Mark E Smith

ZenHalfTimeCrock said:
I actually have a t-shirt from that tour. It's the cover of the 'Extricate' album with a list of venues on the back.

Someone in the UK was flogging one on e-Bay a few years ago.

This video features pretty much the full constellation of MES idiosyncracies (faulty megaphone, plastic bag, amp knob twiddling, premature off-stage departure etc.):



But possibly the best ever bit of MES being deliberately provocative and annoying on TV comes at the end of this performance:





Appropriate too. Most of the music on Later is fucking shit and I can't stand the way Jools Holland goes around saying how great all the performers are.
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He always had a fit bird in the band and married a few of them!
 
cyberblue said:
Didn't realise Kay had passed away RIP
spent many a boozy time with Mark,Kay & others in the Forestors pub in Prestwich late 70s early 80s
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He used to bring his shoes in for repair in the morning, saying he'd get them later after he'd been for 'a little drink'. Nice as pie bringing them in, grumpy fucker when collecting them.
 
Didsbury Dave said:
Another MES story I've just remembered, City related:

About 10 years ago City were really getting into the social media, modern marketing thing. It was the time when we did the Tevez poster etc. The club had a kit launch event in the Northern Quarter, I think probably for the first Umbro kit. They decided to invite City fans who they saw as "influencers" and my mate was seen as one due to his high profile on Twitter at the time. If memory serves me right then I think @Ric was there too and I've a feeling he actually sat with my mate and witnessed this:

MES was also invited as a high profile Blue and my mate, a big Fall fan, went and sat with him and he proceeded to get arseholed on the free booze. Apparently the more pissed MES got, the more abusive he got because, unsuprisingly, he hated the whole corporate pretentiousness and youthful marketing slant of the whole event. He was heckling, shouting things like "What would Mike fucking Doyle have made of this?", and got so abusive that he was more or less asked to leave.

Brilliant.
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I never realised Mark was a City fan till I read the comments on this thread
Did he actually go to many games and I don't meen this disrespectfuly
I knew Mark quite well late 70s early 80s sometimes saw him in the pub before & after some games and never once remember speaking to him about City ( maybe we were too pissed or stoned or both)
Some members of the Prestwich & Whitefield branch knew him better than me & none of them ever suggested getting him to a meeting ( piss up)or coming to a game or getting stuff of him to raffle auction or even mentioning he was a Blue
Maybe he didn't want us to know lol as there was a good chance he would have ended up well & truly in the shit on some of our trips
Every day is a school day & you learn something new all the time
Top bloke Mark RIP mate
 
cyberblue said:
I never realised Mark was a City fan till I read the comments on this thread
Did he actually go to many games and I don't meen this disrespectfuly
I knew Mark quite well late 70s early 80s sometimes saw him in the pub before & after some games and never once remember speaking to him about City ( maybe we were too pissed or stoned or both)
Some members of the Prestwich & Whitefield branch knew him better than me & none of them ever suggested getting him to a meeting ( piss up)or coming to a game or getting stuff of him to raffle auction or even mentioning he was a Blue
Maybe he didn't want us to know lol as there was a good chance he would have ended up well & truly in the shit on some of our trips
Every day is a school day & you learn something new all the time
Top bloke Mark RIP mate
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Always been surprised you didn't mention him much in your books
A big blue and cynical with it too I'd guess
born in salford but saw the light even before moving up to your way


the thread on the main forum about "City entrance music (ideads?)
i included my choice
one of Marks songs
M5#1

forums.bluemoon-mcfc.co.uk

City entrance music (ideas?)

Let’s just use this That's exactly the sort of crap we should run a mile from using.
forums.bluemoon-mcfc.co.uk forums.bluemoon-mcfc.co.uk
 
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cyberblue said:
I never realised Mark was a City fan till I read the comments on this thread
Did he actually go to many games and I don't meen this disrespectfuly
I knew Mark quite well late 70s early 80s sometimes saw him in the pub before & after some games and never once remember speaking to him about City ( maybe we were too pissed or stoned or both)
Some members of the Prestwich & Whitefield branch knew him better than me & none of them ever suggested getting him to a meeting ( piss up)or coming to a game or getting stuff of him to raffle auction or even mentioning he was a Blue
Maybe he didn't want us to know lol as there was a good chance he would have ended up well & truly in the shit on some of our trips
Every day is a school day & you learn something new all the time
Top bloke Mark RIP mate
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A very old and amusing interview we he talkes about stopping going because of the moaning:

When Saturday Comes - Call yourself a football fan? – Mark E Smith (wsc.co.uk)
 
cyberblue said:
I never realised Mark was a City fan till I read the comments on this thread
Did he actually go to many games and I don't meen this disrespectfuly
I knew Mark quite well late 70s early 80s sometimes saw him in the pub before & after some games and never once remember speaking to him about City ( maybe we were too pissed or stoned or both)
Some members of the Prestwich & Whitefield branch knew him better than me & none of them ever suggested getting him to a meeting ( piss up)or coming to a game or getting stuff of him to raffle auction or even mentioning he was a Blue
Maybe he didn't want us to know lol as there was a good chance he would have ended up well & truly in the shit on some of our trips
Every day is a school day & you learn something new all the time
Top bloke Mark RIP mate
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Can't believe you knew him but never knew he was a Blue! Ha!
I really couldn't imagine him on stage in front of the P&W branch on free beer all night....
 
I knew him very well late 70s early 80s & since then saw him now and again out & about in Prestwich
Back in the day had many a pint with him in Prestwich & the odd spliff or two in Saint Mary's Park
Would have been fun to Get him to a P& W meeting .
Not sure who would have made less sense me or him !
Did he go to many games or just now & again
 
cyberblue said:
I knew him very well late 70s early 80s & since then saw him now and again out & about in Prestwich
Back in the day had many a pint with him in Prestwich & the odd spliff or two in Saint Mary's Park
Would have been fun to Get him to a P& W meeting .
Not sure who would have made less sense me or him !
Did he go to many games or just now & again
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if you can remember owt of all them drinks together
get it down in writing.I'd buy it
you have material for your next book now fella
without even knowing it !
 
cyberblue said:
I knew him very well late 70s early 80s & since then saw him now and again out & about in Prestwich
Back in the day had many a pint with him in Prestwich & the odd spliff or two in Saint Mary's Park
Would have been fun to Get him to a P& W meeting .
Not sure who would have made less sense me or him !
Did he go to many games or just now & again
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I posted an interview on the previous page which you've obviously missed: he used to go on The Kippax but got fed up of the moaning so stopped going.
 
Just after he died someone painted a mural of him in the Prestwich area , anyone know if it's still there?
 
cyberblue said:
I knew him very well late 70s early 80s & since then saw him now and again out & about in Prestwich
Back in the day had many a pint with him in Prestwich & the odd spliff or two in Saint Mary's Park
Would have been fun to Get him to a P& W meeting .
Not sure who would have made less sense me or him !
Did he go to many games or just now & again
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went to school with him.. had a beer with him now and again...forresters or if the spliff situation dictated then THe Ostrich...Prestwich village was a madhouse back in the day...unsurprising, given what was just up the road. He didnt do the matchday experience much....got close loads of times but would stay drinking round the moss!
 
Cheers I couldn't open the link as my internets
Is shit will try later
Didsbury Dave said:
I posted an interview on the previous page which you've obviously missed: he used to go on The Kippax but got fed up of the moaning so stopped going.
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Didsbury Dave said:
I posted an interview on the previous page which you've obviously missed: he used to go on The Kippax but got fed up of the moaning so stopped going.
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Didsbury Dave said:
I posted an interview on the previous page which you've obviously missed: he used to go on The Kippax but got fed up of the moaning so stopped going.
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Cheers couldn't open it as my internet is shit will try later
 
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