Excavate! : the wonderful and frightening world of The Fall /

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Includes bibliographical references.Jerusalem to Prestwich / Elain Harwood -- "Fugue" is not a word I would normally use, but ... : the Fall and repetition / Ian Penman -- The law of optics : the Fall, the Northern Working Men's Club and the refining powers of rational recreation / Paul Wilson -- Call yourselves bloody professionals? : the Fall and amateurism / Bob Stanley -- Call yourself a football fan? [interview with Mark E. Smith] -- Paperback shamanism / Tessa Norton -- Let me tell you about scientific management : the Fall, the factory and the disciplined worker / Owen Hatherley -- Memorex for the Kraken : the Fall's pulp modernism / Mark Fisher -- Cardinal R. Totale's scrapbook : torn fragments of James, Machen and Lovecraft, unpulped among a jumbled trove of songs by the Fall, early and also late / Mark Sinker -- Mark E. Smith / Michael Bracewell & Jon Wilde -- Wyndham Lewis / Stuart Bertolotti-Bailey -- "I want to sell a million" : use value, exchange value and Woolworths--Twickenham, 1983-85 / Siân Pattenden -- "America therein" / Dan Fox -- Luxury complex : new faces in hell / Adelle Stripe -- The Goole times/Rabbit Hunters / Scott King -- The outsider [interview with Mark E. Smith by Terry Herrington] -- An episode in a lodging house : Mark E. Smith has been assigned / Richard McKenna."A definitive insight into the ever-influential world of Mark E. Smith and the Fall, featuring never-before published essays and ephemera from fans, collectors and the artist and band themselves. Over a prolific forty-year career, the Fall created a world that was influential, idiosyncratic and fiercely original - and defied simple categorisation. Their frontman and lyricist Mark E. Smith spun opaque tales that resisted conventional understanding; the Fall's worldview was an education in its own right. Who wouldn't want to be armed with a working knowledge of M. R. James, shipping-dock procedures, contemporary dance, Manchester City and Can? The group inspired and shaped the lives of those who listened to and tried to make sense of their work. Bringing together previously unseen artwork, rare ephemera and handwritten material, alongside essays by a slate of fans, EXCAVATE! is a vivid, definitive record - an illumination of the dark corners of the Fall's wonderful and frightening world"--Publisher's description.