The Twenty-Seven Points

The Twenty-Seven Points: Live 92–95 is a double album by the Fall, released in 1995. The album consists of live recordings made in various locations between 1991 and 1995, but also contains interludes and two previously unheard studio tracks. Credits on the album are sketchy but the front cover lists the cities in which the tracks were recorded; Prague, Tel Aviv, London, Glasgow, New York City and Manchester.

Critical reception
Trouser Press wrote: "Composed of live tracks, rough demos and random interpolations from Glasgow, London, Manchester, New York, Prague and Tel Aviv, the 28-track, two-CD set is frustratingly uneven but ultimately captures the Fall live experience, complete with onstage disasters."

Track listing
Titles are given exactly as listed on the original sleeve.

Disc one

 * Note
 * Tracks 10 and 11 are listed on the cover as one track but indexed as 2 on the actual disc.

Disc two

 * Note
 * Tracks 15 and 16 are listed as one track but indexed as two on the disc.

2006 reissue
The album was reissued by Castle Music in May 2006 in a remastered edition but with no additional material. However, as the release was mastered from the original vinyl, the original CD-only bonus tracks "Three Points" and "Up Too Much" are missing from this new version, despite being listed on the sleeve.

Personnel
Adapted from the album liner notes.


 * The Fall
 * Mark E. Smith - vocals, tapes (etc)
 * Simon Wolstencroft - drums
 * Craig Scanlon - guitar
 * Steve Hanley - bass guitar, backing vocals
 * Karl Burns - drums, guitar, vocals
 * Brix - guitar, bass guitar, vocals
 * Julia Nagle - keyboards
 * Additional personnel
 * Dave Bush - keyboards on "Big New Prinz", "Paranoid Man In Cheap Sh..t Room" and "Bounces - Leeds"
 * Kenny Brady - fiddle on "Prague 91/Mr Pharmacist"
 * Simon Rogers - machines on "Noel's Chemical Effluence"
 * Robert Gordon - bass and keyboards on "Cloud of Black"
 * Rex Sargeant - mix, compilation
 * Andy Bernstein - sound on tracks 8-23
 * Anthony Frost - art
 * Claus Castenskiold - art
 * Pascal Le Gras - art
 * Lucy Rimmer - layout
 * Valerie Philips - photography
 * there is also an additional credit which appears to read Andy: Rime Time Studios, Ancoats, M/C