I did not discover Mark until late in his Career He Reminds me a Lot of My Personal Hero Lou Reed They Both had Visions and Followed them regardless of what Critics, Fans, or the Recording Industry might Like or Dislike. Plus Neither Put up with BS form the "press" The one think about both Mark and Lou , No Body Liked them, You Loved Them or you did not Understand.
I remember seeing him in the 90s in Liverpool when he was doing a series of talks. I could barely understand what he was saying he slurred so much and he was very good a parting the Red Sea around the bar when he went to get a drink which he was doing a lot. I think the fall had split up at that point. Don’t meet ur heroes. Definitely don’t meet them if u like the fall
OFFICER POLICEMAN! there was a user on the fall forum by that username. Your little contribution to the great fall story. You can really see he was having a lovely time. Having a laugh, a nice drink and good little earner.
Blah blah blah I'm so Important. John Peel's Fave. Got to get some of this. "Anyone Who LIkes Mark E Smith NEVER MET MARK E SMITH Stop hyperbolic memories of such a prick. He was a C**T
Yeah..well MES is indeed heroic for being perhaps the best musical director of all time, and the 70s-90s albums are indeed all wonderful and incredibly replayable...but I don't know why ppl herald his "dish it out but can't take it" Trump like behaviour because there's nothing to be admired there.
I was at that festival.... I saw The Fall, I think.... wasn't that many people there... I drink a lot because I don't feel comfortable being amongst people, I hated being at the festival, worse I didn't want to be the miserable person at the festival, I was there to see I enjoyed walking past a tent with a woman singing "I blame the turtles"
this is the same shit these plampfs done when they were still getting UK airtime ,too much time on an unfunny(check his "work") couple of swerves with very poor, little or NO material who thought being in the vicinity of talent was enough ,show me something funny or of merit this fudd done, and he's still at , look at Mark and tell me the look on his face isn't "what do these pair of fanny's want"?
Mark, as wonderful as he was, was often belligerent in interviews. In this instance, he had slight contempt for the bbc middle class representatives conducting the interview…. And he was incredibly drunk. However, he seems to have been having fun. Really enjoyed this video 👍🏻
I was editing a movie with my film partner when suddenly Sky Saxon from The Seeds (mentioned here) came in to the flat (in Camden, London), totally unexpected... like a dream. He told us about threatening to beat up Jack Nicolson in 1969 and ended up saying 'i love you man'....Bleedin ell!
I think he loved you two.I think he was hoping it turned into a party. Some comments just seem to be playing to the camera cos he knows what he’s there for. He’s just pushing you two to see how much you’d take in good humour and you both definitely passed the test. I think it’s very sweet and he’s having a nice time. He’s just winding you up about the researcher ringing you.
I never ever thought in my lifetime I'd see a postmortem of something I found so stark and uncomfortable as a teenage fan of the A&J show. This is actually an amazing moment for me.
Back then I thought it was so weird and off the wall when he was carrying on about "grease the roads" but the mystery is solved now... he'd just been asked about Rhodes,Greece but wanted to carry on about roads and truckers!