I'd suggest my hometown of Halifax, population (Calderdale) about 200,000. They've played all the neighbouring towns, Hudds, Bradford, Leeds and even Wakefield, but never Halifax.

I once had a very scary conversation with an aggressive Kay Carrol in 1980 about the prospect of putting them on in Halifax but the money mentioned put me off.

Mansfield?
Chesterfield?
Carlisle?
Hartlepool?
Sunderland?

bognor

16th March 1985. :D
Essex never fares well.
Southend the other year <_<
C'mon Gruppe.

Scarborough. 2 shows, with a matinee for families at 3 in the afternoon.

Telford? That's a fair size place now.

In fact has anybody ever played Telford? Do they have any venues?

Where are the obligitory Telford Fall fans?

And Sunderland Poly 10/3/90 - not listed on gigography.

Kettering?

Stevenage?

shouldn't that be "hasn't"

I believe HMHB have played in Telford.

16th October 1983 - 24 years ago today.

Bose Lyons club.

Good show.

theres some real geeky cross referencing going on here, hats off.

But the litmus test for me is if ive been on a Sunday league tournament for a week as a teenager, staying in a caravan park, and The Fall have played there.
As Such, have they ever played Poole, Bournemouth, or Clacton on sea?

dunno about clacton, but I was here and i know theyve played Bournemouth at least twice.


ps. we've had this question before - hold tight, here comes a merge...

They did play Poole.

In the 1990, about March.

I have a memory for useless details for that. Can't remember the venue, even though I used to do record fairs there (hence part of the reason I noticed they did a gig there. I didn't go tho. :rolleyes: Saw the Fall for the first time in '91...wish I'd seen them in 1990, as I think that was one of their better years for live shows. Ah well :( )

they played Bournemouth last year, I was there, good gig.


Have they ever played Windsor or Maidenhead? I know they played Slough a long time ago.

True. Forget about that Bournemouth gig - I was there too, good stuff, and unusual venue for the Fall.

I'm 99.999999% certain they've never played Winsor or Maidenhead.

They played Slough, think it would have been the centre on the Farnham Road, in '85.

Great year for Fall gigs then - but not for a mate who saw them and hated them. :rolleyes: :D

That said he's seen them since (2002 onwards, 2-3 times) and loved them :)

Swansea?

Poole Arts Centre - the concrete torture chamber - sadly a year before I moved down there......bah.

I saw the Fall there when Extricate came out:

Pasted from Gigography:

Thursday, 1 March 1990 Poole Arts Centre

Jerusalem / Sing! Harpy / I'm Frank / Telephone Thing / Hilary / Hit the North / Bill Is Dead / Black Monk Theme / Deadbeat Descendant / Popcorn Double Feature / Bremen Nacht / The Littlest Rebel / Victoria / Chicago Now / Mr. Pharmacist

Yes I was there at the 10th March show and have a ticket, so it must have happened :P I Don't suppose you have a recording of it <_< ???

Further hats off for not only remembering dates but Setlists too. Good stuff.

Have they ever played Kingston Upon Thames (In West London)?

Just a tour poster I'm afraid

Oh, that is a shame! Still, at least you have a poster...is it scannable or is it too big?

Peterlee, 30,000,000

Garston & I saw them in Swansea

They played at The Brickyard, Carlisle on Thursday, 19 February 2004

Chesterfield and Mansfield still holding out...

Pretty sure they've never played Scumdon.


Sorry, that should read Swind*n.





As my mum always said 'Better flush it twice son, it's a long way to Swind*n.

Haydock the biggest (longest) village in the world......or so I was told when I was growing up........not quite a town but big none the less.........they've never played there. Could have a gig at the racecourse.

The Fall are quite frequent visitors to Birmingham and Wolverhampton and have also played in Dudley, Coventry, Cannock and Stratford…but I can’t ever remember them playing in Walsall, which at around 170,000 souls (according to Wiki) is a pretty major town…mind you I’m not sure anyone ever plays in Walsall…

Gloucester?

30th January 1997 & 30th October 2002, Gloucester Guildhall

first time I saw the Fall was in Swindon 81

Hartlepool too

they played Level 3 too, now called the Furnace i think. next door to the Rolly.

no, definitely haven't.

the US seems to think of bands as a singular entity (the fall is playing halifax...), whereas the UK treats them as collections of individuals (the fall are playing halifax... or are/were not in this case).

Wow The Fall at the Furnace. :o

My daughter goes there to see local bands.

Epsom is not especially big and the Fall won't have played there, but there was a time when it had 3 decent venues - Ebbisham Hall, The Baths Hall and Ewell Technical College - where the likes of David Bowie, Queen, Arthur Brown, Atomic Rooster, Stackridge, Cockney Rebel, Hatfield and the North, Dr. Feelgood, Thin Lizzy (I think you get the era) all played at one time or another. Most of these groups not everyone's cup of tea on this forum I'm sure, but had any of these venues survived then I'm sure the Fall would have visited at least once.
It is a shame that so many of the towns listed in this thread don't seem to have the variety of venues that they used to have.

i used to work there about 8 years before the Fall showed up.

i'd love to see what it's like nowadays but would feel more than a little bit conspicuous, average age then was 17, bet it hasn't changed much

I'd say the average is still 17 by the people milling around outside when I drop her off outside.