Mark E Smith no longer with us. If it's me and yer granny on bongos, it's the Fall. On Telly Savalas’s beloved detective character Kojack: “He’s a twat.” On Mumford & Sons: “We were playing a festival in Dublin the other week. There was this other group, like, warming up in the next sort of chalet, and they were terrible,” Smith told the Aussie magazine Brag in 2010. “I said, ‘Shut them ****s up!’ And they were still warming up, so I threw a bottle at them. The bands said, ‘That’s the Sons of Mumford’ or something. ‘They’re number five in charts!'” On the state of music in 2017: “The standard of music these days is ****ing terrible. Being poorly you have to watch **** like Jools Holland,” Smith told the Guardian in what the site calls Smith’s final interview. “A lot of it sounds like when I was 15 and I’d go round to a long-haired guy’s flat to score a joint and they’d always put on some ****ing lousy Elton John LP. That sounds like Ed Sheeran to me, a duff singer songwriter from the 70’s you find in charity shops.”
On Motorhead/Lemmy: “He has one week in bed every month though doesn’t he? You’d never catch me doing that.
Northern English pop: “I think that the Kaiser Chiefs and Arctic Monkeys should open a chain of chip shops in North Yorkshire.”
Hmm, I may be wrong but from what I’ve heard he was just another in a long line of out spoken pissed up drug taking punk rockers.
Massive fan of The Fall, was gutted to hear that he'd died yesterday. I saw them play 5 or 6 times in the late 80's early 90's. Mark E Smith was a miserable ****er, but a genius with it. Remember seeing a gig at the Brixton Academy and at the end he went round collecting all of the set lists from the monitors and amps, loads of fans at the front were begging him to dish them out to the crowd. He walked to the front of the stage, folded them all up, put them in his back pocket and then ****ed off. ****ishly funny
So this obscure band that only a handful of people seem to have heard off, what song(s) are they famous for?
