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Factory Star


Interviews


Interview (2011)

Factory Star - Interview

Factory Star is the new band of original Fall guitarist and Blue Orchids' front man Martin Bramah. He speaks to John Clarkson about Factory Star's debut album, 'Enter Castle Perilous'


Reviews


New Sacral (2012)


Atmospheric post-punk on six track mini-album from Factory Star, the new band of former Fall member and Blue Orchids front man Martin Bramah.


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Interviews

Granite Shore
Interview Granite Shore - Interview

Nick Halliwell found that there was only one way he could vent his anger over the European referendum result - make a new album with his group, The Granite Shore. He tells Malcolm Carter about the influences behind this album, in particular his love of that most European of pop bands, Abba.


Granite Shore
Interview Granite Shore - Interview

Occultation Recordings owner Nick Halliwell talks about his band The Granite Shore's long-awaited debut album, 'Once More From The Top’, which is a concept album about a group, and his difficulty in getting it released


Occultation Recordings
Interview With Nick Halliwell Miscellaneous - Interview With Nick Halliwell

John Clarkson speaks to Nick Halliwell, who is also a songwriter, musician, producer and the front man with the Granite Shore, about his label Occultation Recordings, which puts a special focus on vinyl and has seen releases recently from the Distractions, the Wild Swans and Factory Star


Profiles

Granite Shore
Profile Granite Shore - Profile

Malcolm Carter reflects on Distractions' guitarist and Occultation Recordings' boss Nick Halliwell's band the Granite Shore's debut album ‘Once More From The Top’ which, out in May, he believes to be 'one of the most impressive and important albums not just of this year but the whole decade'


Live

Fall
Under the Bridge, London, 10/6/2014 Fall - Under the Bridge, London, 10/6/2014

At Under the Bridge in London, Dastardly watches Mark E. Smith and the Fall make a caustic and abrasively triumphant set


Albums

Fall
The Wonderful and Frightening World of The Fall Fall - The Wonderful and Frightening World of The Fall

In our 'Re:View' column, in which our writers look back at albums from the past, Jon Rogers writes of the Fall's 1984 album, 'The Wonderful and Frightening World of The Fall', which has just been released in a four CD box set


Fall
Hex Enduction Hour Fall - Hex Enduction Hour

In the latest in our 'Re : view' series, in which our writers look back at albums from the past, Jon Rogers writes about the Fall's forbidding 1981 album, 'Hex Enduction Hour'


Re : View-Fall
Live at the Witch Trials Fall - Live at the Witch Trials

Twenty five years on the Fall continue to spit "acid-tongued venom on all and sundry".Jon Rogers finds their debut album 'Live at the Witch Trials' to be " just as sharp and caustic and just as out of step as it did back in 1978"


Features

Fall
Ten Songs That Made Me Love... Fall - Ten Songs That Made Me Love...

In 'Ten Songs That Made Me Love..' Jon Rogers writes about he went from being a so-so fan of the late Mark E. Smith's The Fall to an absolute fanatic as he reflects on his favourite songs by them.


Photography

Fall
Photoscapes Fall - Photoscapes

Darren Aston takes photographs of The Fall at the Arts Club in Liverpool on the 21st January







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