Crocks' nights out

'The Fall' on British tour currently. Mark E Smith hopefully recovered from the hip fracture that put him out last year.

Updated The Fall information here. They're a pisser of a band for which to Google. Search 'the+fall+tour' and your 'the' is unconjugated and discounted, yet your 'fall' and 'tour' conjugated to produce the autumn touring schedule of every US band.

For sau- their Brighton date with John Cooper Clarke has been cancelled, sadly, so no 'Beasley Street', 'Chicken Town' or 'Twat' for you. JCC features prominently in James Clarkes' biography of Nico, possibly my favourite rock biography.

The Scottish dates of their tour are part of the Triptych (a Tennants Brewery-sponsored event). We receive the presence on Apr 30, Liquid Room but without JCC. He came last time, with his plastic bag. The three Scottish dates are part of the Triptych.05 festival, sponsored by Tennant's Breweries. That's a shame, really.


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Postscript-

Patti Smith, another long-time favourite, further rescued from hermeneutics to direct London's Meltdown festival this year.

greetings

our terrain stretches from the american
heartland to the streets of baghdad.
our boots are well worn and the sack we toss over
our shoulder is filled with tears and grain.
we unbutton our coats, for spring
is upon us and the air is thick with promise.
let us shake the gold upon the fields
for it is spring, a good time for trampin'.

This from her current catalogue seems to me entirely in tune with the Piss Factory (b/w Hey Joe), first heard in a damp basement bedsit in 1977, as it should be.