#The Fall Announce New Live Album: Listen to “Leave the Capitol”

A new live album from the Fall has been announced. The Fall – Live at St. Helens Technical College, ’81 arrives exclusively on vinyl (with a digital download card included) on February 19 via Castle Face. Below, check out the first single, “Leave the Capitol,” originally released on 1981’s Slates EP.

The recording was resurfaced by BBC Radio 6 presenter and former Fall bassist Marc Riley. As he told Rolling Stone, he discovered the bootleg set on Twitter and brought it to Castle Face label head John Dwyer (of Osees) to set up an official release. Half of all proceeds from the release will be donated to Centrepoint, a UK-based organization providing housing and support for unhoused young people in London, Manchester, and other cities.

“I’ve had the pleasure of being a Fall fan since I was a teen. I was lucky enough to have some guidance from my local record shop stoner-lords,” Dwyer said in a statement. “They turned me on to many of my heroes, but once I heard my first slanted and barky Fall song, I was part of the army for life… Live Fall performances are always a pleasure because they seem to take what already made the Fall great and push it even a bit more into the rough and bloody uncharted wasteland that is drug scorched proto-punk and heady political poetry.”

In 2018, longtime Fall mastermind Mark E. Smith died at age 60. Read “The Ugly Truths of Loving the Fall’s Mark E. Smith” over on the Pitch.

The Fall – Live at St. Helens Technical College:

01 Blob ’59  
02 Prole Art Threat  
03 Jawbone and the Air Rifle  
04 Middle Mass  
05 Rowche Rumble
06 An Older Lover
07 City Hobgoblins
08 Leave the Capitol
09 The NWRA
10 Gramme Friday
11 Fit and Working Again
12 Muzorewi’s Daughter
13 Slates, Slags, Etc