Priest vs I Am Damo Suzuki

Hello and welcome to the F.A.L.L.O.U.T. Podcast!

This week Al B, DB and B are all in the same room, recording live from Static Records in Wigan. And what a show we've got. Round 4, with two HUGE clashes:

The Classical vs Neighbourhood of Infinity
Hip Priest vs I Am Damo Suzuki

Two big, big boys. Two very different kinds of Fall. Only one from each pairing can survive. What will even win?!

We're also joined by Una, back on the podcast to talk about the forthcoming Women of The Fall Weekender, celebrating the women who have been part of The Fall story and the wider Manchester music scene. The two-day event takes place 5th September at The Carlton Club, Whalley Range, and 6th September at The Kamera Ballroom, Chorlton, with live music, film, conversation and collaboration.

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So we've got Al B, DB, B, Una, a Wigan record shop, two enormous Fall showdowns and some potentially catastrophic decision-making.

What a show.

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Hexen Definitive vs The Past.
Crop Dust vsDisney's Dream Debased 

The FALL SHOWDOWN rolls on into Round 4, with Al B, DB and B facing two more strange and potentially dangerous encounters.

First up, old-old-days Hexen Definitive goes head-to-head with a mid-period woozy gem, The Past.

Then it's the troggs sampling oopathon of Crop Dust versus pre post theme park W&F cog of Disney's Dream Debased — a genuine battle of the Fall's more... questionable corners.

Two very different kinds of Fall. Two songs enter, one song leaves. What could possibly go wrong?

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Hello and welcome to the F.A.L.L.O.U.T. Podcast!

It’s Round 4 of the futile FALL SHOWDOWN, and we’re down to the last 125 songs or thereabouts. At this point, absolutely anything could happen. What will even win?!

Al B and DB return...joined by guest of the day Matt Leonard of TOTAL VICTORY and more....to the tournament with four more heavyweight clashes:

Pay Your Rates vs I’m Into C.B.
Riddler vs Sleep Debt Snatches

Two brutal encounters between some BIG BIG BOYS from very different corners of the Fall universe. Which ones survive? Which ones get the chop? And how on earth are we supposed to choose?

As always, there will be strong opinions, questionable logic, sudden reversals, and absolutely no guarantee that the songs we love will survive the next round.

The FALL SHOWDOWN steamrolls on...

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Hello and welcome to the B.E.E.F.O.U.T. Podcast!

This time Al B and DB take on the final stretch of the Captain Beefheart story, ranking Doc at the Radar Station and Ice Cream for Crow — the two extraordinary albums that bookend the Captain's final musical period.

Doc at the Radar Station is Beefheart sounding absolutely furious and completely alive: abrasive, weird, powerful and somehow still full of brilliant tunes. Ice Cream for Crow, recorded two years later with an almost entirely new Magic Band, takes things somewhere stranger and more spacious — a final burst of invention before Don Van Vliet sailed off into the desert and left music behind for painting.

So which album wins? Which songs have aged like fine wine, which sound like they were recorded on another planet, and where does the Captain's final period sit in the B.E.E.F.O.U.T. rankings?

In case yer internet machine isn't working, here's a few of the tracks we're looking at...Hot Head, Ashtray Heart, Run Paint Run Run, Sue Egypt, Dirty Blue Gene, Sheriff of Hong Kong, Telephone, Flavor Bud Living, Ice Cream for Crow, The Host the Ghost the Most Holy-O, Semi-Multicoloured Caucasian, Hey Garland I Dig Your Tweed Coat..etc, etc etc!!

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