Fall at the Hall

Press, 12 August 1982, Page 18

Fall at the Hall

The second concert by the English band, The Fall, will be held at the Town Hall next Wednesday.

One of the organisers of the band’s visit, Ms Maryrose Wilkinson, said that another venue had been considered for the show because of slow ticket sales, but the decision had been made to keep it at the Town Hall.

"In Sydney, The Fall have been selling about 50 tickets and getting 700 at the shows. I hope something like that happens here,” she said. The reason for that hope is so that the organisers do not liave to dip into their own pockets if The Fall do not “break even.”

The Fall’s first show is at the University of Canterbury next Tuesday evening, and tickets are selling well for

that event, which is for students only.

Both concerts will feature This Sporting Life, from Auckland, and The Clean, specially reformed for the occasion. A package that strong just has to be hard to resist. (The Fall will no doubt be very satisfied that “Lie Dream of A Casino Soul” has entered the Top 20 singles chart). The Clean’s guitarist, David Kilgour, said that he and his brother Hamish decided to play because they “wanted to make some money to -buy some* land near Nelson.” He, was looking forward to playing with The Fall. The Clean would try and do some hew songs, he said,' ■

But it is definitely a oneoff. The Clean will not ap-

pear again. - This Sporting Life are reputedly one of the better bands in Auckland. They are appearing at the Gladstone Hotel tonight until Saturday with one of Dunedin’s best, The Stones.

The Stones contributed one of the .best sides on the Flying Nun “Dunedin” E.P., which has now sold more than 1000 copies. In a few weeks, Flying Nun will be active in the market again, with singles or E.P.’s from The Chills, The Clean (posthumously), and Tall Dwarfs.

This Sporting Life are a four-piece, featuring the same line-up that came to.. Christchurch last year as Alms For Children.

“We have improved. I

think you could say that a lot of the songs are more melodic now,” said the singer, Gary Charlton. This band began at the start of this year, but they have not appeared too often, because of a lack of suitable venues and bands to play with, he says. A ten-song This Sporting Life mini-album should be released in the first week of September. It was recorded with Doug Hood in Auckland, and will be the first North Island. Flying Nun release. They too are looking forward to playing with The Fall (“we all like ,’em”) and with The Stones. We really enjoyed Christchurch 7 last time. I just wish we could go down to Dunedin;too,”, said Charlton. \ : : Y: > DAVID SWIFT