MICHAEL STEWART - Walking The Invisible

Novelist and Fall obsessive Michael Stewart joins Paul and Steve to talk about growing up in Salford, watching the Happy Mondays rehearse after school and finding his way from factory work to writing King Crow. An English A-level at night school helped him on his way, while a fascination with the Brontës eventually took him to Haworth.

There’s also the small matter of The Fall. Michael remembers Steve’s bass on “Smile” making an immediate impression when he saw them on The Tube, though Paul’s contribution proves harder to recall. John Peel sessions kept him listening, but it was hearing “Big New Prinz” at The Venue that finally sent him out to buy every Fall record he could find.