In a similar ending to the Phily debacle, the trio of Hanley, Crooks and Burns walked off, leaving MES and Nagle to finish the show. Unbelievably, the show got going again, but before long it was Crooks’ turn to be on the receiving end of MES’s temper, leading to the guitarist swinging his instrument at the singer’s head. He then stole Burns’s spare sticks which leads to the drummer leaping out from his kit to try and throttle the singer, only prevented from doing so by Hanley getting in-between them and shouting him down. He would later again hand the mic to the audience, during Hip Priest, and bumping to Crooks as he tried to play the guitar notes. MES was again very drunk, and he began the show by purposely knocking over the drums. The seventh night is New York, on 7 April, at a venue called Brownie’s. Things are a lot better, although Nagle walks off mid-set for a few songs.
Hanley eventually snapped and, accompanied by Burns and Crooks, left the stage for MES and Nagle to finish off the show on their own. Shambolic doesn’t come close to describing it.
He spends the night making a total nuisance of himself, unplugging equipment and walking on-and-off the stage. MES takes to the stage exceedingly drunk and gives his mic to a member of the audience. The fifth date in Philadelphia is in a venue that is barely half-full. The first four dates pass off without incident, although MES is sporting a black eye having been hit in their hotel room by Nagle. It was their first visit to the States in four years and as there was no record company support, it had been pulled together by Hanley, calling in a few favours along the way. It was a five-strong band consisting of MES, Steve Hanley, Karl Burns, Julia Nagle and Tommy Crooks. Six weeks later, The Fall flew off to America for a tour of America. Masquerade reached #69 in the singles chart. Masquerade was released on 2 x CDs and on 10″ vinyl, with the latter having exclusive mixes. The fact that MES and Julia were now an item, may or may not be coincidental.
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But in February 1998, something strange happened in that Masquerade, an MES/ Julia Nagle co-composition was released as a single, a full five months after first being made available. No singles were released prior to Levitate hitting the shops. The explanation provided a few years later by Bramah was that it was really a work in progress, recorded in 1990 as a home-produced jam session between himself and Craig Scanlon he also added that the song was really more of Craig’s than it was Martin’s…. One way to illustrate how chaotic it all was is the inclusion of a track called Tragic Days, which is credited to MES and Martin Bramah. The songs came from three different sessions at three different locations over an extended period of time. September 1997, the album Levitate is released via Artful Records, a relatively new and cheap’n’cheerful indie label. It was also a year in which loads of compilation albums, consisting of live recordings and alternative versions of previously released songs, were issued by various labels, all the result of the chronic inability, over many years, of MES to sort out his affairs. For the live dates over the summer, Karl Burns came back in yet again (possibly for the ninth time!!) The sessions were messy and difficult, and during them, Simon Wolstencroft decided to quit after ten years as drummer, frustrated by the way MES was behaving. She came back a few days later, after a heartfelt plea to from the booking agent, to play the tour finale at the Forum in London, knowing it would be her last ever involvement with The Fall.Ī new guitarist, Tommy Crooks comes on board in May 1997 and two months later work got underway on a new album.
Brix Smith leaves mid-tour after a violent confrontation with MES in the soundcheck at a gig in Motherwell, some ten miles south-east of Glasgow.
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