Thanks Mark

Can't recommend this book highly enough. It's a delight from cover to cover and presents a very different way of listening to The Fall during the period Steve covers.

Our Last Stand book launch, featuring many of the characters who were part of the heroic story.

The Nobel Prize in Literature 2026 was awarded to the Canadian author Anne Carson “for her bold and inventive oeuvre that, in playful dialogue with the classical tradition, has created new forms for contemporary literature.”

'Friday Night Fever is a great read, with a great accompanying soundtrack, and one that deserves to be high in rapidly approaching end of year ‘best of’ lists… 5/5' Many thanks to Iain Key for this review in Louder Than War.

Many thanks Kev, that's so good to see

Controversially, the album has been released under The Fall name, which has led to volatile debate amongst Fall fans, with no shortage of acrimony. The album is now available to everyone. It’s definitely Mark E Smith. You can listen here:

The album Post Script is released today. The album was made by Ding Archer and Ed Blaney using vocal recordings of Mark E Smith that Ding recorded between 2001-2014, then building a soundtrack around them.

The End | Writing on the Wall. The official video is AI generated and packed with nostalgic Manchester sites.

Delighted about this! Great connection too 🎻

NEWS: Helen O'Hara's memoir What's She Like will be published in Spanish in 2027, on International Women's Day. The Spanish publishers, Liburuak, are based in Bilbao (where Helen was due to work after music college in 1982). They will be publishing the extended, new paperback version of the text.