A series for 2025 in which this blog will dedicate a day to each of the twenty-four of the sessions The Fall recorded for the John Peel Show between 1978 and 2004.
Session #15 was broadcast on this day, 15 February 1992, having been recorded on 19 January 1992.
Although not one of their greatest sessions, imminent single ‘Free Range’ is tight and focussed; and the group’s version of The Creators’ ‘Kimble'(a not-too-distant relative of the following year’s ‘Why Are People Grudgeful?’) is both rich and amusing. Smith covering Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry has got to be worth the price of admission, two great music eccentrics, etc. ‘Immortality’ and a low-key ‘Return’ round off what was a barren period in the group’s existence
DARYL EASLEA, 2005
mp3: The Fall – Free Range (Peel Session)
mp3: The Fall – Kimble (Peel Session)
mp3: The Fall – Immortality (Peel Session)
mp3: The Fall – Return (Peel Session)
Produced by Dale Griffin, engineered by Mike Engles & James Birtwistle
Mark E Smith – vocals; Craig Scanlon – guitar; Steve Hanley – bass; Dave Bush – keyboards; Simon Wolstencroft – drums
THE NEW VINYL VILLAIN 
A ‘barren period’? Harrumph! Is that a judgement that many people share? Code Selfish is one of my favourite Fall albums and it was around this time that I first saw them live (yeh, late to the party, eh?). I thought they were great at this time and it was after The Infotainment Scan that things tailed off for me. Ah well, each to their own.