Dull-ish Festive Fifty - it's still a throwback!

[derive_a_linternet]

Having only witnessed The Mighty Fall in the three decades, I was 
floored by them recently and the new LP is genius - Peels devotion 
to those artists who continue to construct art according to their 
own tastes rather than those constructed for us by the media, is the 
main reason why he is still as important to me as he was when I 
discoverd him as a 12 yr old in 1980.

Mike

PS aren't other things also important in this music lark than the 
types of instruments played???  Like art, integrity, humour etc


--- In peel@yahoogroups.com, markbursa@a... wrote:
> 
> > >>Am I a youth, sir, at the age of 41, since The Fall was most 
beloved of 
> > me through the years 1978 to '88, and yet now I spurn the 
alcohol-dulled 
> > drench of their music and its sodden wife-beating progenitor, 
Mark E 
> > Smith?<<
> 
> Suggest you go and see them at your earliest convenience. MES 
looked pretty 
> un-dulled and his new wife Elena (on the keyboards, of course) 
looked 
> completely unbeaten. On sparkling form right now, and even playing 
the odd oldie 
> (Middle Mass, Mere Pseud Mag Ed, I Am Damo Suzuki etc). And while 
you're at it, 
> young whippersnapper, buy the new album and 2000's The Unuterable 
too.
> 
> Mark (43, who's witnessed the Fall in four separate decades, 
somewhat 
> alarmingly!)