Saturday, December 11, 2010

# 26: The Fall in Iceland

The Fall in Iceland
A post about the English band of frontman Mark E. Smith. The Fall performed 3 times on Icelandic ground: in 1981, 1983 & 2004. They even made a song about Iceland.
In the track "Iceland" Mark referred to singer Megas.

A plate steel object was fired
And I did not feel for my compatriots
Hated even the core of myself
Not a matter of ill-health
It was fear of weakness deep in core of myself
The fact attainment was out of...

Mounting orations
..populations
To be humbled in Iceland
Sing of legend, sing of destruction
Witness the last of the god-men
Hear about Megas Jonsson


Cast the runes against your own soul
There is not much more time to go
Work fifteen hours for the good of the soul
And be humbled in Iceland

Sit in the gold room
Fall down flat in the Cafe Iol

Without a glance from the clientele
Good coffee black as well,
Hair blond as hell
Cast the runes against your own soul
Roll up for the underpants show
And be humbled in Iceland

And the spawn of the volcano
Is thick and impatient
Like the people around it.
See a green goblin redhead, redhead
Make a grab for the book of prayers.
Do anything for a bit of attention
Get humbled in Iceland

What the goddamn fuck is it?
That played the pipes of aluminum
A Memorex for the Krakens
That induces this rough text
And casts the runes against the self-soul
And humbles in Iceland


 
 
The Fall in Iceland in 1981
 
September 1981 (Morgunbladid)
 
September 1981 (Visir)
 
September 1981 (Visir)


 September 1981 (Visir)


September 1981 (Thjodviljinn)

 1981 (Visir)



1981

 September 1981 (Timinn)

 The Fall (Timinn, September 1981)

 September 1981 (Timinn)
September 1981 (Dagbladid)
 September 1981 (Thjodviljinn)
 August 1981 (Visir)
August 1981 (Visir) 
 August 1981 (Visir)
 Live @ Hotel Borg in 1981 (Morgunbladid, September 1981)
On the cover of Dagbladid in September 1981
November 1981 (Morgunbladid)
August 1981 (Morgunbladid)
 September 1981 (Dagbladid)
August 1981 (Morgunbladid)
September 1981 (Thjodviljinn)
 September 1981 (Thjodviljinn)
 August 1981 (Visir)
 July 1981 (Thjodviljinn)
Review of "Grotesque (After The Gramme)" in Thjodviljinn in March 1981
Another review of "Grotesque (After the Gramme)" in Helgarposturinn in March 1981
Review of "Hex Enduction Hour" in Helgarposturinn in August 1982
 Purrkur Pillnikk performed together with the Fall in the UK in 1982 (Morgunbladid, March 1982)
 Review in 1982
The Fall in NME in 1982 (Morgunbladid, February 1982)
March 1982 (Morgunbladid)
The Fall @ Thingvellir National Park in May 1983 (Timinn)
Mark E. Smith @ Thingvellir in May 1983 in Timinn
 May 1983 (Timinn)
 1983
 1983
 April 1983 (Timinn)
 May 1983 (Thjodviljinn)
May 1983 (Thjodviljinn)
May 1983 (Timinn)
 April 1983 (Timinn)
 May 1983 (Timinn)
 May 1983 (Thjodviljinn)
 1987 (Visir)
 May 1988 (Thjodviljinn) 
May 1994 (Pressan)
 Mark E. Smith in Morgunbladid in April 1998
 April 1998 (Morgunbladid)

 January 1999 (Visir)
January 1999 (Visir)
 November 2004 (Morgunbladid)
 November 2004 (Fréttabladid)
Review of concert in November 2004 (Morgunbladid) 
September 2004 (Morgunbladid)
 Concert @ Grand Rokk in 2004
2004
On the cover of Morgunbladid in 2004
 May 2006 (Morgunbladid)
February 2007 (Morgunbladid)
 Review of album "Reformation Post TLC" in 2007
 Mark E. Smith on "Not Clean" of Ghostigital in 2007 (Fréttabladid, January 2007)
  June 2008 (Fréttabladid)
 May 2008 (Fréttabladid)

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