The Fall Recording Their Final Peel Session

05 August, 2023

Footage of The Fall recording their final session for John Peel at Maida Vale Studios, London, 4th August 2004.

For full context of The Fall's Peel Sessions read Steve Pringle's You Must Get Them All.

The entry for this session in the Peel Sessions Index reads:

Session 24
Recorded: 4th August 2004
Broadcast: 12th August 2004 (Job Search broadcast on 31st August 2004)

Mark E Smith – vocals; Ben Pritchard – guitar; Jim Watts – guitar, bass; Steve Trafford – bass; Spencer Birtwistle – drums; Eleni Poulou – keyboards; Ed Blaney – guitar, vocals

Clasp Hands / Blindness / What About Us? / Wrong Place, Right Time – I Can Hear The Grass Grow

Recorded less than three months before Peel’s death, the final session includes a magnificent ‘Blindness’ that a majority of fans consider the definitive version. The group recorded a fifth track, ‘Job Search’, that was pressed as a one-off acetate and presented to John Peel for his 65th birthday.

There's further context in the main body of the book.

You can listen to the session as broadcast here.

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