A top story! Si tells it as it was.” ‘Funky Si’ as he came to be known joins the dots between many a legendary Manchester band. A book that Ian Brown described as “Manchester. On Friday 8 December, Simon Wolstencroft, eleven years in The Fall but also a drummer for Ian Brown and Johnny Marr among others and famed as the man who turned down the drum seat in The Smiths, will be talking about his life in music as captured in his book “You Can Drum But You Can’t Hide” (Route Publishing). The Fall are the greatest group of all time. I do the show as much to introduce younger music lovers to The Fall, as anything some of their parents have told them that Oasis were the best band in the world and, entertaining though Oasis were, they weren’t the best band in Greater Manchester. Titley explained that “The Fall are often called a cult band, but The Fall’s music is a ‘broad church’, there is something for everybody. The Church of The Fall discusses and plays all things Fall plus groups related to the Fall by musical marriage, civil partnership and co-habitation over the 41 years of the group.

Titley about their life in The Fall and in music in general, in an interview with Stephen Titley, from Oldham. They’ll be picking tracks and talking with host Stephen G. Two former legendary drummers for the legendary group The Fall are coming into internet radio station, Fab Radio ’s studio in Manchester over the next two Fridays, 8 and 15 December at 9 pm. Paul Hanley, five years a drummer in The Fall with Stephen Titley

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