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original member iii a line-up' that has seen more than 6o members come and go since Smith and a handful of mates ' formed The Fall in Prestwich ; ' “ '


Smith once famously said:


“If it’s me and your granny on bongos, it’s the Fall.” ; “That’sprettyniuchit,ahdl-


reckonmygrannywouldhave made an excellent bongo play-


' er. She should have applied. “1 don’t look back to who


■ has played with usinthepast. We had battles, but I’m not in­ terested in any of them.” Yet Smith continues to face the future head-on, and is


: scathing ofanyone who takes refuge in cosy nostalgia. “People wallow in look­


ing through rose-tinted spec­ tacles and saying, ‘Wasn’t it great in those days’, when re­ ally it was rubbish. I constant­ ly look forward because The Fall’s a work in progress, and we are just as relevant as ever. “This group’s really hot and


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Mark ESmith brings The Fall back to Clitheroe this month. -


You’ve got to kick a lot of back­ sides to get a record out.' “But every time I do an al­


bum it still feels like my first LP beeause I still have a great energy. I want my music to be as punchy and aggressive as Black Sabbath. I don’t want it to be something simpering that sounds like Jarvis Cocker. “The new single is called


Hittite Man. I like that very much. There’s lots of fire and brimstone in that tune.” We sit in a quiet corner of


a busy bar next to Piccadilly Gardens and when I ask him about the state of the nation he


jabs his finger at a newspaper on the table.


“Nobody seems to care that


we are losing our free press,” he says.


; “I did an interview with the


NewMusicalExpressandthis subject came up. One of the


reporters said to me, ‘People' want their privacy now Mark’. “I replied, ‘What kind of


journalist areyou? Everybody is half asleep’.”


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■ “We toured Croatia and none of the band’s mobiles


. wouldwork.Itwaslikelifehad somehow ended. I loved it.” Smith reihains the com- ■ plete antithesis of what the


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dustrial Estate, Fiery Jack,


Psychic Dancehall to Laptop Dog and Hittite Man, Smith’s


rem^kablecatalogueofwork has provided a razor-sharp so­ cial commentary too.


“Music seems like an alter­


native to banking these days,” hegroans.


“I can just hear the con­


versation in Surrey or some­ where. ‘What areyou going to do when you leave university darling? ‘I might go into bank­ ing Mama’.‘No dear...you must form a rock group’. All the dan­ ger and riskhas gone hasn’t it? ■^


I’ve been back stage at


these awards shows and I’m the oldest one there. These kids are young businessmen, it is like chatting to the chief executive ofBP. It isjust so de­ pressing. I like Evil Blizzard from Preston, though. They give me hope that music is still alive and Idcking.” Smith says he never saw


The Fall as part of the Man­ chester music scene and still doesn’t. “I don’t relate to an­ ything from Manchester -1 can’t stand the place,” he said. “■ rony Wilson asked me


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