Sad, but not surprising news that Mark E Smith has died, aged 60.
He never looked very healthy. Some great songs and music over the years. Including the quasi-satirical "Edinburgh Man".
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Posted 6 years ago #
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He never looked very healthy. - to be fair, he looked exactly like you would expect to look if you lived like Mark E Smith...
(@bax has tributed in disco biking thread)
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When I'm dead and gone
My vibrations will live on
In vibes on vinyl through the years
People will dance to my waves(Psykick Dance Hall)
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Some of the worst gigs I have ever been to were fall gigs. Still loved them
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edinburgh: "its the poor man's san francisco"
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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
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Edinburgh: "They're too tight to knock the buildings down, y'know..."
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Crow's feet are ingrained on my face
And I'm living too lateTry to wash the black off my face, but it's ingrained
And I'm living too latePosted 6 years ago # -
Sometimes life is like a new bar
Plastic seats, beer below par
Food with no taste, music grates
I'm living too latePosted 6 years ago # -
They say them cellars were evil black
But I know they're wrong
Think it's one
Been
Living Too Long
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Never heard of him....
EDIT: " frontman of Manchester post-punk band the Fall ... "
I've just about heard of The Fall.
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ENews taking tenuous connections to the extreme!
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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.
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More likely the Central Bar, Leith.
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He did educaate himself through the municipal galleries and libraries of Greater Manchestah
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@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.
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G-0-H-0-H-0-9-0
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"shepherds bush 8055"
challenge offered to decipher that reference
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no takers
ah well it was this
r.i.p keith chegwin
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how dare you assume i want to parlez-vous with you
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"i'm tapped"Posted 6 years ago # -
@bax I hear you telephone thing listening in
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@&!errs
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Brawl erupts at Mark's funeral
"I've got to say, it was just like a Fall gig, some strange people there, and it kicked off."
"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."
https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/showbiz-news/mark-e-smith-funeral-wake-14266255
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@bax, no effete middle class digital types at that wake?
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it pays to talk to no one
this is the summer of malcontent
it is the winter of your mind
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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?
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.
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Posted 5 years ago #
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Ah yes, a classic. From Bend Sinister if I recall? The dulcet tones of Brix at the end.
Posted 5 years ago # -
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
Posted 5 years ago #
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