+Val Xavier I haven't laughed this much at a youtube comment ever

mike and mark are roughly the same age...but mark looks about 20 years older!

It's an inspiration to us all. If I look that good when I'm 106 I'll be well chuffed.

An exquisite corpse bless him

Given how much Mark E Smith hates interviews he must have really loved John Peel

Chester Fields Yeah they hate the truth.

Chester Fields Well, Mark was an *ignorant* interviewers nightmare! And I mean "ignorant" in the "lack of knowledge" sense. Anyone who respected The Fall and knew what they were about got great interviews out of Mark. He had a sharp bullshit detector.

+Flower Power thank you

This comment aged well 😂

Don't think Smith liked him.

That was mutual. Whilst I think MES admired Peel he was always keen to keep a distance. In large part because he didn’t want The Fall to be just seen as a ‘John Peel band’. Peel would also have known that Smith detested anyone by evenly vaguely sycophantic.

Far away in time, now.

"...for the Fall?"

Exactly! John woulda been mortified by this whole sentimentalizing thing, frankly. - Paradoxically Mark's the one doing the right thing by Peel here

Emion Vantassa I don't understand your comment...mark e smith died last night. Why's it disgusting!

Lord Marquis sure stays true to his core brand proposition in this interview. Miss you Mark, and it's fine that you don't miss us.

Absolutely! We need more of reality and less of sentimental brainwashing victim behaviour. That belongs to the world of Simon Crowley.

John woulda been mortified by this whole thing, frankly. - Paradoxically Mark's the one doing the right thing by Peel here

@@zetetick395copy and paste your comment

@Point Venus still true, though.

Your comment reminded me if living in (Dunedin Nil Ziland!)as we would go to Riy Colbert's "Record's Records Shop scouring for Same You felt John Peel Wouldn't be behind any hoeky stuff!.sure miss him (+a few others too )

Great comment, totally agreed. As a kid growing up in the 90’s in California, John Peel opened my eyes to so much great older music and especially British music that I wouldn’t have known otherwise (including the mighty Fall)

Yeah - John woulda been mortified by this whole thing, frankly. - Paradoxically Mark's the one doing the right thing by Peel here

Yeah Mark behaved on tv exactly how he does off screen haha, he was admirable in that sense given the amount of people who were arses in real life but behaved very well in front of the screen.

John Lydon could not lace Mark E Smiths shoes IMO

Its an amazing song, that struck a certain cord in him.

Totally agree - it's just a good pop song.

For real. It's not even that memorable of a song.

I honestly think that he was mostly a drinker.

@@lehliladevandria5712 No he took amphetamines for most of his life

Age 46 here, honestly looks like he's in his 80s

@@1yearago491 54

A drinking, smoking, phet ingesting workaholic. He could look a lot worse!

Lindsay Fulcher -- Play the game? All he was asked to do was talk about the man who made his band popular... And he couldn't even do that with respect. He was drunk no doubt.

There is a disgusting rumour going around since Marks death that at one point in his life he was sober.

Your comment ranks as one of the most stupid I have ever read on youtube. Congratulations, Lindsay.

Well put.

That's the enigma of MES

Christopher Kavanagh As well as the orthodontics...

Ha ha! Good luck with that! You'd have to find a tooth first (either that he hadn't lost to speed and general negligence, or that he hadn't had kicked out of his head . . . Because it transpires that MES did occasionally mix it with people who were bigger and nastier than himself, and on those occasions, up against people who weren't holding back because they were overawed by his public image, he generally lost the fights he started; he lost his front teeth because he got openly and aggressively racist with a hiphop band at a festival in Denmark and they taught him a lesson). . . . Don't take speed kids. It fucks your teeth. And it makes you act like a cunt. I honestly feel Mark E Smith's ravaged face should be on a poster campaign on buses and tubes to educate kids about the consequences of certain drug habits. I did like some of The Fall's music - I'm not a fan or a fanatic (yes, such people as myself DO exist) - but I really feel that he was a world-class bully and as such was no loss to the human race. He should not be eulogised.

It wasn't a situation to his liking I'd imagine. A one to one interview would have been better without people muttering his ear. I've heard some great interviews with Mark.

Ironically

That was his producer - I wanna say John Walters??? The one peel played when an old cricket leaves the crease by Roy Harper for when he died

That was John Walters.

Nonsense - 😁

Peel would’ve loved this, this is pure MES

+Julia Aldersley Humour mixed with embarrassment

He had nothing to do with discovering Joy Division.

On old demo tapes with 228 views on KZfaq, most likely.

@@keithbentley6081 John Peel promoted Joy Division on his show many times. This was a band did almost nothing for their self-promotion. I think it is fair to say John Peel helped Joy Division. Joy Division played on his show before Unknown Pleasures was released, paving the way the album's (modest) commercial success. And he played them frequently including their first EP An Ideal For Living.

@myaphextwin807 "Contribution?" It's drunken gibberish from a Gollum lookalike.

@@hyena131Exactly

@@myaphextwin807 Sad really...thank you anyway.

He would have handle it at least. That guy was too scared to speak to him again. Radio 1 was the only slightly ballsy side of the BBC..apart from BBC 4 which was the visual side of it. Best not to let ot be destroyed under the current breed of Tories.

Nicely put.

You were slow off the mark

@@Spectrescup pathetic reply

​@@robertbaker5156ahaha. Depends how old you were to be fair.

Accurate, in so many ways

Mark didn't mellow with the years did he. Both him and Lou shared a Drink Problem as well. Another connection or perhaps one you figured anyway. I saw the Fall (first time) in 1978 at Belvue in Manchester. They supported the Buzzcocks and the only tune I knew was Bingo Masters Breakout. Because I'd heard it on Peel. How many of us went to sleep transistorised Radio muffled under the pillow listening to John. There's a story to that gig that involves my mum and a Riot in the que waiting to get in. We waited and waited. Me in my white Jeans and White Kickers with Red Stitching and Dentist Shirt. Dyed Blonde hair. Means nothing now a days, but a lad with dyed hair...wow.. that was something. We were up the front and we had tickets. My mum goes and finds out that if you had tickets you could just walk in. So she shouts from way down the que if you have tickets you can go straight in. It appears most of the que had tickets as they surged forward and people started to run. People fell over. The NME the following week had a picture of punks running and 'rioting' with the caption RIOT at Buzzcocks concert. Amazing. My mum did that. Of course she was in the Car with Dad. He had ran us over and we told them they were stay in the car. Its not really the Punk story to be run to the concert in Dads Family Saloon. I wasn't at the Free Trade Hall for 'the' concert. but I very nearly was. If only. I'd been there. True story. We formed a Band called Warsaw and we had to change the name because someone else had it. They were also much better. Warsaw ( Joy Division). Our second name ' Skates Plonkers' assured oblivion and being forgotten before we were even a memory..

no

He was a Liverpool FC fan but actually from Cheshire and went to Shrewsbury School as a boarder. In the old days, you would occasionally meet some people who liked to big up a Liverpool connection but it often turned out to be tenuous. We had a guy at university who had a put-on accent like he’d just walked off the set of the TV series Bread, and he would play a kind of Liverpudlian clown that the posh kids would enjoy, but I found out he was from some leafy Cheshire middle class enclave. Having grown up in Liverpool myself, I can tell you that genuine Liverpudlians from ordinary backgrounds who get up to university and move to London can’t afford to do the “professional scouser” act as it doesn’t go down well. Best to leave that sort of thing to former public schoolboys like Mr Peel.

​@JMBluecoat8289 That's a very convoluted way of saying he was putting it on. He was once interviewed in Q magazine and admitted that he first faked a Liverpool accent while in Texas as a very young man. The radio station wanted a supposed Liverpudlian to explain Beatlemania to the locals and he was the man. It was also a way of meeting girls. In actual fact, during his youth he sounded like a minor member of the Royal Family.