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2 unusual facts about The Fall-Out


Andrew Anthony

Anthony is also the author of On Penalties (2000) and The Fall-Out (2007).

The Fall-Out

The Fall-Out: How a Guilty Liberal Lost His Innocence is a book by Andrew Anthony.


Berlin–Hamburg Railway

After the fall of the Wall on 1 August 1990 an Intercity service was established on the Berlin–Hamburg line under the name of Max Liebermann, initially with former TEE carriages hauled by DB Class 601 locomotives that were hired by DR from Italy.

Black Monk Time

English post-punk band The Fall has covered four of the album's songs: "I Hate You" and "Oh How to Do Now" on their 1990 album Extricate, "Shut Up" on their 1994 album Middle Class Revolt, and "Higgle-Dy Piggle-Dy" on the 2006 Play Loud!

Clyma est mort

The album's title is in reference to the band's recently deceased cat, and the cover references The Fall's Totale's Turns.

Dan Melchior

His music has evolved significantly, to become a distant entity from some of his earlier blues-based work, showing a definite influence of more experimental bands such as The Homosexuals and The Fall, and some absurdist elements which have led to comparisons to compatriot exponents of that genre, Vivian Stanshall and Syd Barrett.

Darker My Love

In Spring 2006, Presley and Barbato became members of the prolific British post-punk group The Fall, and are both featured prominently on The Fall's 2007 album Reformation Post TLC, whose title refers to the circumstances surrounding their addition.

EZ Basic

During the summer of 2009, EZ Basic started working with English producer George Shilling who previously worked with bands such as Primal Scream, Blur, Bernard Butler (ex-Suede), Soup Dragons, Coldcut, My Bloody Valentine, The Fall, and etc.

Freak Party

Its members were schoolmates, Johnny Maher (later known as Johnny Marr) on guitar, Andy Rourke on bass, and Simon Wolstencroft, later of The Fall (and briefly a drummer with the Smiths), on drums.

Hello Heavy

In the summer of 2009, EZ Basic hired English producer George Shilling who previously produced the recording of bands like Primal Scream, Blur, Bernard Butler (ex-Suede), Soup Dragons, Coldcut, My Bloody Valentine, The Fall, and etc.

Jelen Pivo Live

Foreign acts that performed on the festival include Ian Brown, Happy Mondays, Gary Moore, Dinosaur Jr., The Stooges, The Lemonheads, The Fall, Heavy Trash, Echo & the Bunnymen and The Rakes.

Kerry Chang

They break up again in The Fall when James cheats on her with Dana Smith, but later get back together for the remainder of the series in Brigands M.C. Their relationship continued in the twelfth book, Shadow Wave.

Martin A. Smith

They have performed around London with such act as Detritus, James Banbury of The Auteurs, and various members of Lou Reeds band as well as members of The Fall.

Niamh McGrady

McGrady is starring in the crime drama television series The Fall, based in Northern Ireland, alongside Gillian Anderson and Northern Irish actor and model Jamie Dornan.

Noise Fest

Among an art installation created by David Wojnarowicz and Joseph Nechvatal, various performance artists such as Ilona Granet and Emily XYZ did their acts intermixing with the music of The Fall, Beastie Boys, Live Skull, Sonic Youth, Lydia Lunch, Elliott Sharp, Swans and Arto Lindsay.

Squad rotation system

The term can also be used metaphorically to describe bands of musicians who have a changing lineup at different shows, such as the band The Fall as of 2007, and the ProjeKcts of the band King Crimson.

Terasawa Junsei

For the sake of Peace in Europe shortly before the Berlin Wall Fall conducted seven day prayer without food and water on the grave of Karl Marx, burned his finger phalanx and made alone Peace March from Warsaw to said Wall.

The Menace

Frischmann reconnected with Annie Holland in early 1999 and formed a new line-up of the band, including Justin Welch, keyboardist/vocalist Sharon Mew, formerly of Heave, guitarist Paul Jones (Linoleum's former member) and keyboardist Dave Bush, formerly of The Fall.

The Nerve Agents

Members of The Nerve Agents are now/or used to be in the bands Said Radio, Darker My Love, The Fall, The Frisk, Hudson Criminal, Model American, Fury 66, The Distillers, Redemption 87, Pitch Black, Unit Pride, Shadowboxer, and FIVE.

The Wolfgang Press

Allen's list of "important records" as of 1995 included De La Soul's 3 Feet High and Rising, Massive Attack's Blue Lines and "anything from Nick Cave and The Fall."

The Yummy Fur

After leaving the band in 1997, Lawrence Worthington would drum for both The Male Nurse and The Fall-influenced art punk band The Country Teasers.

Tromatic Reflexxions

The project is a further collaboration between German electronica outfit Mouse on Mars and Mark E. Smith of UK band The Fall.

Truly, Madly, Deeply Vale

The programme makers tracked down many of the musicians who played there, including Mark E. Smith of the Fall, Steve Hillage and Vini Reilly of the Durutti Column.

Ultimate Darkness

The song The Fall was written for the video game The Fall: Last Days of Gaia and a version was subsequently used in the trailer for the game.

W.E.L.T.

Various elements of the song were subsequently incorporated into the song "The Fall" which appears on Ministry's album Filth Pig.


see also

Gerry Fitzsimons

He was managing partner of the Cambridge office of Andersen Legal until 2002 when its global offices were hit by the fall-out at Arthur Andersen following the Enron scandal and the firm was closed down.

Jay T. Wright

His first feature film, 'Assembling the World' (16 mm, 1995), made when he was only 20 years old, follows cultures under the pressures of colonialism after the fall out of war in Taos Pueblo and Belfast and features the Very Large Array radio telescope in New Mexico.

Lindi St Clair

In June 1991, she was involved in a controversy when Norman Lamont, the then Chancellor of the Exchequer, was investigated for using taxpayers' money to handle the fall-out from press stories concerning Miss Whiplash, who was using a flat he owned (the Treasury contributed £4,700 of the £23,000 bill which had been formally approved by the Head of the Civil Service and the Prime Minister).

Paula Wriedt

Chaffey commenced legal proceedings seeking an ex-gratia payment of about $150,000, claiming the fall-out from the affair had left him unable to resume his work duties.