And, this is officially the 547th time I have played this video!

The Fall amaze and delight me, no matter what line up, what year. A real band. Thank you Mark E. Smith.

I've only got into The Fall after Mark died. Id always known about them but knew nothing about them . They seemed too aloof when I was doing my thing in the 90s and I had no mates that were remotely interested in them and regrettably I never took a leap of faith and bought one of their records or went to a gig. After mark died I was out for a run and I thought I'd listen to some Fall songs to see what they were all about , after a bit Sparta FC came on. It went straight into my top 10 favourite ever tunes, I wanted to scream and smash something to bits I loved it , still can't get my mates into them.

That crowd don’t deserve that performance.

The only band on the planet who get better as time goes on. As Peely once said The Fall are all you need. How right he was.

Fkn epic . You don't know what you got til it's gone .

R.I.P. The most influential rock God of them all !

I've seen them do this song many times but this has to be the best ever performance.

as usual the bass keeps it together

Christ....is this the best ever?

Never heard this till last week and I have to say it's one of the catchyiest tunes I've heard in a long time. Loved them in the early days but never heard them much after that.

I love the clips from this gig. The band look like they're really having fun, each in their own way.

This is the Fall, Manchester's finest

Why the fuck is no-one moving ? How can you stay still, listening to this ? It should move the most withered soul - even in Norway.

he's 49, that's a hard life, embodied

Thank gawd that was recorded - the reports from the audience might not have been too reliable.

You were unique, Mark. R.I.P.

As much as it is possible to have a favourite song from a band with that many albums, this, for me, would be it. And as much as it is possible to have a favourite live video of that song from a band with so many videos, this, for me, would be it.

Great performance this. RIP Mark.

Brilliant version of a brilliant song.

I would have loved to have been here. This was a really great set.

I came here from John Cooper Clarke's book 'I wanna be yours'. Great show in Oslo.

Missing a second guitarist - he is now on bass. The Fall were great. Never knew what u would get. The Fall WERE Mark E Smith. No more mark, no more Fall. Sad, sad, sad.

Another one of their classics.....

Fucking hell, this is one of the rockingest Fall songs since the early days. M. E. Smith still got his mojo 30 years later!

Mark E Smith is undeniable genius.

its always like that on Øya

I love this. the fall are amazing. started listening to them in the '80s. bragging rights there; but it doesn't matter when you started to listen to them.

Immense.

By 2020, every person in England will have played in The Fall. Fact !

That crowd needs a slap.

riff gets me every time

Is there anyone who still hasn't heard 'Cheap Space Chant' ? In KZfaq, search for 'Timekode, Mark E Smith' and listen to the strangest and best MES/Fall collaboration of them all...

nice of em to play at a picnic

FUCKING AWESOME

Rip....90% of British cool just died.

Class.

That track was Super tight with a brilliant Guitar Riff to boot THE FALL simply Superb 👍 R.I.P. MES

""You mug old women in the paper shop." LOL!!!

Some of them would have remembered them and it stuck in their minds. When I was a kid in the 80s I went to see the Smiths, actually New Order where top of that bill, but the Fall were on before both of them and they always stuck in my mind. I started buying their stuff.

That bass!!!

We are NOT Galatasary we are Sparta FC!!! LOVE IT!

Mark WE don't forget you....

Fuck me the crowd are proper into this!!!

Absolutely fekin marvelous.

God this is still sublime!

AWESOME

RIP Mark.

Pretty old crowd... kids don't know what they're missing. Great clip!

Love this lineup. Totally rips.

Best Sparta. Rip laa.

i saw this !!!!....i love the fall ...i like this one too theme from sparta fc 300 the fall

That fuckin. Bass. 🇬🇧

saw this at The Islington Halls amazingly good.......

So good memories wstching this madness...i miss it do much ❤

sparta fc is a dutch football team they shud use it as a walk on song

Utter class......

Much better live version when you search for this ong at Leicester Princess Charlotte. Four or five songs from that night up on here. Blindness is incredible.

These guys are great!!!!!!!!!

Wow- even better than the studio version. Still, the Fall strikes me as a band to enjoy in a small sweaty club (as I did many times) and not an outdoor fest.

The Cardiacs brought me here after The Fall sent me to the Cardiacs who sent me to The Fall who sent me to the Cardiacs - logic of the universe-ah!

People liked the idea of the fall better than liking the fall

WE ARE THE FALL!!! RIP MES.

Got to see them at The Channel in Boston on The Frenz Experiment Tour and the rest has been history, grateful just about everyday

Songs like this? I wish my volume control went up to eleven....

Rest in Power Mark

Awesome. Thanks for posting

Best Fall production evah. And I've been with MES from the primordium. We live on blood.

Incredible!

Be my, be my toy ! English Chelsea fan, this is your last game, classic songwriting ......

Class!

best fall live act i've seen for a long time.

the guitarist now does his own project called 'white fence', its pretty good, sort of 60s psychedelia. not sure about the bassist though

There was an important mental breakdown in Oslo in the 2006.

Yeah. Like Lemmy said about Canada when on tour with Motorhead... "you need to bring your own crystal (speed) up here".

Powerful music.

Thanks for the illumination

Oh, the energy.

The Fall Live, in my house that's what any music is judged against. Yes storming version.

Rest easy, unique as fuck this guy...Peace out Mark

, thank you ,mark for the songs were singing, wish my sound system went louder

killer bass

@brownowl70 okay, yeah, muddy, not sandy. But I wish I'd seen them in Castlefield too!

this is as good as it gets!

I saw the Fall around this time and the gig lasted about 15 to 20 minutes before Mark walked off but it was the best 15 to 20 minutes I have had, they were fucking great and played this.

Base & Primal. Fucking Great!

This lot is just standing there holding their beers !!! I'm in my bedroom watching this and I'm doing cartwheels...

And then, it is! The freedoms we were there! and the marke Smith! It is that what I wish you!

Great post

Thank God for Mark E. Smith. They don't make them like that anymore.

The Americans acquit themselves well in this version of the Fall. Tim Presley playing a nice (repeated) guitar riff.

we are the fallll :)...its sooo good

Aaah Mark, you had to go. The solitary traveller has left the planet, he won't be passing this way again. And I was getting curious to see wife no 4.

Just unfecking unique … ✊

yes, this is what should occupy the monster people of the world - watch from down low, then leap up with 2 microphone horns & shout it back at them. yes, minotaur. In imperial Rome, Smith could have stood on roof of foremost attack chariot with 2 mics, shouting this song.

Fookin Brilliant post , maybe in the future that crowd may get it LOL

They really kinda whipped ass here

This is orgasmatron with a house is not a motel plus fc- great f tune indeed

@MegaKevorkian Love it. Too right. X = the comfort zone. Stay in the red. We ain't running on empty.

Mark E Smith = legend