Fall: Sessions


 * Following a variety of earlier incomplete releases, the 24 sessions that The Fall recorded for the John Peel show are all available in pristine audio beauty on the six-CD box set The Fall: The Complete Peel Sessions 1978-2004 (Sanctuary 2005). This includes ‘Whizz Bang’ (recorded for session #13 but not broadcast) and ‘Job Search’ (recorded at the same time as #24 and broadcast on 31 August 2004) as one side of a special acetate presented to Peel to mark his 65th birthday).


 * The following list follows the recording and first broadcast dates given in The Peel Sessions by Ken Garner. These have been checked against a variety of sources, including the box set booklet, the online Fall discography and the BBC Peel minisite. Discrepancies are noted below. (Please correct any mistakes you find. Repeat dates are still incomplete.)

The classic 24 sessions
1. Recorded: 1978-05-30. First Broadcast: 15 June 1978. Repeated: 04 August 1978 / 23 October 1978
 * Futures And Pasts / Mother-Sister / Rebellious Jukebox / Industrial Estate

2. Recorded: 1978-11-27. First Broadcast: 06 December 1978. Repeated:
 * Put Away / Mess Of My / No Xmas For John Quays / Like To Blow

3. Recorded: 1980-09-16. First Broadcast: 24 September 1980. Repeated:
 * Container Drivers / Jawbone And The Air-Rifle / New Puritan / New Face In Hell

4. Recorded: 1981-03-24. First Broadcast: 31 March 1981. Repeated:
 * Middlemass / Lie Dream Of A Casino Soul / Hip Priest / C 'n' C-Hassle Schmuck

5. Recorded: 1981-08-19.* First Broadcast: 26 August 1981** Repeated:
 * Deer Park / Look, Know / Winter / Who Makes The Nazis?

6. Recorded: 1983-03-21. First Broadcast: 23 March 1983. Repeated:
 * Smile / Garden / Hexen Definitive - Strife Knot / Eat Y'self Fitter

7. Recorded: 1983-12-12. First Broadcast: 03 January 1984. Repeated:
 * Pat Trip Dispenser / 2 x 4 / Words Of Expectation / C.R.E.E.P.

8. Recorded: 1985-05-14. First Broadcast: 03 June 1985. Repeated:
 * Cruiser's Creek / Couldn't Get Ahead / Spoilt Victorian Child / Gut Of The Quantifier

9. Recorded: 1985-09-29. First Broadcast: 07 October 1985. Repeated:
 * L.A. / The Man Whose Head Expanded / What You Need / Faust Banana

10. Recorded: 1986-06-29. First Broadcast: 09 July 1986. Repeated:
 * Hot Aftershave Bop / R.O.D. / Gross Chapel-GB Grenadiers / U.S. 80's-90's

11. Recorded: 1987-04-28. First Broadcast: 11 May 1987.*** Repeated:
 * Athlete Cured / Australians In Europe / Twister / Guest Informant

12. Recorded: 1988-10-25. First Broadcast: 31 October 1988. Repeated:
 * Deadbeat Descendant / Cab It Up / Squid Lord / Kurious Oranj

13. Recorded: 1989-12-17. First Broadcast: 01 January 1990. Repeated:
 * Chicago Now / Black Monk Theme / Hilary / (Whizz Bang - not broadcast)

14. Recorded: 1991-03-05. First Broadcast: 23 March 1991. Repeated:
 * The War Against Intelligence / Idiot Joy Showland / A Lot Of Wind / The Mixer

15. Recorded: 1992-01-19. First Broadcast: 15 February 1992. Repeated: 01 May 1992
 * Free Range / Kimble / Immortality / Return

16. Recorded: 1993-02-28. First Broadcast: 13 March 1993. Repeated:
 * Ladybird (Green Grass) / Strychnine / Service / Paranoia Man In Cheap Sh*t Room

17. Recorded: 1993-12-02.**** First Broadcast: 05 February 1994. Repeated:
 * M5 / Behind The Counter / Reckoning / Hey! Student

18. Recorded: 1994-11-20. First Broadcast: 17 December 1994. Repeated:
 * Glam Racket - Star / Jingle Bell Rock / Hark The Herald Angels Sing / Numb At The Lodge

19. Recorded: 1995-12-17. First Broadcast: 22 December 1995. Repeated:
 * He Pep! / Oleano / Chilinist / The City Never Sleeps

20. Recorded: 1996-06-30. First Broadcast: 18 August 1996. Repeated:
 * D.I.Y. Meat / Spinetrak / Spencer / Beatle Bones 'N' Smokin' Stones

21. Recorded: 1998-02-03. First Broadcast: 03 March 1998. Repeated:
 * Calendar / Touch Sensitive / Masquerade / Jungle Rock

22. Recorded: 1998-10-18. First Broadcast: 04 November 1998. Repeated: 20 May 1999
 * Bound Soul One / Antidotes / Shake-Off / This Perfect Day

23. Recorded: 2003-02-19. First Broadcast: 13 March 2003. Repeated:
 * Theme from Sparta F.C. / Contraflow / Groovin’ With Mr Bloe - Green-Eyed Loco Man / Mere Pseud Mag Ed.

24. Recorded: 2004-08-04. First Broadcast: 12 August 2004. Repeated: (Recorded at same session: Job Search - 65th birthday present to Peel, first broadcast 31 August 2004.)
 * Clasp Hands / Blindness / What About Us? / Wrong Place, Right Time - I Can Hear The Grass Grow

(*) Sources other than Garner give 1981-08-26. (**) Other sources give 15 September 1981. (***) Other sources give 19 May 1987. (****) CD box set booklet gives 1993-12-08.

Other
Garner also lists the Peel show broadcast of the following session, recorded originally for the Mark Goodier show.

Recorded: 1993-05-01. First broadcast (Mark Goodier show): 1993-05-17. Repeated (John Peel show): 11 September 1993
 * Glam Racket / War / 15 Ways / A Past Gone Mad

The BBC Peel minisite includes the following live performances in its Fall session listings.

Recorded: 1989-08-29 (Subterania, London). Broadcast: 30 August 1989 (50th birthday show)
 * Mere Pseud / I'm Frank / Arms Control Poseur / Fiery Duck / Race With The Devil / British People In Hot Weather

Recorded: 1993-12-08 (Roundhouse, Manchester). Broadcast: 29 April 1994
 * M5 / Behind The Counter / Ladybird (Green Grass) / The League Of Baldheaded Men / War / A Past Gone Mad / I'm Frank / Glam Racket / Wrong Place / Mixer / Lost In Music / Cab Driver / Paranoia Man In Cheap Sh*t Room / Free Range

Recorded: 1995-07-14 (Phoenix Festival). Broadcast: 14 July 1995
 * Pearl City / Behind The Counter / Free Range / Don't Call Me Darling / Hillinist / Numb At The Lodge / Idiot Joy