About this Event

Brix and the Extricated comprise of ex-members of The Fall’s halcyon period. They are the writers behind some of the most beloved songs of The Fall canon. The group played a rapturously received stage debut December 13 in Manchester, when they reclaimed their music with a propulsive vitality and breathed new life into old favourites. The crowd was in awe – this wasn’t some tribute band – they “own” those songs and reinvented them.

Brix and The Extricated marks the first return to music since 1996 for Brix Smith-Start, former wife and songwriting partner of The Fall’s Mark E. Smith. The live show is astounding, and Brix’s stage presence isn’t a continuation of where she left off so much as a re-birth — a commanding and riveting rock – roll front-person, her vocals deservedly to the fore, her lead guitar playing as raw and primal as ever. Twenty-year Fall lynchpin bassist Steve Hanley, whose remarkable memoir The Big Midweek brought this band together, takes up the bass with his brother Paul Hanley returning on drums to recreate ‘the greatest rhythm section in rock n roll’, according to Luke Haines. Guitarists Steve Trafford and Jason Brown round off the band’s mesmerising sound. With an undulating set list which incorporates legendary Fall songs from their period alongside explosive new material, the universal question after the first gig was, “Why didn’t this happen sooner?”