finally coming out and not sure if anyone still cares....

[Tom Roche]

The Fall: The Complete Peel Sessions 1978-2004 
out via Sanctuary on March 28, 2005


LONDON, UK (Santcuary Records) - Continuing 
Sanctuary's Fall retrospective comes The Complete 
Peel Sessions 1978-2004. This 6-CD boxed set 
brings together, for the first time, all 24 Peel 
sessions that The Fall recorded between 1978 and 
2004. The set includes Job Search, recorded for 
John Peel's 65th birthday and a 30-page booklet 
featuring rare photos and a full session 
annotation. The set has been produced with the 
full cooperation of Mark E. Smith.

  Earlier in 2004 The Fall's first album 'Live At 
The Witch Trials' celebrated its 25th 
anniversary. There aren't very many bands that 
have been together longer than The Fall and, with 
a few exceptions, it's difficult to think of any 
who, like The Fall, have released brand new 
material every year.

Formed at the height of the punk rock movement in 
Manchester in 1976, The Fall has released around 
50 singles, 25 studio albums and perhaps 50 live 
and compilation albums. In February 2003 they 
recorded their 23rd John Peel session.

Famously the band has gone through numerous 
personnel changes over the years (there have been 
over 30 different line-ups so far) but always 
present is the enigmatic Mark E. Smith - musical 
genius, obnoxious drunk, Salford's finest poet, 
journalist's worst nightmare, working class hero. 
Dubbed 'The Grumpiest Man in Pop', by the NME, 
Mark E. Smith has been carving his jaundiced 
signature on the music scene for the past twenty 
plus years. Rarely tempted to celebrate the 
lighter side of life, Smith uses humour and 
horror to illuminate vile hypocrisies and 
injustices and on stage will work himself into a 
maelstrom of contempt.

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