Last Night at the Palais [Import]

The Fall | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (August 25, 2009)
• Original Release Date: 2009
• Number of Discs: 2
• Format: Import
• Label: Universal I.S.
• ASIN: B002GSNPJW
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #226,707 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Editorial Reviews

UK two disc (CD + NTSC/Region 0 DVD) pressing of this live release from the veteran Punk band led by Mark E. Smith. On January 21st 2007, the Hammersmith Palais, one of London's most historic music venues was condemned to suffer the fate of other prestigious halls in the capital and in the name of homogenous urban progress, close its doors to be converted into an office complex and restaurant. By a strange quirk of fate, the last band to ever play there was The Fall. Their Hammersmith gig on April 1st had been booked as part of their 20 date UK spring tour to promote the release of their 27th album, Reformation Post TLC. Never one to play a greatest hits set, Smith with this seven-piece line-up delivered a mainly recent, forthcoming and unreleased set of songs to the capacity crowd. The only concessions to The Fall's '80s and '90s repertoire being 'Right Place, Wrong Time' and 'White Lightning'. Both the CD and DVD include the 12 song performance, while the DVD adds the 'Reformation' video. Sanctuary.