Week 42: 18/01/07 - 09/10/07

And the Fall are Reformed. Reformation Post TLC continues that theme of the Fall being rather good. Reformation/Fall Sound is a serious Krautrock pairing - Mark growing through the tracks. White Line Fever is like a Rockabilly of the Fall past - it's not that great but it's nice to see them trying. And they continue at pace: My Door Is Never open, chugging along right up to Systematic Abuse. It's a really cracking little record.

And then the last Night of the Palais and they're on pretty good form. The Band at least are, Mark is a little three sheets to the wind and they suffer a little for this. They do Hungry Freaks which is pretty good. And My Door is Never - Mark's almost asleep at this point.

The rest of the gig chugs along until a super super drunk White Lightning, reaching the point of barely coherent now. They end with a cracking 9 minute version of Blindness - a great ending to the show. Then some oik gets on stage and moans that they shouldn't have left the stage, since it's the last night of the Hammersmith Palais! The cheek!. They come back on and do Reformation and it's great. Mark takes the piss and they're off again.

The Reformation single is as good as the album, all kraut guitars and remixes. Great.