“Hit The North” got me into The Fall. I still play it loudly today
@Mikeystar196910 ай бұрын
One of Mark’s best interviews and with decent questions for once.
@deanstanley57992 жыл бұрын
Brix was a stunner
@saturnsabyss Жыл бұрын
Brix was a great addition to the band. Her fashion sense and sanguine temperament are completely unexpected but welcome.
@buenisimoingles4866Ай бұрын
It was after she'd fellated 3 of his bandmates in the same night that Mark finally saw sense.
@Tracy-h9zАй бұрын
@@buenisimoingles4866 is that true?? Blimey!!
@lolah3838Ай бұрын
@@Tracy-h9z No
@Tracy-h9zАй бұрын
I thought it seemed unlikely. I thought they broke up because he was sleeping with someone else.
@superhetoricАй бұрын
@@buenisimoingles4866blatant lie
@sydbarrett52 жыл бұрын
My Grandma used to play bongos in that band.
@indigo93til2 жыл бұрын
One of their best eras
@anthonymitchell88932 жыл бұрын
how could it be big dog my sister was the sole bingo player for them 1978/1994 she still has not been payed her f-------g royalties stop telling big ones please
@King-Kazma2 ай бұрын
All our grandmothers played bongos in The Fall, my friend.
@jamiecloughgaming25387Ай бұрын
Oh yes so did both of mine!
@eclectica1Ай бұрын
I once played the triangle on an obscure B-side.
@Harpdashian5 жыл бұрын
I only discovered The Fall a week before MES died (I have a weird habbit of finding new people then them dying) but this band has had such a massive effect on me. Pure Genius.
@markferguson37453 жыл бұрын
So, - it was your fault?
@papermallard2 жыл бұрын
you should find out about Paul Mccartney trhen
@Nosferatu882 жыл бұрын
I knew them from before but they seemed disturbing to me. Over time I realized that it was a matter of maturation. The best things in life are never easy to digest, otherwise we should be suspicious
@Harpdashian2 жыл бұрын
@@Nosferatu88 I agree 100%. I was 15 at the time and am happy that they clicked instantly with me and I have listened to them pretty much every day since
@eugenemclemmont40452 жыл бұрын
@@papermallard have you heard Phil Collins, you beat me to it. oh yes and Cliff Richard although he doesn`t pester us so much nowadays.
@candymoan7 жыл бұрын
"It'd be a sad day when The Fall packed up." yes, it is mate. yes it is.
@pudboy1234566 жыл бұрын
sorry candymoan mate - just said what you said. guess its an easy comment to make though.
@jimmygray40723 жыл бұрын
over 60 albums to have your pick and remember them by mate
@phillmaf73193 жыл бұрын
They are far from dead ,nearly every multi layer d lyric and riff are laind ten times thicker than Campbell s condensed soup. The bougasi are only learning to decipher this ancient gutteral form ,like archeologists deciphering heiroglythics from Fredrick road to Telow lane and the spent roaches in the lanes of Simister.
@slyasleep2 жыл бұрын
@@phillmaf7319 You have learnéd well.
@dougie19682 жыл бұрын
Brix Smith was clearly captivated by The Fall and made it her raison d'etre to be a part of it. And she's right. The Fall are a one off because they were the most unique band in the world. Mark was a very lucky man.
@Talentedtadpole2 жыл бұрын
Brix was part of one of their best eras. Love what she brought to the music.
@db0800 Жыл бұрын
Lucky to pull her she's stunning.
@MrMHughes682 жыл бұрын
I was at the Hammersmith gig that Brix mentions. They were phenomenal.
@Deedee-ee1sg2 жыл бұрын
Good to know that as a Fall fan I'm the salt of the earth! Great, unique and original band. R.I.P MARK E SMITH.
@theshamanarchist54412 ай бұрын
A salt with a deadly weapon.
@p.a.lionski4407 Жыл бұрын
The first song I heard from "The Fall" was 1987 with "new big prince" They played great songs! Today (03.02.2023)I found out that you left too soon Mark E .Smith (05.03.57- 24.01.18) my condolences ... r.i.p. 🙏 😢
@Sameoldfitup2 жыл бұрын
Life is all memory
@robhavock94342 жыл бұрын
I remember listening to the John Peel broadcast in the late 80,s on a small radio, I would walk down to the Barbican Plymouth in the evening in summer time and look at Robert Lenkiwicz paintings, I only recently looked into the Fall , I wonder if the John Peel recordings still exists, they were mind blowing.
@anthonymitchell88932 жыл бұрын
if course they f--------g do bobby boy go listen
@ARTCHANIFYАй бұрын
played video games in the theatre bar with Brix on this tour and I didn't know who she was until she went off with the band later
@DungeonStudio6 жыл бұрын
Mark never wanted The Fall to have a 'hit song', they were all hits way ahead of their time. And now Mark has Hit The North for good now. :(
@thewholecity3 жыл бұрын
Fucking hell. The only man who could stun Glastonbury in piss soaked flannels and still rock the shit out of it. What a total legend.
@TheVideoLounge2 жыл бұрын
I always thought The Fall were curators of punk - _always different, always the same_
@TheChadTI28 күн бұрын
@chriswareham1547Yep. A little drink throwing with the Fat Whites.🤙 Mark started it for no reason.
@slyasleep2 жыл бұрын
„accessibility was something to be spat on“ The Fall were often very catchy for all that.
@POET4442 жыл бұрын
MES & William S. Burroughs had a great deal in common...... both were not bothered by adulation & just got on with what they did despite being both hounded and ridiculed because of their persistence & singular vision ..... as it was with Blake ....hindsight is a wonderful thing
@bryanjames51757 жыл бұрын
R.I.P. Mark E Smith A maverick who was cooler then penguins piss
@jamesfinucane33482 жыл бұрын
Lol
@theshamanarchist54412 ай бұрын
He was a sad trampy alchie guy in a flashers mac pal. And his biggest fan, John Peel was a proper nonce.
@jfochoaster4 жыл бұрын
Brix is too beatiful
@greenaum3 жыл бұрын
She's literally painted her face on like a canvas. She could look like someone completely different for all you'd know.
@beekneedАй бұрын
Nah, she’s beautiful regardless. You can just tell. If you can’t, too bad for you. Besides, her beauty is her business, not yours.
@patriced33643 ай бұрын
Brix is right... The Fall is really totally different !
@lumpyfishgravy3 жыл бұрын
The Tube came towards the end of my teenage years, when life was getting too busy for TV. Still bloody good.
@ajs412 жыл бұрын
All the episodes are now on KZbin. I've set up a playlist of them on my channel if you're interested.
@nickburlton58216 жыл бұрын
Forgot how articulate he could be!
@RJMc8196 жыл бұрын
So did I. I'm reading a book about 'em atm, and he just seems to say "cock" a lot :D
@RJMc8196 жыл бұрын
But yeah, he's excellent in this interview. Really makes his point.
@hyena1314 жыл бұрын
Nick Burlton And sadly he became a blabbering pisshead.
@lumpyfishgravy3 жыл бұрын
It's a fair point. In his latter days he sounded like Joe Biden.
@maryryan94642 жыл бұрын
@@hyena131 I don't believe you b much different 60 albums in either
@jimmygray40723 жыл бұрын
mark ended up marrying his fan club manager, seen the fall half a dozen times from 1979 to 1985 always supporting Stiff Little Fingers
@eamonwright74882 жыл бұрын
Two bands that were miles apart from their "competition" imo
@StarvedForTime8 ай бұрын
"how long can it go on?" quite a while, Muriel. Quite a while.
@davidellis51416 жыл бұрын
Surprised Mark could deal with that accent of Brix.This was them at their peak 1985.Genius. RIP Mark.
@drunkenmo3 жыл бұрын
🙄
@finosuilleabhain77813 жыл бұрын
Do you have him down as narrow-minded?
@colinbellew30202 жыл бұрын
Cockwomblery.
@PS987654321PS2 жыл бұрын
What's wrong with the accent? Ya bigoted wanker.
@peterjonas49712 жыл бұрын
Yep, but she finally couldn't deal with him.
@ciatangallaghe24852 жыл бұрын
Whenever I listen to mes talk, I feel like making music again
@TheMLMGoldАй бұрын
MES remained true to his word, they were never really apart but more in touch musically which is why their music hasn't aged and still sounds as powerful and relevant today.
@GiffysChannel6 жыл бұрын
Fair well on your next journey Mark. Thanks for being and thanks for dying, I would have never found your music if it wasn't for that combo.
@greva2904 Жыл бұрын
The Fred Dibnah of rock n roll!
@TheOneManArmyyyyy23226 жыл бұрын
Ah,the Mighty Fall.Memories.
@tostare6 жыл бұрын
MES at his most attractive, at this point, I think.
@Hwral4 жыл бұрын
His haircut never got better than this, I’ll give you that.
@frankjamesbonarrigo7162Ай бұрын
God she was stunning
@holgerzimmer68843 жыл бұрын
salt of the earth. RIP MES
@finnkdy3 жыл бұрын
To quite a few twas Honey. Moi aussi.
@marguskiis77112 жыл бұрын
The days when Mark was able to talk normally
@slyasleep2 жыл бұрын
I wish I felt as indifferent to other people‘s affection as Mark E Smith
@Philliben19912 жыл бұрын
Brix is so sweet. Opposites attract and all that!
@simonhawkins77866 жыл бұрын
I forgot he was so handsome. Just yer granny on bongo's now. RIP The Fall.
@TheVideoLounge2 жыл бұрын
From the (literal) ashes of The Fall should come the band 'Your Granny on Bongos' , maybe Brix could carry it off
@divinenation22Ай бұрын
Fall at their best were brilliant. Msrk was a unique and great artist.
@michaelonell42483 жыл бұрын
Saturday night in Lancaster !!!!!
@paddycampbell5766 жыл бұрын
Brix and Muriel looked like they liked each other 😱
@TheChadTI28 күн бұрын
Brix was SOOOOO pretty.
@d_walsh7 жыл бұрын
RIP. m.E.s.
@wendyhill38562 ай бұрын
Brilliant attitude,actually respect their fans,sadly not the case with the so called hip musicians today.
@GriefTourist2 жыл бұрын
LA to Prestwich
@thomasminarchickjr.73556 жыл бұрын
It’s strange to me that of the few people in his lifetime that he could stand, let alone really like, was a valley girl “Brix”. Odd couple indeed
@terrypussypower4 жыл бұрын
Nah, they weren't odd at all. Mark saw in Brix a creative energy that could take The Fall into a more accessible vein, and he was right! The Brix years were the most commercially successful era for The Fall.
@Rfk19663 жыл бұрын
@@terrypussypower She deserves a lot of credit for bring some melodies to the songs and not trying to affect a British accent like Madonna
@WalterSobchak10006 күн бұрын
Lovely Brix
@johnperiard95942 жыл бұрын
Buyin what Brix is sellin. One of the most beautiful women in rock.
@billytoffingham96083 жыл бұрын
How can this man be dust ?
@zeddeka2 жыл бұрын
Because he took lots and lots of drugs. That'll do it for you.
@TheVideoLounge2 жыл бұрын
And drank copious amounts, as well as chain smoking. Works a treat.
@AudunforgardКүн бұрын
The Fall is on the rise
@johnbarry1965Ай бұрын
Glad i saw them before MES died!!!
@troygaspard67322 жыл бұрын
What a condescending question. My favorite bands in the 80's were never on the radio.
@darylcumming71192 жыл бұрын
A time capsule?
@chancesareshewears2 жыл бұрын
Brix channeling Michael from Gene Loves Jezebel..even the mole...
@abigailweir72876 ай бұрын
Brix is beautiful and Mark is handsome.
@discoverydavid2 жыл бұрын
I can't remember the interviewers name, Gloria Huniford or something, I think she fancied herself as a serious NME/Melody Maker muzo journalist but always ended up sounding like your Mum readng your end of term school report card.
@soundhead69712 жыл бұрын
I think her name is Muriel gray ? A kind of bargain basement Paula Yates!
@alanmessenger9397Ай бұрын
You could not be more wrong. She's been a board member or judge with Glasgow School of Art, the British Museum, BBC, RIBA, the Orange Prize for Fiction, and a university rector. She was slumming it at this stage, dialing down her IQ to deal with Smith's inarticulate mumbling. He was more poet than musician, and appropriately ended up looking like WH Auden (look him up).
@discoverydavid19 күн бұрын
@@alanmessenger9397 Yeah, that'll be it.
@joannedw16 жыл бұрын
Who did the bloody subtitles!!! Get them right for god sake.
@terrypussypower4 жыл бұрын
They're automatically generated.
@deemdoubleu2 жыл бұрын
I used to work with a guy who was in the Fall (really it's true) but apparently so have 100,000,000 other people
@eugenemclemmont40452 жыл бұрын
Eye there`s a few, sounds like vic 20 crap, over .
@gusto7318 ай бұрын
Mark E is so respectful, seriously answering the interviewer's idiotic questions.
@iandeeightiesmanАй бұрын
Brix 🔥 💣 🎯 🚀
@buenisimoingles4866Ай бұрын
Alas Muriel you are not the bingo master
@victoroladuja2416Ай бұрын
Brix was super cute.
@phillmaf73193 жыл бұрын
Original best of the rest,never sold ,eternal red brick performance art. Before the days of the net the Fall were already talking about masonry,jimmy saville etc..( big new prince? Check the record)..Mes es appearance in 24 hour party people was the peak of his acting career. Even he knew Tony Wilson was a bunt so ,as always ,despite the Manchester Music hype n shite he stood aloof. The hall are the epitome of not selling your creative ass,look how rich they all got! These days Salford University would give em all honorary doctorates to bleed off the integrity, like they did to Site Dr. John Cooper Clark e. In their earlier times they would be arrested by security if they ever set their working class feet on the premises.
@angelocatapang60546 жыл бұрын
mr and mrs smith.indeed.
@bluestate696 жыл бұрын
Coolest couple ever. And Brix was looking smoking hot here. Damn.
@Peter_Pepper_Love4 жыл бұрын
@@bluestate69 she still looks pretty good working with Gok Kwan now 🤔💞
@bluestate694 жыл бұрын
@@Peter_Pepper_Love she's kind of taken the torch since Mark E Smith's death. She's a talented lady.
@Peter_Pepper_Love4 жыл бұрын
@@bluestate69 yes totally agree👍 She was understandably insecure in Marks company...I think I would have been too🤔💞
@bluestate694 жыл бұрын
@@Peter_Pepper_Love wait, i thought Gok was some musician i didn't know about! i didn't know she was doing fashion! actually, i think its always been an interest of hers? but i was also speaking of "Brix and the Extricated", where she has reunited old Fall members. i just love her story though. an American who was blown away by English punk bands, so much that she moved to England and ended up JOINING one of the best punk/post punk bands of all time. AND she wrote songs!
@tcm81192 жыл бұрын
Oh but I did have a wee crush on Brix in 1985 ...
@halloweenjack86832 жыл бұрын
One day there will be a film made about you Mark- hope they can find a suitable actor 💙💙💙
@jonathanwilkinson14612 жыл бұрын
A young Simon Rouse would have been grand..
@mikeoleary17232 жыл бұрын
David Thewlis.
@gary19612 жыл бұрын
The bloke who played Dave in The Royal Family would be a good shout.
@WalterSobchak10006 күн бұрын
Charlie Chuck has been cast
@simonmaskell3652 жыл бұрын
Paula Yates was away cos she had a Baby. Murial Gray was OK.
@cquilty12 жыл бұрын
muriel gray was a mirror shattering shitt stain foisted upon us as someone somewhere thought it had some kind of 'youth' appeal. paula yates not a whole lot better.
@user-oo8xp2rf1k3 жыл бұрын
Point one YES Point two YES Point three YES Point four YES!
@jamesjameson45662 жыл бұрын
I'll have what shes having
@aak82512 жыл бұрын
YES, O YES..
@tonyoutdoors93692 жыл бұрын
mark wasnt punk mark was mark and he didnt follow or belong to nothing the fall followers will get this
@nottavictim52 жыл бұрын
They do owe a debt of gratitude to Cap’n Beefheart tho
@pudboy1234566 жыл бұрын
despite all the pretentious meaningless bollocks - he was right. it is a sad day the fall broke up. RIP Mark. only just found your music and its shite I will never see one of the lineups live :-(
@terrypussypower4 жыл бұрын
Don't worry mate, you didn't miss much. , They were crap live. Only kidding!! They were AMAZING live! Especially back in the two drummers plus Steve Hanley, Marc Riley and Craig Scanlon era!! I was lucky enough to see them many times from '79 onwards, and that "Slates/Hex Enduction Hour" line up were killer live. You should do yourself a favour and get bass player Steve Hanley's book "The Big Weekend: Life Inside The Fall" where he goes into the history of the band from when he joined in 1979 to when he left in '96.
@bezenby9804 Жыл бұрын
@@terrypussypower "The Big Midweek" it's called, but you're right - it's a great book.
@Vince-l4kАй бұрын
Shurken head ghost
@tenparkdrive4 ай бұрын
Brix was fit
@DutchVanHelsing6 жыл бұрын
She fixed her teeth here ??
@terrypussypower4 жыл бұрын
@Jeff Baker Har har har!
@Latbirget11 күн бұрын
It's a shame they had to justify their existence to the interviewer.
@paddyskate2 жыл бұрын
Lots of face touching and neck scratching going on here
@jamesjameson45662 жыл бұрын
So
@anthonymcneil15422 жыл бұрын
Like a cross between Noel Gallagher and Jarvis Cocker
@southerner45666 жыл бұрын
"I always throw all my fan mail away and don't even read it", That just about sums up Mark E Smith - TWAT !
@gdzb3 жыл бұрын
Ahh, did he not reply to you?
@paularrowsmith93762 жыл бұрын
It was his to do as he liked, good on him ,you obviously loved swap shop
@metatron007Ай бұрын
Underground
@malcolmmitchell6529Ай бұрын
Mccringe
@RockDove52129 күн бұрын
Cringe, how seriously they take themselves 😂 😂😂
@stevepearn9303 жыл бұрын
signing to Beggars Banquet ruined The Fall - turned them into your average rock band
@Strimbles2 жыл бұрын
I do NOT like this interviewer lady!
@hyena1316 жыл бұрын
He's so damn boring and says nothing of substance. Tedious little control freak.
@neilwilson57855 жыл бұрын
Aren't we all, mr Hyena, lol.
@Peter_Pepper_Love4 жыл бұрын
...even a genius can seem crazy to a fool 🤔
@hyena1314 жыл бұрын
@@neilwilson5785 No, not really.
@hyena1314 жыл бұрын
@anal emo Can't wait for your copy and paste September calendar quote. Hopefully it'll be 2022.
@terrypussypower4 жыл бұрын
He was certainly a control freak, but "tedious"?? I don't think so!! "Tedious" was the very LAST thing Mark Smith was!! Tedious people don't create bands like The Fall....One of the greatest groups that ever existed.
@barrowcloughstandfast12255 күн бұрын
Muriel. 💙
@dickhead59646 жыл бұрын
One of these guests was interesting and intruiging, The other had absolutely fuck all to say about anything, an empty can. You do the math.
@zeddeka2 жыл бұрын
MathS
@anthonymitchell88932 жыл бұрын
@@zeddeka mathematics loves asthmatics and plasmatics Wendy o Williams was a lean queen what ? do you want some gritty northern knuckle ?? cause if you do I will oblige anytime any f-------g where bigdog
@malcolmscrawdyke18686 жыл бұрын
Bad band. Quite boring.
@yknat2166 жыл бұрын
Go on give us a laugh, what's a good one?
@malcolmscrawdyke18686 жыл бұрын
@@yknat216 U2
@yknat2166 жыл бұрын
@@malcolmscrawdyke1868 did you ever hear/see Virgin Prunes, used to knock about with Bono's crew in their youth, they played M/C once with The Fall, far cry from U2 though
@malcolmscrawdyke18686 жыл бұрын
@@yknat216 Even though Im not a Fall head I have been reading The Big Midweek Life Inside The Fall by Steve Hanley (I like music books, don't care who the band is). About half way now. He mentions meeting the Virgin Prunes and they tease them about the success of their old mates U2 (who Im not really a fan of). Funny.
@yknat2166 жыл бұрын
@@malcolmscrawdyke1868 he he, yeah good read the Steve Hanley book, as is the Brix one, halfway through the Mark Smith one at the moment.
@paulbradley7052 жыл бұрын
I love artificial,lovely ,funny Brix and sharing adul t net.