Mark E Smith

“At the end of the day, though, it is his genius we should remember rather than all the other stuff,” Cave says of Shane. “He had something that we lesser writers have to work hard to even get close to.”

This week in Indie Basement: Chris Stamey (The dB’s), The Fall, a Nick Drake tribute and Baxter Dury collaborator Delilah Holliday.

House of All features former Fall members Martin Bramah, Si Wolstencroft, Paul Hanley, Steve Hanley, and Steve Greenaway. The late Mark E Smith’s family write, “we find this extremely offensive.“

The Fall’s dense, cacophonous, controversial and brilliant fourth album turns 40.

It‘s the home Mark E. Smith and Brix bought in the ‘80s that is said to have inspired The Fall’s “My New House.“

Edited by Tessa Norton and Saint Etienne’s Bob Stanley, ‘Excavate!‘ is a compendium of ephemera and essays that explore tangential but essential aspects to Mark E Smith and The Fall‘s worldview.

This week in Indie Basement: reviews of new records from CFCF, Sorry, Ride’s Andy Bell, Silver Synthetic, and Requin Chagrin, plus a new book on The Fall.

The Fall’s Live at St. Helens Technical College, ’81 is out February 19 via John Dwyer’s Castle Face label.

This terrific-sounding Fall live album is being released for the 40th anniversary of the show — listen to “Leave the Capitol“ now.

JARV IS… cover The Fall’s “Big New Prinz” from a recreation of the ‘I Am Kurious Oranj’ ballet set at The Barbican’s retrospective on avant-garde choreographer Michael Clark.