Brix Smith Start pays tribute to Mark E Smith at VO5 NME Awards 2018

[@ThatGuyThanus]

Saw her live in Edinburgh with the fall, playing behind a ballet troupe. The most surreal, and fantastic gig I ever saw!

[@funkp0wer]

I Am Kurious Oranj, wasn’t it fabulous! 🍊

[@lotusdevi]

Wow im so amazed by the disrespect of the audience !! Specially being fellow musicians....Brix and The brilliant Mark E Smith certainly deserve more cred than what was recived just there.....*cringe* so diappointing he wouldnt have cared though, its just the notion of the audience not caring that surprises me....they prob dont respect Brix, but its Mark, cmon give a bit guys

[@lextalonis839]

NME Awards? Mark would have preferred Smash Hits or Mobo..contrarian.

[@geoffpoole483]

@@lextalonis839 Stuart Maconie wrote about the occasion when Mark suggested theyconduct an interview in a Middle Eastern restaurant....... a kebab house.

[@SingleTrack66]

Disgusting ignorant idiot undeserving audience

[@chaunceyloveshack9530]

yea what was up with that?

[@mikecondy6010]

Cause the audience know they're unfit to stand in Smith's shadow and they despise it.

[@alexhumphries4057]

That was a great speech. I feel he would hate it, but being a Fall fan isn't about being Mark.

[@was_ist_musik]

Not every women would praise her ex-husband like this. I think, this tells us something about Mr Mark E Smith, who was often considered to be a mean and difficult person. R.I.P.

[@gromitpesley]

Elefantus1000 Publicity

[@iainrobb2076]

He often was, but largely he was difficult because he was an alcoholic, and I think people made allowances for that, because deep down he was a good person.

[@dermot51]

@@iainrobb2076 Loved sulphate, took it daily, very punk rock, drank like a fucking fish too hence his early demise.

[@iainrobb2076]

@@dermot51 Also smoked like a chimney.

[@dermot51]

@@iainrobb2076 Aye! cigs and draw.

[@TheChannelofaDisappointedMan]

Yes, nobody is listening, but she's not bothered. It's from the heart, it's the truth, and anyone too blind to notice isn't worth thinking about.

[@finnkdy]

Eulogising Mark, try rolling o bubble up a hill.

[@834arglebardconnden7]

@@thechaostrials1964 ajhjhajjhjhahhj

[@834arglebardconnden7]

Pile of crunde

[@SingleTrack66]

The people not paying attention will feel the wrath of my bombast. I wonder how many of the chattering nobodies will be eulogised 35 yrs and albums later ?

[@nigelsarah1]

A late Seventies Mark probably predicted this scenario..in a dystopian future where all the musicians present were the entitled fools paying no attention at the NME awards when he died...

[@triplesevensix291]

He would hate this.

[@neilwilson5785]

And secretly like it.

[@jiggersotoole7823]

He'd love it ffs

[@NOWtheband]

@@neilwilson5785 - Ha ha, yeah! I reckon so too. ;-)

[@chaunceyloveshack9530]

mark hates a lot things, but he loved being appreciated

[@badboy46528]

Beautiful speech, full on

[@TheIkaraCult]

I think this is a really nice tribute. Miserable old bloke Fall fans wont like it, but they can get on with being Miserable old bloke Fall fans.

[@user-sm7og6fi3j]

What are you on about? She's an old woman and if you aren't a fan of miserable, old blokes" why are you here? The weren't Fall fans btw.

[@methyod]

You know what's funny to me, is people who've never met MES thinking they know him better than someone he was married to

[@JAMAICADOCK]

Mark E Smith was too smart for the Music Industry. Probably would've been more suited to writing free verse as some stream of consciousness Northern poet. A kinda Manc Kerouac But I'm glad he used rock n roll as his vehicle, given he pioneered something original, and gave people who generally wouldn't give abstract poetry a second glance, a path into higher forms of culture. I mean what other band would've actually done a ballet, and what's more - done something remarkable with it? Plus we should give credit to all the unsung musicians and producers who did a great job at interpreting his vision.

[@JonGem1001]

trev moffatt well said, he did well to make as commercial as he did.

[@sergiomendez3787]

Lol he actually hated rock and roll

[@gaynordurdy7689]

Manc Kerourac!!! Love it X

[@dermot51]

Wasnt only Mark, he always had shit hot musicians creating the music

[@LandAfootyNOTHD]

RIP mark e smith

[@MichaelHerrington-i1i]

Nice one Brixton, loved the book as well.

[@ccfctommy]

Just seen this. Brilliant.

[@outdoorminer5533]

A legend dies, another legend pays him tribute. No one is listening. Probably waiting for Kanye West to come out and do something "edgy."

[@lotusdevi]

yes so shitty of that audience....clearly a different naive generation with no appreciation for real musical genius

[@benferris149]

Kanye's the greatest artist of the 21st century

[@Peter_Pepper_Love]

@@benferris149 NOT!!

[@mayflower2370]

@@Peter_Pepper_Love To be far we don't have many

[@SingleTrack66]

Let’s face it. How many fall fans want those dicks in the audience to listen to their Fall music ? Not me . They’ve got Kanye. 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@spaceengineer1452]

Why shout into a microphone ???

[@cazb877]

Beautiful tribute from Brix, says a lot about the type of man he really was in private for an ex-wife to speak so highly of you. Although he had his faults like the rest of us. A very, very tough character when it came to the group and a man who did not suffer fools gladly. Although I reckon he was a big softy in private, such a shame he never had children but I guess The Fall was his ‘child’. An amazing legacy of groundbreaking music left for us to enjoy. Made me chuckle about the Christmas card to the NME, typical sardonic northern humour. Rest in Power Mark from a fellow Mancunian . 👊🏻👊🏻

[@rsu8689]

"such a shame he never had children" Why?

[@cazb877]

RapeState U I just think he would of made a great Dad. Doesn’t really matter now does it, he chose to live his life the way he wanted to live it, that’s all that matters in the end.

[@pinkitypink6246]

Have you read her book? Not too highly thought of dirty laundry aired literally.

[@user-sm7og6fi3j]

@@pinkitypink6246 Yeah, the dumb bitch had to profit off him in death. She only did this for herself, did you hear her credit herself as THE songwriter in the fall.

[@chaunceyloveshack9530]

@@user-sm7og6fi3j he was still alive when she released her book, try a bit harder

[@vonliz8223]

He fuckin hated the NME haha

[@deemdoubleu]

good speech, no bull

[@krasteff]

She misquoted John Peel, he referred to the Fall, not ME Smith when he said they are always different and always the same.

[@fintonmainz7845]

People who bought a cassette tape of the Fall more than a quarter of a century ago think they know him better than her

[@jakeplatt7367]

well, if you didn't know who mark e smith was, now you still don't.

[@ichhasseamerika]

I like her. My generation, not these entitled egotistical useless phone/self-worshippers of today. Disagree with me? Where are the M.E. Smiths of this generation?

[@mikecondy6010]

Sam Fender & Sam Smith

[@theshamanarchist5441]

@@mikecondy6010 muppet

[@ciatangallaghe2485]

Christ imagine moving to Manchester on purpose

[@theshamanarchist5441]

Moving to Wankchester to shack up with one of its biggest wankers. She's still gorgeous though in spite of it.

[@gart9680]

Bloody hell. Take about making it about yourself. What about Mark's widow?

[@fudgedog123]

And nobody was even listening. Bit disrespectful really, but mes wouldn’t have listened attentively either.

[@neilwilson5785]

That's why we do this. Those people help to define us. They are thinking about doing a Coldplay band, or getting into hiphop even though they live in Guildford. Fuck them.

[@jacobfowler4426]

its fitting really

[@ox2165]

No one's listening. Love you brix 💕💖💓🖤

[@soundhead6971]

Mark e Smith was the Chung wit the biff bang the puff pastry hangman!

[@madmaxine4185]

The twisted brain wrong of a one off man mental

[@rageagainstthenumpty4608]

She’s quite fit.

[@daledillard844]

I don't think mark would have liked this

[@shapecatfilms7592]

I agree! In his book he wasn't impressed by how she still kept his surname all these years after being divorced, even though she had remarried. I don't think that he would have liked how she now fronts a Fall covers band with ex-members, either.

[@oksanayatsenyak4488]

You might be right. But I suspect he's d have laughed long and loud. Especially at the crowd in the hall, who showed their contempt for a dead fellow of their 'art' openly and oafishly. And metaphorically spat on a grieving friend. Well done, British pop!

[@shapecatfilms7592]

He also might have said 'That's not very Fall' or 'That's not what The Fall are about!' ;)

[@MrDegsy69]

Brix is just Courtney Love ugly now and lost that 'rock chick' sparkle. Mark would definitely have had no truck with this as the Fall was always a cool group. The rhetoric just washes over the post millenials present in the audience. It is really corny to say it but you truly would have had to have been there at the time to fully appreciate 'the wrath of Marks bombast'. These words are just pure retrospection today. God help us now as i place Mark on the same revered pedestal as Zappa, Beefheart and Morisson. Yes he was that special! RIP MES.

[@shapecatfilms7592]

@MrDegsy69 very true. and well said!

[@gavinobrien3654]

Id confidently predict that MES would absolutely despise anyone and everyone associated with the woefully out of date NME..😂

[@hamupinhere]

Mhmm. I s'pose that was a bit shite, wuzzit not?

[@frankboothsedated.7054]

Yeah, a bit cringeworthy, but nice one, Brix.

[@Dangermoose-rv6bb]

Fair play...the Yanks make cringe look absolutely effortless.

[@merked1980]

When a blonde female american moves from cali to manchester in the late 80's, i don't think love.. I think opportunism from an opportunist. And i think the same with this i'm afraid.. 2nd husband the same.. Can't just marry 'a guy' but rather someone that appears to give her a leg up career wise..

[@JonGem1001]

A definitve Rant shut up you cynical twat.

[@merked1980]

@@JonGem1001 no

[@GNeuman]

A Definitive Rant.... What utter rubbish you've written ...Brix ushered in the most commercially successful period of The Fall and MES is on record as rating Brix as a "Good guitarist". She certainly brought glam to the band and was an amazing juxtaposition to MES with their weirdest of Anglo-American collaborations...

[@portaccio]

I agree. She kept Smith's surname despite re-marrying. Don't want to lose that bit of status do we?

[@user-sm7og6fi3j]

@@GNeuman She credited herself as guitarist and THE songwriter in the fall, she is an opportunist at best. So what if she was part of a commercially successful period? Nothing they did during at that time compares with a track like Winter, or their later stuff like blindness.

[@robbierichards3911]

This is embarrassing.

[@eoinmurphyeoinmurphy669]

Awful

[@ganymedeix9511]

MES was as shite as the NME

[@theshamanarchist5441]

True. Melody Maker was a better publication and Shaun William Ryder (Happy Mondays frontman) was a superior poet/songsmith.