Yeah well .old Mark E. Smith. Yet another working-class Englishman, full of talent and brilliant insights into our lives as humans, who preferred the insights drugs gave him to longevity. A unique geezer and well missed, even by southerners like myself. Gawd bless him.

Awkward,Mark E Smith,what a proper bloke 😉👍

I'm.not sure it's his kinda show.

I do think this the period he just started to go downhill. With his own alcoholism and substance abuse. Great interview.

Loved this guys passion for music and his art. RIP Mark. Your very much missed.

When Mark takes a drag, he takes a fucking DRAG

Everyone ripped off the fall…..

This is how every band who dissolves needs to bow out - on an undeniable career high!

I love the bit when he says "if I had Paul McCartney's mother I'd never go out the house", then laughs as he corrects himself 😂 It's too late Mark, we heard what you said the first time 😂

He's got a right boozer's mug.

Those were the days

Thanks Tim! For the vid and the notes. Uncomfortable viewing - reminds me of the exchanges through the glass of Hannibal Lecter’s cell but made more dangerous by interviewer’s lack of self awareness…and no glass

Hard living days for him then compare to interviews from 1988

what are the lyrics about? Airplanes swallowing gardens?

A killer shark being interrogated by a guppy. A half drunk apex predator of showbiz bullsht with a great back catalogue being interviewed by someone missing all the good stuff

incredible man

I would stand by a comment I made somewhere else. If you aren't a fan of the Fall, you aren't interested in music.... just my thought

I never knew we had to start in the preliminary rounds of the champions league.

Haha- Mark is so funny asking her if she’s done any interviews before, and calling her questions lazy journalism, but he’s quite right. She hadn’t done her homework and asked predictable, generic questions.

Eddie Reader Who’s she? And the ‘puzzled’ face GCSE drama-style - priceless

I was at both games that season. It was a good time to be a rovers supporter. Now? not so much lol

The last time Liverpool supporters witnessed the Premier League trophy being lifted at Anfield.

Trainspotting classic 90s movie

This is timeless such a anthem

I can't understand half of what he's saying, but i agree

Serious booze sweats; not a greaat look.

🙏🏼❤️🔥XO

Nice! All 7 minutes.

Gotta say its nice to hear him give Pete Shelley some props. But it IS my favorite thing in the world to watch him diss other musicians. Even ones I like. it makes me giggle!

Smith smirks mischievously, after claiming his stripes as a communist. He was a wylie fucker. Relisten to The Classical. He's an anarchist if anything. MTV. Remember that?

How didn’t Blackburn automatically qualify for croup stage of champions league

By eck I don't half miss this man ❤

Annihilating brilliance

PM

Mark was unique and followed himself and no one else. He was on his own path.i loved his laugh! Great interview! A legend!

The very definition of passive aggression.

Been a Fall fan for 35 years. Ever since I read Steve Hanley's biog, The Big Midweek, I have not been a fan of this man. It's Emperor's New Clothes Syndrome. Everybody just ducks their eyes and refuses to acknowledge just what a bully Mark E Smith actually was. You can hear the timidity in this interviewer's voice, FFS. Look. Manchester is just a strange city. The people there are just all like the mutants in some HP Lovecraft story, and ME, with his weird facial structure, is a prime example of this inbred sub-genetic mutation of the human species. But he was proud of his roots. Bless him.

Terry hall sinister 😂😂😂😂😂😂

Rainy days in manny Inspirational. "Not enough going on " For small minds.

Great interview ❤ James Last & his Orchstra 😂

Anyone else noticed that despite taking the deepest drags on cigs I’ve ever seen, he never exhales any smoke??!!

Been deep in a Fall listen the last few days and watching this some 6+ years on from Mark's passing... there's this huge whole in music... the reality of no new Fall albums/recordings.... they were such a constant for 40 years... I own more Fall albums than any other artist.... their body of work ... my God...

I like the way he chuckles, as if he's having a private joke with himself 😅

Tim, sincere thanks for sharing this. This stuff is important. I can't stand the thought of an interview with mark (or any great artist) not being available. Just rotting away in some archive somewhere, destined for a skip.

Seen The Fall sept.1982 in a small basement dive with about 300 other kids. I was at the side of the stage 5 feet from Mark. One of the Best shows I ever saw. Amazing.

If you turn on CC auto create you get fall lyrics

Thank you so much for sharing this. It’s an easily said thing, but we won’t see his like again. What tragic words those are to write.

are you a workaholic? "yeah, a bit too much" _10 seconds later_ "my problem is not doing enough" lol

We are Blackburn, we are a small town, But we have a world beating football club, and you may never be able to say likewise, RIP Uncle Jack.Oh, and by the way, watch your back ! We are coming for you.

Very few journalists have ever been able to connect with Mark E Smith, yet he is like your uncle from a council estate that just so happens to be in one if the most original and unique bands in the world, ever. Uninterested by fame and populist guff, somewhat interested in history and politics (of the working struggle) and values ideas and originality over mimicry and duplication, or "scenes". To be honest I used to just think he was violent and belligerent man, but I have now come to realize much of this is in response to people not understanding him and generally turning into wet blankets (or showing no spine) in his presence, and what he clearly does not respect.