{"id":1033,"date":"2008-10-05T00:34:36","date_gmt":"2008-10-04T23:34:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/?p=1033"},"modified":"2008-10-05T01:18:03","modified_gmt":"2008-10-05T00:18:03","slug":"the-fall-step-forward-records-1980","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/the-fall-step-forward-records-1980\/","title":{"rendered":"The Fall – Step Forward Records – 1980"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Fiery Jack<\/a><\/p>\n

2nd Dark Age \/ Psykick Dancehall 2<\/a><\/p>\n

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The last release by The Fall on Step Forward Records before humping all the new\u00a0tunes over to the other west London based label of the day, Rough Trade Records.<\/p>\n

One of the finest and most original bands to\u00a0emerge post punk, the material from 1978 until 1983 is absolutely wonderful in a Beefheartian kind of way, and well worth searching out on CD or secondhand vinyl shops.<\/p>\n

The LP’s ‘Grotesque’ and ‘Hex Education Hour’, both on Rough Trade are a couple of the finest releases by this band. I say 1983 (above) because the last record I purchased from the band was the\u00a0‘Perverted By Language’ LP which was released in that year. I am sure the band were, and are still, releasing material at the cutting edge, after 1983 until the present day, I\u00a0have just not heard much of it…\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Quite a\u00a0few of the very early releases were recorded with the help, on the mixing desk, by Here And Now\u00a0soundman Grant Showbiz, which fits quite nicely on the Here And Now \/ Alternative TV \/ Zounds \/ The Mob \/ The Astronauts axies, which of course fits nicely with this site.<\/p>\n

Above is the band running order for the Deeply Vale Peoples Festival from 1978, with\u00a0The Fall on the bill with Alternative TV and Here And Now. The Ruts and Misty In Roots played the following evening.<\/p>\n

Some comments about performance from The Falls site visi.com:<\/p>\n

It was later estimated that 18,000 people attended the festival. The Fall played on the festival’s Saturday “New Wave Afternoon.” Many thanks to Mark for the festival running order.<\/span><\/p>\n

Dave: “You say about 18,000 people attended Deeply Vale July 78. I was there – no more than 3000 at most I would say. Anyway, I seem to remember seeing the Fall there – memory a little hazy so I may be completely wrong – they played in the pouring rain. About 30 people in front of the stage (me included) everyone else huddling in tents and under bin bags. Just me and my brother and a few strangers shuffling about in front of the high stage. Most animated punter was …. you guessed it – Jon The Postman – oblivious to the elements. Can anyone else corroborate my story?” <\/span><\/p>\n

later Dave added: “There were 20,000 people there!!! The Fall did play in the afternoon and the afternoon was compered by Tony Wilson. Been thinking about the 78 festival – it wasn’t entirely a pleasant experience – Hell’s Angels drove through the middle of the site on motorbikes and generally behaved aggressively. Looking into people’s tents looking for Punks to beat up. Police turned up on site. Things got a bit threatening so I left late one night and went home!<\/span><\/p>\n

Eagle eyed browsers may notice both Oasis and Nirvana performing at this festival. Perhaps a law suit is in order for both Geffen and Creation records for a bunch of mid to late 1980’s misfits stealing these bands names\u00a0from\u00a0the original 1978 lot!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Fiery Jack 2nd Dark Age \/ Psykick Dancehall 2 The last release by The Fall on Step Forward Records before humping all the new\u00a0tunes over to the other west London based label of the day, Rough Trade Records. One of the finest and most original bands to\u00a0emerge post punk, the material from 1978 until 1983 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1033","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links-downloads"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1033","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1033"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1033\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1036,"href":"https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1033\/revisions\/1036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}