Fall In A Hole is a live album by The Fall, released in 1983 on the Flying Nun label of New Zealand.
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 sleevenotes to 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 collectors item.
Consisting of one 33rpm 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 follow-up Room to Live. There is a detectable difference in the sound quality between the 2 discs; in the aforementioned sleevenote, Chris Knox states that this is due to the initial set being committed to multitrack tape through the sound desk but the encores being captured on normal audio cassette. Often referred to as simply In A Hole, the album has been reissued on CD 3 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 to 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 "+".
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