I remember not getting to see the Fall when they came to Boston and played at the Channel (a long-time venerable Boston venue where I saw both small local acts as well as headliners like the Fall able to pack the place well past the local fire codes!) around 1987 or 88, but thank God, WFNX, our major Boston-area "new music" commercial station at 101.7 FM, ran a live radio simulcast of their show. During much of the Fall's set and encores, the audience for the most past was quiet and subduded, as if we all, either at the show or in radioland, were in church and Mark E Smith & co. held High Mass. But when several key songs, "Hit the North" for one, were played, the crowd suddenly got psyched, loud, and sang key phrases--the crowd's cue on this song was to shout, yell, etc. "Hit the North!!" like the Fall WROTE this song just for us New Englanders, of course, located in the NORTHeasten part of the US!! "Hey Luciani" and "Cruiser's Creek" also got the crowd to make much noise--all in all we at the show or stuck at at home had good times!!!
I remember not getting to see the Fall when they came to Boston and played at the Channel (a long-time venerable Boston venue where I saw both small local acts as well as headliners like the Fall able to pack the place well past the local fire codes!) around 1987 or 88, but thank God, WFNX, our major Boston-area "new music" commercial station at 101.7 FM, ran a live radio simulcast of their show. During much of the Fall's set and encores, the audience for the most past was quiet and subduded, as if we all, either at the show or in radioland, were in church and Mark E Smith & co. held High Mass. But when several key songs, "Hit the North" for one, were played, the crowd suddenly got psyched, loud, and sang key phrases--the crowd's cue on this song was to shout, yell, etc. "Hit the North!!" like the Fall WROTE this song just for us New Englanders, of course, located in the NORTHeasten part of the US!! "Hey Luciani" and "Cruiser's Creek" also got the crowd to make much noise--all in all we at the show or stuck at at home had good times!!!