The Fall LIVE Hot Klub Dallas Texas Cassette 2 signed LPs & Telefones Live

	£		120
	$		159

Note: updated listing 

My Fall collection:

1. TWO Fall SIGNED LPs: Slates - 10" US issue TRADE 3/10 & Totales Turns UK Issue ROUGH 10.
2. A UNIQUE cassette recording of The Fall from June 26th 1981 at The Hot Klub at the advertised gig. No other copies of this recording are available. 
3. The reverse side of the cassette has ~48 mins of The Telefones at The Hot Klub, Sept 12th 1981.
4. For interest a repro copy of the Hot Klub Fall / Romeo Void poster is included [it is not the original - some age darkening has been removed to improve the image].

LPs are original and acquired by me on release when I lived and worked as an illegal in Dallas 79-83. Having fought in the punk wars in the UK, my timing was good to visit Dallas as the neuvo wavo scene was emerging. I worked at Sound Warehouse for a while and bought records at VVV and Metamorphosis, going to the Hot Klub, DJ's & The Agora to see Soxx, Telefones, NCM, The Doo, The Nervebreakers, Joe King Carrasco etc. through to the mighty Fall. 

The LPs have been played a few times each, so have no significant flaws, and were played on decent decks. Slates is the US pressing with paper inner and Totales Turns UK pressing with plastic inner. Outer sleeves are great and as issued with added signatures. Records have been protected by plastic outer sleeves since new and stored out of the light.

Cassette recorded by me on an Aiwa portable. The Fall set lasts 28 minutes and is a cracking performance but incomplete since they came on early. I may be biased but it stands up well - not dated at all and very listenable in my mind. They are on form and the recording is pretty clear for an audience recording, but not hi fi and it's on cassette. However it *may* sound better than the official recording on 'A Part Of America Therein'. Only two people have heard this recording. It has not been put on the internet nor distributed in any way and is for private enjoyment.

1. (partial) Hip Priest

2. Lie Dream Of Casino Soul

3. Container Drivers

4. English Deer Park

5. New Face In Hell

6. C 'n' C - Stop Mithering [encore]

On the other side is 48 mins of The Telefones which ends as tape runs out during their encore. Slightly muffled, possibly because much dancing ensued when the Telefones were on. Still an interesting historical recording. Telefones start with Arabian Wars, then Two Hearts... etc. 

I met The Fall by mistake whilst hanging out at VVV Records on the afternoon of their first gig on 26 June 1981. They were friendly and happy to sign the albums, so a good day I guess.* 

It should be noted that the Mark E Smith signatures are in pink on TT and slightly smudged due to the nature of the pen used - his choice. There were no sharpies in those days. I must've recognised it was a big thing to meet The Fall to get them to sign some albums since I wasn't much of a fanboy around groups. This was before the gig and it must have been dark since I'm on the tape wondering aloud if The Fall were Romeo Void. I expected the latter to be the support and wasn't aware that RV had a female singer totally unlike Mark E Smith, so was a bit miffed to have missed the start.

The line up was MES, Marc Riley, Steve Hanley, Craig Scanlon, Karl Burns.

*Random internet story: This notion that every other band member is but a temporary traveller is confirmed in a story told to me by Jeffrey Stothers from Auckland's Southbound Records. During the late 80s, Stothers was working at HMV Records in London's Piccadilly Circus when The Fall played an in-store gig. Afterwards, he asked the singer if he'd sign a copy of a rare Fall single. "Mark looked at me with those big brown eyes, took the record and then crossed off every band member's name but his own with a big black marker pen. It was hilarious!"