Interviewer: So tell us about Dollar. MES: I like Dollar, I'm quite into 'em. Interviewer: You're a Dollar fan? MES: Not really, no.

Impressed by the interviewer. If you can get Mark E Smith so relaxed that he’s telling you jokes: you’re doing well.

@wimblewomble21

7 ай бұрын

Mark was a proper character. On occasions i met him at gigs he was really genuine guy, he just didn't have time for bullshitters, arse lickers or pretenders. The interviewer is clearly a middle class music fan and isn't a student type pretending to be some working class caricature to try and impress. As long as you was yourself and didn't pretend to be something otherwise, mark would have all the time in the world for you as one human being to another. Try and pull a fast on him and you would be shut down immidately, followed by the most witty and brutally honest tongue lashing you could ever expect to receive in 20 lifetimes.

@deletebilderberg

4 ай бұрын

The two times I spent with him he was just like he is in this interview. Cool as F.

This interviewer was fantastic. Not sucking up or intimidated. That's why it's so relaxed- a mutual level of respect

@sdl-ep2gd

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah. MES is a bit prickly, but he seems like he's also up for a nice little conversation. I enjoyed the vibe of this interview.

@ugiswrong

2 жыл бұрын

Disagree, I think he was a tool

@slowdivebreeze1

2 жыл бұрын

Never seen the guy before but I like his interview style.

@carvid-2238

2 жыл бұрын

The interviewer at one point was intimating that Prince is somehow superior to Michael Jackson and Mark E Smith was having none of it even if it was just to disagree with him on something the interviewer seemed too keen to stress. I don't know... the interviewer seemed a bit up himself and a bit condescending to me but only a tad.

@brutallyremastered4255

Жыл бұрын

@@ugiswrong I hear Chris Martin is unwell.

2:28 “It’s about time she brought some money in the house”! Lol! 😂😆!

Prince. 'A young lad in a studio.' Bless him.

“We are art” ....... Mark was spot on!

Never has there been or will there be a man who mumbles pure genius like Mark E Smith. RIP

This is how i want to remember MES. Looking sharp , soberish(might be speeding) eloquent , educated and sharp as a tack.

@gsmoss

2 жыл бұрын

"might be speeding" - watch how his mouth twists - but yeah this is a golden MES moment for sure

@methyod

2 жыл бұрын

"might be speeding" lol

@newforestpixie5297

Жыл бұрын

My missus asked “ is that Richard Madeley ? “ 🙄

@adambarker5988

Жыл бұрын

Smith is so good. Him and lemmy are the full blown honest

This is total television gold! Mark is so funny and I love the interviewer as well.

@michaelroberts7374

4 жыл бұрын

The interviewer has sartorial elegance by the bucket load haha

Never seen this interview before. Cheers for uploading! Good stuff.

Wow, an interview were Mark actually seems quite nice 😂! R.I.P. a true original.

@jwardbass4452

4 жыл бұрын

maybe it was his true personality to be nice, he seemed a lot kinder in his old age

@PeasGraveny

3 жыл бұрын

IKR? No coincidence that this nice,relaxed Mark steered the band through their most 'chart-friendly' phase. Maybe snagging Brix made him as happy as he'd ever be and he just felt less argumentative.Love conquers all.EVEN Mark E!

@Burhanontheranch

6 ай бұрын

Makes me wish he had backed off on the booze and not turned to mush

I went off the Fall for twenty years and came back. They just got better, while everyone else got worse.

@sirhenners204

3 жыл бұрын

the only 2 bands who actually made good/better music after all these years were The Fall and arguably Buzzcocks, who had some bloody great albums in the 90s.

@444NEILJAMESORR

3 жыл бұрын

What's your point??

@mikecondy6010

2 жыл бұрын

I can understand going off beef curry or bell bottoms but cannae imagine going off The Fall. Life would be so empty...

1988's 'The Frenz Experiment' was the first Fall album I bought. That wasn't until 1992, though. I love that album.

Amazing interview! Love Mark’s and the host’s dynamic.

Thanks for uploading mate.

This was GREAT! And great interviewer.

MES: we are art. INTERVIEWER: should you be hung on a wall? MES: no, we should be subsidised more. 😂😂🤞🏼

@spookybaba

Жыл бұрын

"You should be hung in an art gallery?"

@dannygray-mi3xn

11 ай бұрын

Mark E Smith was sharp as a razor blade 😂

killer klip!! thank U!

Really interesting, thanks for uploading- the Chritian Death "Banned lp" is a reference to some problems they had with the use of swastikas on a sleeve...

Assertive host, handled him very good

Prince - very a young lad in a studio 😂, love the fall and prince

Top bloke - I met MES after a Fall gig at Warwick Uni a couple of years before this interview, around the time of Bend Sinister - didn’t chat long, but he was more approachable than you might expect.

Mark seems really relaxed here in the interview.

@Rufusdos

5 жыл бұрын

Just married with an attractive and adoring Brix.

@deejannemeiurffnicht1791

5 жыл бұрын

good base paste chewed?

@signoguns8501

3 жыл бұрын

@@deejannemeiurffnicht1791 Wrap it all up in a rizzla and wash it down with a pint. Cant go wrong.

He was right about Dollar. They represent Britain. Still, to this day

I love Mark he has my sense of humour

@mikecondy6010

2 жыл бұрын

Correction, you have HIS sense of humour.

this is a really nice interview. I reckon he enjoyed it because it was about a specific subject - Here's this song, what do you think of it. No open-ended unanswerable questions.

@brutallyremastered4255

Жыл бұрын

Good point. He must have got so completely bored with vacuous and nervy media strivers.

White trousers, big in 1988

Interviewer does a top job here of getting into MES's head on the right level... They're like two blokes at the bar from the 7th minute. Great interview

Enduring over 10 years 👌

mark's picks: 1. dollar - "it's nature's way (no problem)" 2. s express - "superfly guy" 3. christian death - "church of no return" 4. prince - "glam slam" 5. pop will eat itself - "def con one" 6. emma ridley - "school's out"

@wadeoberlin7403

5 жыл бұрын

dagny thanks!

Seen him live 1996 phoneix festival very good 👍

So mad I never got to see the Fall :( I was always indisposed for some reason when they were touring the US. I've been a fan since '86 or '87... my first Fall experience was a third generation cassette tape with The Wonderful and Frightening World of the Fall.

@daviedovey

2 жыл бұрын

I saw them 10 times between 1985-2016 including the night I lost my virginity

Mark E Smith: the greatest artist i can understand 2/3rds of what they're saying RIP

Thanks for sharing. Not sure I agree with all the comments saying the interviewer is 'tit' or a 'twat', at any rate he seemed to do a good job of getting Mark to relax and open up.

@leecarlson728

5 жыл бұрын

True. There aren't too many interviews with Mark that go so well.

@stuartcarswell2815

5 жыл бұрын

Totally agree 👍

@Rufusdos

5 жыл бұрын

He did make a fucking good joke "you should be hung in a gallery" deliberate or not, he was relaxed enough to let that come out of him.

@sdl-ep2gd

3 жыл бұрын

Seemed like he was taken aback at first, but figured out what MES is all about early on and kept his cool. Respect.

top interview

Mark on his best behaviour

Telly was better when you could still have a smoke.

@brutallyremastered4255

Жыл бұрын

Everything was.

He's quite charming here.

Over 2000 views , probably more now than at the time it was originally seen !

@TravisBickle1963

5 жыл бұрын

Haha yes crazy this one has a life of its own but then that could easily describe the wonder that is Mark E Smith.

@TravisBickle1963

4 жыл бұрын

@Mark Richardson A quick Google tells me Paul Thompson

The revenge of Leicester Polytechnic! Brilliant!

Anybody know the name of the interviewer? He's pretty good. Well informed, confident, not the usual obvious line of questions.

Genius 💙

I'd rather see a happy Mark than a belligerent one. Interviews aren't cringe worthy.

Very young looking, I remember night network the start of all thru the night TV

That's the thing about mark you could never really tell if was taking the piss. He's pretty convincing here but the choices of artists appear to be a big joke.

@front2427

3 жыл бұрын

literally his tongue was in his cheek.

@riffraffrichard

Жыл бұрын

@@front2427 I’m not actually sure I think he’s more open minded than his public persona. He was an artist it’s clear he drew inspiration from many sources

"The Revenge of Leicester Polytechnic!" MIIIAAOWW!!!

The interviewer is perfect for any Mancunian. Pushes without being condescending, love it.

(for the love of smith), please don’t take this down!!!

Mark was quite handsome as a young man!

Find it odd people are hating on the interviewer.

Dollar, Bucks Fizz.....I think Mark is pulling this bloke’s plonker!!

@TravisBickle1963

5 жыл бұрын

They get to pick from the stations list of videos which in turn are selected by the labels "here's 20 videos pick your 5 favourites, I don't like any of them, well just pick the 5 you hate the least"

@paulc9049

3 жыл бұрын

I don’t think he is. Bucks Fizz and Dollar made some great pop records and most indie artists of any credibility appreciated that (see Julian Cope on following Bucks Fizz on TOTP while coming up on acid for example, he thought they were brilliant.)

i'd have LOVED to see mark e smith debate johnny lie-don

@spensert4933

3 жыл бұрын

He smoked nick cave in a joint interview it was print

@antigen4

3 жыл бұрын

JS Thompson I would imagine!

@brutallyremastered4255

Жыл бұрын

@@spensert4933 Cave is a Zionist, hence a coward, so not hard to imagine.

Miss him.

"Pseudo political intellectual sort of groups" "What, like The Fall you mean?"

@modifiedcontent

3 жыл бұрын

This interviewer is good

another gem that will no doubt be taken down within 2 days

@nylophone5730

3 жыл бұрын

Well so much for that prediction

@mattabouttrails

Жыл бұрын

Another 2 years have passed. Still not taken down.😂

Used to watch Night Network all the time: saviour of the chronic insomniac. Had quite a crush on this interviewer at one time.

love him hate him put up with him miss him

enjoyable

Richard Madeleys pipsquek brother

Great interview. Had Mark relaxed. But don’t know why he was playing so passive aggressive lol

I remember Night Network back in a time of pleasant passed

Love that Mark always appreciated space and indeed good architecture (a word too big for some, but not Mark) X

He doesn't think about IT that much that's why he's so good at Clapham Junction.

jesus the interviewer really reminds me of gog from peepshow

white jeans. Nice.

There will never be another Mark E Smith. You get Creeper, who try to imitate The Cure and The Smiths, but not The Fall.

We Are Art

He looks the spit of Paul McCartney at times in this clip.

Looking at the host, you'd expect him to be a twat but he bounces off Mr Smith surprisingly well. RIP MES.

‘It’s a shame for her’ 🤣

@JoeMullanMusic

2 жыл бұрын

Savage 😆😆

"I like your single, yeeeaaah great!"

sub plot pop a new genre for sure MEsmith

Mark should have worked with Dollar - missed opportunity there.

@cazb877

5 жыл бұрын

Nicholas Watson 😂

Richard E. Madeley. That's what he is, here. Interviewed by Jonathan Toss.

Got one live recording of the fall record store day very good 👍

‘Should be subsidised more’ 😂🤣

Dollar is really good Italo Disco.

He looks like a young Paul McCartney, crossed with an alien, during this phase.

Matching trousers

So this must be just a little before smoking and drinking came back to hit him like fifteen Mack trucks.

@martins.7060

3 жыл бұрын

A hip priest

I Know who Mar E Smith is...but who is the Interviewer?

@stillben

3 жыл бұрын

just looked him up ... Paul Thompson Late night ITV presenter

@aliofly

2 жыл бұрын

@@stillben can’t find any info about what he did subsequently

I think what Mark would like to say in answer to questions about others making music is what David Bowie said to Russell Harry in 1973 'I'm not in an Olympics'

I feel bad for anybody who's got to be on this show. I feel bad for me.

@signoguns8501

3 жыл бұрын

Tbf, I've never seen Mark this relaxed and open in an interview before. He's usually quite belligerent. Here he's polite and chatty. I think the interviewer did a decent job.

Its easy to keep consistancy when what you are producing is crap! I once had a neighbour who constantly played The Fall records and very loudly, it drove everyone mad, I was at work during the day and so gad some respite from it but one other neighbour worked night shift and so he needed to sleep during the daytime, the guy who played The Fall was on the dole and so was in most of the time, anyhow he ended up being evicted.

Wealdstone Raider tribute act

The Christian Death 👍👍

I was 24 but who the hell was Emma Ridley ? 🐢🏴❤️

I miss TV like this where you had shows dedicated to music that wasn't always mainstream why did TV become so shit in recent years?

4:14 MES: We’re art.. Interviewer: Weird art?!? MES: I said We ARE art.. Pretty much sums it up

Nearly

He's cute honestly

1 bag of popcorn from mark

Mark E Smith sober, Well it was filmed a few years ago I suppose.

Mark looks like Richard Madeley there.

mark e madely there

The Fall “always different, always the same”

Interviewer seems slightly patronising and not on Marks wavelength

Marks taking the you know what

damn, he cute back then. surprised no tumblr gals crush on him like they do w The Smiths etc.

@user-kl4bh4lq6r

3 ай бұрын

What's Tumblr girls,,?

@EncoreASMR

2 ай бұрын

​@@user-kl4bh4lq6ra social media website

who is the presenter?

@user-kl4bh4lq6r

3 ай бұрын

A flash London Took🤑