People are sharing their Mark E Smith memories and it’s great-ah
Sad news reaches Poke HQ that Fall singer Mark E Smith has died, and quite frankly all we’ve done since then is play Fall tracks on Spotify and read people’s tributes on Twitter.
Here’s 14 of the best comments.
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My favourite MES story involves Badly Drawn Boy. BDB stops his car when he sees Mark E Smith leaving some building. MES waves him down, presuming it's a taxi, gets in the backseat and orders BDB to take him home. Which he does, without question.
— Gdorean (@Gdorean2) January 24, 2018
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https://twitter.com/NivenJ1/status/956270798079188992
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Mark E. Smith is walking down a street. He sees a little girl crying. He asks her what’s wrong. She says she’s lost her teddy bear. ‘Don’t worry. He’s gone touring with a rock band.’ Every now and then Mark sends a postcard from 'Mark E. Bear'. He kept this up until she was 28.
— Éamon Sweeney (@swench) January 25, 2018
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"Mark E Smith is the only artist in the history of the Jools Holland show to have a clause in his contract inserted to state that Jools wouldn't play "No boogie-woogie piano, Mister Holland" over The Fall songs. #legend
— David Ziggy Greene (Illustrator?) (@SaHreports) January 24, 2018
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Mark E Smith to @StuartMaconie (he will confirm): "You've got a bit of a look of MC Hammer about you, yourself."
— Andrew Collins (@AndrewCollins) January 24, 2018
6.
A producer who worked with #MarkESmith told me he’d seen him pour Guiness over his cornflakes and sprinkle cocaine on top.
— Dino Sofos (@dinosofos) January 24, 2018
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Once filmed Mark E Smith for Adam & Joe Show. Hilarious, lovely & completely fucking nuts at the same time! He then kicked us out of @AdamBuxton house & wouldn't let us back in til we posted him £400 cash & 4 beers through the letter box. Enjoy https://t.co/B0SRhCqyUY #markesmith
— Paul Young (@paulyoung145) January 24, 2018
8.
Ah bless you glorious Mark E Smith. To truly experience the Fall, you had to see them at least once when they were fantastic and at least once when they were dreadful. And dreadful was as much fun as fantastic.
— Mark Steel (@mrmarksteel) January 24, 2018
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This list of things Mark E Smith doesnt like is amazing pic.twitter.com/wyuJ9DIsjC
— Marc Burrows (@20thcenturymarc) May 14, 2017
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Mark E Smith – for better or for worse, we won't see his like again pic.twitter.com/I7SJijYgLD
— Stuart C Taylor (@stuartctaylor) January 24, 2018
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I have a Mark E Smith story actually. Back in the day Suede got asked to support The Fall on a couple of dates. To a man we were massive fans and VERY excited to be asked. Everyone told us he could be rough on support bands but he was great. Lots of time to soundcheck. (1)
— Mat Osman (@matosman) January 24, 2018
He was friendly, helpful, told us to come straight to him with any problem. The shows were great, his crowd were great, The Fall were great. On our way home in the van we were listening to Richard Skinner and he had an interview with Mark. We listened in intently. (2)
— Mat Osman (@matosman) January 24, 2018
Especially when Skinner asked, "Do you like any of the new bands who are calling you an influence."
Mark said "Like who?"
Skinner asked "Well, like Suede."There was a perfectly timed beat.
"Never heard of them."
— Mat Osman (@matosman) January 24, 2018
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Mark E. Smith once fired his sound engineer for ordering a salad. #thatsrocknroll
— Ian McNabb. Cultural attaché: Kensington, L,pool. (@empiresend) January 24, 2018
13.
Oh no, I'm so sad about Mark E Smith. I remember seeing The Fall play at Camp Bestival and telling my ex, who'd no idea who they were, that 'Basically Grandpa in My Pocket is going to shuffle on stage and tell us all to fuck off'. Which is more or less what happened.
— Mélanie Woebespierre de Clegane (@MmeGuillotine) January 24, 2018
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2002. In a north London pub before a Fall gig & MES appears at the bar. My mate politely asks MES what time they’re on?. MES shruggs & points out his manager who can advise. Said manager was of course a random bloke having a quiet pint & had never heard of The Fall.
— JG (@JohnnyGiles) January 24, 2018
And we’ll leave the final word to this guy:
RT if you were ever in The Fall
— Mr Del Bra Burner (@Nundmc) January 24, 2018
We miss you already Mark – you were great.
Source: Twitter/@bengoldacre