Name: Excavate!: The Wonderful and Frightening World of The Fall
Brand: Bob Stanley and Tessa Norton

Bonus disc

Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

9780571358335

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Colour

Discs

Download code

Download code: No

Rough Trade Exclusive

Rough Trade Exclusive: No

Extended format

Extended format: No

Format Books US

Hardback

Format detail

360 pages.

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Limited edition

Release date

2021-06-22

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

Supplier US

Ingram

Tax rate US

Sales:8.875

UPC / Barcode

1 / Extended format: No / Hardback / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No

Artist

Bob Stanley and Tessa Norton

Genre US

New Wave & Post Punk

Label US

Faber

Books of The Year 2021

Exclusives

The Hardback+ format is a limited edition variant, Signed by Bob Stanley and includes 1 of 4 randomly selected Rough Trade exclusive limited edition posters designed by Paul Wilson using a font based on Mark E Smith's handwriting in the form of an eye-test chart featuring a Fall lyric.

A definitive insight into the ever-influential world of Mark E. Smith and the Fall, featuring never-before published essays and ephemera from fans, collectors and the artist and band themselves. 'Mark E Smith provided me with an alternative education, looping me into Camus, and Arthur Machen, and William Blake, and Can, and dub and old garage punk and rock'n'roll.' Stewart Lee

Over a prolific forty-year career, the Fall created a world that was influential, idiosyncratic and fiercely original - and defied simple categorisation.

Their frontman and lyricist Mark E. Smith spun opaque tales that resisted conventional understanding; the Fall's worldview was an education in its own right. Who wouldn't want to be armed with a working knowledge of M. R. James, shipping-dock procedures, contemporary dance, Manchester City and Can? The group inspired and shaped the lives of those who listened to and tried to make sense of their work.

Bringing together previously unseen artwork, rare ephemera and handwritten material, alongside essays by a slate of fans, EXCAVATE! is a vivid, definitive record - an illumination of the dark corners of the Fall's wonderful and frightening world.

Excavate!: The Wonderful and Frightening World of The Fall

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