Thanks for uploading. This is a really good interview with MES. The interviewer is really cool, and because he doesn't annoy Mark with inane questions, he gets some really considered responses. The comment from indevelopment3453, below, is spot on - what a great, casual, line from MES about not needing to affect it if you already are it.
"when you are it you don't have to affect it (or effect it..)" - great line about the band's stage presence. really good interview, any context on when/where exactly?
superb this. Smithy gently taking the abs piss. But I do like the idea that the Fall invented music. And I think Smithy quite liked that (the concept that is)
I don’t think Smith is taking the piss at all really. In fact, I’ve rarely heard him speak so sincerely and openly about the group and their music. The interviewer was actually rather perceptive, especially the line about “The Fall play music as if they invented it”. Smith realised he was talking to someone who actually understood what The Fall were about, and opened up in response to that.
I agree. He is genuinely interested in what the Fall were about and what they were aiming at. Questions are excellent. He was asking what I wanted to know about the band.
To be fair, MES wouldn't have been able to carry this off without mega radio play from BBC's John Peel. And on that launchpad promise of a bright future, the other band members fell into line, each hoping for their own career enhancement. Otherwise, as with Capt. Beefheart's backing from Zappa, no other band member would have put up with his army seargent often obnoxious attitude.
