Mr Kyps Live Music venue
is located in Poole, Dorset, UK. We are a dedicated live music
venue, NOT a pub. Regarded by many touring bands as one of the
best 300 capacity venues in the country, we provide excellent
sound, great views of the bands from all parts of the venue, very
reasonably priced drinks and a particularly friendly atmosphere.
Please note: Discrepancies in prices listed in all media including
this website are rare but may occur. In ALL cases the box office will be correct.
Refund Policy : Mr Kyps regret that tickets cannot be exchanged or refunded after purchase, except in the case of a cancelled show. In the unlikely event of a show being cancelled we will give you the choice of a full refund or a ticket exchange for another show of equal value. This does not affect your statutory rights.
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distance, please contact the club before leaving to minimise the
chance of a wasted trip. Unfortunately, Mr Kyps accepts no
liability for any losses incurred under any circumstances.
Thu19November Famously described by John Peel as being “always different, always the same”, The Fall were formed
in Manchester, England in 1976 during the punk era although their style quickly evolved into
something more idiosyncratic.
The one permanent fixture amidst the Fall’s ever-changing line-up is Mark E. Smith. Smith’s lyrics are
free, unboxed and unpredictable, touching on an extremely wide range of subjects and places and
caring little for being tied down to easily digestible messages.
Mark E. Smith is a ranter, but rarely a crowd-pleaser; he's also a Twilight Zone fanatic, a William Blake
obsessive, and something of a thug, not to mention, just maybe, Britpunk's poet laureate and
philosopher king. He's also the sole constant member of the Fall, one of the most indestructible
musical ideas to emerge from British punk.
Using half-sung, half-snarled, sometimes hysterically funny, endlessly quotable lyrics that tear apart
class, art, politics, lit, other bands, themselves, and more, Smith spot-welded his harangues to a rough-
and-tumble groove that choogled like rockabilly, droned like Euro art rock, and squalled like the
gnarliest punk. (It also shone like dance rock and beeped like techno, but that was later.) As long as
Smith is alive, the Fall will never vary all that much from this singular, highly rhythmic racket, but they
sure as hell don't sound like anyone else, and generations of indie rockers have stolen from Smith as if
his name were Chuck Berry. Perhaps his most distinctive trait is an explosive syllable added after some
words, such as in his delivery of a lyric from Free Range: “This is the spring-uh without end-uh” (Smith
himself has expressed annoyance with being picked on for his Manchester accent-uh.)
The music changes depending on the line-up at a given time. Always experimental, Mark E. Smith
has claimed to invent several musical genres, including house music; “we were doing that years ago”
and even the internet. “He told me I didn’t understand, that we were from the bleak industrial wastes of
North England, or something, and that we didn’t understand the Internet. I told him Fall fans invented
the Internet. They were on there in 1982.” One thing that is for sure is that The Fall (and their fans)
have always pushed the boundaries, and never been afraid to experiment.
Audioporn
Looking backwards to a musical era when the word ‘maverick’ meant more than dentally-blessed jet pilots taking your breath away, artists like Alex Harvey and Talking Heads were capable of inducing mass audience hyperventilation through the sheer sense of conviction in their art and the passionate lack of restraint they poured into every sweat-soaked chord. London-based Audioporn are mavericks for today.
“Audioporn are one of the best bands I have ever seen…”
Sunday Mail
“Audioporn’s energetic and incredibly tight 21st Century Roxy Music sci-fi sound could see them elevated to the higher levels of the ‘bizarre-rock’ landscape.”
Daily Record
