Excavate!
THE LOUDER THAN WAR #1 BOOK OF THE YEAR
A ROUGH TRADE, THE TIMES, MOJO, UNCUT BOOK OF THE YEAR
'Thoroughly engrossing, insightful and immersive.' Record Collector
Over a prolific forty-year career, the Fall created a world that was influential, idiosyncratic and fiercely original; it was an education. Who wouldn't want to be armed with a working knowledge of M. R. James, contemporary dance and Manchester City.
Bringing together previously unseen artwork, rare ephemera and handwritten material, alongside essays by a slate of fans, Excavate! is a vivid, definitive record - an illumination of the dark corners of the Fall's wonderful and frightening world.
'As jagged and as curveball-hurling as peak-period Fall, Excavate! is a box of tricks, lovingly curated . . . tantalising' The i
'To 50,000 Fall Fans: please buy this inspired & inspiring, profound & provocative, beautiful & bonkers Book of Revelations.' David Peace
'Gorgeous' The Washington Post
Bob Stanley is the author of Yeah Yeah Yeah: The Story of Modern Pop (Faber, 2013), and Let's Do It: The Birth of Pop (Faber, 2022), Bee Gees: Children of the Word (Nine Eight, 2023) and has written for the Guardian, The Times, NME and The Face. He is also a filmmaker, and founding member of the group Saint Etienne. He was Writer in Residence at the British Library in 2017.
Tessa Norton writes regularly about art, books and music for various publications including The Wire, and for exhibitions and events including FACT, Wysing Arts Centre, Somerset House, Liverpool Biennial, The Tetley, SPACE and more. She published the artists' book The Fields Here Are Full of Ghosts with Wysing Arts Centre in 2019, and she was a Jerwood Arts Fellow at FACT gallery for 2020-21.