Smithy shows Skinner to be the talentless ball bag that we all knew he was anyway. It's nice to have it reaffirmed . Let's face it MES has more talent in his big toe !.
I can't say exactly when,but no more than a couple of years before this interview,Frank Skinner was in a newspaper saying how he'd just got into The Fall and was working his way through their back catalogue- so all that stuff about being a fan for half his life and MES being a hero is totally fake historical revisionism and he knows it-don't you Frank? I just wish I had the old article- he was going "I can't believe I never got into them before" or something very similar-No one else remember?
@Inopedes I can't say word for word so call me a bitch if you want to-like I said,I wish I had the article.
I remember thinking "Good on ya;it's never too late to get the M.E.S. bug" and then this piece on the"Culture Show" and our Frank's a little jittery about "meeting his hero"- I mean...have a fucking word....
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I hate Frank Skinner - the guy is so up himself. He has this affectation of being an intellectual and serious thinker who just happens to be very humorous too.
Well he is no intellectual - his crappy newspaper column reveals him to be a very mediocre thinker. He is not that funny either.
I quite admire Mark E Smith and The Fall as they have always stayed loyal to their own beliefs, never strayed away from what they wanted to do. I don't like Frank Skinner one bit. It was so nice that the BBC (or was it ITV?)rejected his demands for six million pounds.Mark E Smith has always been uncompromising and real.Love him or hate him, you certainly cannot ignore Mark E Smith. (P.S - what on earth is that Grayson Perry doing on the vid? Isn't he normally dressed like Alice in Wonderland?)
I hate Frank Skinner. Of all the comics/fans to go and interview MES...why not get Stewart Lee? Skinner is a conceited miserly greedy unfuuny comic. He had his day in the 90s, but sadly the beeb-those who kicked him out when he demanded a pay rise-seem keen to bring him back of late.
MES just takes the piss. If he doesn't think yuo're worth talking too or taking seriously he will misbehave, and that's what he's doing here. Its like sending a lamb to the slaughter
i love these fucking ponces who try to analyse Mark E Smith.
he's not a genius or a god: he's just an uncompromising, extremely cool dude who makes music that's *real*: he's true to himself and possesses no bullshite, and that's all there is to it. and his music's fucking brilliant.
@DavySolaris so essentially he is a "God" of men to you? I think he's talented, inane for laughs, angry, a mad drunken old man with some kind of post tramatic post punk stress disorder and some other shit I can make up. Fuck, He makes good music.. that's about it :)
@seadonkeyridesagain I LOVE the Fall & Mark E Smith. He's one of my all time favourite musicians, but I think people often throw the term 'genius' around too often.
I'm fifty year old Mancunian. I've even got a leather jacket and I smoke and drink. If only I'd been Mark E Smith instead of a boring old fart who writes comments on utube.
@thetragedyofbirth So where did it all go wrong? I have a wild idea, hear me out - Maybe the difference between you and he is that Mark E Smith is more than just a man in a leather jacket that smokes and drinks! I know, I must be crazy to suggest such a preposterous idea! ... I mean, people might even start believing that he WORKED VERY HARD to get the credit and recognition he deserves... ;-)
yes he's a twat, yes he's a cunt, but at the end of the day the music speaks for itself, and if you don't know it's amazing, you're a fool, that's the thick and thin of it. "eat each other, eat yourself fitter"
I think MES was taken aback at Skinner's sincerity. So many people quote The Fall as influences and have only heard a couple of tracks. Can see why a lot of people slag 'em off though...
.....where media folk get down and dirty while you're shovelling shit to keep Gordon Brown spouting epithets of the bollocks variety at Prime Ministers Question Time....tell that to some Sun readers, though.
I think, Mark E smith doesnt actually know why he is good, and i dont really know why he is good. And particualry i Think he is a bad man lol :P. But i love the music. :)
Mark E hasn't got to explain anything. He's not prickly. His legacy is important. There are top drawer songs in there. Living to late. Cut down on the drinking though.
spot on; he has not spent 30 years "defying convention" and "keeping it real by playing small clubs", he has spent 30 years living out his childish and semi-developed personality through the medium of "music". the worship of Mark E Smith as a kind of rock hero (or "anti-hero" if you want to resort to utterly meaningless journalistic cliche) is mystifying and rather sad.
But that's rock music. It's all about enigma, about confusing the masses, or just your little select fanbase, and keeping them from figuring out why they're really here. Rock stars are the new pagan idols, like jackal-headed gods from Egypt. He probably really is a mummy.
The hip priest will come, and very soon, rock will be dead and people will despise all rock stars when they realize what they are, priests of the occult who led them to hell or very close.
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"you get him or you don't". There isn't anything TO get!!! What is the appeal of someone you don't want to sit next to? Their music has no value instrumentally and he can't sing.
why did s confirmed sleeper with an 000000ennema,y whose really a major cuntribution to the world of analyitcal philosopjhyt.....op.s is IRK the second best word in any languague.........................£
Margaret Thatcher: 'Mark, I want you to set up a cacophanous 'music' ensemble, a group of ne'er-do-Wales, an assemblage of such shit-nibbling, degenerates such that the average British voter would turn up their nose and exclaim in a puff of smoke....
the Media has a vested interest in getting you interested/passionate(?) in/about whatever half-baked codsWALLAP a randomn over paid/educated media executive decides they like,,,possibly,,,today,,,anyway
Mark E. Smith....difficult...???.....moi?
(give 'im a good hiding before an interview and he's a pussycat.... i HEARD....
like finding out that the lovely, pouting Lauren, 25+, works in media and likes animals , is in fact, a hairy-arsed, ex-steelworker(who commuted) from Grimsby....with a drinking...opportunity....
YouTube commenting - you get +1 and you think you're Oscar Wilde.....then you see "I just lit someone else's fart for the firts time, dude" which gets +6,000,000 and you think....a bit like the Fall...why do I fuckin' bother....
NEVER MEET YOUR 'HEROES'!!!!!!.....THEY don't like it and it leaves a nasty stain on the carpet.....this feels like meeting that bird you really fancy and she's.....a..bit..dull
Mark E. Smith - why won't you play the game, you dour bugger!!
I once lived underneath Hollywood Boulevard for several months in a converted parking garage and ate nothing but potatoes and listened to nothing but Domesday Payoff, Bend Sinister, and Johnny Yesno by the Cabs.
folds up a Financial Times, removes an Ipod earpiece, logs out of a laptop, takes out a set of dentures and then, after affecting a snarling, anti-hero type voice, he says
she did say "he's been raising hell for over 30 years" didn't she?...Mark would spread a tablecloth and serve her a classy yet unpretentious Darjeeling, possibly with a couple of digestives, for media hyperbole like that...
"exasperated film crew beats snot out of self-important underground music 'hero' before sweeping up whats left and allowing it to be interviewed by self-indulgent, ageing Brummie 'comedian' " shocker...!!!!!
judging by the bint waxing lyrical about the 'scummy clubs',the pug is the dog of choice for chic pop-people 'sharing their thoughts' in music documentaries (witness Devo's Mark Mothersbaugh in the marvellous DVD DeRailRoaded)....I await Mr Smith's next televisual appearance, craddling a pint of bitter in one hand and a Pug in the other, darling.....
"the Celebrity fan".....is there anything more pitiful on the face of God's grey earth (I exclude Grayson Perry from that pessimistic analysis.... get that Little Bo Peep outfit on, ya daft bastard!!)
As I'm a super, super mega fan of 'them', I had a hologram of 'them' beamed to a little place in Switzerland where one might go for a little 'privacy' (apparently this happened on a wet night in ...what does that say, Jeeves..? Wooolferhimpton....??)
2 career arseholes who've never had to work in a factory/down a mine(except Thatcher closed them all)/up John Peel's arse schmoooze each other......Grayson Perry's a real genius, anyone that can be taken seriously dressed as Little Bo Peep (except in this video) has my vote....
The Fall, MES.. Shit. Lord Mark is a wanker of the utmost proportions; a sad parody of his own self-importance. Precocious twat has to go around with a body guard. C_R_E_E_P. Mark, shock us and take up being sober.
i've never been able to truly enjoy The Fall cos the music itself is f**kin' ace but I can't understand what Mark Smith is going on about. Seeing in him interviews he seems sort of infantile and employs the simple distraction techniques of a six year old child. I used to work in North Manchester General A+E and saw him when he came in. He didn't seem hard then I can tell you. In fact he was shaking like a shitting dog and his heart was going like a fucked clock.
Mark is and always has been a really nice guy, yes at times speed and booze frazzled but he is just naturally wary of the media and the lazy way it tries to portray him. He is a proper Northern gent but never try to tame him.
you get the impression frank's only doing the interview for one person, which is a bit shit. cant say he asks any refreshing questions or gives a new angle on the fall. bit useless really.
Frank Skinner came across better than I thought he would. I finally forgive him for his merciless slagging of Scotland during Euro96 & WC98. I would never have had him down as a Fall fan.
ha! left hand and there is nothing wrong with it! This is not the worst but the crap Lauren spews...terrifying Mark,hellraiser, scared to play The Fall etc Come On! and Frank is'nt immune, still Mark is the man to straighten cliched idiots. The ace Fall line-up, four guitarists and drummer look happy/contented though and Brix is ever complimentary.....
skinners alright eh? bit gushing but he is not talking total shit, which can often be the problem with interviwers. and it's all alot of pish really at the end of the day, isn't it every one. i'm a big fall fan. see ya mate. see ya mate. yeah, see ya mate.
not a fan of Frank Skinner but he's right: if you get MES then you become obsessive. Over the years the albums with the odd exception just get better and better which is fairly astounding. I dread the day when he packs up as its virtually all I've listened to for the last 25 years! My one concern is that MES changed Frank Skinner's life....rather worrying, and how exactly?
That was fairly short...
hoping22 1 week ago
Why can't I watch this video? It keeps skipping to the end.
BrenGunnn 1 week ago
What's with Brix's British accent? Do Yanks normally adopt the accent after living there for a while?
YouGotWoodRolled 1 month ago
balls. 9 minutes?
MrShempenman 1 month ago
right time, wrong place
Azoicum 4 months ago
Is there anyone who still hasn't heard 'Cheap Space Chant' ?
In YouTube, search for 'Timekode, Mark E Smith'
and listen to the strangest and best MES/Fall
collaboration of them all...
rebelVHS 5 months ago
Two seconds long: does anyone have any clue as to why?
sambar0986 9 months ago 5
I'm confused here. 2 seconds of an opening video.
coptersoisoi 10 months ago 3
Why does this play in 2 seconds for me?!!
damobrfc1875 1 year ago 8
@damobrfc1875 It's the same for everyone I think. It used to play ok, maybe the uploader changed it. Shame coz it was a good interview.
Hania454 10 months ago
Smithy shows Skinner to be the talentless ball bag that we all knew he was anyway. It's nice to have it reaffirmed . Let's face it MES has more talent in his big toe !.
MrPabz9 1 year ago
I can't say exactly when,but no more than a couple of years before this interview,Frank Skinner was in a newspaper saying how he'd just got into The Fall and was working his way through their back catalogue- so all that stuff about being a fan for half his life and MES being a hero is totally fake historical revisionism and he knows it-don't you Frank? I just wish I had the old article- he was going "I can't believe I never got into them before" or something very similar-No one else remember?
MrTulip65 1 year ago
@MrTulip65 When did he say he was "a fan for half his life"?
Inopedes 1 year ago
@Inopedes I can't say word for word so call me a bitch if you want to-like I said,I wish I had the article.
I remember thinking "Good on ya;it's never too late to get the M.E.S. bug" and then this piece on the"Culture Show" and our Frank's a little jittery about "meeting his hero"- I mean...have a fucking word....
MrTulip65 1 year ago
He looks like hurricaine higgins older brother
ybot1983 1 year ago
Stewart Lee's got his Kurious Oranj!
petethefool 1 year ago 2
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thetempsband 1 year ago
Asshole
frankbough1955 1 year ago
that's what 33 years of caning speed and drinking beer non stop'll do for you. He's the thinking man's Shane MacGowan....
borntoloop 1 year ago
The idiots are winning.
ButherLi55ett 1 year ago
smith looks about 80
ryko26 1 year ago
Its really funny because Frank is such a fucking idol worshipper and Mark hates that.
livedinbars 1 year ago
Skinner just found out his idol thinks he's a cunt!
Fiasco6Radio6Show6 1 year ago 2
"We all want to be loved, Mark."
"No, I don't."
"I do."
"Well you don't matter."
Fucking classic. The interviewer's a cunt, though.
PersonMan92 1 year ago 3
@PersonMan92 Doesn't Mark say "Why, aren't you married?" then offers one of his sisters to Frank??
SMThomasson 1 year ago
Does he? I have a really hard time understanding his accent.
PersonMan92 1 year ago
@PersonMan92 he asks him "are you not married?" sorry to shatter your illusions
jackhartcup 1 year ago
@jackhartcup Oh no, you've shattered my illusions! Excuse me while I go hang myself.
PersonMan92 1 year ago
smutmunchers
mrmrscosanostra 1 year ago
If MES had a tiny 'tache, he'd be a dead ringer for the Fuhrer. Discuss.
BigFatSissy 2 years ago 2
He looks nothing like Obama.
accidentsinspace 2 years ago 4
skinner dropped a clanger when he suggested the rest of the band didn't like him, what a dick !
screamingblueme 2 years ago
Nob meets Nob jokes
Tombsquad 2 years ago 2
Frank Skinner is such a fawning wanker
hotlikewhat 2 years ago 2
If this was a tongue up someone's arse competition, Skinner's won the prize so perhaps he knows where to shove it!
heliumtrophy 2 years ago
I hate Frank Skinner - the guy is so up himself. He has this affectation of being an intellectual and serious thinker who just happens to be very humorous too.
Well he is no intellectual - his crappy newspaper column reveals him to be a very mediocre thinker. He is not that funny either.
AlanTTT3 2 years ago
Aye! Pay Yer rates!
rangumai 2 years ago
Can anyone tell me the point of Laverne - other than blokes to have a wank over?
jonnywotsit 2 years ago
John Peel was right; the Fall are always different, always the same.
Steve7508 2 years ago
Jesus christ why are those people so scared of MES. If he gets learly just twat him lmao.
Ulmeyda08 2 years ago
Frank Skinner is an excellent interviewer. Mark E Smith is a one of a kind. Good interview. Thanks for posting.
Hania454 2 years ago 2
I quite admire Mark E Smith and The Fall as they have always stayed loyal to their own beliefs, never strayed away from what they wanted to do. I don't like Frank Skinner one bit. It was so nice that the BBC (or was it ITV?)rejected his demands for six million pounds.Mark E Smith has always been uncompromising and real.Love him or hate him, you certainly cannot ignore Mark E Smith. (P.S - what on earth is that Grayson Perry doing on the vid? Isn't he normally dressed like Alice in Wonderland?)
amygurl63 2 years ago 2
I hate Frank Skinner. Of all the comics/fans to go and interview MES...why not get Stewart Lee? Skinner is a conceited miserly greedy unfuuny comic. He had his day in the 90s, but sadly the beeb-those who kicked him out when he demanded a pay rise-seem keen to bring him back of late.
MES just takes the piss. If he doesn't think yuo're worth talking too or taking seriously he will misbehave, and that's what he's doing here. Its like sending a lamb to the slaughter
destructivedandy 2 years ago 2
i love these fucking ponces who try to analyse Mark E Smith.
he's not a genius or a god: he's just an uncompromising, extremely cool dude who makes music that's *real*: he's true to himself and possesses no bullshite, and that's all there is to it. and his music's fucking brilliant.
DavySolaris 2 years ago 19
@DavySolaris there is undeniable genius in that
ktsnowrider 1 year ago
@DavySolaris are you saying frank skinner is a ponce? :S . Hes one of the most down to earth nicest celebrities around...
CORNABY242 1 year ago
@DavySolaris You know nothing about music mate, and judging by the general sentiment expressed you're probably a fairly despicable person too.
DropTheLeashUK 9 months ago
@DavySolaris so essentially he is a "God" of men to you? I think he's talented, inane for laughs, angry, a mad drunken old man with some kind of post tramatic post punk stress disorder and some other shit I can make up. Fuck, He makes good music.. that's about it :)
crassology 8 months ago
@DavySolaris What makes you think Mark E. Smith ISN'T a genius?
seadonkeyridesagain 7 months ago
@seadonkeyridesagain I LOVE the Fall & Mark E Smith. He's one of my all time favourite musicians, but I think people often throw the term 'genius' around too often.
kfhansen1990 7 months ago
You never see Mark E.Smith & Lester Piggott in the same place...or at least not Spitting Image's Lester Piggott puppet
Long23 3 years ago 2
2:44 jesus he's not a godamn crocodile
RASiler 3 years ago
manchester..so much 'not'to answer for...
sonicjay007 3 years ago
lol 4 sisters,they teased him?
thedigitalcollective 3 years ago
i like th fall, but i loathe theyr crowds, its like seeing fuckin oasis live or summet
rayolacer 3 years ago 5
I'm fifty year old Mancunian. I've even got a leather jacket and I smoke and drink. If only I'd been Mark E Smith instead of a boring old fart who writes comments on utube.
thetragedyofbirth 3 years ago 19
@thetragedyofbirth So where did it all go wrong? I have a wild idea, hear me out - Maybe the difference between you and he is that Mark E Smith is more than just a man in a leather jacket that smokes and drinks! I know, I must be crazy to suggest such a preposterous idea! ... I mean, people might even start believing that he WORKED VERY HARD to get the credit and recognition he deserves... ;-)
seadonkeyridesagain 7 months ago
Oh God, Mark looks like a little golum fella... a city hobgoblin!
LilacNell 3 years ago
yes he's a twat, yes he's a cunt, but at the end of the day the music speaks for itself, and if you don't know it's amazing, you're a fool, that's the thick and thin of it. "eat each other, eat yourself fitter"
douglashastings 3 years ago
I love the way Stewart Lee has an orange.
stevenuuu1212 3 years ago 2
is he really 50 here?! jeez he looks like he's at least 93
withease9 3 years ago
and when he was 30 years old, he looked like a 22 year old
goddamnmaddog 3 years ago
this is the most coherent and sober I've ever seen him!
2dzombie 3 years ago
I think MES was taken aback at Skinner's sincerity. So many people quote The Fall as influences and have only heard a couple of tracks. Can see why a lot of people slag 'em off though...
jonnywotsit 3 years ago
If you do not like The Fall then you don't like music=you like clothes.
wiremu 3 years ago
Frank Skinner only got into 'The Fall' about 2 or 3 years ago.
kisspixiedisks 3 years ago
so?
rambo2kevin 3 years ago
.....where media folk get down and dirty while you're shovelling shit to keep Gordon Brown spouting epithets of the bollocks variety at Prime Ministers Question Time....tell that to some Sun readers, though.
MaleMidLifer 3 years ago
I think, Mark E smith doesnt actually know why he is good, and i dont really know why he is good. And particualry i Think he is a bad man lol :P. But i love the music. :)
JackattackMF 3 years ago 3
Mark E hasn't got to explain anything. He's not prickly. His legacy is important. There are top drawer songs in there. Living to late. Cut down on the drinking though.
minutegongcoughs 3 years ago
He's a ludicrous nobody who got lucky and he's generally worshipped by people of the same kind. Frank Skinner being an obvious example.
ray1bradbury 3 years ago
spot on; he has not spent 30 years "defying convention" and "keeping it real by playing small clubs", he has spent 30 years living out his childish and semi-developed personality through the medium of "music". the worship of Mark E Smith as a kind of rock hero (or "anti-hero" if you want to resort to utterly meaningless journalistic cliche) is mystifying and rather sad.
danbo1984 3 years ago
But that's rock music. It's all about enigma, about confusing the masses, or just your little select fanbase, and keeping them from figuring out why they're really here. Rock stars are the new pagan idols, like jackal-headed gods from Egypt. He probably really is a mummy.
The hip priest will come, and very soon, rock will be dead and people will despise all rock stars when they realize what they are, priests of the occult who led them to hell or very close.
LoneConformist 3 years ago
good analagy.. i know MES and he is a priest of the occult !
kavacom 2 years ago
This comment has received too many negative votes show
"you get him or you don't". There isn't anything TO get!!! What is the appeal of someone you don't want to sit next to? Their music has no value instrumentally and he can't sing.
ray1bradbury 3 years ago
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You will die alone.
precinct 3 years ago 2
that might be true, but personally i don't care to much about what u2 fans think about music.
JamesTheGoat 3 years ago 3
James if your are a goat i want to adopt u after that comment
heartandsoul1988 3 years ago
o.k and vice versa, I really can't imagine what a Fall fan would have to teach me about anything. Goat dude.
ray1bradbury 3 years ago
'pow'
JamesTheGoat 3 years ago
Come back in 30 years and if I still know you, then I'll listen!
victorgeorge71 3 years ago
was that a comment for me or for goat dude/h&s1988 ??
ray1bradbury 3 years ago
you
victorgeorge71 3 years ago
why did s confirmed sleeper with an 000000ennema,y whose really a major cuntribution to the world of analyitcal philosopjhyt.....op.s is IRK the second best word in any languague.........................£
FrederickShopping 3 years ago
Margaret Thatcher: 'Mark, I want you to set up a cacophanous 'music' ensemble, a group of ne'er-do-Wales, an assemblage of such shit-nibbling, degenerates such that the average British voter would turn up their nose and exclaim in a puff of smoke....
FrederickShopping 3 years ago
they're a bit wo, they're a bit wa, they're a bit tasty, they all make a tasty living exploiting your anger in the showbusiness division.....
FrederickShopping 3 years ago
the fall are just another panacea to blunt your urge to firebomb the status quo
FrederickShopping 3 years ago
sINNER SORRY sKINNER AT the end, thats either an ironic wig or he's offended the make-up person
BurtCamoose 3 years ago
the Media has a vested interest in getting you interested/passionate(?) in/about whatever half-baked codsWALLAP a randomn over paid/educated media executive decides they like,,,possibly,,,today,,,anyway
Mark E. Smith....difficult...???.....moi?
(give 'im a good hiding before an interview and he's a pussycat.... i HEARD....
jacquetatty 3 years ago
why is frank skinner kissing his ass so much?
subz6 3 years ago
the fall='stunning'
sonicjay007 3 years ago
like finding out that the lovely, pouting Lauren, 25+, works in media and likes animals , is in fact, a hairy-arsed, ex-steelworker(who commuted) from Grimsby....with a drinking...opportunity....
justpissedoneself 3 years ago
I like the way he tried palming off one of his sisters.
pisartist 3 years ago
"I'm like bloody convinced that getting -1 out of you 'carzy' like fall fans means we're on the right track..."
Brown/Cameron/Clegg/Raving Facist Alliance
justpissedoneself 3 years ago
"my final guest has been described as, quite simply, the finest Val Doonican of his generation...it's!!!..what's his name again..??"
p.s. is Stewart Lee possibly the least funny person on God's grey Earth...
macthetablespoon 3 years ago
No, I think he's pretty hilarious, just gotta keep a sharp mind.
Kagemusha22 3 years ago
YouTube commenting - you get +1 and you think you're Oscar Wilde.....then you see "I just lit someone else's fart for the firts time, dude" which gets +6,000,000 and you think....a bit like the Fall...why do I fuckin' bother....
macthetablespoon 3 years ago
mark e smith looks about 115 years old
tennessee888 3 years ago 3
Lauren Levern - she's fragrant, she's intellectually poised, but does she take it up the jacksie...???
macthetablespoon 3 years ago 4
intellectually poised??? I dont think so!
jackjude 3 years ago
what does a turbulent decade look like?
will I know one when I see one...?
macthetablespoon 3 years ago
NEVER MEET YOUR 'HEROES'!!!!!!.....THEY don't like it and it leaves a nasty stain on the carpet.....this feels like meeting that bird you really fancy and she's.....a..bit..dull
Mark E. Smith - why won't you play the game, you dour bugger!!
britneypeas 3 years ago 2
"Sir Elton John I hear you cry!"
only if you're David Furnish, luv.....
britneypeas 3 years ago 2
...beauiful .............
andyeccleston 3 years ago
I once lived underneath Hollywood Boulevard for several months in a converted parking garage and ate nothing but potatoes and listened to nothing but Domesday Payoff, Bend Sinister, and Johnny Yesno by the Cabs.
And I survived!...
totenhosen1234567 4 years ago 3
Mark E.Smith is a true ICON and GENEUIS,and Brix is still beatiful,Brix I Love You!!!
Ramblebar 4 years ago
interviewer is a twat.
6billionghosts 4 years ago 3
how dare grayson perry compare himself to mark e smith
Barbara1964 4 years ago
Extra-odinary to hear the comparison isn't it!
permaform 3 years ago
Great band, shit interview.
Idid911 4 years ago
career comedians clustering round a national treasurer...except for Madsen, get that Little Bo Peep outfit on ya daft Thatcherite economist.....you!!
captainfink 4 years ago
media hyperbole for beginners;
fury - annoyed, mildly upset
caged - imprisoned
romp - to engage in sexual intercourse
...and they wonder why we're all over-excited!!!
captainfink 4 years ago
I was thinking more cuntlicking arse, but we'll go with your idea, luv!
wastedonnumptyslikey 4 years ago
Skinner looks like a bitch from Top Man in this fucking interview. Yapping, arselicking cunt!
albertstenton 4 years ago 4
one comment at the start(are u that comedian)
skinner was made to look like an arse!
kookooo1 4 years ago
never trust anyone who's had sex with David Badeel....
captainfink 4 years ago 2
Ultimatekev - you obviously don't know who Lauren Laverne is. John Peel called Kenickie's Come Out 2Nite a Teenage Kicks for the '90s.
leehazlewoodism 4 years ago
she's pretty and pretty intelligent but what did John Peel know about music?
captainfink 4 years ago
folds up a Financial Times, removes an Ipod earpiece, logs out of a laptop, takes out a set of dentures and then, after affecting a snarling, anti-hero type voice, he says
"..ok luv, I'm ready to go".... ACTION!
captainfink 4 years ago
Frank Skinner(if that really is your name) - you either get 'im or ....I forgot my point...
wastedonnumptyslikey 4 years ago
as if that toothpick presenter bimbo has heard a single Fall song in her empty life.
ultimatekev 4 years ago
her favourite band is sonic youth so i wouldnt be surprised if she has.
binstig 4 years ago
from 30 Beans to Mr Stalin in years orsumfing oh shit, Oscar Wilde never had this trouble!
captainfink 4 years ago
I wish we had got to see MES burn Skinner's eyes out with a fag. I'd pay my licence fee for that, me.
Juddleyegg 4 years ago 5
....from Mr Bean to Stalin in 30 years.........
captainfink 4 years ago 2
she did say "he's been raising hell for over 30 years" didn't she?...Mark would spread a tablecloth and serve her a classy yet unpretentious Darjeeling, possibly with a couple of digestives, for media hyperbole like that...
wastedonnumptyslikey 4 years ago 6
it's "Brix Smith" 's dog I feel sorry for...
captainfink 4 years ago
"exasperated film crew beats snot out of self-important underground music 'hero' before sweeping up whats left and allowing it to be interviewed by self-indulgent, ageing Brummie 'comedian' " shocker...!!!!!
captainfink 4 years ago
Aye; but he is definitely appreciated.
michaelstmark 4 years ago
and rightly so.
captainfink 4 years ago
judging by the bint waxing lyrical about the 'scummy clubs',the pug is the dog of choice for chic pop-people 'sharing their thoughts' in music documentaries (witness Devo's Mark Mothersbaugh in the marvellous DVD DeRailRoaded)....I await Mr Smith's next televisual appearance, craddling a pint of bitter in one hand and a Pug in the other, darling.....
captainfink 4 years ago
CELEBRITY DENTAL TREATMENT - starring Mark E. Smith, Scary 'Spice' and that prat from the Pogues........
"he has that sort of charisma a dictator has"...(where you're a little bit nervous about being shipped off to a camp in Eastern Europe and gassed...)
wastedonnumptyslikey 4 years ago 2
Brilliant.
But he looks like hell. Looks 75, not 50.
Resembles Johnny Cash.
leeraconteur 4 years ago
"the Celebrity fan".....is there anything more pitiful on the face of God's grey earth (I exclude Grayson Perry from that pessimistic analysis.... get that Little Bo Peep outfit on, ya daft bastard!!)
captainfink 4 years ago
As I'm a super, super mega fan of 'them', I had a hologram of 'them' beamed to a little place in Switzerland where one might go for a little 'privacy' (apparently this happened on a wet night in ...what does that say, Jeeves..? Wooolferhimpton....??)
captainfink 4 years ago
mark he smith is no r2d2' but he come very close to the worst droid ever invented. that makes him a genius unlike heinrich himler
wot2wot2 4 years ago
2 career arseholes who've never had to work in a factory/down a mine(except Thatcher closed them all)/up John Peel's arse schmoooze each other......Grayson Perry's a real genius, anyone that can be taken seriously dressed as Little Bo Peep (except in this video) has my vote....
wastedonnumptyslikey 4 years ago
she did say "recent landmark birthday" didn't she?...Mark would spread her pretty nose all over her face for media hyperbole like that...
captainfink 4 years ago
oh man violence against women is like so avant garde and hip!
HangOnToYourEgo 4 years ago
oh man violence against women is so avant garde and hip! fucking hell..
HangOnToYourEgo 4 years ago
Mark E. Smith - get it completely. It's easy,
be your fuckin self.
kittyfreek 4 years ago
if pissed people ran the world......would we notice any difference?
captainfink 4 years ago
consuming the "media"......its like falling face-first into a pile of urine........
wastedonnumptyslikey 4 years ago
I heard he owns a colostomy bag...
captainfink 4 years ago
The Fall, MES.. Shit. Lord Mark is a wanker of the utmost proportions; a sad parody of his own self-importance. Precocious twat has to go around with a body guard. C_R_E_E_P. Mark, shock us and take up being sober.
moosey62 4 years ago
Real innovative guy, but man he looks like a creature from Lord of the Rings these days. He looks old even for 50.
journeythruthepast 4 years ago
I once saw him having a pedicure and he was crying like a big baby!
captainfink 4 years ago
i've never been able to truly enjoy The Fall cos the music itself is f**kin' ace but I can't understand what Mark Smith is going on about. Seeing in him interviews he seems sort of infantile and employs the simple distraction techniques of a six year old child. I used to work in North Manchester General A+E and saw him when he came in. He didn't seem hard then I can tell you. In fact he was shaking like a shitting dog and his heart was going like a fucked clock.
brhodes0 4 years ago
What's a genius like Gladson Pissflap doing associating with a bank manager like that ?!?!?
captainfink 4 years ago
What's a genius like Madsen Pirie doing associating himself with a drunkard like that!!
captainfink 4 years ago
"the Fall are shite" - Don Van Vliet
captainfink 4 years ago
Frank Skinner is a plonker.
Spider97 4 years ago
cute british blonde presenter, what's her name ?
hobosapiens 4 years ago
Lauren Laverne.
HangOnToYourEgo 4 years ago
I'm a fan of the Fall's music, but I've never understood Mr. Smith.
To be honest, he seems like a few cards short of a full deck.
sineiorcardgage 4 years ago
Truer of YOU than him....
jjj7477 4 years ago
GREAT clip...I completely missed it when it was originally shown.
Happy Birthday to Punk's answer to Alan Bennett!!
Pixel62 4 years ago
I like Mark E. Smith cuz he gets how important rythym is in rock and roll.
plumgreen 4 years ago
i wish it was fucking 2008 i want to know who the next president is.
fucmusicroc 4 years ago
readier is not a word you dumb bitch.
fatbone74 4 years ago
He looks like Quentin Crisp. Damn brilliant, tho'.
nycic 4 years ago
Mark is and always has been a really nice guy, yes at times speed and booze frazzled but he is just naturally wary of the media and the lazy way it tries to portray him. He is a proper Northern gent but never try to tame him.
paulc23 4 years ago
I agree with that, well said ,the media often misleads
regarding The Fall and Mark is much better a human
being and far greater than given credit for......
jjj7477 4 years ago
saw him playing jesus on ideal on bbc3 the other week,the mans a legend
JOYDIVISION111 4 years ago
not a day over 62
MrSExperience 4 years ago
i know that brix had carpal tunnel syndrome a few years ago.
peudent 4 years ago
you get the impression frank's only doing the interview for one person, which is a bit shit. cant say he asks any refreshing questions or gives a new angle on the fall. bit useless really.
james91ocr 4 years ago
ooh he is big time!! even sang elastic man with
baddiel on his show ,not half bad, to a bemused audience,military like clapping afterwards.......
jjj7477 4 years ago
Frank Skinner came across better than I thought he would. I finally forgive him for his merciless slagging of Scotland during Euro96 & WC98. I would never have had him down as a Fall fan.
ANDYO0311 4 years ago
ha! left hand and there is nothing wrong with it! This is not the worst but the crap Lauren spews...terrifying Mark,hellraiser, scared to play The Fall etc Come On! and Frank is'nt immune, still Mark is the man to straighten cliched idiots. The ace Fall line-up, four guitarists and drummer look happy/contented though and Brix is ever complimentary.....
jjj7477 4 years ago
What the hell is wrong with Brix's right hand?
pinballfortress 4 years ago
Unfortunately, Brix is still plagued by vestiges of the Carpal Tunnel [tendinitis] which incapacitated her in the mid-1990s.
At one point the pain was so unbearable that she was reduced to walking around with frozen food strapped to her arm.
NewWaver80014 4 years ago
as Ricky Jervais would say;
are you 'avin' a larf?? IS EE 'AVIN A LAFF..???
(apologies if you are a world-renowned expert in how to treat injuries with frozen foods....)
captainfink 4 years ago
Wish I was, Mr. Brent.
She was in a great deal of pain and did have to resort to frozen peas on occasion.
I work in an environment where repetitive-strain injury is common and I'm just glad I haven't come down with it yet - it doesn't seem like much fun.
NewWaver80014 4 years ago
actually, it's Andy Millbank old chum, not David Brent....
captainfink 4 years ago
Not to be funny, but isn't it Millman?
Do I get "Extra" credit for remembering that?
NewWaver80014 4 years ago
skinners alright eh? bit gushing but he is not talking total shit, which can often be the problem with interviwers. and it's all alot of pish really at the end of the day, isn't it every one. i'm a big fall fan. see ya mate. see ya mate. yeah, see ya mate.
spurtfather 4 years ago
everyone is just going on about longevity, years, age,
line-ups etc.......but Mark says I've only just started pal!!
jjj7477 4 years ago
not a fan of Frank Skinner but he's right: if you get MES then you become obsessive. Over the years the albums with the odd exception just get better and better which is fairly astounding. I dread the day when he packs up as its virtually all I've listened to for the last 25 years! My one concern is that MES changed Frank Skinner's life....rather worrying, and how exactly?
newbigprinz 4 years ago