yes it's sad; for all his faults, he was a unique artist & made great music.
On 25.01.2018 20:53, Edward Picot via NetBehaviour wrote: > I was genuinely sorry to hear this. He was a notoriously difficult > bloke, and he had some unpleasantly non-PC views about things like the > Falklands War and refugees. I suspect that if you sat in a pub with > him for more than about 45 minutes you'd probably start to feel > profoundly uncomfortable. But you've got to take your hat off to > anyone who can go his own way and do his own thing as resolutely and > completely as Mark Smith, and for such a long period of time. He was a > genuine poet and a genuinely original artist. He never wrote about > things anyone else would dream of writing about, and he never sounded > remotely like anyone else. Nobody made music like The Fall: spiky, > quirky and in-your-face. I saw them live in Norwich once, when they > had their two-drummer lineup, and I remember them doing a crunchingly > powerful version of 'Eat Y'self Fitter'. My favourite track of theirs > is probably 'The Container Drivers'. > > I love that line at the end of the Guardian obituary - 'His death was > previously wrongly announced by the BBC in March last year, on his > 60th birthday.' > > Edward > > On 25/01/18 10:45, marc.garrett via NetBehaviour wrote: >> Mark E Smith, founder and lead singer with the Fall, dies aged 60 >> >> Sad to hear abotu the death of Mark E Smith. I will be playing The >> Fall all day today. Will be missed. One of my many working class >> heroes... >> >> "Smith formed the Fall in 1976 in Prestwich and was the only constant >> member of the band. He was known for his tempestuous relationship >> with his bandmates, and frequently fired them – there have been 66 >> different members over the years, with a third of them lasting less >> than a year. Smith famously once said: “If it’s me and yer granny on >> bongos, it’s The Fall.” >> >> "He was a famously prolific musician. Last year the Fall released >> their 32nd studio album, New Facts Emerge, and had been fitfully >> touring in recent months when Smith’s health would allow. The band >> played London’s 100 Club in July, while Smith performed from a >> wheelchair in Wakefield in October." >> >> https://www.theguardian.com/music/2018/jan/24/mark-e-smith-lead-singer-with-the-fall-dies-aged-60 >> >> >> >> Marc Garrett >> >> Co-Founder, Co-Director and main editor of Furtherfield. >> Art, technology and social change, since 1996 >> http://www.furtherfield.org >> >> Furtherfield Gallery & Commons in the park >> Finsbury Park, London N4 2NQ >> http://www.furtherfield.org/gallery >> <http://www.furtherfield.org/gallery> >> Currently writing a PhD at Birkbeck University, London >> https://birkbeck.academia.edu/MarcGarrett >> Just published: Artists Re:thinking the Blockchain >> Eds, Ruth Catlow, Marc Garrett, Nathan Jones, & Sam Skinner >> Liverpool Press - http://bit.ly/2x8XlMK >> >> Sent with ProtonMail <https://protonmail.com> Secure Email. >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> NetBehaviour mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour > > > > > _______________________________________________ > NetBehaviour mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour -- helen varley jamieson /*Magdalena München Saison 2018 <http://www.magdalenamuenchen.de> */ [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> http://www.creative-catalyst.com http://www.upstage.org.nz
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