Mark E. Smith ... being Mark E. Smith...

WOTF, obv.

25th October, 2010 it seems.

Also, it's a 4CD set.

http://hmv.com/hmvweb/displayProductDetails.do?ctx=280;0;-1;-1;-1&sku=110458

Oh, it's an Omnibus edition.

Buy early, £13.99!

That Fall doc's well worth seeing if you haven't before and you enjoy watching Alex Higgins-looking dudes mumble into their chests.

It's all up on Youtube btw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-Ff-7ui9BY

etc...

http://www.nme.com/news/the-fall/53488

"We were playing a festival in Dublin the other week," he told Australian magazine Brag. "There was this other group warming up in the next sort of chalet, and they were terrible."

He added: "I said, 'Shut them cunts up,' and they were still warming up, so I threw a bottle at them. The band said, 'That's the Sons Of Mumford [sic] or something, they're Number Five in charts!'. I just thought they were a load of retarded Irish folk singers."

that description Smith uses is a generous one tbh

renegade is fucking hilarious from start to finish. one of my favourite mark e. smith things is refering to a take that member as 'orange howard'.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2011/may/21/mark-e-smith-interview

Human souls are not cheap.

What is the trait you most deplore in others?
A lot of people seem obliged to have a viewpoint.

this is kind of a t-bomb

What makes you unhappy?
All UK comedians.

Finally something for Lex and MES to bond over.

^lol was thinking about posting something like that

Is there an MES biography? I need to know how someone like this happens.

There's the 'autobiography' Renegade (a backwards fulfilment of the prophecy in Twister), which feels like an extended interview. It's definitely funny in places and has reasonable amount of stuff about his childhood, but I did feel slightly trapped by him going on rather. He'd become a bore by this time imo, although I realise there are many who feel that about him all the time (In fact i liked this q&a precisely because it the most agile interview he's done in years). And of course you don't believe a word of it.

Other stuff, like Simon Ford's The Fall, tends to about, well, The Fall rather than Smith's early life. Although the Mick Middles book does have a GRATE interview with his mum.

So, um, probably Renegade I guess. But a structured and researched look at his pre-Fall life, not really.

Although the short answer is probably 'shit loads of drugs, strong elements of northern working-class religious non-conformism veering to mysticism. Again, vein of working class self-education and independence. The above elements finding vehicles in punk, Blake, satire, science fiction and ghost stories. Clearly s very strong, single-minded person and equally clearly from nearly all accounts extremely funny and often quite sweet and charming.'

Mark E Smith ‏@Markesmith 8m

Best wishes to Mr Nelson Mandela. Big Fall fan and quite a nice bloke, once you get to know him. #legend

Yeah, those are funny for a bit, but they get repetitive...

Head of Mark E. Smith, 2013
Claus Castenskiold
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pgaRehO-oiY

C4 news, last night

http://dangerousminds.net/content/uploads/images/MEStranslationCapture465.jpg

Yeah, nicking stuff off other web pages.

http://dangerousminds.net/comments/the_falls_mark_e._smith_was_on_the_tv_news_again_last_night._it_didnt_go_ve

It's not that impossible to make out what he's saying: I was unsure what Elena had said but.

February 23 1981, Plaza Ballroom, Glasgow.

http://i.imgur.com/tmTzNU7.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/0A1AKB3.jpg

60 today. Or 62, depending on who you believe.

60 today. Happy birthday MES!

Happy Birthday Mark E. Smith! The Quietus' 60 Favourite Fall Songs

good list marred by nothing off levitate

Oops, I was a bit ahead of myself with the birthday announcement. HBMES!

Mark E Smith...March the Fifth...

Ha, he was born on that date deliberately.

Here's the definitive rant...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EEKQ4SgKJe0

Thanks for the Quietus link. Hadn't seen this before, the performance of Tempo House that's on Perverted by Language (my favorite Fall, today). Happy birthday MES:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bTJdWN6BqwU

RIP

ha

Jeremy Allen doesn't understand Sparta FC.

Good list though! High Tension Line should be on it.

http://i4.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/incoming/article12695202.ece/ALTERNATES/s615b/mark-E-Smith.jpg

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A man kept alive by language