I was born in London, Stockwell, Lambeth to be precise. SW4. Being born in London and being brought up in London leaves an imprint. With the seat of Government a bus ride away, as well as the West End and all life, you feel close to the centre of things. And London has always featured close in our songwriting although to devote a collection of tunes and words to it took some thinking. This is not a tourist trip round the sites or a march through history, this is more personal than that. It's the influence of the city on the day to day, the things you think about when you walk over Vauxhall Bridge and look east towards Westminster and beyond the Shard. It's about the people you meet and who walk in and out of your life and the mark they leave behind. It's about love and death, the rich and the poor and a City that is strong through its sheer ever changing diversity. It's about places we've known and places we love to go. It's about London, the greatest city. You can bomb it, you can burn it, you can inflict with plague and crime, but it's always there and always will be.

The History of Me (in the Making of this City)

Second track from the Rabble Rouser Cometh EP

Revolution Starts First Thing Monday Morning

Following earlier Fall and Fall projects, Meeting Saga Noren is a departure - like London was to The Fall & Fall of England. Saga Noren is more cinematic and a nod to Scando Noir.



The Winter War

Following earlier Fall and Fall projects, Meeting Saga Noren is a departure - like London was to The Fall & Fall of England. Saga Noren is more cinematic and a nod to Scando Noir.


Chances (Instrumental)

Saga Noren (Instrumental)

Grin, Bare It and Dansk (Instrumental)

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Chances (Vocal Mix)

Saga Noren (Vocal Mix)

Grin, Bare It and Dansk (Vocal Mix)

The Fall and Fall are Adam Yates and Paul Turner. Adam does the production, sorts out the beats, creates tunes and backing tracks. Paul does the vocals, plays most of the instruments which are predominantly guitar, bass and keyboards. Sometimes they demo stuff separately and then work up the end result but equally stuff is created from scratch as ideas get developed in the studio.

Album synopsis:
THE FALL & FALL OF ENGLAND
The idea for 'The Fall and Fall of England' came about over the winter of 2010/11 through a growing disillusionment with the Coalition and the way they were governing the country. It just seemed like a muddle of half-baked thinking, paper thin policies and complete reversal of ideas and promises, conveniently pushed aside in the pursuit of power. This is a Government without charisma, without inspiration and led by faceless public schoolboys who do not have the faculty to understand the morass of problems facing this country at the bottom end of the spectrum. We sat talking about this and how we saw it all panning out over the next few years and the consensus was bleak, it is all going to end in tears. So we talked some more and inspired by Deltron's 3030 we set about putting together a concept collection of songs that would chart the fall of England - well Britain but England, being English, is more evocative for us - under the Coalition. We started to write from the perspective of pre-election Britain, a sense that Labour was losing it's grip but with no viable alternative in sight and the confusion of choice because they were all saying similar things. From that into a scenario where no obvious winner was emerging and that we faced a coalition government with the strange prospect of the Lib Dems holding the keys and creating a hideous mix of compromise and u-turns as they fell into bed with the Tories. This confounded 'Neu Politics' that was wispy and without substance and a hasty hash-up of policies with a bitter taste for all those that voted Lib-Dem specifically to keep the Tories out of power. From this weird honeymoon of a Frankenstein's wedding we went into an Autumn of discontent when the students made their protest. That was the point where we started writing so we chartered history but then had to plot the future and this is what we saw. A growing social discontent against Government cuts, a world where the arts are hacked away by suspicious philistinic Old Etonians and where spending is butchered and held back from where it is most needed. Expressions of anger against the Government and the Police turning into full blown rioting that eventually gets out of control until the streets are truly lawless, where power fails and where families go hungry. And yeah where the looters are rife. Unchecked we saw a country descend into anarchy, into true breakdown and left at the point where the world is looking on as England burns and sinks into the sea. It's a bleak prognosis for sure but we end the 'album' on a two part track that starts out as an aggressive punkish swipe to shove the debris clear segueing into a more reflective spaced out epitaph that suggests the dust is settling and maybe people can rise again and sort things out for themselves without some soundbiting oaf in an expensive suit talking down to them. We tell the story through the eyes of two citizens – Bobby, a pensioner who has witnessed the changes in society through a lifetime and an unnamed youth who is caught up in the mayhem, and is confused by his anger against the system and the utter destruction going on around him. Musically, the soundscape is reflective of a lifetime of influences – hip hop, dub, dance, punk etc. The music best designed to create an angular take on the grime under the veneer that is Coalition England.

LONDON
I was born in London, Stockwell, Lambeth to be precise.  SW4.  Being born in London and being brought up in London leaves an imprint.  With the seat of Government a bus ride away, as well as the West End and all life, you feel close to the centre of things.  And London has always featured close in our songwriting although to devote a collection of tunes and words to it took some thinking.  This is not a tourist trip round the sites or a march through history, this is more personal than that.  It's the influence of the city on the day to day, the things you think about when you walk over Vauxhall Bridge and look east towards Westminster and beyond the Shard.  It's about the people you meet and who walk in and out of your life and the mark they leave behind.  It's about love and death, the rich and the poor and a City that is strong through its sheer ever changing diversity. It's about places we've known and places we love to go.  It's about London, the greatest city.  You can bomb it, you can burn it, you can inflict with plague and crime, but it's always there and always will be.

MEETING SAGA NOREN
is a departure – like London was to The Fall & Fall of England. Saga Noren is more cinematic and a nod to Scando Noir.

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