![]() Released on LP+7”, Live At St Helen’s… captures a crucial, magical period in the group’s history, with furious, super-tight cuts from Dragnet, Grotesque and Slates, and even a taste of the following year’s classic Hex Enduction Hour.Īn Irish-Greek duo plunging cape-deep into Swinging London, Patrick Campbell-Lyons and Alex Spyropoulos made some of the most imaginative psychedelic pop of the era, even if they only really troubled the charts with the bombastic “Rainbow Chaser”. In keeping with their prolific output, The Fall have never been short on live albums, ranging from the good, the bad and ugly – here, though, rescued from bootleg status by Marc Riley and Castle Face, was one of the greatest. Live At St Helen’s Technical College, 1981 If you’d only heard Roger Webb’s soundtrack to the long-forgotten 1972 British film adaptation of Herman Melville’s famous short story, you might conclude that Bartleby was a suave turtlenecked PI rather than a stubborn clerk – although there were also moments of lush, Midnight Cowboy-esque poignancy. ![]() ![]() Jonny Trunk celebrated his silver jubilee by doing what he does best: rescuing a fruity library-funk gem from obscurity.
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