
Mark E. Smith: 'Een dubbelrol spelen is een van de essenties van het leven'
Ter afsluiting van een korte Euro-tournee waarde The Fall een Week lang door
de vaderlandse dreven, overal verdeling, verwarring en bewondering zaaiend.
Een band met een reputatie. Rauw, compromiloos, trouw aan het punk-ideaal
van weleer: neem je lot in eigen hand en rebelleer!
Een garageband in de ware zin, rock & roll zonder versiering, want de waarheid
duldt geen opsmuk. Een muur van geluid, white noise en poezie, bezweringsformules,
magie! Moderne stadskabouters met een subversieve boodschap. Craig Scanlon (gitaar),
Karl Burns (gitaar, drums), Paul Hanley (drums), Steve Hanley (bas), Kay Carrol (management)
en Marquis Smith (Mark E. Cha Cha!), de zanger, tekstschrijver en woordvoerder van de groep.
Hij ziet er oud uit voor zijn leeftijd denkhoofd, gevoelige mond, maar kan nog wel
in een onbdaarlijke lachbui ontsteken als daar aanleiding voor is. Ex-dokwerker,
goeddeels autodidact, wars van glamour en valse pretenties: een workingclass hero
met een indrukwekkende staat van dienst.
Dragnet, Grotesque (After The Gramme), Slates, Hex Enduction Hour, Room To Live.
Stuk voor stuk onmisbare rock-statements. Een band die haar werk serieus neemt zonder
humorloos te zijn. Wie niet tegen hen is, is voor hen. Daags na het omstreden Paradiso-concert
spraken we met Kay en Mark in een Amsterdams cafe.
MARK E SMITH WILL HAVE NOWT OF MADCHESTER AND
RARELY LEAVES HIS SPIRITUAL HOME, EDINBURGH, WHERE At LEAST HE KNOWS HOW TO
ORGANIZE A PISS UP IN A BREWERY. STEPHEN DALTON POPS UP FOR A DRAM. OR THREE.
The 15th Fall album and the second licensed through Fontana from Smith's own Cog Sinister label, Shiftwork is a corker,
surpassing last year's masterly Extricate with brute force and epic sentiment.
""it's wrong to think like that if you're an anrtist.
But has the man whose music closely mirrors Kafka's urban paranoia ever thought about writing seriously.?VOX JUNE 1991
THE NORTH WILL RISE April 1977.
To feel the hatred fron the U2 fans was great.
THE FALL's MARK E SMITH is to release a word album and one track details the events in New York in April whlch led
to the walkout of three members of the band.Smith has since replaced them and will debut a new Fall lineup at London WC2 LA2 on August 12. Smith has described the album, which has the working title'The Post Nearly Man', as "shouty, violent, and nothing like a Radio 4 play". "The album was put together at a number of friends' houses and Pete Waterman's Manchester studio in May and June. Many of the pieces are taken from poems and stories Smith says he's had "stacked up in boxes while I've been stuck doing my day job". The album is released by Artful in August. ""They contacted me. They'd done one by Gordon Banks (ex-England goalkeeper) on fishing and it was really good," Smith said. ""Most of my album is just prose really. lt's very much Edgar Allan Poe, very low-key with no sound effects." In April this year bass player Steve Hanley, drummer Karl Burns and guitarist Tommy Crooks left The Fall after a riotous US tour, claiming Smith was "impossible to work with". The walkout followed a number of inter-band fights and the arrest of Smith on a charge of assaulting his girlfriend, Fall keyboardist Julia Nagle. |
"There's a song that's about that, but it doesn't go into the gossipy side of it," Smith said. "It's more the aftermath. It's a pretty good sort of sketch about what I went through there. It's not like, -Oh aye they've bloody left me'ere!' or anything like that. It's about being in New York with nothing, no money or anything." Smith said that he'd played the album for Artful but their response wasn't quite what he was expecting. "They said it sounded prehistoric! It's pretty violent considering there's only bits and pieces of music on it. But that's what i was goirig for." Meanwhile, Smith and Julia Nagle have been joined in The Fall by new bass player Karen Leatham. Former Polythene drummer Kate Methen, who appeared with the band at London Camden Dirigwalls in May, has also joined the band full-time. Smith is currently looking for a full-time guitarist but says he's toying with the idea of using ten guitarists when The Fall play live again! "It's sounding good. "I haven't heard from the old band, they've changed their phone numbers, not that I've tried to call them you understand." |
NME - july 1998
One doubts whethr Mark's old mate, Marc Riley will ever figure on Cog Sinister though!
That’s infotainment
“He’s got all the technology there, he tapes it for us then we give ‘em to Mark
and he puts the lyrics over ‘em.
Hotel maids smile in unison Then
you know in your brain Leave the
Capitol Exit this Roman shell - I understand but i dont see it I understand but i dont read it Futures
and Pasts - The
evil is not in Extremes The middle mass After the fact - Young
dicks make T.V. -
Then fled to Hotel Blöedel, outside Nurnberg A long way south to a reasonable smell of death -
Tight faded male arse
Decadence and Anarchy
He said, he smiled Smile positive G.B.H.-
Interrup-
There is no culture in my
brag, Your taste for bullshit reveals a lust for a home of office This is the home of the vain ! Where are
the obliga-
Sinister and sinister
This is Lime Lizard calling Cog Sinister ?






GROTE STADS-VOODOO
Sampled Notes from N.M.E.
"Football-ah(1):
NME's 50 GREAT MOMENTS
this gentle enquiry about the
interviewer's romantic situation.
The Fall took on
the album's conceptual highpoint. With, er, mixed results.

Hello.
Material World 8 sept. '90 by Andrew Collins

SEXKYLIE: The Stars Come OUT
Link, when i was a teenager and in my 20s.
Am i right or am i wrong?”
In 1987 I left the Fall's BendSinisterLP on a bus
back from the Portobello Road.
Smith is apparently one of those that has to create - making LPs isn't a chore, it's a necessity.
"Yes they do.The Wire May 1993 in white

Cannisters from orange
books-Hey Didi did it for you-Courtesy of orange books-Hot aftershave bop-I'll use your English
friend to build the band in to the top again-Any man or anything laid flat by shave
schock
1984 & 1992
Zwetend komt de over-ijverige tourmanager het cafe binnen: 'Hij komt eraan,
hij komt eraan!' En ja hoor, even later betreedt de aangekondigde de ruimte. 'Wat is dit allemaal?' zegt hij, de situatie aanschou-
De Heilige Vader loopt ondertussen veel heen en weer, vraagt of de air-conditioning te veel lawaai maakt wrijft zijn volgeling ineens
over de rug (een zegen) en praat heel geconcentreerd over zijn Fall.
En er zijn nog zoveel dingen die The Fall moet doen, we zijn nog lang niet klaar.'


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