Casa da Musica, Porto, Portugal, Saturday, 17th January 2009

cough, cough.

Did no one from here go??

well, I did, although i'm not "from here"
I hadn't seen the Fall for a few years but the power and madness is all there as i could remember!
band in great shape, sound was perfect. In the beginning Mark delivers the mic to some guy in the audience who spends a good 5 minutes shouting and praising "the legendary fall!" it looked like it was part of the set, some kind of mc, great!
During the set, mark was on top shape with his "live mixing", changing the drums mics and totally cutting the guitar or making the bass the only thing hearable. this band is real tight and played strongly, the rhythm section is very strong, i liked them guys. they looked well behaved lads with nice haircuts, maybe they can hold for some time more...
About 500-600 people, lots of spanish fans too, some excited hardcore fans in the front, you could tell...I thing everyone liked it, only minus was that they only played about an hour, felt a bit short. Also I had my (unrealistic) hopes that they played "fantastic life" (why? only because i wanted to hear it, that was the excitment taking over). I think some ppl who saw the fall for the first time didn't know what to think, but mostly everyone was convinced/amazed.
Highlights: Reformation, completely hypnotic driven. even krauter than in the record. White lighting is one of my favourites, great! I wasn't expecting Carry bag man, good surprise.
I will have photos, maybe i put some in here; and i will see if i can get my hands on a dat recording a guy made.
As i can remember, the set list was something like this, maybe order is not right:

- intro / some new song where Mark sings over the lyrics of 1969 (by the stooges), only he sang something like "2009 ok/war across the ue (or something)". Good tribute to Mr. Ron Asheton i thought.
-wings - almost unreconizable at first
-fall sound
-wolf kidult man - guitar part on ths one was really powerful!
-i've been duped
-new song, with mark reading a few lyrics from a paper but mostly instrumental.Powerful stuff too.
-50 year old man
-reformation - excellent!
-sparta fc - live mixing could be a little more restrained on this one
...
-carrybag man
...
-white lighting - excellent!


I hope they come back soon!

That's excellent news, Astrokid. Thanks a lot for your report!

Thanks Astrokid

thanks, shame i didn't make it

A Stooges Reference? One can only hope a tape surfaces of this one.

you want it , you got it:

http://www.sendspace.com/file/pmmjkv

(nice sound tape recording, courtesy of Daniel Freitas)

There are also already some video clips on youtube.com (just look for The fall + casa da musica or CDM or Porto).

Sent some photos to this site...

Cheers!

the last song is missing: White Lighting!

Thanks Astrokid, much appreciated! Sounds like a brilliant show.

Heres one of the youtube clips,
Carry-Bag-Man--The Fall Casa-De-Musica--------Porto.

Dave has put on a little weight.

Good Christmas?

Good lad.

Listening to it now. Good quality.

The Consortium will buy you a pint of port.

Thank you, 'kid!

Fantastic version of 50YOM. Whoa. British Airways snobs, so that's been settled.

Cheers, Ak.

Downloaded Saturday's gig to listen to later.

It's still a buzz when i hear the first gig of a new year.

After wolf-kidult is the new song, and it is powerful too. Shaping up V good.
'the evil british battalion?,
he said you get get the lamb-boy?
----Im very very happy,
my heels pound and the earth shakes,
and more,,,,

Kid & Daniel, you're kings! Sounds fantastic, thanks again & a lot.

thanks Astrokid, listening now, sounds good. Plenty of "live mixing" on duped.

Thanks Astrokid.
& a Sigue Sigue Sputnik reference is always good with me
x

Thanks for the recording, good stuff...

New song sounds promising, very good Reformation too - really like what Pete does with the guitar there...

Yeah, thanks a lot, Astrokid and Daniel.

Listening to it now. Great stuff.

Nice one for the gig recording! Been playing it on my MP3 player.

Excellent gig a little short but I'm starting to get used to these one hour gigs including 5 minutes of cheering at the start and cheering again for the encore.
I had a listen to 'Chino Splashback' & the recently available download of the Porto gig, I keep getting the feeling that 'Hot Cake' and 'Chino Splashback' are the same track played at different speeds? - am I just hearing things or what? - the gig seemed great especially when you realise It's M.E.S.'s 33rd year but I'm starting to dislike the input of the various Mrs. Smiths e.g' Brix in the 90's and now Elena has started singing 'Duped' which is always a weak point in a Fall gig, I'm not being sexist it's the same when that fellah who sings when MES is too pissed or tired to sing the lyrics.

Halloween night Hackney last year.

That version of Duped is in my top 3 live tracks of 2008.

Which one?

I'm in my 33rd year as well, but my hair has already begun to turn grey. Hope i won't die nailed to a cross.

Thank you!!!!!!!


sounds wonderful