Mark Edward Smith
05.03.1957 - 24.01.2018
The Fall
The Wonderful and Frightening World of Mark E. Smith
The Wonderful and Frightening World of Mark E. Smith
- full BBC4 documentary (2004) -
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Wednesday, 24 January 2018
Wednesday, 18 October 2017
Brix & The Extricated - Part 2 (2017)
Brix / The Extricated
Part 2
(2017)
Brix Smith Start (born Laura Elisse Salenger, best known as Brix Smith) is an American singer and guitarist, best known as the lead guitarist and a major song writer for the English post-punk band The Fall. Smith Start reunited with former Fall members Steve Hanley and Paul Hanley as Brix & The Extricated for a one-off gig at the Manchester Ruby Lounge in December 2014. They played Fall songs to celebrate the launch of Steve Hanley's book "The Big Midweek: Life Inside The Fall." The success of the concert saw the band start performing more gigs and in 2015 a national UK tour. They played the Rebellion Festival in August 2016 where Brix was interviewed by John Robb. By this time new material was being written and introduced into the set. A single "Something to Lose" was released on Blang Records in November 2016, followed by the album "Part 2" in September 2017.
01. Pneumatic Violet [3:57]
02. Feeling Numb [2:50]
03. Something to Lose [4:33]
04. Hotel Bloedel [3:44]
05. Damned for Eternity [2:13]
06. Moonrise Kingdom [3:45]
07. Teflon [2:46]
08. Valentino [3:47]
09. L.A. [4:28]
10. Time Tunnel [0:30]
11. Hollywood [5:40]
Friday, 28 July 2017
The Fall - New Facts Emerge (2017)
The Fall
New Facts Emerge
(2017)
July 2017 sees the new album by the Fall - their first since "Sub Lingual Tablet" in 2015 - containing 11 new tracks recorded at various studios in the UK and produced in conjunction with Mark E Smith. The band, now in their 41st year, have proven a major influence to many a band in both the UK and around the world. "New Facts Emerge" is their third studio album for Cherry Red Records and regardless of who is playing behind him, who is releasing his records and who he’s married to, frontman Mark E. Smith carries that idea forward and concentrates it down. In fact, as he's moved further and further away from the relatively accessible pop he has occasionally threatened since the '80s, the idea of what The Fall are, and what The Fall are for has crystallised. The band no longer exist as the cracked mirror of the '80s and '90s, who warped the sound of the times into strange and unpalatable shapes, from post punk to art pop to baggy. Over the last decade Smith has calcified The Fall. Arguably the 2017 Fall is the purest version of the band there has ever been. This, you imagine, is what the inside of Smiths fogged head sounds like. Which is possibly why "New Facts Emerge" is one of the best things Smith has put his name too in a decade, the most complete and satisfyingly bonkers Fall album since 2008's "Imperial Wax Solvent". Here Smith finally lets go of the idea of singing at all.
01. Segue (0:30)
02. Fol De Rol (6:35)
03. Brillo De Facto (3:49)
04. Victoria Train Station Massacre (1:14)
05. New Facts Emerge (4:02)
06. Couples vs Jobless Mid 30s (8:44)
07. Second House Now (4:28)
08. O! Zztrrk Man (3:50)
09. Gibbus Gibson (2:37)
10. Groundsboy (3:38)
11. Nine out of Ten (8:48)
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