Description
The Fall – BBC Radio Sessions Vol 1 – Vinyl Record
This is the U.S black vinyl version of the 1988 BBC Radio Session from The Fall.
The session was recorded for John Peel at Maida Vale 4 on October 25th, 1988 and first broadcast on October 31st, 1988.
The release is one of a select group of sessions taken from the limited edition UK-based subscription series to be sold individually to North American customers via the Beggars Arkive webstore and bandcamp page.
BBC Radio Sessions Vol. 1 captures The Fall in full flight in a classic John Peel BBC session—tight, urgent, and brilliantly abrasive in that way only The Fall could manage. Recorded at BBC Maida Vale in October 1988, these versions hit with a sharper, more immediate edge than the studio takes: guitars scrape and surge, the rhythm section locks into that relentless forward shove, and Mark E. Smith delivers his words like a stream of half-sung commands and sideways slogans. There’s no polish here—just momentum, atmosphere, and the band’s instinct for turning repetition into something dangerous and addictive.
This volume features four standout performances from the era: “Deadbeat Descendant,” “Cab It Up,” “Squid Lord,” and “Kurious Oranj.” Whether you’re a longtime fan who wants the raw, broadcast-room intensity of the late-’80s lineup, or you’re building a Fall collection beyond the studio albums, this EP is a compact but essential document—The Fall as a living, breathing machine, recorded fast and loud for the airwaves and preserved exactly the way it should be: direct, caustic, and totally alive.
Brand new, never played and still sealed in the factory plastic
Track Listing
Kurious Oranj
Dead Beat Descendant
Cab It Up!
Squid Lord
