Post punk icons The Fall will return to an Irish stage when Mark E Smith and his band play Dublin's The Button Factory on 17th August. Tickets will go on sale from 9am on Friday 21st June, priced at €22.
Since their formation in 1976, The Fall have released dozens of studio albums, and more than double that number of live albums, compilations and other packages. The current tour is in celebration of the thirtieth record in The Fall's discography, Re-Mit.
As with any Fall record, it retains their most distinctive elements of jumbled guitars teamed with Mark E. Smith’s sing-speak vocals, whilst offering a fresh take on Smith’s familiar style and subject matter.
Smith is the only ever-present member of the band, since their formation almost four decades ago. One of music's most colourful characters, Smith is rarely afraid to speak his mind about a manner of topics, such as his below opinion of banjo-folkers Mumford & Sons.
"There was this other group warming up … and they were terrible. I said, ‘Shut them c*nts up!’ And they were still warming up, so I threw a bottle at them … I just thought they were a load of retarded Irish folk singers." - Mark E. Smith
