Earthworks I
A further CD for Kazumi Watanabe is recorded with Bill on the long-promised, state-of-the-art kit from Simmons, which, like all kits from that brilliant designer, immediately proves problematic.
Earthworks tour through the summer, with the low spot at Bergen University in Norway when Ballamy and Hutton do their best to kill each other. The tour is eventually abandoned, the West-Coast US leg cancelled, due to Ballamy’s young girlfriend, Jess, having developed cancer. Ballamy flies home from Minneapolis, to be married, and then widowed, within a week..
Much of the Fall is spent in exasperating programming of the electronic drum equipment prior to sessions on Earthworks second album “Dig?”, eventually recorded in Cornwall in November.