18 March 80 Birmingham University:
(There's some "In The Park" lyrics in "No Xmas for John Quays")
- "Good evening, we are The Fall. We are not as the poster indicates. It's a change of turn, a different turn on, at first." (during "Cash'n'Carry")
- "We are The Fall. Meet my sidekicks. R Totale seventeen's sidekicks... sidekicks... sidekicks. We are The Fall. The next verse, the next verse number on the rota is 'Jack'. Is black. Is 'Jack'. Is 'F Jack'." (during "Cash'n'Carry")
- "I'm sick of pool. It's a stupid game." (amended lyrics to "Fiery Jack")
- "OK, confess... can you lay off that light? Lay off... use summat else." (before "Fiery Jack")
- "And if you're Afrikaner..." (during "Muzorewi's Daughter")
- "Murder!" (before "Flat of Angles")
- "I saw your mayor on the telly a while back and he said, '(Greener reasons). There's hundreds and thousands of trees in every street in Birmingham.'" (before "Second Dark Age")
- "For the last ever time, the last ever rendition." (during the introduction to "Rowche Rumble")
- "This is the end, this is like a stumble, this is like a fucking stumble." (during "Rowche Rumble")
- "I don't presently know half this song." (during "Frightened")
- "I spend most of the time at home. And if you dissect the riff of this song, you'll find it's 'Stepping Stone', slowed down." (amended lyrics to "Frightened")
- "How I wrote 'Repetition', how I wrote 'Bingo Master'." (amended lyrics to "How I Wrote Elastic Man")
- "An endurance award!" (before "Choc-Stock")
- "Let's hear it for (...). We don't need this 'Spectre Versus Rector'. We're not good enough yet, maybe three or four years. Why don't you get your shit together? Why don't you pull down those twelve-foot Robert Plant pictures? Why don't you ignore this Prince Buster rip-off crap? Why don't you get your shit together and make it bad!" (amended lyrics to "Choc-Stock")
17 April 1980 London:
:-"... it was like 'Tales From The Crypt' from where we were stood. We are here to prove you don't have to be weird for a career. Like a cheap pub... Lene Lovich - who needs that shit? Anyway, meet my sidekicks. Your stomach swells up before you get drunk. Thick skins, still tall - The Fall"(before English Scheme)
"[to the band, sounding bored] OK. [to the audience] Start clapping!" (approaching the end of "Totally Wired")
- "Something light and well-balanced." (before "Your Heart Out")
- "Crowd pandering" (after Fiery Jack)
- "Okay... start tapping" (before City Hobgoblins)
11 May 80 London:
- "Good evening. We are The Fall and I am Roman Totale and these are my sidekicks. I will lead you on to new visions of proletariat posterity. this is a story." (before New Face In Hell)
28 May 1980 Beach Club, Manchester
- "(You dig) our South African radio broadcast? (The West is in the East) so we can get away with anything we fucking like." (before "Muzorewi's Daughter")
- "This is your brains rumbling." (during cowbell introduction to "City Hobgoblins")
13 June 80 Eindhoven:
- "Davis, fucking hit that cowbell quick!" (before City Hobgoblins)
- "We'll stick punk rock up your fucking haemoglobic. Right, here's a good one - it's a bit of fucking culture for you, right, Hobgoblins! Davis! Hit the fucking cowbell quick!"
- "Why doesn't the government subsidize amphetamine?" (No Xmas for John Quays)
- "I'll have 20 cigarettes for a headache... and I'll have a break here... and the drummer better get the fucking beat right... stop!" (during "No Xmas for John Quays")
- "This is the lull in the set, another Greek story for you." (Flat Of Angles)
- "The Spanish Inquisition sentenced (young?) Asian(s) to death " (ad lib lyrics in new Puritan)
- "It's Gramme Friday, 13! 13!" (New Face In Hell) (Gig was on Friday the 13th.)
28 June 80 Newcastle:
- "Go into your record shop and ask you local record dealer why he is such a dick." (City Hobgoblins)
- "You get really fucking embarrassed about what you read nowadays." (Printhead)
28 July 80 Deeply Vale:
("Deeply Vale" - an outdoors gig but was there really a DV festival in 1980?)
- "Do you have any preachers around here in this village? Preachers, PG's?" (That Man)
- "This is like a fucking cabaret act, isn't it. Well, it is a holiday for us." (Underground Medicin)
"This is one that me and the boys, well, me and the guys (...) Anyway, it was number three in the alternative charts... Rough Trade shits!" (during "Fiery Jack")
- "Don't be bereft. Don't be like a big FM writer. Working Men's Club, like us. Calculated incompetence. Pseud! G. Bushell, half a line of cocaine, why do you think UFO get good reviews? Think about it, think about it. Why do all these shits get reviews? xxx the record company meets them when they get out of the cab." (during Chock Stock)
"Talking of cabaret, this is the longest one we do. It's called 'The N.W.R.A.'. There arising, it's a story." ("The N.W.R.A.")
- "Get me a bean burger" after last song.
27 September 80 Chorley:
- "Good evening, you know who we are. You know who we are, who are you? This is a long song. It's got a bit of intelligence in it. So you'd better shove all back. It's 'N.W.R.A.' It's 'N.W.R.A.' We are The Fall. Don't shit, don't sit (...) hahaha! Cabaret - it's the N.W.R.A."
" (The NWRA)
- "All the hits for all you shits, well, you know, hahahaha!" (before "Totally Wired")
- "But they will not free me... Can you turn the monitors up, please?... diseased..." [continues lyrics] (during "How I Wrote Elastic Man")
- "It's been great here tonight. We'll come back... well, never. We'll probably never see each other again after tonight."
2 October 80 Manchester:
- "Good evening, you know who we are - we are the most hated group in Britain."..."We do not suck cocks to make our living."..."OK, guitar practice is over, start the fucking song" (Goes into Jawbone and the Air-Rifle).
2 October 1980 Polytechnic, Manchester
- "That was a quick money-spinner." (after "Totally Wired")
- "OK, fuck suckers... I put my seals behind my mouth, it tastes delicious." (before "Gramme Friday")
- "U.G.M... a dark scheme. U.G.M... a dark scheme. Keep your liver in. Underground medicine... underground medicine. Maybe suck a few cocks... why don't you join a group and suck a few cocks for a living?" (during "Rowche Rumble")
- "Right, this is the last number. This will see you on your way home. It's a nice little cabaret number. Me and the guys (...) it through a 10 year tour of Yorkshire. It's called 'The N.W.R.A.'. And folk go 'What's it mean? What's it mean?' It's not my fault musicians can't (...). This is a story about a rising. Nil chance. Nil chance. (...) as documented by the son of Roman Totale seventeen. His son's name is Joe and he was a viscious character and could kill you with one touch." (before "The N.W.R.A."
November 80 London
- "A new wave personality stumbles out of the ruins... ten great Pole men and here he is, the man and his cronies... OK, maybe (...). And if I have a preference for Cary Grant, slaughterer of innocents. Add on thirty years and you've got Mark E Smith." (during "Cary Grant's Wedding")
- "One of the popular (...) was a version of 'Totally Wired' by the Radio Two orchestra." (during "The N.W.R.A.")
1 November 80 Manchester:
- "This is an old cabaret number. I wrote it back in 1951." (before "In My Area")
- "Spiders know these things. Why are you shits here? (...) Sorry about the incident before." (before "City Hobgoblins")
- "(...) This is first with a few hits for the knuckleheads in the... crowd. Ok!" (before "New Face in Hell")
- "What do you expect (...)? Let's hear it for the star man. He's just a normal guy - he's like *you* and *you*. Right, story!" (before "Jawbone and the Air Rifle")
- "Come on ...okay...you fucking ugly twat" (to someone in audience during The NWRA)..."What about the Liverpool bands who are a (fucking?) disgrace, escapist disgrace..."..."What a load of crap that was" (after In My Area)..."Ian: My favourite Fall moment was from the very first time I saw them at Manchester Poly in 1980. Someone in the crowd lobbed a beer can up and hit MES with it. MES didn't blink and carried on the song without pausing. At the end of the song he went over to Hanley and Scanlon who pointed out somebody in the crowd about half way back. MES shouts you fucking ugly twat and walks off stage reappearing a minute later in the crowd striding over to the can lobber and smacking him one in the face. A magic moment."(from Stefan's Fall gigography)
13 November 80 Fan Club, Leeds:
- "Dead publishers' sons... Ian McCullough's diarrhoea run." (during "Slates, Slags, etc.")
- "OK, let's hear it for the container drivers." (before "Container Drivers")
- "Here's a little story... woooooooooh!" (before "Jawbone and the Air Rifle")
- "OK, keep still! This is really good!" (during "Jawbone and the Air Rifle")
- [In Yorkshire accent] "Well, I'm just building a nuclear shelter in me back garden, like the television says. (...)" (before "Printhead")
- "Verily, they'll track me down. Touch my shoulder and say 'Hey, Mark E!' And they will ask me..." (during "How I Wrote Elastic Man")
- "Can you turn the vocal monitors up, please? Can you turn them lights off, please? Thank you." (before "Totally Wired")
- "OK, this one is called 'English Scheme' and it makes the class system seem pretty straightforward for people like you and me." (before "English Scheme")
- "A nice bit of cabaret for you to finish off the evening. Thank you for coming. (...)" (before "The N.W.R.A.")
- "Right, the (...) weren't up to doing (...). Sorry about that. Right!" (before "Fiery Jack")
- "It's a bit of a hit... it's a bit of a hit for all you shits!" (during "Fiery Jack")
- "There are no one-liners in tonight's act!" (during "Fiery Jack")
18 November 80 Boat Club, Nottingham:
- "(...) Craig Scanlon on male vocal. Spiders know these things. Gremlins know these things. Help me! Help me!" (before "City Hobgoblins")
- "Cosy town!" (before "New Face in Hell")
- "The next one's about leaving capitals. Well, we've been to worse places than this. Or Julian Cope's face. (...)" (before "Leave the Capitol")
- "That last monologue was from Middlesborough... Middlesborough, you know how good (...). Here's another tedious thing. Right!" (after "The N.W.R.A.")
20 November 80 Birmingham:
- "This is for the city of Rhodes [roads?]. Trapped in the web. Help me! Help me!" (City Hobgoblins)
- "Okay, we're just putting our false moustaches on." (English Scheme)
- "Male slags... two pound entrance fee. Well, I'm not surprised it's half-full. Male slates. And sucker bastard apes. OK, wind it up now." (during "Slates, Slags, etc.")
- "Well, that's that one out of the way. Here's another story." (after "Totally Wired")
- "Can you turn it up on stage, Grant?" (after "City Hobgoblins")
- "This one's more in your line. OK..." (before "The N.W.R.A.")
- "The cabaret part of the act! The DJs had worsened since the rising. They were like Roger Day. How about Roger Day? You got landed with him, huh? Hahaha!" (during "The N.W.R.A.")
- "The colonel shot better with thirty pints. OK, wind it up right there!" (during "Underground Medicin")
21 November 80 North London Polytechnic, London:
- "OK... compare Julian Cope's face to one of a... [screams] container drivers!" (before "Container Drivers")
- "Right, this one's a story." (before "New Face in Hell")
- "Right, we're gonna do this one because, um... y'know when some of these... we're gonna stick by it. Stubborn." (before "Totally Wired")
- "OK, (...) vampires, get moving!" (during "Leave the Capitol")
- "This is for Middlesborough. Why you should fucking go there, you fucking rebels. It's only shit about football, anyway. All the football supporters I know are faggots. Fluffy pullovers." (during "The N.W.R.A.")
- "You turn the monitors up, Grant? Grant baby, turn the monitors up, please! [Getting annoyed] Monitors up!" (during "The N.W.R.A.")
- "You got your nuclear shelters yet, lads?" (during "Muzorewi's Daughter")
- "[In cod-Afrikaans accent] OK, Afrikaans, OK. We just walk over there. We come from Holland fresh this week. It's a (...). I just walk past that barbed wire, black man." (during "Muzorewi's Daughter")
- "You can't beat a bit of support, can yer? I think we've said enough tonight really but, uh, it's only half-eleven." (before "English Scheme")
- "The food was OK. Food... food! Safe house... we've said it!" (after "English Scheme")
12 December 80 Acklam Hall, London:
- MES: "(...) Where's he gone? What? What? No, no, you're looking at last night's set, Craig. Yeah, I'll tell you about coincidences. The insert of 'Dragnet', the building was knocked down right after. 'Elastic Man', the front cover, the photo was knocked down right after. There's one of The Beatles on the back of 'Grotesque'. So don't cross here or we'll put you in our picture!" Marc Riley: "A rooty-tooty-too, a rooty-tooty-tum! Er... a rooty-tum! A rooty-tooty-too, a rooty-tum!" MES: "That was fucking funny, Marc." Marc Riley: "Yeah!" MES: "Fucking gales of laughter!" (before "Draygo's Guilt")
- "This one's about science fiction authors. Not (...)." (before "How I Wrote Elastic Man")
- "Get them K-Tel marines out of my face!" (during "In My Area")
- "There's a bit of impudent swaggering about trouble (...)" (before "Cash'n'Carry")
- "Uh, we didn't realise (...). We've got to fulfill our quota. Alright..." (before "Leave the Capitol")
15 January 81 Rafters, Manchester:
- "Right, this is a time for all you minor groups to get your notebooks out!" [Audience member to bootlegger: "Ooh, he's on fire!"] (before "Middle Mass")
- "This next track mistreats the lie of the Wigan Soul dream." (before "Slates, Slags, etc.")
- "Carry on!" (after "An Older Lover" ends prematurely, forcing a restart)
17 January 81 Sports Center, Bolton:
- "Thank you. This next song is about what happens when you meet a dog with a (...) out of the Teardrop Explodes. Follow it closely." (before "Impression of J. Temperance")
- "Right, this next one is about Joe Totale entering the darts world championship. (...)" (before "The N.W.R.A.")
- Bootlegger: "U2 next week!" (before "How I Wrote Elastic Man")
- "We're a bit (...), so, uh, (...)" (before "English Scheme")
25 February 81 Bungalow Bar, Paisley
- "Good evening, we are The Fall. We're here to make up for all the silly love bands who (label?) us Mancunians." (before "Container Drivers")
- "Can I have a bit of vocal monitors, please? Audibility... I'm going deaf I think, anyway. This is one we haven't done for two years. But we're gonna do it tonight because it's pretty in vogue now. Haha! It's pretty misery-ass orientated. You get that? Miserable-orientated." (before "Before the Moon Falls")
- "There's a theory that the world... we live in the centre of the world. And therefore the sun is the centre of the world. And the moon falls once every two million years." (during "Before the Moon Falls")
- Audience member: "Rowche Rumble!" MES: "Well, that was the hit section. Wrong thought!" (before "Winter")
- "One... one! I still can't hear meself up here. I think I've got a bit of wax in my ears. Is there any monitors, Grant? Please... thank you. I just want to hear myself." (before "How I Wrote Elastic Man")
- "Right, we're gonna do a long cabaret number now. This is entertainment for you." (before "The N.W.R.A.")
- "We didn't work a set out so what you got tonight was a series of lectures. This is the final one." (before "Slates, Slags, etc.")
5 February 81 London:
- "I bet all these fucking students hate them letting the locals in here, but none of the locals fucking stand this." (Middle Mass)
- "I must apologise for the con trick that was played on you when you first came in, if you did, about the, erm, the hype downstairs. (Pink Press Threat)
- "Go and look at the (piss stone?) outside, it's a very big one!" (during "Your Heart Out")
- "You must have to stink to be a student here!" (during "Totally Wired")
- "In Whitechapel Road, huh? In Whitechapel Road, huh? There's some cream of students here. There's some cream of students here. Do you want to hear about America? Well, students... I can see, I can feel a whole wave of new beatniks brought up on French novels and hooped shirts. Self-analysis drips. Too many (parado?) chips. I can't get away with this any more so the next thing will be Crap Rap 13." (during "C'n'C-s Mithering")
- "'Hello, this is Dave McCullough.' 'Dave? Dave who?' 'Hello Sounds, this is Dave.' 'Oh, hello Dave!' 'Well, I've got this wee band I want to interview.' 'Yeah?' 'Oh yeah, well, uh, yeah.' 'Well, if you can screw the band's mothers for some money for the expenses we could make out what a big deal they are!'" (during "Crap Rap #19")
20 February 81 St. Helens:
- "Can you turn the monitors up, please." (before Jawbone and the Air Rifle)
- "It's Friday and it's Crapperrap" (before City Hobgoblins)
- "And I've got some (...) if you just turn to your programmes now" (before "Rowche Rumble")
- “Right, this is something you town boys (know nothing about?)” (at beginning of Gramme Friday)
- "Right, we'd like to leave you this night with, um... here's the definitive rant! (etc)" (before "Slates, Slags, etc.")
- "Great atmosphere in here!" (before "Fit and Working Again")
- “(Number 13?) was Muzorewi’s Daughter” - (before Muzorewi’s Daughter)
21 February 81 Brady's, Liverpool
- "Right, don't let shabby... don't let shabby newspapers come between us." (before "Cary Grant's Wedding")
- "This is about a safe house." (before "Prole Art Threat")
- Marc Riley: "They are crap!" (after "New Face in Hell", referring to the keyboards, which were so out of tune that he gave up playing them halfway through the song and played guitar instead) MES: "Mentally, a (...) break but this is, uh... they're gonna contrive a break but, uh, this is what happens."
23 February 81 Glasgow:
- "I guess that goes to show, yeah, it would be a good idea to turn the bloody PA on!"
- "Can you turn the monitors ON, please? Grant, can you sort the sound out on stage?"
- "Yes, it's definitely like the Shining in here. Okay, one thing I've got against you. Hey, you ???"
- "You didn't think we were going to go without a bit of misery, ha ha. We went to St. Helens on Friday. There, if you got a ??? and had a bath they think you are a poof. They've just discovered 78 in St. Helens and they all interbreed, anyway."
23 February 81 Plaza, Glasgow:
- "Yes, it's definitely like the Shining in here. Okay, one thing I've got against you... hey, you false noise!" (before "Printhead")
- "Back again are you, David?" (before "Slates, Slags, etc.", referring to Dave Tucker, clarinetist)
- "There's a strange thing in the country... strange..." (before "Leave the Capitol")
- "You didn't think we were going to go without a bit of misery, ha ha. We went to St. Helens - we were in St. Helens on Friday. There, if you go in a vault and you've had a bath, they think you are a poof. They've just discovered '78 in St. Helens and they all interbreed, anyway." (before "C'n'C-S Mithering")
- "The residents keep wild dogs, and on their parents' bedroom closet top... this is 'Crap 18' but Steve Hanley doesn't know what I mean... he's missed his cue." (during "C'n'C-S Mithering", referring to when the "Stop Mithering" bass line should have started)
25 February 81 Paisley:
- "I still can't hear meself up here. I think I've got a bit of wax in me ears" (before How I Wrote Elastic Man)
- Right we're gonna do a long cabaret number now" (before The NWRA)
- We didn't work a set out tonight so what you got was a series of lectures. This is the final one..(laughs... ) (before Slates, Slags, Etc.)
- "Still can't hear meself up here. I think I've got a bit of wax in me ears. Is there any monitors, Grant ? Please...Fabulous, son (?)... I just want to hear myself-ah..."
(when?)
17 March 81 Riley Smith Hall, Leeds University:
- "This is the lecturing part of the concert." (before "Middle Mass")
- "Do 'Winter', eh? Good man, good man." (before "Winter")
- "Welcome to me & Marc's hall. Our fathers founded this." (before "Jawbone and the Air Rifle")
- "... the consequences of their plagiarisation. Plagiarisation - look it up!" (during "Slates, Slags etc.")
- "There's been a power failure. You'd think in this great country of ours they'd have electricity all the time!" (after a truncated "Prole Art Threat")
May 9 81 Eksit, Rotterdam:
- "This city, uh, this city has been the death of many a good British boy who sought out his fortune. Right, this is about that type of person who is definitely preferable to the middle mass. Which is the next number on your programme." (before "Middle Mass")
- "Right, that was the warm-up. Certainly a lot of docked wages around this place. " (before "Jawbone and the Air Rifle")
13 May 81 Tilburg:
- Exit this Spanish shell" (alternative lyrics in Leave The Capitol)
- "This is a loose description of the English class system" (before English Scheme)
- “Right this is the normal thing to do” (before Totally Wired)
13 May 1981 Kijkhuis, Tilburg
- "... Quicksave started there. The Fall started there. Good evening, we are The Fall. [to audience member] You got nice hair." (during "Cash'n'Carry")
- "Intense, huh?" (during "Hip Priest")
- "This is a loose description of the English class system." (before "English Scheme")
- "Mediocre UK rock act... shitty British rock act go to pieces in the Netherlands, smoke dope on their haemoglobic... ex-record company mess. No taste. It's just a mess." (during "Slates, Slags, etc.")
- "The owner of this club is the meanest man in the world! He's a slag of the very worst kind!" (during "Slates, Slags, etc.")
- "This one is a 'tale nightmarey'" (before "New Face in Hell")
- "Right, this is the normal thing to do now that the (...)" (before "Totally Wired")
19 May 81 Markthalle, Hamburg:
"We are The Fall, the swinging pantaloons." (during "Fortress")
- "This is where Beatles made it big." (before "Lie Dream of a Casino Soul")
- "Right, this is a nice laid-back one." (before "Hip Priest")
- "This is a brief summary of G.B. hierarchy." (before "Prole Art Threat")
- "Let's see you get the references in this one." (before "Cash'n'Carry")
20 May 81 Munster:
-"Heee i-is not SHUT YER FUCKING TRAP, RIGHT? appreciated" (to persistent heckler during quiet parts of Hip Priest)
20 May 1981 Jovel Cinema, Munster:
- "Can you turn the mikes down a bit? They're a bit sweaty. Turn them off. Nicht." (before "Hip Priest")
- "He is not... [to heckler] shut yer fucking trap!" (during "Hip Priest")
- "(...) This is the cabaret part of the act. We hope you've had your stomachs filled today. Yeah? Yeah? Yeah?" (before "The N.W.R.A.")
- "This ist, uh, der horror story!" (before "Jawbone and the Air Rifle")
21 May 81 Berlin:
- "Spiders (?) know these things, gremlins know these things, happy, healthy...these people aren't in the group, by the way, with the lights..."
22 May 81 Hof, Germany:
- "We are the Fall. We are swinging Pantaloons. "..."Yeah can we have these white lights on the right dimmed please. We've lost enough words (?) as it is." Voice from audience: "Well stop over-indulging then you wanker." (before The NWRA)."Good evening I am Mister Smith. The "volk ist uns" (?) English consulate." (before Prole Art Threat)
22 May 81 Alter Bahnoff, Hof:
- "Good evening, we are The Fall. In UK, we spend most times wandering around institutions." (during "Fortress")
- MES: "Yeah, can we have these white lights on the right dimmed please? We've lost enough weight as it is." Someone who sounds remarkably like Kay Carroll: "Well, stop over-indulging, you wanker!" (before "The
N.W.R.A.")
- Who is the extra vocalist on "Hip Priest"?
- Audience member 1: "Hiya... alright, Chris? Eh, Chris! Alright?" Audience member 2: "Alright, yeah. Testing... yeah, it's working." (before "Session Musician")
- "Leave it out! Leave it out! Leave it out! Leave it out! We'll have a chorus in a minute!" (during "Session Musician")
23 May 81 SO36, Kreuzberg, Berlin:
- "(...) Yeah, so what? Now fuck off!" (during "Leave the Capitol")
- "Right, OK, a Presbyterian tale." (before "Jawbone and the Air Rifle")
25 May 81 Bonn:
- "Good evening, we are The Fall. As in from... as in a new pair of pantaloons. We can walk round the town." (before "Deer Park")
- "Right, you gonna come and get your guitar (...) coke can back, come and get your coke can back, man. We'll be sitting right round it." (before "Middle Mass")
- "This is the cabaret version. It's called 'While Craig takes his time, as usual'." (during the first "Container Drivers")
- "OK Marc, I guess you'll have to improvise!" (during "Container Drivers")
- "OK, this is a tune about our future." [Coughs] "Excuse the throat." (before "Session Musician")
- "Can we have the drums up on stage, please?" (before "Jawbone and the Air Rifle")
- "OK, this is a song we didn't do properly before and it's what tomorrow will be. It's for Oz, Eddie and Dai." [Laughs] "And Griz! And most of all, Griz!" (before the second "Container Drivers")
- "OK Craig, solo! Hurry up!" [Craig does solo] "Craig! Do another one! Do another one! Craig! Do another solo!" [Craig dutifully does another one] (during the second "Container Drivers")
31 May 81 Oklahoma City:
- "This next one is about soccer, sort of...it's pure prophecy as regards to Italy..." (before Middle Mass)
- "And then he decides to have rest right there, right there...Black (Hawk?) 6 foot Eskimo (fable?) quarter brain as apart from half brain..." (extra lyrics in No Xmas For John Quays)
31 May 1981 Oklahoma City
- "Good evening, we are The Fall. As (real) collectist, as in on parasthetic." (before "Deer Park")
- "Right, the equipment parts repair. This next one is about soccer via... sort of. It's a pure prophecy as regards to Switzerland. Now, isn't that clear?" (before "Middle Mass")
- "And this band has got away with too much sheer shit until now!" (during "Prole Art Threat")
- "Grant! Can you turn everything up on stage, please?" (before "Lie Dream of a Casino Soul")
- "Right, I think we'll take a break for 5 minutes. OK? Back in about five, ten minutes." (after the first "Lie Dream of a Casino Soul")
- "Right, we'll do, uh, do 'Slates'. Do 'Slates' now, alright?" (before "Slags, Slates etc.")
- "Let's do 'Elastic Man' instead." (before "How I Wrote Elastic Man")
- "His soul hurts because it's full of shit / His one linear descendent was a (friend) of Mark Smith." (during "How I Wrote Elastic Man")
4 June 81 Hoboken:
- This next one is, um, quicker misery equals quick (unclear) (before Leave The Capitol)
- “We ran out of coins” (possibly in response to a heckler at the end of Totally Wired)
- “Well I’m not...” (again in response to a heckler who says something about “working”) (before Session Musician)
“ciders” (instead of “lagers”) “niggers” (instead of “darkies”); “This is where punks congregate in the dark” (alternative lyrics in Deer Park)
4 June 81 Maxwell's, Hoboken:
- "This next one is, um, 'Quick Misery Equals Quick Exit'. And train exit quick (Northwards)." (before "Leave the Capitol")
- "This one is set in Wigan and we'd better get it right this time!" (before "Lie Dream of a Casino Soul")
- Audience member: "Rebellious Jukebox!"; MES: "We've run out of coins." (before "Prole Art Threat")
- "This is about Switzerland. Well, people... even people go to Switzerland. Future prophesy in your own home!" (before "Middle Mass")
- Audience member: "Fit And Working!" MES: "Well, I'm not." (before "Session Musician")
- "Thank you... that's it." (after "City Hobgoblins")
11 June 81 Spit, Boston
- "Good evening, we are The Fall. As in the latest of Fad Freddy's curse." (before "Deer Park")
- "OK, this is 'Middle Mass'. A form of true prophesy. True prophesy! When English boys get over to Europe they think this is an exception. But everywhere is like that! And they can't quite figure out why the welfare is twice their wages! Why they can't speak their language! Why Britain is not as great when you get overseas, mate!" (during "Middle Mass")
- "Can I have the monitors up on stage, please... the music, except for the vocals which I can hear" (before "Session Musician")
- "We'll have a solo here... Mr S Hanley. Introducing Mr S Hanley on bass!" (during "C'n'C-s Mithering")
- "Here calls a big container. It's bringing coal from Newcastle up to your home town." (before "Container Drivers")
12 June 81 City Gardens, Trenton:
- "This is the thought part of the act." (before "Fantastic Life")
- "We'll go off in a minute, don't worry. What's that club like up
there,
anyway? Right... this is for all the Swiss in the audience." (before
"Middle Mass")
- "Everybody hears the hum at 3 a.m.... why are those boys walking
around with hats on?" (during "Prole Art Threat")
- "Everybody hears the hum at 3 a.m.... how many security guards do you
need on a door, son? How many security guards do you need on a door,
anyway?" (during "Prole Art Threat")
16 June 81 Omni, Philadelphia:
- Kay Carroll: "Come on! Fucking come on!" (before "Totally Wired")
- Kay Carroll (presumably to sound man): "Get the engines dry! Forget
about the fucking (...), man! Fucking move! Fucking (...) to forget the
fucking (...), you know what I mean? Get Craig's guitar up a bit as
well. Don't let Karl intimidate yer, he's a really (...), honestly. If
he hits yer again, I'll (dump) him. He's got it with every mixing guy
we've ever had, man. He really intimidates (...)" (before "Impression of
J. Temperance")
17 June 81 9:30 Club, Washington, D.C:
- "Can you turn the... turn the monitors up at stage front?" (before "Your Heart Out")
23 June 81 New Orleans:
-"Good evening we are the Fall, don't expect any left wing shit because at home we've got enough of it."
(On my copy of the gig, "Cash'n'Carry" segues into "Gramme Friday";
there's no "Stop Mithering" part.)
- "This is a horror story." (before "Impression of J. Temperance")
- "I can see, I have dreams. I was in three places at once. I was in
three places at once. I was in Hof. I was in Trenton. I was in Hof. I
was in Trenton. I am here now. What's it to you? What's it to you?
What's it to you?" (during "Cash'n'Carry")
- Audience member: "Rowche!" MES: "Sorry - it looks like you've got all
the long ones tonight!" (before "Session Musician")
8 July 81 Palo Alto:
- "Good evening, we are The Fall from Manchester. (...) And here's a bit of a cabaret number to cheer everybody up. Full of prophesy, as is normal." (before "The N.W.R.A.")
10 July 81 Berkeley:
- "Okay, we'll have a pause right there. Black hawk, black hawk. Half his brain is slush. Black hawk, six foot Eskimo replica." (extra lyrics in No Xmas For John Quays)
- "This is a nice cheerful one." (before "Fit and Working Again")
- "What a surprise - a new face in Hell. I'm not talking about Holland, I'm talking about Hell. Holland is pretty near." (during "New Face in Hell")
- "Can you turn these monitors down (...)? Well, he's got a lot of suntan. (...)" (before "Prole Art Threat")
- "OK... we'll have a break. We'll have a break." [Band stops] "(...) What's the similarity between the British Government and the New Wave Top 40? They both play... they both play the same old songs. This is for Xmas Eve. A request from the audience! Aaaaaahhhhhhh..." [back into song] (during "No Xmas for John Quays")
11 July 81 The Stone, San Francisco:
- "A story." (before "Jawbone and the Air Rifle")
- "Well, that's the end of the programming. And we finished tonight with a song called 'New Face In Hell'. That's it, ladies and gentlemen, and that's 'New Face In Hell'. Hell is, of course, Holland." (during "New Face in Hell")
12 July 81 Indian Center, San Francisco:
- "OK, this is the cabaret part of the act, featuring Joe Prophesy." (during "The N.W.R.A.")
- "...(Explaining) and not very psychedelic. Sorry, old chaps." (before "Leave the Capitol")
- "This (...) and this one sorts out the wheat from the chaff." (during "Cash'n'Carry")
- "'Cos the secret of my life is... right, I'll tell you about (...). Now, I never went for this cleaned-up punk rock. I never went for this cleaned-up punk rock. Grotesque peasants stalk the land. The album hordes I never went for. Different like all of their comrades. And the secret of their lives is: chatter! chatter! chatter! M... I... S... E... R... Y... dead-set alone (...). Put pain on. Put pain on. I have dreams, I can see...I have dreams, I can see... I've not had many lately so there's a gap is this bit here." [pauses for a few seconds] "I never went for... I've been brain mushed as energy alternative. I never went for psychedelic (...) stuff. Teardrop Explodes. Makes me ill. So what? My opinion: nil." (during "Cash'n'Carry")
- "Time stands still in S.F." (before "Prole Art Threat")
- "... all Scottish Presbyterians on uncharted islands. Rule by iron fist and the curses that can evoke from trigger happy boys." (before "Jawbone and the Air Rifle")
- "Thank you. Good afternoon." (after "Jawbone and the Air Rifle")
- "Kay? (...) number for this. Right, Marc." (before "English Scheme")
13 July 81 I-Beam, San Francisco:
- "Good evening, we are the British Royal Navy and this is the (art ass bandit) section." (before "City Hobgoblins")
- "Good evening, we are The Fall. As in swinging pantaloons. As in you need a translator, mate." (before "Deer Park")
- "(Karl is a Virgin Records guitarist. He needs one gram of speed to get out of bed. " (during "Deer Park")
- "Dick's bier ist good. Bud ist nicht. Ist scheisse. OK, so that was pretty funny that last song, yeah? So..." (before "Printhead")
- "Ok, this next one is a brief discussion on the British hierarchy." (before "Prole Art Threat")
- "The singer thinks one day he'll be recognised for the great cool prophet that I am... do that again, lad, and you've fucking had it, right?" (during "Session Musician")
- "How do you like the dual guitars? Do you think we could make some money in adverts?" (during "Session Musician")
16 July 81 Chicago:
- "I am The Fall" (during Deer Park)
- "That one usually clears the halls." (after Hip Priest)
- "This next one is about Wigan." (laughs) (before Lie Dream Of A Casino Soul)
- "Right, the keyboards have broke down so you're getting something unique. Anyone who wants a fifty cents refund send an Airmail letter to the Outer Hebrides. Good evening, we are The Fall anyway. Right... Craig, come on, it's all right, doesn't matter." [song starts] "This sounds like something (you heard)." (before "Fortress")
- "I am The Fall and I do not need your bile." (during "Fortress")
- "And there's been no war for forty years... and reading Soldier Of Fortune magazine just about does me in... so after eight, I prowl the hills." (during "Jawbone and the Air-Rifle")
- "That usually clears the halls... thank you. This next one is about Wigan." (between "Hip Priest" and "Lie Dream of a Casino Soul")
- "S'alright... go on, go on, do the count in. Right, right, right, right." (before "Your Heart Out")
- "Well, here's a joke to cheer you up... how do you know this? The songs are all about me... well, I'll have to make it pretty general for thee. (End of) joke." (during "Your Heart Out")
- "Just look at these... too much Budweiser B.P.s" (during "Your Heart Out")
- "The residents keep wild dogs. Helicopters circle... helicopters circle over the cast of 'The Untouchables'." (during "Cash'n'Carry")
- MES: "We'll do 'Middle Mass' (...). " Band member: "What?" MES: "Do 'Middle Mass' (...) Right, yeah, right? Do 'Middle Mass' now, right?" (before "Middle Mass")
- "You all right, Karl?" (before "Container Drivers")
- "Yeah, good night. We're (fucked). I can no longer give any secrets away. Nein secrets. So it's all... it's all... put that in for us, Marc. He's got an amp for that? Right, right, right. I'll sort it out. Don't worry." (between "Container Drivers" and "No Xmas for John Quays")
- "Xmas! Xmas! Six foot Eskimo replicas! Well, why do you want to hear about them for, huh? Yeah, and no requests for 'Xmas'. There's too many people like that. No buzz. On Xmas, every day equals no buzz. Aaaaaahhhhhhh..." (during one of the breaks in "No Xmas for John Quays
4 September 81 Sheffield:
- "Right, this is (...)" (before "Look, Know")
- "I don't give a shit what I look like, unlike you, before I go out."
(during "Look, Know")
- "Good evening, we are The Fall. (And I still same...) I'm gonna get
tired... (it's a tire)." (before "Fortress")
- [To heckler] "Go and form a group then, go on. Are you fucking Siouxsie
Banshee or somebody? Eh! It's Siouxsie! It's Siouxie out of The Banshees!
Oh, lovely! Eh! Fucking eh! Fucking comb yer hair the next time you come
out!" (before "Deer Park")
- "Deer Park connection... two virgin (fodder) on a train to Euston...
publishing... right, OK. This is the audience participation number."
(between "Deer Park" and "Hip Priest")
- "And if the good people like you could know... if they had a brain
operation, they would say... he is not (etc)..." (during "Hip Priest")
- [Screams] "Stars on 45! I'll keep my pockets lined! Stars on 45! I'll
keep my pockets lined! I got caught in a good light, steamy atmosphere
going on strong. OK, Steve..." (during "Cash'n'Carry")
- "(... masses,) Grant, baby." (before "Who Makes the Nazis?")
- MES: "Who Makes the Nazis?" Someone in audience: "Mark E Smith!"
(during "Who Makes the Nazis?")
12 September 81 Austerbaejarbio:
- "The next one is Lie Dream Of A Casino Soul and it is aimed at Buttock Records...(before the song)...faster, faster..." (at beginning of song)
12 September 81 Austerbaejarbio, Reykjavik:
- "Good evening, we are The Fall. (...)" (before "Iceland"(?))
- "We are The Fall. As in from heaven." (during "Iceland"(?))
- "The English abroad. The English abroad. An Englishman goes in a car
abroad for the first time and thinks it is an exception. And round the
corner he will find the same that he saw at home. You can wander about
Oslo. You can wander about Oslo but we are told that outside of England
the rest of the world is a smelly road with holes for latrines, for
urinals." (during "Fortress")
- "Anglo-petty voice rhythms. To get back to football hooliganism...
football hooliganism... there's a song about it called 'Middle Mass'
which I will now perform in my repertoire... repertoire, now." (during
"Fortress")
- "Some volume on stage, Grant, apart from me." (before "Look, Know")
- "Thank you. The next one is 'Lie Dream of a Casino Soul' and is aimed
at Buttock Records." [song starts] "Faster... faster..." (during "Lie
Dream of a Casino Soul")
- "Hey, priest! Hooray! Hooray! Slates are here today! Give us a break!"
(before "Slates, Slags etc.")
30 September 81 Fagin's, Manchester:
- "'Cos I am Jack... and this is The Fall." (during "Fiery Jack")
- Punter (applauding): "Very good... very good. Oh, I see you've got
your old... [into microphone] This is a bootleg! It's a counterfeit!"
Bootlegger: "[Laughs] (...), would you?" Punter: "Don't buy this,
whatever you do!" [conversation about availability of taping equipment
ensues] (after "Who Makes the Nazis" and into "Look, Know")
- "S'alright, Paul..." (before "Hip Priest")
- "Look, it's all right. Look, it's all right. No, it's all right, Marc.
It's all right. [Getting annoyed] No, it's all right!" (during
"Cash'n'Carry")
- "And the secret of the lads' lives... is (shrift), sex, drink, sex.
That's a personal point. I shouldn't have raised that. I've probably got
back (...)" (during "Cash'n'Carry")
- "OK, Steve." (during "Cash'n'Carry", ushering in "Gramme Friday")
9 October 81 North London Polytechnic:
- "This is called 'Explanation Of The Next'. 'Explanation Of The Next'." (before "Middle Mass Explanation")
- "And there's a boy down here... his heart is in the right place but his brain is in his haemoglobic. And it's an explanation because this is Steve... M Mass!" (during "Middle Mass Explanation")
- "Karl... you wanna swap that mic, right? I've got Riley's mic, alright?" (before "Fantastic Life")
21 October 81 Xtreems, Brighton:
- "Hey, fuckface! Who makes the Nazis?" (before "Who Makes the Nazis?")
- "As you can see, ladies and gentlemen, we've decided to improve the
visual interest of the group, so if you keep your eyes open you can see
people walking around profusely." (before "How I Wrote Elastic Man")
- "Quietly as well. Here's a little wee tale for you, laddie." (before
"Jawbone and the Air Rifle")
23 October 81 Manchester:
- "The Beat... Human League... I saw The Human League here. I took the
wrong decision that day!" (during "Slates, Slags, etc.")
- "Good evening, freshers. What have you slated up today?" (during
"Slates, Slags, etc.")
- "Look, heckler... look, your heart's in the right place, but your
brain is in your haemglobic." (during "Middle Mass Explanation")
- "OK, Steve." (during "Middle Mass Explanation", ushering in "Middle
Mass")
- "Good evening, we are the swinging (skull ...). This is a story
extracted on interrogation by the use of scope. That is Sodium (...). I
don't usually go in for... I don't usually go in for this populist
conspiracy views. But this is something that is (...)." (during "New
Face in Hell")
- "OK freshers, how about this fashion's copy?" (before "Look, Know")
- "Paul! Will you fucking get it together, man, right? Stop fucking
dicking about! It's like a fucking... (whirlpool)..." (before "Jawbone
and the Air Rifle")
- "He is not appreciated... audience participation..." (during "Hip
Priest")
- MES: "Manchester University is like the virus you could get on a tour
of Manchester. Let's face it!" Pissed Liverpudlian punter: "Manchester!
Great! Whhheeeeeeyyyyy!" (before "Just Step Sideways")
- "Well, give us a few tips, eh? How do we get on it? I never knew!
We're too handsome, that's why! Yeah, good looks... good looks have
nothing to do with intelligence, as you lot well know." (before
"Winter")
- [Singing] "That was disgraceful... (the markets...)" (before "Draygo's
Guilt")
- "Do 'Nazis", right? Start 'Nazis' without the... OK?" (before "Who
Makes the Nazis?")
27 October 81 Newcastle:
- "Good evening we are the Fall... as in blister-packed, date stamped. Date stamped. Blister packed."
- (This gig also includes the lines "I saw a Surrogate Mirage" in 2 songs, The NWRA & C'n'C. )
- "Right, this is er....a little story about Miss Mundrick's (?) tomb...tragic life" (into Jawbone)
- "Could I ask the er... the light, the light, the light people....the lighting people to er turn it down a bit and to turn it off between numbers...because we're a very active, physically group - we move around" (before Hip Priest)- "
I may look a little bit dopey because I've got a bit of a cold, you know" (before 2nd Dark Age)
- "I'm now on Riley's microphone." (before Session Musician)
- "Alright, Craig, do your part please" (before Deer Park)
27 October 81 Bierkeller, Newcastle:
- "Good evening, we are The Fall. As in blister packed. Date! Stamped!
Date! Stamped! Blister! Packed!" (during "The N.W.R.A.")
- Bootlegger: "He'll have to start eating his greens... dehydrated."
(during "The N.W.R.A.")
- "And I just thought I'd tell you... go on, get on the fucking (...),
yeah?" (during "Fantastic Life")
- Bootlegger: "I've never seen owt like this!" (after a particularly
fearsome "Fantastic Life")
- "Right, this is a little story about (Miss Andreck's) tomb. Tragic
life." (before "Jawbone and the Air Rifle")
- "Can I ask the light people... the lighting people to turn it down a
bit and turn it on between numbers because we're a very active
physically group. We move around. From instrument to instrument I
meant." (before "Hip Priest")
- "I may look a bit (gawpy) but I've got a bit of a cold, you know?"
(before "Second Dark Age")
- "'Cos groups can't change the world... meet Mr Smith and his cronies
who did not." (during "Second Dark Age")
- MES: "I'm now on Riley's microphone." Punter: "Give him it back!"
(before "Session Musician")
- "Turn the monitors up! I want to hear myself! Thank you!" (during
"Session Musician")
- "Who Makes the Nazis? Have a bleeding guess! Have a bleeding guess!"
(during "Who Makes the Nazis?")
- "I'll tell you who likes the Nazis: the mixing boy. The bearded mixing
freak who looks like a (...) fucking shitface." (during "Who Makes the
Nazis?")
- "And the secret of the lads' lives... is Greek beer." (during
"Cash'n'Carry")
- "Right, Craig, 'Deer Park' please." (before "Deer Park")
- Punter: "Hey! These are a really good band, these!" (after "Deer
Park")
30 October 81 London :
- "I'm tryin' to get a, uh, vocal sound. I'm not being intense or anything, it's just a fuckin'... (coughs)... it's like shoutin' against a brick wall."(before Winter)
- "This is a story extracted with the use of soap, Sodium Pentothal."
(before "The N.W.R.A."; Sodium Pentothal is a truth serum!)
- "What? Yeah, I see, yeah. Yeah, these monitors keep going. One! I'll
move this (...). One! One! Yeah, that's great. Right." (before "Just
Step Sideways")
- "Just step outside the world of girl today... faster!" (during "Just
Step Sideways")
- "I'm trying to get a vocal sound. I'm not being intense or anything,
it's just a fucking... it's like shouting against a brick wall." [pause]
"Egomania!" (before "Winter")
- "Right, this is a wee tale from the Hebrides. Not true." (before
"Jawbone and the Air Rifle")
- MES: "Omnipresence is better than mere presence." Punter: "Scanlon!
Give us a solo!" (before "Leave the Capitol")
1 November 81 Top Rank, Plymouth:
- "Good evening, we are The Fall. And first on the agenda is 'Lie Dream
of a Casino Soul'." (during "I'm into C.B. medley")
- "Can you turn the lights down, (...)? It's really (...)." (before
"Just Step Sideways")
- "Can you turn the monitors up any more, Paul?" (before "Fiery Jack")
- "OK, Steve." (ushering in "Gramme Friday")
- "One day they'll get complacent, like you..." (during "Session
Musician")
5 November 81 Bierkeller, Leeds:
- "To me it sounds like bad C.B... let's have... let's have the medley."
(during "I'm into C.B. (medley)")
- Punter: "Fuck off back to Manchester!" MES: "This is for all our old
fans who've come all the way. Right, we're gonna get real speedy..."
(before "Repetition")
- "OK... (...) for S Hanley." (during "Repetition", ushering in "Middle
Mass")
6 November 81 Imperial Cinema, Birmingham:
- "Good times was on the way, what?" (before "Jawbone and the Air Rifle")
- "He's fine. What do you mean? What do you mean, he's (crying)? What's the matter with you? Fucking idiot. Come on, then! Come on!" (before "Who Makes the Nazis?")
- "This is the last one of the set." (before "Session Musician")
- "(...) for the (...) so we're gonna do a quick one before (Kraut) comes on." (before "Middle Mass"; Nico was the headline act!)
7 December 81 The Venue, London:
"It's surprising how many friends you get when you play the Venue." (during "Cash'n'Carry")
- "We've got some good news. We've got some good news - (Hacienda) Records office is dead. But the bad news is that (...) is down in the hallway waiting for his royalty cheque." (during "Cash'n'Carry")
- "What do you think about the cassette levy? What do you think about the cassette levy? We've got a G.L.C. (bus) fine's on the spot. Cassette levy! Cassette levy! Excuse! Excuse!" (before "The Classical")- "Winter... right, Craig, now." (before "Winter")
12 March 82 Bristol:
- “For culture you should be watching Robert Smith my uncle tonight, but I couldn’t make it and there’s no cure for it. Now the theatrical part of the act.” (leads into Hip Priest)
(There's a few "Joker Hysterical Face" lyrics in "Fortress".)
- "(Of course), you should be watching Robert Smith, my uncle, tonight.
But he couldn't make it and there's no cure for it. (...) the theatrical
part of the act." (before "Hip Priest")
- "We'll just assume he's back in here... one-time feast was trail
grease, hip priest... that's enough of him. So drink the long draught...
I get induction and the best form of propaganda is: repeat over and
over." (during "Hip Priest")
19 March 82 Palm Cove, Bradford:
- "Even God pays here. It's all (...), let's face it." (before "The
Classical")
- "We're a bit aloof tonight because we went over to Dublin a few days
ago and it was... nasty." (before "Just Step Sideways", possibly an
Irish gig before Bristol?)
- "Right, OK, (...). It's hit city!" (before "Prole Art Threat")
24 March 82 Leicester:
-"Sorry the boys are a bit ropey tonight, but they believe everything they read about themselves, you know whorrimean, yeah, right."
- "Good evening, we are The Fall. Good evening, we are The Fall, so you
know. B.P.! Vote for me! Hex Enduction hour. (...)" (during "Wings",
presumably "B.P." equals "big priest")
- "Carry on, carry on." (during "I'm into C.B.", just as the band are
winding up)
- "Can you give them lights a rest... a bit of a rest for a bit? We're
sweating too much. (...)." [in posh voice] "Hello, Karl." (before
"Surrogate Mirage")
- "What do you say (...) is: a) hereditary, contentious, c) could
happen to anyone. How many 'c's have we got? How many 'b's have we got?
How many 'a's?" (before "Hexen Definitive")
25 March 82 Hammersmith Palais, London:
- "This is a real hit picker." (during "Hip Priest")
- "Right, come on!" (semi-audibly to the band before "Just Step
Sideways")
- "We took time out tonight. We took time out tonight. It was a choice
between you and (...side)... that's not true. I had to go to get some
lunch (...) by the river. The women... N.W.A? N.W.R.? Oh, very good."
(during "Solicitor in Studio")
- "This is for all the Lancashire creeps who came up today with their
notebooks to take away..." (before "Look, Know")
- Punter: "More! Come on, you buggers! More! More! More!" (after
"Fantastic Life")
1 April 82 Nightmoves, Glasgow:
- "Can you turn the monitors down? The music, in the monitors?" (before
"Mere Pseud Mag Ed.")
- "Ones who say the worst... you don't even recognise our
impersonations. You're well fucked." (after "Town Called Crappy")
- "No, do, er... do..." (after "The Classical", hinting that more songs
were played)
2 April 82 Nite Club, Edinburgh
-"Good evening. We are The Fall, a riptide of integrity. Meet MES and his go-go monkeys."
- "Can we have the fucking monitor (...), please? Vocals up!" (between
attempts at "I'm Into C.B.")
- "It's lovely, in't it? How can you hate here?" (before "Who Makes the
Nazis", as v drunk lass in the audience tries to sing the start of what
sounds like "English Scheme")
3 April 82 Warehouse, Liverpool:
- "Herewith a riptide of integrity... MES and his bozo piggies. They
joke about." (during "Wings")
- "Anyway, I gave the mad kid a H.M. metal LP. He nearly shit his pants!
He was (Paul Hanley)." (during "Winter")
9 April 82 Effenaar, Eindhoven:
- "No more (jokey) band, eh?" (before "Solicitor in Studio")
10 April 82 Paard Van Troje, The Hague:
- "Good evening, this is MES and a riptide of integrity... and his go-go men... monkeys... (...). We are The Fall." (during "Look Know")
- "And the brain is here... and the boats are full of tourists. Fat English dicks in Mexican hats." (during "Middle Mass")
- [Yells] "Come on, wake up! WAKE UP!" (before "I'm into C.B." as the tape starts before the band does)
13 April 82 De Doelen, Rotterdam:
- "Good evening, we are The Fall. Good evening, we are The Fall. Mark E Smith and his go-go riptide... riptide of integrity." (during "Backdrop")
- "A man of my profession should know these things." (before "Look, Know")
23 April 82 North London Polytechnic:
- "This is a, uh, declaration of (pisser). OK..." (before "Look, Know")
24 April 82 Essex University, Colchester:
- "Good evening, we are the riptide of integrity monkeys. MES with monkeys." (during "Backdrop")
- "His hand was well out of his pocket... he taunts Foster's lager." (during "Mere Pseud Mag. Ed.)
- "Three years, yes... it's (hint election...)." (before "Container Drivers")
- "(...) Bingo-Master, that's something like a (...)." (before "Lie Dream of a Casino Soul")
25 April 82 Top Rank, Reading:
- "It's a bit warm here." (before "Deer Park")
- "Nice to be on the (...) again." (before "Lie Dream of a Casino Soul")
- "Who wants to live in Reading, anyway?" (during "Just Step Sideways")
26 April 82 Scamps, Oxford:
- "A riptide of integrity." (before "Look, Know")
27 April 82 Derby Hall, Bury:
- "The next number is for the Bury Times Midweeker who said we were repulsive but I don't have to shove five of my records through one letter box." (before "Mere Pseud Mag Ed")
28 April 82 Blue Note, Derby:
- MES: "Grant, can you get Paul to get Riley's harmonica? Ta." Marc Riley: "In me coat pocket." Both together: "In the dressing room." (before "Look, Know")
- "Drummers are (...) sophisticated." (during "Look, Know")
- "Like chilly Surrey." (before "Lie Dream of a Casino Soul")
- "(...) concerning Midlands. Big big big big big big story." (before "Backdrop")
- To heckler: "Hey, listen, listen... (...)" (before "Just Step Sideways")
Mark : "Grant - can you get Paul to get, er, Riley's, er, money for him ?"
Marc : "Bring me a cup of coffee " (before the opening song, Look Know)- "I bet you put your bread in the fridge" (before Wings)
1 May 82 Southampton University:
- "I am (...) Yog-Sothoth (...) English, by the way. Do you know it's a book?" ( before "Look, Know")
- "Craig, you right?" (before "Solicitor in Studio")
- "Good evening. This one is for Mark Ellen and his stinking breed." (before "Mere Pseud Mag Ed")
3 May 82 Band on the Wall, Manchester:
- "Good evening, we are The Fall (...)." (after 8 minutes of "Spectre vs. Rector")
- "Il presidente." (before "Wings")
- Kay Carroll: "You need the keyboard, Mark". MES: "What?" Kay: "You need to (...) that keyboard. Mark!" MES: "Yeah?" Kay: "That one... the other one." MES: "Yeah, turn (...)." [Keyboard whine disappears] Someone: "Thank you." (before "Joker Hysterical Face")
- "This is for all the people from South Yorkshire in the audience. Congratulations for being here." (before "Solicitor in Studio")
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4 May 82 Band on the Wall, Manchester:
- "(...) for yer! I've never felt better in my life... a bit like Joy Division, isn't it? Intense! Intense! Intense! Intense! Intense! Intense! Intense! Intense! Intense!" (during "The Classical")
5 May 82 Band on the Wall, Manchester:
- "And Burton is weeping... you'd better turn those lights down. I'd sing 'Solitaire' for the B.E.F.... you'd better turn those lights down. My back's been burnt enough. I do not sweat for mere (...)." (during "Tempo House")
- "(...) again and I'll just break yer fucking neck, right?" (during the introduction to "I'm into C.B.")
- "Not as bad as your face, mate! Who Makes the Nazis!" (before "Who Makes the Nazis?")
- "Who Makes the Nazis? Cowards! Musicians without guts! Who Makes the Nazis? Cowardly musicians with no guts! Who Makes the Nazis?" (during "Who Makes the Nazis?")
- Marc Riley: "Grant, can you (...)?" (after "Who Makes the Nazis?")
- "Grant, can you (...) / And just one spot / And (...) / Has the (...) on the right / His brains are shit / And the jokes are on the spot / And the people behind you are just being dumb." (amended lyrics to "Hexen Definitive")
- "Hey Karl... Karl, Karl." (during the first attempt at "Lie Dream of a Casino Soul", necessitating a restart)
- "A request (...) to a Fall gig." [In daft falsetto] "There's only six seconds." (before "Just Step Sideways"
15 May 82 Illuminated 666, Manchester:
- "The (...) smiling (goon) wants a little bit of loving." (before "Session Musician")
- "You can see from the bit that his hair (...) been down that road before. And his broken teeth. Don't strike me, you!" (before "Middle Mass")
- "The backdrop shifted until (none) of the group didn't know what song it was. Thought it was 'Good Times'." (during "Backdrop")
2 August 82 Melbourne:
- 'This is for all you people who want to live free: Hell’s Angels, hitch-hikers, fans of James Dean...”
5 August 82 Prospect Hill, Melbourne:
- "That was one song about a common man's experience with technology and the next one is one with a degree's experience with technology." (between "I'm into C.B." and "Solicitor in Studio")
- "Here's one we all know." (before "Lie Dream of a Casino Soul" after an unsure ending to "Detective Instinct")
6 August 82 Mt. Erica Hotel, Melbourne:
- "Well, I've (...) that bit, now it's (...) rest of the past, it's about the future. And it's not for the past. Hahahahahaha! Hahahahahaha! And the secret of my success is a memory like a sieve." (during "Cash'n'Carry")
- "OK, this is the next cheerful number." (before "Backdrop")
17 August 82 University of Canterbury, Christchurch:
- "(...) of the flesh of his children. This tale is a bit like this except that it has no style." (during "Impression of J. Temperance")
- "... it's a big Latin building, right?" (before "Marquis Cha-Cha")
- "Spiders know these things and sometimes webs get caught up in bad equip. Tap, tap, tap, tap..." (during the introduction to "City Hobgoblins")
18 August 82 Town Hall, Christchurch:
"Ok, you know you're all victim (...)? You'd like the freedom to live in another country or (...)? Well, (...) says freedom is a right. There's another (...) society. It's for its (...)." (during the introduction to "Marquis Cha-Cha")
- Presumably to audience member who pinched his drink from the stage: "If it was full, I wouldn't have left it there... haha. Pretending there's something in the can... haha." (during "Hard Life in Country")
- "Ken! Ken, between songs why do you fucking turn the lights out? Is it an effect or something? I can't fucking see anything when you turn the lights out!" (before "The Man Whose Head Expanded")
- "OK, can you get out? Out! Have you got any security in here or anything like that, you know what I mean? Get this boy off the stage! Get him out! Right, if he wants to get on fucking stage, he should fucking form a group or summat, right? Go on... it's 'Superstars' or summat. What? You fucking read the fucking English magazines too much, mate!"
(before"Middle Mass")
- “Oh I can’t continue this… I can’t continue this… I can’t continue this (segue from C’n’N)
Richie Blackmore has had a haircut and he’s just been shot
It’s a black night for all this punk schtuff
A black night for it – hit it
Der der der der
Let’s have it off and then go to work
Let’s have it off and then let’s rock
Derr - still!
Der der - unit!
Let’s have it off and let’s go downtown to Sydney
Smoke a joint and lie on our backs
Der der der der
Then let’s go home and watch some animals
Being tortured on the box box box boxing
[intentionally muffled line] Der der
Oh well let’s get our hair cut new wave is it
Big grey hair big wig grey fair
Der der der der
Ah - Now let’s [go to for] know our alphabet
[Sausage Auckland]
Let’s all laugh at one or two for
Boom Tch Tch Boom Tch Tch
Boom Tch Tch Boom Tch Tch
Boom Boom Tch Tch” (lyrics to Black Night)
19 August 82 Victoria University, Wellington:
"A fancied wit, a spit imitation of Bryan Ferry in one of his magazines." (during "Mere Pseud Mag Ed")
- "OK, this is for all you Latinos, right? Big English thing now, yeah?" (during "Marquis Cha-Cha")
- "Burnt black flesh... hark, hark! And there's plenty of hard men in here tonight! Woooooahhh! Plenty of hard men (...)! Mutual recognition of the hard man crap. So who makes the fucking Nazis? Who makes the Nazis? Where is Johnny sailor boy? At the bottom of the Atlantic, boy!" (during "Who Makes the Nazis?")
- “Jazzed up punk shit, jazzed up punk shit, jazzed up punk shit” (extra lyrics in Who Makes the Nazis? – date unknown but from the New Zealand leg of the Australasian tour)
20 August 82 Main Street, Auckland:
"Say, have you ever had the chance to meet... turn those fucking lights down! Turn those fucking lights down!" (during "Deer Park")
- [In strange voice] "On we (make a mission/may commission)!" (before "Container Drivers")
- "Net cap of twenty thousand kilograms, they sweat on their way down..." (during "Container Drivers")
- "Your head is filled with the grey mass of two well-known people. This is a bit commercial, isn't it, as well as the last chance." (during the introduction to "Just Step Sideways")
- “Go cook a chicken” (extra lyrics in Slates, Slags, etc)
21 August 82 Auckland:
- "If you look closely Marc Riley has a Joker Hysterical Face, but he's happy" (during opening of Joker Hysterical Face)
18 September 82 Sporting, Athens:
- "Feel the chubby round jowls... and (his joy) is as mad as a fucking hatter." (during "Tempo House")
- [In cod-London accent] "Awright mate, I'm from London, just off the boat visiting some islands, you know what I mean?" (during "Mere Pseud Mag Ed")
3 December 82 Warehouse, Liverpool:
- "So you've not fixed that pipe yet?" (before "Hexen Definitive")
- "Intelligensia... not you!" (during "Marquis Cha-Cha")
4 December 82 Manchester University:
- "We are The Fall. This is 'Garden'. Two gods - the first one was full of crap." (during "Garden")
- "This is a treat for Granada TV and all those padded-shoulder boys. The Goodies. Time-fillers. Timesheet-fillers." (during "Deer Park")
- "OK, this goes out to all you freedom lovers, right? Fans of James Dean, right? Bed takers." (during the introduction to "Marquis Cha-Cha")
- "Intelligensia... and some people here tonight. Ones. Retards." (during "Marquis Cha-Cha")
- "It's about time you started thinking about the re-run of your life... about that big snake on your back. The snake was friendly, bendy and lumbered into the hotel. It was a friendly snake. Had a cousin that just emigrated." (during "Backdrop")
12 December 82 Lyceum, London_
- "OK, OK, this is for all you freedom lovers. Fans of James Dean. Hitchhikers." (during the introduction to "Marquis Cha-Cha")
- "They say nothing ever changes, and this is certainly true of the Lyceum." (during the introduction to "Joker Hysterical Face")
- "Said it's started thinking about that snake on your back. The snake was friendly and bendy and moved into the (...) hotel and the (...) just moved (...)." (during "Backdrop")
22 December 82 Lesser Free Trade Hall, Manchester:
- "(...) for the cheer. We are The Fall. Mature! White! Gimmick! White! Mature! Gimmick!" (during "And This Day")
- Kay Carroll: "Turn it down, Marc!" (before "Ludd Gang" as Marc Riley tested his keyboard)
- "They were always derivative in a mild, tasteful way. You get the impression they know what you said yesterday." (before "The Man Whose Head Expanded")
- "This is an attempt at being a bit Latino but it didn't quite work out. And people seriously object." (before "Marquis Cha-Cha")
- Kay Carroll: "Marc! Turn yer guitar down!" (before "Jawbone and the Air Rifle")
16 January 83 Warehouse, Leeds:
- "I'm a head wrangler... OK boys, wrap it up, wrap it up, wrap it up, wrap it up, wrap it up, wrap it up, wrap it up." (during "Words of Expectation")
- Punter, shouting to the band: "Where's Marc Riley? Where's Marc Riley gone to? Where is he? Is he ill? Is he on holiday?" (before "Mere Pseud Mag Ed")
1 February 83 Biel:
- "These are the words of dead disorientation... a return to the innocence and cheek of former years." (during "Words of Expectation")
- "If we carry on like this, we're gonna end up like King Crimson... Echo And The Bunnymen... I'm a head wrangler... Joy Division... Crass..." (during "Words of Expectation")
4 February 83 Totentanz, Basel:
- "Explanation: there are two gods." (during the introduction to "Garden")
8 February 83 Kombi, Amsterdam:
- "A return to the intellect and cheek of former years." (during "Words of Expectation")
- "A superior knowledge of the Far East gives one a certain double vision. These are the words of drunken disorientation." (during "Words of Expectation")
- "Taxi driver asks why I'm not at home with my feet well up. Canned veins run amock. Audio and virtual sock. Monochromed photographs, silver backed, of victorious chaps. Housing Association, there were men in grey in the rain. For this the huddled are truly grateful." (alternative lyrics to "Ludd Gang")
- "I'd sing 'Solitaire' for the RAF but who wants to be with them, anyway?" (alternative lyrics to "Tempo House")
- "Ipswich Town team conspiracy." (alternative lyrics to "Kicker Conspiracy")
- "Arriba! Arriba! Ariba! Arriba! Arriba! For all the fans of romantic music, (the festival) and all that. James Dean fans. Hitch-hikers." (during the introduction to "Marquis Cha-Cha")
- Paul Hanley makes a complete and utter pig's ear of the keyboard riff during the break in "Lie Dream of a Casino Soul"!
10 February 83 Tivoli, Utrecht:
- "Turn everything up." (during "Words of Expectation")
- "Round it up! Round it up! Round it up! Wake up! Wake up! Wake up! Wake up! Wake up! Wake up!" (during "Words of Expectation")
11 February 83 Paradiso, Amsterdam:
- "Good evening, we are The Fall and these are the words of expectation. Of success and expectation, to be precise." (during "Words of Expectation")
- "These are the words... these are the words of adult fucking bastard disorientate." (during "Words of Expectation")
- "If we carry on like this, we're gonna end up like King Crimson... Echo and the Bunnymen... Wah Heat. Same old joke again every night. What a good city Amsterdam is!" (during "Words of Expectation")
- "Like tech computer with light-speed blown up! Ludd Gang! Wash him out! Watch soccer trash and die by eyes closed! Get rid of damp vicarage! Driftwood of Brits rot bishops down line sold words! Ludd gang! (Drench span)! Quads back! Lorry-like!" (before "Ludd Gang")
- "This is for all the freedom lovers in the world: James Dean, hitch-hikers, Hell's Angels." (during the introduction to "Marquis Cha-Cha")
12 February 83 Arena, Rotterdam:
- "If we carry on like this, we'll end up like King Crimson. King Crimson - you like them? Echo and the Bunnymen... Joy Division... Fad Gadget... Wah Heat." [In Liverpudlian accent] "It's really great to be in your little country." (during "Words of Expectation")
- "Jew on a motorbike! All right, you don't all have to play it!" (during "Garden")
14 February 83 Effenaar, Eindhoven:
- "Good evening we are the Fall, and these are the Words of Expectation ... from a dopey mong, who forgot his cassette".
- "(...) die. Wash Socrates out. Don't use locks. My eyes closed. Ludd gang. Get rid of damp vicarage. Driftwood of grit rock bishops down line sold words. Ludd gang." (lyrics of "Ludd Gang" when the music stops.)
11 February 83 Amsterdam:
- "Good evening, we are The Fall and these are the Words of Expectation. Every now and then I would like to do something like this. It’s the change and the perspective of my career. There, these are the words of success, contemplation."
21 March 83 The Venue, London:
- "Okay, sports fiends..." (before Kicker Conspiracy)
- "If we carry on like this, we're gonna end up like King Crimson. Echo and the Bunnymen... Wah Heat... and the band think it's that fucking joke again! He's gonna tell that joke again! And they're right!" (during "Words of Expectation")
- "This is one I wrote after my last facelift." (before "The Man Whose Head Expanded")
- "The soap opera writer would follow him around. Of this he was convinced. Would steal all of his jewels and put them in Sounds magazine." (amended lyrics to "The Man Whose Head Expanded")
4 April 83 Dirt Club, Bloomfield;
- "Recreation and degradation." (to the tune of Cliff Richard's "Congratulations", before "Room to Live")
- "I'm in the furniture trade... stop! Stop! Stop! Stop! I can't hear the monitors (...). Can you turn the monitors up? Thanks. Or do you want us to turn down, Rick? Pardon? Turn the instruments down, yeah. Right. Turn down..." (during the first attempt at "Eat Y’Self Fitter")
7 April 83 New York:
- "Can you leave the lights on between songs; you can't see what's in the list next." (before Middle Mass)
15 April 83 Danceteria, New York City:
- "Would ask for a fag in the town of Texas. Visitor city, not!" (during "Smile")
21 April 83 Larry's Hideaway, Toronto:
- "will end up like King Crimson, Echo and the Bunnymen, Joy Division" (adapted lyric in Words Of Expectation)
- "These are the words of so-called exploitation. Ist scheissen. Ist scheissen. You've heard them before. But can you tell? Can you tell? I would like to take a change of musical direction and it will be laid on you tonight." [pause] "That was the change - a one-armed drummer." (during "Words of Expectation"; Paul Hanley dropped a drumstick)
- "Can you turn the monitors up, please?"(during "Words of Expectation")
- [In gentle voice] "This next number is called 'Kicker Conspiracy'." [Shouts] "Kicker! Kicker conspiracy!" (before "Kicker Conspiracy")
- "We must be getting a (...). The word wouldn't crystallise that fast. The word wouldn't crystallise that fast!" (amended lyrics to "I'm into C.B.")
22 April 83 Traxx, Detroit:
- "We'll do 'Kicker' all right, lads?" (before "Kicker Conspiracy")
- "We are Men At Work, by the way. From Australia. Men At Work. That's us. You wouldn't have guessed it, would you, eh?" (before "Lie Dream of a Casino Soul")
27 April 83 First Avenue, Minneapolis:
- "If you come a bit (...), go and boil a chicken." (during "Strife Knot")
29 April 83 Pop Shop, Cleveland:
- "Can you turn the monitors up, please? Monitors!" (during "The Classical")
- "Can yer take it easy on the lights, please? I'm sweating and I've done nothing yet." (before "Eat Y’Self Fitter")
- [Shouts] "Can you make the fucking mix (...)? Hey! Mixer! Mixer!" [throws down microphone] (during "Middle Mass")
- "OK, this is for all the freedom lovers, fans of James Dean." (during the introduction to "Marquis Cha-Cha")
- Punter 1, shouting to band: "'Psykick Dancehall', Mark E!" Punter 2: "Come on, ya Nazis!" (before "Mere Pseud Mag Ed")
- Audience member: "Come on, ya Nazis!" (before Mere Pseud Mag Ed)
30 April 83 City Gardens, Trenton:
- "Thank you. Can I have a bit more on the monitors, please?" (before "Eat Y'self Fitter")
- "My step-sister's got a horrible growth. Reads the New York Rocker when she's eating her tea. Well, it's certainly bunk - that's fine by me." (amended lyrics to "I'm Into C.B.")
21 May 83 Electric Ballroom, London:
(There's a brief power cut during "Pilsner Trail"; the band play through regardless)
- "Can you dim the lights down, please? Hello? Yeah, thanks, a bit hot." (before "The Classical")
- "There's a (...)" (before "Hexen Definitive")
- "New Jersey car-park lookalikes, grab the churches while you can. Let us not kid around. Your home town is like New Jersey ten, fifteen years time." (amended lyrics to "Hard Life in Country")
13 June 83 Markthalle, Hamburg:
- "The (first god) had such a large slate record collection." (amended lyrics to "Garden")
– (Whilst singing) "Hexen rule... turn the vocal monitor down... the vocal monitor down." (during "Hexen Definitive")
14 July 83 Derby:
- "The next song features Mr. Sociological Memory (Casio VL Tone starts on The Man Whose Head Expanded) - he used to tour The Palladiums in the '40s and '50s. He could give you all the housing numbers and percentages from the 1920s. Sorry this is a bit difficult and sorry this is over anybody's head in the audience..." (into lyrics to song)
- "I've had this fucking shirt years, so shut up." (before Eat Y’Self Fitter)
- “This is what it's down to...this is what it is...looks like working for the Government" (before Middle Mass)
15 July 83 Ace, Brixton:
- "His stupid hair was like a nest from the back. A nest from the back. Tanned chest. Tattoo. Circle with a cross. Cross, cross, cross. The opposition was down. The opposition was down. A Midlands Polytechnic piece. Kellogg's piece. Kellogg's piece." (amended lyrics to "Hexen Definitive")
27 July 83 Hacienda, Manchester:
- "His heart organ was where it should be, it was in the right place, his psyche was well disordered, his (greetings)." (amended lyrics to "Mere Pseud Mag Ed")
29 July 83 Fforde Green, Leeds:
- "From his slushy pen, contrived like the lights in here... spotlights! Spotlights! Imaginative lights!" (during "Garden")
- "I don't think you need all these lights here... turn a couple of them off." (before "Smile")
- Punter 1: "Bingo Masters!" Punter 2: "Fuck off, you old fool!" (before "Kicker Conspiracy")
21 September 83 Hellfire Club, Wakefield:
- "The middle mass. Too late, in fact. Kraut, in fact. Soft Cell, in fact. The middle mass. The middle mass. It's the one who gets you in the back!" (amended lyrics to "Middle Mass")
- "It's been a long, long time but the Wehrmacht never got in here. It's 1940 from ear to ear." (amended lyrics to "Middle Mass")
- "Wild Bill Hick shaves and charts at last. Everybody was telling him, 'do this', 'do that'." (amended lyrics to "Garden")
- Punter: "'This Old House'!" (after "Ludd Gang", presumably inspired by the Shakin' Stevens line)
30 September 83 North London Polytechnic:
- "While Greenpeace looked like Camden market on Saturday - brown, shrivelled." (amended lyrics to "Hexen Definitive")
4 October 83 Buster Brown's, Edinburgh:
- "So now they turn up." (before "Kicker Conspiracy")
- "For this, the huddled were truly grateful, for not having to listen to Steve." (during "Ludd Gang")
- "Don't fuck us at this next change... right!" (during "Fiery Jack")
27 October 83 Concord Bar, Brighton:
- "Down pokey quaint streets in Guildford was our distant mongol heritage. It's dull red, round head, Army career, Actifed. If we were smart, we'd emigrate. Down pokey quaint corridors and channels crawl mobile lords, ladies, sons, daughters, uncles, aunts, (...), the (...)." (amended lyrics to "English Scheme")
- "And yes it is a bloody flag and yes, the last of your pride. Good team of goody-goodies and OK, OK, it's a kicker conspiracy." (amended lyrics to "Kicker Conspiracy")
1 November 83 Middlesborough:
- (first encore, following some fantastic corny disc jockey type intro & then Tainted Love by Soft Cell; one he must be proud of ..)"We only came back to get the faggot music off" (loud cheers).. Kicker.... Kicker....”
12 November 83 Royal Court, Liverpool:
- "What else is it?" (to heckler before "Hexen Definitive")
29 June 84 Hacienda, Manchester:
- "Colin! Turn those... stop those lights flashing before I break yer fucking neck! Keep then still for like three seconds!" [continuing lyrics] "The stylish purge, he tried to induce an epileptic fit but I, in my strong personality, was having none of it! I cursed, from the bottom of my heart, the Camden organisation was centered by the tube-friendlies." (during "Garden")
4 August 84 Brixton:
- "I've memorised the works of David Bowie... yeah!" (during Copped It)
22 September 84 Rotterdam:
- "Could we stop the lights flashing, please? We're all epileptics in this band." (before Kicker Conspiracy)
- "Yes, boy, it's an Ipswich conspiracy" (alternative lyric in Kicker Conspiracy)
- "Can we have the....can we stop the lights flashing, please ? We're all epileptics in this band. Right, er, this next one is heavily influenced by Lloyd Cole and is called 'The Day The Fat Slug Crawled From Underneath The Dustbin'." (before No Bulbs)
25 October 84 Edinburgh:
- Brix: "Never use a Marshall amp, they suck." (between The Classical and Craigness)
31 October 84 Bristol:
- "We (look?) like we're acting daft but it's the lighting man you see, the lighting guy here, he's a psycho, he's trying to like turn us into Arabs or something." (after Pat Trip Dispenser)
8 December 84 Utrecht:
- Too toppy, Mike... it's too toppy, alright? Reverb... reverb... reverb... yes, (garbled) to all... right... (before Lay of the Land)
14 March 85 Blackburn:
- “Okay, we’ll take a break for five minutes. Thank you” (after God Box)
17 March 85 Liverpool:
- "Louis Armstrong, Kane Gang tapes waft down the aisles." (amended lyrics to "Hexen Definitive")
- "It's been a hard day today, I know... don't worry about it. Dead commercial, yeah. You should know." (before Copped It)
23 March 85 Oskar's Cornhusker, Azusa:
- "(...) Is he man or not?" (before "The Classical")
25 March 85 I-Beam, San Francisco:
(Someone plays a few notes of the riff to "Smoke on the Water" before "The Classical")
3 April 85 Boston:
- "Just a bit of equipment trouble there, son." (before "Fortress", after walk off)
- “(unclear)...gonna my fascism on you...materialism...but I’m not going to apologise of course...okay...” (before Cruiser’s Creek)
16 June 85 Clitheroe Castle, Lancashire:
- "Put a bit more monitors on, Ed, please. Right, is there anyone else who wants to come on stage and have any of the impersonal disagreements? Right." (before "2 x 4")
- "Turn it down, Steve." (during "Stephen Song")
19 July 85 WOMAD:
- "Good evening. We are The Fall and we are from the first world."...'Have we got a drummer tonight or what' (Karl Burns being a little slow with the opening of 'Gut of the quantifier ' cos he was adjusting his hi-hat, leaving MES doing the vocals unaccompanied.)
- "... nuclear war, I'm going round to their house, 'cos they ain't a hit yet! It's The Fall!" (compere's introduction)
- "Smelt like Holland, did it not? Smiles! Smile! Dances and asks for cigarettes, which is not bad in itself! Farmed environment list... environment list." (amended lyrics to "Smile")
- "Could we have the beat, please?" (during the quiet part of "Smile")
- "He said 'Hi' to Horst the Viking. 'Hi Horst, you dumb blonde fiend!'" (amended lyrics to "Slang King")
- "Try to keep away from the keyboard backstage." (before "Kicker Conspiracy")
- "First annual Anti-Townsend benefit." (during "Pat Trip Dispenser")
11 September 85 Schlachthof, Bremen:
- "3. The mug of Geoff Travis, supremo of Rough Trade Records, framed." (amended lyrics to "What You Need")
- "Just call me the first! Wake up! Just call me the first!" (during "Barmy")
15 September 85 Batschkapp, Frankfurt:
- "And whose main entitle is themselves, laughing Billy, shall eat the wrath of my bombast." (during the introduction to "Bombast")
- "God Box! Michael! God box!" (during "God Box")
- "Lay of the land... lay of the land." (before "Lay of the Land")
4 October 85 Queen Margaret Union, Glasgow:
- "We are unit from Thule island." (amended lyrics to "Gut of the Quantifier")
14 October 85 Hexagon Theatre, Reading:
- "And it's dry from your way. I want it dry." (amended lyrics to "Petty Thief Lout")
- "This is a group from Thule. Thule is an island North-West of where, I can't quite remember." (amended lyrics to "Gut of the Quantifier")
MES: "By the way, the promoter tonight is a (croaked?) incompetent. Ok? Roger Edwards is his name. You've been taken for a ride... well, we have - you haven't. We have. S'alright... (garbled)... Ok."
Brix: "Kill him, kill him"
16 October 1985 Pink Toothbrush, Rayleigh:
- "Two: Face magazine for arse. Two... three... four. Four: the full madrigal. Never (...) hospital on a Sunny Madison production." (amended lyrics to "What You Need")
31 October 85 Liverpool:
- "I'm in a bourgeois town" (MES sings lines from said song in introduction to Gut Of The Quantifier)
- "Right need some monitors like right now...one one one one one one...okay he's a big deal he's a singer and he's pretty big... one one one one louder...my voice, more of my voice. Right let's try again." (at end of aborted I Feel Voxish and before second attempt, this time fully completed)
11 November 85 Hammersmith Palais, London:
- "Long pause!" (in one of the gaps where the music stops during "Cruisers Creek")
10 February 86 Haringay:
- "Riddler! Riddler!" (extra lyrics during Words Of Expectations, some months before the first performance of Riddler!)
11 February 86 Mean Fiddler, Harlesden:
"Take the top off it! It's dead simple, take the top off! Well, it's the lay of the land..." (during the bit where the music stops in "Lay of the Land")
16 February 86 Underground, Croydon:
- "A (...) cat shit on my blue suede shoes. A (...) cat shit on my blue suede shoes. No (...) illness." (amended lyrics to "My New House")
- "One... monitors! Monitors!" (before "Bombast")
- "Ray! Turn these monitors up! I can't hear a fucking thing! Take the middle off, Ray! No middle! Come on Ray, get it together! Come on, move it!" (before "Lay of the Land")
- "At parties, is the fine civilian policeman. He says '(Bruhle) is a twat'." (amended lyrics to "Words of Expectation")
21 March 86 Lone Star Cafe City (early):
- "'Gut', yeah." (before "Gut of the Quantifier")
21 March 86 Lone Star Cafe City (late):
- "Four: Spin magazine to step down into the trash can. Five: the book 'Theft As A Career' by Miles Copeland. IRS, A & M." (amended lyrics to "What You Need")
- "Five: Geoff Travis on a spit." (amended lyrics to "What You Need")
- "There is nothing so insipid as the Devil in disarray." (during "What You Need")
5 June 86 Lea's Cliff Hall, Folkestone:
"Right, start the (...)" (before "Living too Late")
- "What really went on there, we only have this long and lengthy excerpt." (before "Cruiser's Creek")
- "Do it again! Start again! The end of it... yeah, we'll just do the end of that song, sorry." [laughs] "OK... just Craig just get his crutches out, y'know. OK, Simon? Just do the end bit of that one." (during takes of "L.A.")
- "haemglobic of oak and brains of shit, a good field defence from Anglia Ipswich. Bombast!" (amended lyrics to "Bombast")- "And I get miffed at the damn cheap-shit Polyester fills. Neighbours are a bunch of
twats."(amended lyrics to "My New House")
12 June 86 Riverside Club, Newcastle:
(The intro tape of clinky noises was subsequently used in "Sleep Debt Snatches")
- "'You are right,' said Danny, 'We shouldn't have done the chemist. But you had the right... we have no rights. Split on me when that officer rang.' 'You are wrong,' said Malcolm, 'Up to something, you shouldn't be so bygone. Coming on like (...) rush, son.'" ("Gross Chapel-GB Grenadiers")
- "And when I sit down, I get piles on my arse." (amended lyrics to "Barmy")
12 July 86 Town and Country, London:
(The line 'The backdrop was friendly and bendy' in "Bournemouth Runner" is adapted from later live versions of "Backdrop", where it was a snake rather than a backdrop)
- "I am barmy... incredibly barmy." (amended lyrics to "Barmy")
- "Got it in? I'll just do that again, all right?" [laughs] "Wotcher, cock. Right, yeah." (before "Mr. Pharmacist")
27 July 86 London:
- "Nice tent." (Damned 10th anniversary gig which was held in a marquee in Finsbury Park.):
7 September 86 Albany Empire, Deptford
- Heckler: "No fucking enjoyment, all right?" MES: "That's right - no enjoyment. You got it right!" [song starts] "Tap, tap, tap, tap. You think it's the pipes, but it's this lad on the right." (during the introduction to "City Hobgoblins")
- "I'll just do it, you know, and I'll (...)" [hits microphone] (during "U.S. 80's-90's")
- "They always give the cheap mics to the lead singers, y'know. L.A. to Bournemouth." (during the introduction to "Bournemouth Runner"; "L.A." was the previous song)
- "And I've got dust on the nation, and I was brought up with people from Bolton." (amended lyrics to "Lucifer over Lancashire")
10 October 86 Posthof, Linz:
- "A dramatic verse! Hey, Clint! A dramatic verse!" (during "Barmy")
- "Rock to them, a Beatles song. Lennon and McCartney, that's what you wanted." (amended lyrics to "Shoulder Pads")
- "Solo, Craig Scanlon!" (during "Slang King")
19 October 86 Roxy, Hollywood (early show):
- "Sort the fucking out!" (during "Barmy", after much feedback)
- "Take the hiss off! Right, Greg, I want to see you right now, OK? We're going off for five minutes, OK?" (before "Terry Waite Sez")
19 October 1986 Roxy, Hollywood (late show):
- "Have you ever got everything that you want?" (during the introduction to "R.O.D.")
- "Cheap bug, cheap bug. Rod Stewart hairstyle, very nice." (amended lyrics to "Gut of the Quantifier")
20 October 86 San Francisco:
"Guest informant, guest informant" (during Prole Art Threat)
29 October 86 One Step Beyond, Santa Clara:
- "(...) a bit of microphone in that? (...) a bit of microphone." (before "U.S. 80s-90s")
1 November 86 Irvine Meadows, Laguana Hills:
- "Sometimes, life can make the Simple Minds like an intellectual group. It's a group from the North-West of nowhere." (during the introduction to "Gut of the Quantifier")
- "Welcome to G.B. 80s and 90s. The bouncers are (very tight)." (during "U.S. 80s-90s")
7 November 86 Walthamstow Town Hall, London:
- "Abundant talking voice stumbles." (during the introduction to "City Hobgoblins")
16 November 86 Maxwell Hall, Salford University:
- "This is a group from the island of Thule. (...) land. (...). North-West of nowhere. Tired? Tired? Well, it's the Domesday pay-off triad." (during the introduction to "Gut of the Quantifier")
19 November 86 Huddersfield:
- "Right the next one that walks across the stage gets a clout around the head." (after gut Of The Quantifier)
22 December 86 Manchester:
-(A free gig for Manchester's unemployed.) "At last we have something in common with you, for we too do nothing all day (and get into gigs for free (?))."
5 February 87 Batschkapp, Frankfurt:
"We are smart. Our brains are half. They say, 'Work for all the (...) back in the market hall.'" (amended lyrics to "Fiery Jack")
- "Spiders knows these things... Steve Hanley knows these things. He's real good. He's (flowery) and sinister." (during the introduction to "City Hobgoblins")
- "No beer, no cigarettes, no slam, no crack, no this, no that." (amended lyrics to "U.S. 80s-90s")
- "No beer, no whisky, no lighting man, no spikes, no passport, no this and that." (more amended lyrics to "U.S. 80s-90s")
10 February 87 Aachen:
- “Sickeningly, 2 o’clock, I passed…I was left in the lounge; it was me and the hoover”; “1974 Genesis album cover…” (amended lyrics to Guest Informant)
14 February 87 HFT Mensa, Bremen:
- "(...) a (Welsh) Brazilian. He had a toad in his hand. He was going, 'Kill it! Kill it! Kill it!' He said (...)." (amended lyrics to "R.O.D.")
18 February 87 Bochum:
- “Pigeons...spiders know these things“ (before City Hobgoblins).
"Legend! A.C.T.!" (during the introduction to "City Hobgoblins")
5 May 87 Leeds Polytechnic:
- "Do 'Luciani', right? (Quiet and slow down)." (before "Hey! Luciani")
- "All those who mind entitle themselves and whose slug brai