“You fuckin make sure, you take care of them fuckin’ backdrops, they’re fuckin’ money, them! I won’t be fuckin’ happy if they’re not there!”
So said Mark E Smith to the now 43rd former member of The Fall on their disastrous US tour in early 2006. In this fascinating interview with Ben Pritchard on the background to the acrimonious departure of 3 members of The Fall, it's clear that the scandal of the lost backdrops started it all.
Now Blogmarch is a huge fan of The Fall and has seen them live more than 20 times at least. It's a bit of a running joke that the backdrops and accompanying T-shirt adaption is universally crap. But bearing in mind we now know just how precious they are to MES, this latest effort is quite possibly the worst ever. It looks like it's been produced on a dirty old sheet and designed for some half-hearted sixth former's art project. I mean look at it. It's not even been coloured in properly because the crayons were bought from some pound shop. And what's with the cuddly beaver in the CAT hard hat ? Is this the new Fall mascot ?
Most tragically, it doesn't even come close to covering the actual back screen of the stage let alone the drum kit.
3 comments:
Mark E Smith can sniff my butt.
Is that why he always looks like he has just sucked a lemon?
It was just a decoy backdrop . in case it got nicked.
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