![]() Smith prefers to hear what the body is telling him that it’s in pain. The long slog of an American tour, from New York through the Midwest to Texas, Arizona and California, has taken its toll, especially after giving up the medication, and its mind-deadening side-effects. ‘I’m gonna throw these as far as I can when I’ve finished with them,’ he says when I ask how he is. We move to a table bear the wall, and Mark settles into a chair and puts his crutches against the wall next to him. Hotel bar with waiter service, Becks on tap, smoking all areas. Mark Smith walks carefully down the sloping ramp from the hotel reception into the bar, head turned to spot the likely journalist among the room’s dozen or so post-lunch hour drinkers. Herein, the late great leader of The Fall discusses the group, the-then new album, Country on the Click, touring the US, William Burroughs, Orson Welles, Brion Gysin, TOTP albums from the 1970s, analog synths, group members, poetry and spoken word, Hex Induction, the nature of composition, production, record companies, reissues, Arthur Machen, Hawkwind and, well, a hell of a lot more. Mark E Smith Interview Malmaison Hotel Bar, Manchester, 14 May 2004 Soundbites: Boomslan… on Gospel Bob: guitarist Fred Tac…
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