Jonathan Ganley

Author of 'CRUSH – Photos from Post-Punk Auckland'. In stock NOW at Flying Nun Records & Time Out Books; & Flying Out will order it in, if you ask them nicely.

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@dannyno_01 @fallfuturepast @Stephenhanley6 @hanleyPa Yep, and on the insert too. Check out Craig Robertson's 'Chris Knox - Not Given Lightly' (@AUPBooks) for more on the 'four day party' at Lincoln St, where 'Fall In A Hole' was conceived.

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From the NZ Papers Past 'Rip It Up' magazine archive Sept 1982: Two photographs published with George Kay's story 'The Fall Of Slick'. Uncredited when published, they were taken by Carol Tippet in Lincoln St, Ponsonby, in central Auckland
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(And if you were wondering about the band’s arrival at Christchurch airport, and the photo on the cover of ‘Fall In A Hole’): “There was nobody at the airport - just five guys with long hair saying ‘Get in the van!”

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(To conclude my trip through the long shadow cast by The Fall’s 1982 NZ tour, here’s the final word from Mark Smith, quoted from his autobiography ‘Renegade’): “They were right behind us in New Zealand though. They were brilliant. All the local labels put us up in their houses...

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"... they gave us the time to prove ourselves. I respect them for that; they could very easily have listened to the Aussies and taken it as read we were little more than a new form of headache." @fallfuturepast @Stephenhanley6 @hanleyPa (photo © 1982 by @pointthatthing)

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@richlangston2 @AUPBooks @feralhouse https://t.co/jfQhAroDvE

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4) And in 'The Clean - In The Dreamlife You Need A Rubber Soul' by Richard Langston
@richlangston2, also published by @AUPBooks and available internationally via @feralhouse

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From the NZ Papers Past 'Rip It Up' magazine archive: August 1983, p4. Russell Brown heralds the forthcoming Flying Nun release of 'Fall In A Hole'. Aerogram from Manchester has been received at Nun HQ, Mark Smith is onboard, all is well. @fallfuturepast @Stephenhanley6 @hanleyPa

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From the NZ Papers Past 'Rip It Up' magazine archive: January 1983, p3. Chris Knox lists his favourite records of 1982 - no. 1 is the as yet unreleased 'The Fall - Live Tapes from Mainstreet'. 'Fall In A Hole' proper is still a year away. @fallfuturepast @Stephenhanley6 @hanleyPa

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From the NZ Papers Past 'Rip It Up' magazine archive Sept 1982: 'The Fall Of Slick'. George Kay meets Mark Smith at the Holiday Lodge, Christchurch. Smith "arrives from the shops with a bottle of Rochdale dry cider among other things." @fallfuturepast @Stephenhanley6 @hanleyPa

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From the NZ Papers Past 'Rip It Up' magazine archive: August 1981. First Fall releases in New Zealand, on Rough Trade via EMI. 'Grotesque' and 'Totally Wired', both briefly in the Top 40. In good company with Pere Ubu & Cabaret Voltaire.
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From the NZ Papers Past 'Rip It Up' magazine archive: August 1982, page 1. Chris Knox winds up his Fall story with the latest news from Australia. Pretty much as @Stephenhanley6 remembered it in 'The Big Midweek'. @fallfuturepast @hanleyPa

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From the NZ Papers Past 'Rip It Up' magazine archive: August 1982 ad for Sounds Unlimited Records. Mark E. Smith & The Fall signing albums in store, sometime 12-2 August 21! Hex was $11.99 now $9.49 ! Free Hex poster with each LP or tape! @fallfuturepast @hanleyPa @Stephenhanley6

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. . . and a whole lot of other good stuff as well ! #postpunkauckland #thefall #thebirthdayparty #chrisknox #theclash #snapper #thegobetweens #theverlaines #straitjacketfits #thecakekitchen #huntersandcollectors #neworder #birdnestroys #abletasmans #fetusproductions . . .

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'CRUSH – Photos from Post-Punk Auckland' is now back in stock at @FlyingNun - on K Rd Auckland & Cuba St Wellington. Order online at https://t.co/wKZZcImU0A Also at Time Out Bookstore, Mt Eden - https://t.co/pRZPgmMPS7 Contains many of those Fall photos I posted about recently

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@southpaw1858 @hanleyPa @8bitnortherner The long gone Sounds Unlimited in lower Queen St.

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Some of these 1982 photos of The Fall in Auckland will be exhibited at the @fallfuturepast festival in Manchester, 5-7 June 2026. I like the idea these images have made a 44 year journey, and they will be there, where it all began, with @hanleyPa @Stephenhanley6 and @marcrileydj

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https://t.co/CMbQVJgbC1

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Jim Nothing taking a solo trip through the Great Unwashed/Peter Gutteridge classic 'Born In The Wrong Time' - at the launch of @richlangston2's new book 'The Clean - In The Dreamlife You Need A Rubber Soul'. In the @FlyingNun basement, K Rd, April 15 2026. Go get that book!