RIP Mark E Smith
Posted: 24 Jan 2018, 20:51
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Posted: 24 Jan 2018, 21:04
Gutted. The first time I've ever felt the need to reply to one of these RIP threads. I spent some weeks late last year checking their website (whilst in the middle of 90s Fall binge) almost daily expecting to see this news. I thought it was all over after the Bristol gig cancellation. There was something about the way the band looked as they faced the audience that suggested things had got way, way more serious.
Posted: 24 Jan 2018, 21:10
I felt a little jolt in the soul area when i heard.
He had much more influence on me than Bowie or Lemmy, great as they were.
He had much more influence on me than Bowie or Lemmy, great as they were.
Posted: 24 Jan 2018, 21:43
Mark was another one who was supposed to be immortal.
I'd been listening to a lot of the Fall lately; guess I'll go listen to some more.
I'd been listening to a lot of the Fall lately; guess I'll go listen to some more.
Posted: 24 Jan 2018, 21:50
radio 6 are Falling all night.
Posted: 24 Jan 2018, 22:01
Fcuk no!
Posted: 24 Jan 2018, 23:07
Gutted at this, really gutted.
Posted: 24 Jan 2018, 23:14
Gutted too, he wasn't bad for a Manc 
Posted: 25 Jan 2018, 05:35
Cr@p
Posted: 25 Jan 2018, 06:30
He was one of a kind. RIP.
Looks like, this is and gonna be another f**ked up year.
Looks like, this is and gonna be another f**ked up year.
Posted: 25 Jan 2018, 08:27
Honestly (don't shoot me!), I had to look up what songs The Fall are famous for, and when I heard some songs, I now know why. And I also understand why so many of you held the band so dear.
Searching the man's Wiki also ain't a good thing to do to sympathise with the guy, is it?
Seems that his unpredictable behaviour was often the cause for chaotic gigs and fights onstage... not really my kind of musician, I fear.
Then again, sometimes you need people to kick the ass of the mainstream. Fare thee well, mister!
IZ.
Searching the man's Wiki also ain't a good thing to do to sympathise with the guy, is it?
Seems that his unpredictable behaviour was often the cause for chaotic gigs and fights onstage... not really my kind of musician, I fear.
Then again, sometimes you need people to kick the ass of the mainstream. Fare thee well, mister!
IZ.
Posted: 25 Jan 2018, 10:23
Zalford, please!Swinnow wrote:Gutted too, he wasn't bad for a Manc
There are no words.
Posted: 25 Jan 2018, 16:09
Aw... sad..
But it is something we should get used to - good musicians dying on us, I mean.
I'm grateful that all of TSOM are alive and hopefully we will still get to hear some excellent new music from them.
None of us are going to live forever - but the music will go on
But it is something we should get used to - good musicians dying on us, I mean.
I'm grateful that all of TSOM are alive and hopefully we will still get to hear some excellent new music from them.
None of us are going to live forever - but the music will go on
Posted: 25 Jan 2018, 16:30
i cant say i was a big fall fan but mark was a true visionary like say throbbing gristle or bowie. spoiled victorian child is a fab song and one of my dearest memories is being in the cool kat in notts serenading this cute as f**k girl called Victoria with the song victoria and getting her into bed. so mr smith, just for getting me laid, RIP
Posted: 25 Jan 2018, 18:37
great snippet from a Richard Skinner interview
Posted: 26 Jan 2018, 10:34
"There was this other group warming up, and they were terrible. I said 'Shut them c**t up!' And they were still warming up. So I threw a bottle at them." – Mark E Smith on Mumford & Sons
Posted: 26 Jan 2018, 11:20
LEVIATION have been kicked off The Fall's tour after just three dates, claiming that Mark E Smith called them "a bunch of f**king crusty poofs". Smith is denying the allegations, which allegedly occurred during an argument between The Fall's singer and Levitation's sound engineer.
The trouble began on the early dates of the tour. Smith claims that Levitation were taking up to an hour and a half each night to soundcheck and were using too much dry ice during their set. Matters came to a head on the third date of the tour, at Leicester Polytechnic last Monday (March 16). During a backstage altercation before the show, Smith allegedly tried to pick a fight with members of Levitation. When they refused his invitation, he allegedly said: "You might as well pack your bags now and f**k right off."
When contacted by a spokeswoman for The Fall, Smith said he was provoked by Levitation's Terry Bickers and alleged that the Levitation guitarist threatened "to take his eye out".
A statement issued by Levitation says that "even as fans they found it impossible to work under Smith's oppressive regime". "We're not into character assassination, but we couldn't work under the atmosphere he was creating," Levitation guitarist Christian Hayes said. Their manager, Biddy Nolan, added that the band were "disgusted and upset with Smith's attitude". The Sandmen have now taken over as support group on the tour. Moose and Max also appear at the Fall's Brixton Academy show.
Posted: 26 Jan 2018, 13:17
I've been looking at some of the award acceptances he made.
The NME god-like genius one is hilarious.
The NME god-like genius one is hilarious.
Posted: 26 Jan 2018, 18:06
only counting the current line-up (2 of whom are way younger than most of us!) we have previously lost chris sheehan and of course ofra haza.Knoe wrote:
I'm grateful that all of TSOM are alive
Posted: 28 Jan 2018, 00:17
All very true, Lee, and sadly so ...eastmidswhizzkid wrote:only counting the current line-up (2 of whom are way younger than most of us!) we have previously lost chris sheehan and of course ofra haza.Knoe wrote:
I'm grateful that all of TSOM are alive
As to Mark E Smith ... The Fall, yeah ... some time early they definitely caught my attention ...
But then, when you chose to change your life from dark city night squatting to greek gambling
in order to check how much of a petty bourgois you possible are ...
... a lot of things get lost ...RIP, Mark E Smith ... at least The Fall remain ... and if - for me - something to explore ...
Posted: 29 Jan 2018, 10:45
I think John Peel said it best: "they are always different; they are always the same."
Posted: 29 Jan 2018, 12:42
oooops, you are right of course. RIP Chris and Ofra!eastmidswhizzkid wrote:only counting the current line-up (2 of whom are way younger than most of us!) we have previously lost chris sheehan and of course ofra haza.Knoe wrote:
I'm grateful that all of TSOM are alive
When writing that I wasn't so much thinking about the current line up but of the Marx-Eldritch-Adams-Gunn/Hussey-time. And these are thankfully also still with us.
Posted: 31 Jan 2018, 17:42
amen to that...Knoe wrote:oooops, you are right of course. RIP Chris and Ofra!eastmidswhizzkid wrote:only counting the current line-up (2 of whom are way younger than most of us!) we have previously lost chris sheehan and of course ofra haza.Knoe wrote:
I'm grateful that all of TSOM are alive
When writing that I wasn't so much thinking about the current line up but of the Marx-Eldritch-Adams-Gunn/Hussey-time. And these are thankfully also still with us.
Posted: 02 Feb 2018, 02:26
RIP. The albums with Brix are stamped in my brain forever.
Posted: 09 Feb 2018, 17:54