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FEATURING… Tom Verlaine | House Of All | The Mission| Elliott Landy’s The Band Photographs 1968-1969: Volume 2 will be published later this year. Sign up for Kickstarter rewards or pre-order the book at ElliottLandy.com…

FEATURING… Tom Verlaine | House Of All | The Mission| Elliott Landy’s The Band Photographs 1968-1969: Volume 2 will be published later this year. Sign up for Kickstarter rewards or pre-order the book at ElliottLandy.com…

LAST year, after The Fall’s co-founding guitarist Martin Bramah moved back to Manchester, he had an idea to form a band of former Fall musicians. He rang Marc Riley, the 6 Music DJ and early Fall member, but Riley told him he didn’t play music any more. Another ex-Fall guitarist, Craig Scanlon, said the same. Classic-era bassist Steve Hanley and his drumming brother Paul were interested, but Bramah was all set to shelve the idea when by chance he bumped into mid-period Fall drummer Simon Wolstencroft, aka Funky Si, who he’d barely seen since they played together during Bramah’s second spell in the group in 1990. “I thought, ‘Two drummers!’ Then it started to come together.” The final piece of the House Of All jigsaw was Pete Greenway, a younger…

LAST year, after The Fall’s co-founding guitarist Martin Bramah moved back to Manchester, he had an idea to form a band of former Fall musicians. He rang Marc Riley, the 6 Music DJ and early Fall member, but Riley told him he didn’t play music any more. Another ex-Fall guitarist, Craig Scanlon, said the same. Classic-era bassist Steve Hanley and his drumming brother Paul were interested, but Bramah was all set to shelve the idea when by chance he bumped into mid-period Fall drummer Simon Wolstencroft, aka Funky Si, who he’d barely seen since they played together during Bramah’s second spell in the group in 1990. “I thought, ‘Two drummers!’ Then it started to come together.” The final piece of the House Of All jigsaw was Pete Greenway, a younger guitarist…

HI Wayne. Heady Daze is the second instalment of your biography, following 2019’s Salad Daze. Was it initially intended as one book? Absolutely, but once I started I couldn’t stop. They’ve turned into my answer to Winston Churchill’s diaries, and I’ve only got to 1990 so far. Will there be a third one? I’m not sure yet. I might just leave everyone on a cliffhanger… One substance that crops up a lot in the book is Blue Nun – the semi-sweet, budget-friendly German white wine. Is that still your main creative lubricant? No, I generally drink red these days. Or a little bit of brandy now and then. But it wouldn’t be a Mission show if you didn’t see me tottering on with a bottle of Blue Nun in hand. Have…

HI Wayne. Heady Daze is the second instalment of your biography, following 2019’s Salad Daze. Was it initially intended as one book? Absolutely, but once I started I couldn’t stop. They’ve turned into my answer to Winston Churchill’s diaries, and I’ve only got to 1990 so far. Will there be a third one? I’m not sure yet. I might just leave everyone on a cliffhanger… One substance that crops up a lot in the book is Blue Nun – the semi-sweet, budget-friendly German white wine. Is that still your main creative lubricant? No, I generally drink red these days. Or a little bit of brandy now and then. But it wouldn’t be a Mission show if you didn’t see me tottering on with a bottle of Blue Nun in hand. Have…