http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Topic: OT: Mark E Smith en Tue, 19 May 2026 08:41:22 +0000 http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18547&page=2#post-299146 Sat, 12 Jan 2019 14:31:05 +0000 gembo 299146@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@crowriver, probably only mark saw any money at the time. Lawyers fees would exceed returns for the others.</p> <p>I was dancing to a live version of Totally Wired by an Italian riot grrrrrl backed by three old geezers. Was ok. I did have to show the young Italians the elbow moves. The band was called Kurtz. Their Cramps Iggy and Dead Kennedy numbers better.</p> <p>They were sandwiched between a very original band The Leg (you can wiki them and also Paul Vickers and The Leg) and the act I introduce with my short stuff (to stop them playing over the top of me if I go on too long). They are called Land of Cakes, named after a bakery in Dundee. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18547&page=2#post-299142 Sat, 12 Jan 2019 13:28:17 +0000 crowriver 299142@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@bax, ah yes off course. I bought that album on cassette: no record player in my student days (There re-purchased it on CD in the early zeroes when I was earning some money. So Mark et al got 2 x a few pennies from me in royalties). Somehow it mind melded with Bend Sinister in my conscious memory (also purchased on cassette back in the day and then re-bought on CD 15 years later). Couple of great albums both! </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18547&page=2#post-299134 Sat, 12 Jan 2019 12:10:10 +0000 Cyclingmollie 299134@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>That's right the mascara snake, fast and bulbous. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18547&page=2#post-299043 Thu, 10 Jan 2019 23:03:40 +0000 gembo 299043@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@bax, yes but Bend Sinister was both fast and bulbous </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18547#post-299042 Thu, 10 Jan 2019 22:31:42 +0000 minus six 299042@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>it was the centrepiece of This Nation's Saving Grace, but no matter Crowriver, as those early to mid 80s albums were firmly holographic in both character and intent, while showcasing significant musical diversity </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18547#post-299041 Thu, 10 Jan 2019 22:13:56 +0000 crowriver 299041@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Ah yes, a classic. From Bend Sinister if I recall? The dulcet tones of Brix at the end. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18547#post-299031 Thu, 10 Jan 2019 21:11:03 +0000 minus six 299031@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>HEY MARK </p> <p><a href="http://thequietus.com/articles/05559-this-nations-saving-grace-the-fall">WHY CAN'T I LIVE IN ENGLAND</a></p> <p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WxT6a0PavTo" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WxT6a0PavTo</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18547#post-274895 Sun, 11 Feb 2018 11:22:51 +0000 gembo 274895@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Good Mark E documentary on BBC 4 last night or catchup. Bizarrely Mrs Garto did not immediately insist on it being put off. Walters Is dead. Mark E favoured Walters, tells amusing anecdote (a three beer session with Walters being a sip) never that keen on peel?</p> <p>Mark e stages an argument with the band. He is in schoolteacher mode. One of them says , why do you go to the pub and leave us, Mark E says Don't you say that to me etc. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18547#post-274894 Sat, 10 Feb 2018 23:02:57 +0000 minus six 274894@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>it pays to talk to no one</p> <p>this is the summer of malcontent </p> <p>it is the winter of your mind</p> <p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GjrslHUgUa8" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GjrslHUgUa8</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18547#post-274844 Fri, 09 Feb 2018 20:20:42 +0000 gembo 274844@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@bax, no effete middle class digital types at that wake? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18547#post-274818 Fri, 09 Feb 2018 15:55:41 +0000 minus six 274818@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Brawl erupts at Mark's funeral</p> <p>"I've got to say, it was just like a Fall gig, some strange people there, and it kicked off."</p> <p>"The wake, however, didn't last half an hour before bottles were thrown and drinks poured over people. Total disrespect, he’d have loved it."</p> <p><a href="https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/showbiz-news/mark-e-smith-funeral-wake-14266255" rel="nofollow">https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/showbiz-news/mark-e-smith-funeral-wake-14266255</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18547#post-274308 Sat, 03 Feb 2018 21:15:28 +0000 minus six 274308@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>hey mark</p> <p>you're spoiling all the paintwork</p> <p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WxT6a0PavTo" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WxT6a0PavTo</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18547#post-274301 Sat, 03 Feb 2018 20:50:04 +0000 minus six 274301@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>caught in a trap</p> <p>no turning back</p> <p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GuKXYeRCUzI" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GuKXYeRCUzI</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18547#post-274097 Thu, 01 Feb 2018 08:11:47 +0000 gembo 274097@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@bax I hear you telephone thing listening in</p> <p>Shepherd's Bush 8055 where was the delay in the Mike Read era Phone in- Is this Matt Bianco? Yes. Ah, then you are a bunch of w@&amp;!errs </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18547#post-274092 Wed, 31 Jan 2018 23:37:22 +0000 minus six 274092@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>how dare you assume i want to parlez-vous with you</p> <p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WzAOiA4dH_o" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WzAOiA4dH_o</a><br /> .<br /> "i'm tapped" </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18547#post-274091 Wed, 31 Jan 2018 23:33:14 +0000 minus six 274091@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>no takers</p> <p>ah well it was this</p> <p><img src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/3/36/Multi-Coloured_Swap_Shop_Titles.jpg/250px-Multi-Coloured_Swap_Shop_Titles.jpg"></p> <p>r.i.p keith chegwin </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18547#post-274088 Wed, 31 Jan 2018 23:09:51 +0000 minus six 274088@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>"shepherds bush 8055"</p> <p>challenge offered to decipher that reference </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18547#post-274077 Wed, 31 Jan 2018 22:22:27 +0000 gembo 274077@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>G-0-H-0-H-0-9-0 </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18547#post-274075 Wed, 31 Jan 2018 22:03:15 +0000 minus six 274075@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>what's a computer</p> <p>eat y'self fitter</p> <p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yFCOt6wbm80" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yFCOt6wbm80</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18547#post-273982 Tue, 30 Jan 2018 13:35:36 +0000 crowriver 273982@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@gembo, not doubting that. From that interview though it sounds like he would be reading in the Advocate's Library or the old Royal Infirmary Library of an afternoon before embarking on a round of boozing in various bars. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18547#post-273979 Tue, 30 Jan 2018 13:09:25 +0000 gembo 273979@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>He did educaate himself through the municipal galleries and libraries of Greater Manchestah </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18547#post-273978 Tue, 30 Jan 2018 12:10:43 +0000 crowriver 273978@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>More likely the Central Bar, Leith. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18547#post-273972 Tue, 30 Jan 2018 10:58:02 +0000 chdot 273972@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>ENews taking tenuous connections to the extreme!</p> <p>“</p> <p>I don’t know if the leader of the Fall – the band’s sole continuous member, the hirer-and-firer, the musical director who once implored his quaking new guitarist, “Play it like a fookin’ snake!” – frequented the Central when he lived in Edinburgh but I wouldn’t be surprised.</p> <p>“</p> <p><a href="https://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/opinion/aidan-smith-mark-e-smith-a-legend-of-the-fall-and-city-libraries-1-4676601" rel="nofollow">https://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/opinion/aidan-smith-mark-e-smith-a-legend-of-the-fall-and-city-libraries-1-4676601</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18547#post-273587 Thu, 25 Jan 2018 09:44:26 +0000 fimm 273587@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Never heard of him....</p> <p>EDIT: " <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/music/2018/jan/24/mark-e-smith-lead-singer-with-the-fall-dies-aged-60">frontman of Manchester post-punk band the Fall</a> ... "</p> <p>I've just about heard of The Fall. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18547#post-273579 Thu, 25 Jan 2018 01:28:59 +0000 minus six 273579@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>They say them cellars were evil black</p> <p>But I know they're wrong</p> <p>Think it's one</p> <p>Been</p> <p>Living Too Long </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18547#post-273578 Thu, 25 Jan 2018 01:11:05 +0000 crowriver 273578@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Sometimes life is like a new bar<br /> Plastic seats, beer below par<br /> Food with no taste, music grates<br /> I'm living too late </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18547#post-273576 Thu, 25 Jan 2018 00:25:15 +0000 minus six 273576@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Crow's feet are ingrained on my face<br /> And I'm living too late</p> <p>Try to <a href="https://genius.com/The-fall-living-too-late-lyrics">wash the black off my face</a>, but it's ingrained<br /> And I'm living too late</p> <p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x2lXmimrnic" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x2lXmimrnic</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18547#post-273573 Wed, 24 Jan 2018 23:56:23 +0000 crowriver 273573@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Edinburgh: "They're too tight to knock the buildings down, y'know..." </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18547#post-273571 Wed, 24 Jan 2018 23:49:59 +0000 minus six 273571@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>if you ended up in the pub with mark after the gig, he would just shamble around at closing time with everyone else. no flash taxis, airs or graces. lovely guy, down to earth manc geezer </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18547#post-273567 Wed, 24 Jan 2018 23:35:00 +0000 minus six 273567@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>edinburgh: "its the poor man's san francisco" </p>