Excavate!

The Wonderful and Frightening World of The Fall

Bob Stanley author Tessa Norton author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Faber & Faber

Published:1st Apr '21

£25.00

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Excavate! cover

A definitive insight into the ever-influential world of Mark E. Smith and the Fall, bringing together previously unseen artwork, rare ephemera and handwritten material, alongside essays by a slate of fans.

This is a book about The Fall group - or more precisely, their world.

'To 50,000 Fall Fans: please buy this inspired & inspiring, profound & provocative, beautiful & bonkers Book of Revelations.'
DAVID PEACE

'Mind blowing .

THE LOUDER THAN WAR #1 BOOK OF THE YEAR
A ROUGH TRADE,
THE TIMES, MOJO, UNCUT, THE HERALD BOOK OF THE YEAR

This is not a book about a rock band. This is not even a book about Mark E Smith. This is a book about The Fall group - or more precisely, their world.

'To 50,000 Fall Fans: please buy this inspired & inspiring, profound & provocative, beautiful & bonkers Book of Revelations.'
DAVID PEACE

'Mind blowing . . . there is so much to enjoy in this brilliant book.'
TIM BURGESS

'A container sized treasure trove . . . I strongly advise you to buy it.'
MAXINE PEAKE

'The most wonderful, unashamedly intellectual, pretentious, ridiculous, exciting hymn to this incredible group.'
ANDY MILLER, BACKLISTED

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.

'Mark E Smith provided me with an alternative education, looping me into Camus, and Arthur Machen, and William Blake, and Can, and dub and old garage punk and rock'n'roll.' - Stewart Lee

'[A] cultural icon.' - Billy Bragg, on Mark E. Smith

ISBN: 9780571358335

Dimensions: 252mm x 195mm x 33mm

Weight: 1220g

360 pages

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