#Mark E Smith

2005: Mark E. Smith Reading the Football Classifieds With the return of the Premier League this weekend, it’s the perfect pretext to enjoy the legendary frontman from The Fall, Mark E. Smith, reading the football classified results in his inimitable style. Clip taken from Final Score, originally broadcast 19 November 2005 #BBCArchive #TheFall #MarkESmith #PostPunk #PremierLeague

🎥 'Totally Wired' by The Fall, filmed in New York (1981).⁠ ⁠ For all of his complexities, Mark E Smith could be gloriously straightforward. ‘Totally Wired’ is one song whereby you don’t have to have been up for two nights in a bedsit for the meaning to suddenly click in a eureka moment that’s forgotten by sunrise.⁠ ⁠ Read more at the link in our bio 🔗⁠ ⁠ #TheFall #MarkESmith #FarOutMagazine

I need your help: I’ve listened to the last 20 seconds of this clip at least 100 times, and I still can’t figure out who Mark is referring to — who’s the actress wife? Who’s the guy he’s referring to? Who’s fluent in Manchurian accents? ⚡️ Mark E. Smith Mick Middles’s Unreleased Documentary Manchester, England 1994 ⚡️ #markesmith #thefall #interview #losangeles #manchester #postpunk

WOT YOU WATCHIN?: ‘The Fall - The Wonderful and Frightening World of Mark E Smith’, a 1-hour Documentary looking at the Manchester post-punk group and its infamous leader. The film follows the band recording their final Session for the John Peel Show, as well as chronicling their chaotic history and numerous line-up changes. Watch it on YouTube. #CinemaSunday #markesmith #thefall

He was identified as one of the leaders of post-punk, but Mark E. Smith – who died on this day seven years ago – was post-everything. The founder of the Fall defied conventions at every turn. His cut-and-paste lyrical collages showed contempt for the intellectual class, a sardonic fascination with post-industrial grime and Northern English existential wit. The Mancunian was an iconoclast, though he’d probably reject that tag. ‘Agent of confrontation’ is more apt. Smith: “Rock & roll isn’t even music really. It’s a mistreating of instruments to get feelings over.” A good number of band mates would say the quote applied to them. The Fall had more than 50 line-up changes and 60-some members over 31 studio albums. Collaborators came and went – sometimes because they ate salad or danced to ‘Smoke on the Water. Sometimes after a fistfight – as was the case during a notorious 1998 NYC show, when an on-stage melee led to the departure of  longtime bassist Steve Hanley and Karl Burns. Mark E. Smith: “I was too soft with the band. I spoiled them to death!” Post-punk set out to reject the clichés and sensibilities that came before it, but Smith rejected everything on the road to one of music’s most prolific and compelling careers. Smith: “I do feel like an outsider, but I don’t lose any sleep over it.” For more stories like this, follow @ruffianbooks Video: “Eat Yourself Fitter” video, 1982. #thefall #markesmith #postpunk #postpunkmusic #punk #punkrock #garagerock #indiemusic #manchester #nickcave #thefallband #1980s #joydivision #thesmiths

Mark E. Smith collecting the MOJO Maverick Award in 2008 - presented by The Cribs and John Cooper Clarke. #TheFall #MarkESmith #PostPunk #AlternativeMusic #mojomagazine

@thejeremyvine shares a story about Mark E Smith from The Fall #comedy #ukcomedy #jeremyvine #radio2 #markesmith #thefall #trashfuture

6 guitar riffs of The Fall #postpunk #markesmith

Happy new year!

Mark E. Smith and Kirsty MacColl share their thoughts on Fleetwood Mac's 'Family Man' in a 1988 interview on Night Network 😅📺⁠ ⁠ 🎥: via Scottish TeeVee⁠ ⁠ #MarkESmith #KirstyMacColl #FarOutMagazine

Ahead of the end of the football season this weekend, here’s Mark E Smiths appearance on Final Score in 2005. #fallfriday #markesmith #finalscore #football

The fall - 2x4 (the tube 1983) #thefall #markesmith