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     Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 8434 Registered: 05-2005 |
Just 60 years old. https://www.theguardian.com/music/2018/j an/24/mark-e-smith-lead-singer-with-the- fall-dies-aged-60 | ||
| Rob Brookman Member Username: Rob_b Post Number: 1862 Registered: 08-2006 |
No shit. What a loss. I immediately think of Kevin, of course. He must be gutted. | ||
| Simon Withers Member Username: Sfwithers Post Number: 499 Registered: 08-2005 |
I've had a love-hate relationship with The Fall, and was lambasted on a Fall fan site a while back after I posted a less than positive review of a fall gig on this website, but I'll still miss the cussed old bugger. The Fall created some great music, and a unique live act (variable, but I love a wall of noise) but I have some very, very fond memories of live performances at various West Country venues. | ||
| Burgers Member Username: Burgers Post Number: 86 Registered: 05-2005 |
I met him on a train from Carlisle to Edinburgh in around 1999. He was smoking in what they used to call the vestibule end. The Fall had their moments but I’ve always disliked Hit the North. Manchester is in the midlands. | ||
| Simon Withers Member Username: Sfwithers Post Number: 501 Registered: 08-2005 |
Very, very brief piece on MES on the BBC's 10'o clock news, but a longer piece on BBC2's Newsnight at this very moment. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 3848 Registered: 03-2005 |
Whoa! I’ve been offline dealing with my house and didn’t see this. I first heard the Fall in a record store (Tower Records) in San Francisco in 1986. The store was playing This Nation’s Saving Grace. The Fall became one of my main bands for about eight years and i’ve continued to listen to them since, though their recent albums are spotty in terms of quality. Stephen Hanley wrote a fantastic book about the band during the long years he was bassist. I recommend it to anybody with an interest in this band. MES was a serious alcoholic and without reading any articles about this I have to assume his death was related to his drinking. He was a one-off, MES. At the moment the only person I can think of who is remotely like Mark E. Smith is Robert Lloyd of the Nightingales, another cranky contrarian. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 8438 Registered: 05-2005 |
Flying Nun founder Roger Shepherd has put an excerpt from his book concerning The Fall online https://thespinoff.co.nz/music/25-01-201 8/roger-shepherd-remembers-the-falls-198 2-tour-of-nz-and-the-resulting-controver sial-live-album/?utm_source=Flying+Out&u tm_campaign=96e2cd2fa2-WEEKLY_NEWSLETTER _11812_17_2015&utm_medium=email&utm_term =0_7cfab6448d-96e2cd2fa2-29134917&mc_cid =96e2cd2fa2&mc_eid=c732c5a248 | ||
| Jerry Clark Member Username: Jerry Post Number: 1218 Registered: 08-2004 |
Not a huge fan of The Fall. But definitely a dibbler for his work. I was listening to the expanded A-Sides compilation on Monday. Loved the original A-Sides 84-89 comp. |