The Fall 1999-09-18 Trefcentrum VK, Brussels AUD FLAC additional info http://thefall.org/gigography/gig99.html "Race With The Devil" lyrics in "Ol' Gang"; "Garden" lyrics in "Anecdotes + Antidotes in B#" - "Bass solo, Adam!" (during "Jet Boy"; Adam plays about 4 notes) - "Cos I'm living in a pawn shop lately. Princess, Dapple, pony." (amended lyrics to "Touch Sensitive") - "No more secondary modern school. Welcome to a Carry On, carry-out country." (amended lyrics to "Antidotes") - "We had a mixer called Deaf Pete. He couldn't make it today. He lost the ticket to the ferry and then the ferry (...). Unlucky for him, he was on free enterprise 101. Then he met John Lennon and I was (in on my back)." (amended lyrics to "Ketamine Sun") - "And I have four record companies. I don't know what to do about that." (more amended lyrics to "Ketamine Sun") - "And Julia and Adam and Neville and Tom, they were all very, very, very happy. They hadn't been paid in two weeks and then they got the ferry. And then they forgot who (...), and they were in the vault. Hup!" (yet more amended lyrics to "Ketamine Sun") - "Who gave him the god-damned microphone?" (during "Shake-Off" as an audience member's vocal contribution outstayed its welcome) - "If only the shards could reconnect in a Pink Floyd and Led Zeppelin type of style. If only the shards would reconnect in your blue, green and black-grey heart. If only it can be done in a rap sort of style, like Ice T. Like Ice T. He was (...)." (amended lyrics to "10 Houses of Eve") - "I see five speccy-eyed fat fellers looking at me." (amended lyrics to "Ol' Gang") - "And I think I'll just stay at home with the cat. And she would blanch at that." (more amended lyrics to "Ol' Gang") =============================== https://sites.google.com/site/reformationposttpm/gig-reviews/the-fall-live/1999/19990918---v-k-brussels-belgium 19990918 - V.K., Brussels, Belgium Mark E Smith - Vocals Julia Nagle - Keyboards, Guitar, Backing Vocals Neville Wilding - Guitar, Backing Vocals Adam Helal - Bass Tom Head - Drums He Pep Jet Boy This Perfect Day The Joke And Therein Touch Sensitive (Jung Nev's) Antidotes Bound Ketamine Sun Shake Off Birthday 10 Houses of Eve Mad.Men-Eng.Dog F-'Oldin' Money Ol' Gang Touch Sensitive Anecdotes + Antidotes in B# New Big Prinz On My Own The Joke (aborted) 1h10m Audience Recording A very clear, if a bit tinny, audience recording. There are no Smith vocals until about half way through Jet Boy. The usual "Good evening we are The Fall" does not arrive until just before "And Therein". New Big Prinz is a bit of car crash with the song falling apart on a couple of occasions. A strange one. =============================== http://thefall.org/news/991114.html Alan McB: Subject: review of brussels gig, sept 99 mark e smith was in a generous mood, offering his beer to a guy in the front row nothing extraordinary you might think - until you remember the fall frontman's reputation as the grumpiest man in rock, notorious for viciously berating audiences still, there's little other evidence that the 41-year-old mancunian motormouth is mellowing. at last month's reading festival, he and guitarist neville wilding sauntered on stage covered with blood after a backstage brawl. a famous boozer, smith has the same haggard features and startled glare as fellow swigger with attitude shane macgowan another attribute he shares with the ex=-pogues singer is an unerring ability to deliver the goods never one for nostalgia, smith largely ignored his back catalogue, focusing on incendiary new album the marshall suite seriously mistreating their instruments, the group whipped up a glorious cacophony - like the velvet underground if they'd hung around british working men's clubs instead of warhol's factory after two decades of non-stop rating, smith's vocals are still laced with invective, particularly on new single f-oldin' money, a rampaging rockabilly monster and the band find time between the racket for a tearjerker, the meandering birthday song, which sails perilously close to romanticism despite the best efforts of their no 1 fan, british dj john peel, the fall managed only the odd minor hit in the eighties now on their 24th line-up, they are destined to remain a cult yet with echos of their work in music from happy mondays to pavement, their influence is inestimable britain's saving grace? you bet