Fall in a Hole

Fall in a Hole is a live album by The Fall, released in 1983 on the Flying Nun label of New Zealand.

Contents

• The fall hard life in country fall in a hole
• Disc One
• Disc Two
• Additional tracks on 20022006 CD editions
• Personnel
• Songs
• References

The album was recorded at the last show of the group's 1982 tour of Australia and New Zealand and was originally only released in those countries. However, a small number were exported to the UK and, in the sleeve notes for the 2002 UK CD edition, Chris Knox, who had recorded the show, stated that Mark E. Smith had been very unhappy at copies appearing in the UK and that exports ceased at his request. The album immediately became a highly valued collector's item.

Consisting of one 33 rpm record and one 45 rpm record, Fall in a Hole captures the group fresh from the relative commercial success of Hex Enduction Hour and debuting songs from its followup, Room to Live. There is a detectable difference in the sound quality between the two discs; in the aforementioned sleevenote, Knox states that this resulted from the initial set being committed to multitrack tape through the sound desk while the encores were captured on normal audio cassette. Often referred to as simply In a Hole, the album has been reissued on CD three times, the first attempt (Cog Sinister 1997) being mastered from a scratched bootleg copy, complete with uncorrected vinyl skips. A 2002 reissue (titled Fall in a Hole + and issued through Voiceprint) was remastered from a superior vinyl copy and also added additional tracks from other dates on the tour. The most recent incarnation (Castle Music, 2006) duplicated the musical content of the 2002 edition exactly but restored the original title, omitting the "+".