Set Of Ten (Box) (Uk)

Limited 10 CD box set containing previously unreleased live recordings spanning three decades. The earliest recording taken from 1980 and the most recent 2001, including the legendry London, Astoria from 1998 and the ultra-rare New Orleans recording from way back in 1981. Boxset features the following albums: Nijmegan 14/09/99 New Orleans 23/06/81 Frankfurt 01/10/93 London 12/08/98 Kings Lynn 28/09/96 Manchester 03/05/82 Stoke 30/11/97 Birmingham 20/11/80 London 23/10/95 Newport 16/04/01. The Fall were an English post-punk band, formed in 1976 in Prestwich, Greater Manchester. They underwent many line-up changes, with vocalist and founder Mark E. Smith as the only constant member. First associated with the late 1970s punk movement, the Fall's music has always pushed and challenged boundaries, with Mark. E. Smith at the helm on and off stage, the band has always been characterised by an abrasive, repetitive guitar-driven sound and tense bass and drum rhythms, along with Smith's caustic lyrics, described by critic Simon Reynolds as "a kind of Northern English magic realism that mixed industrial grime with the unearthly and uncanny, voiced through a unique, one-note delivery somewhere between amphetamine-spiked rant and alcohol-addled yarn. "The Fall have been called "the most prolific band of the British post-punk movement. " From 1979 to 2017, they released thirty-two studio albums. They were long associated with BBC disc jockey John Peel, who championed them from early on in their career and described them as his favourite band, famously explaining, "they are always different; they are always the same. " Earlier this year, Smith died at the age of 60, effectively putting an end to the group. No other band in the world can touch The Fall's magnificence and sheer volume, which are captured here in Set of Ten.