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I was just reading his famous interview with WSC the other day. It's a miracle that someone could live so long apparently on speed and lager alone (judging by the accounts of his ex-band mates in The Fallen). Then you expected him to last forever. Rarely less than deviantly poetic whenever he opened his mouth, either to speak or sing. A brilliant, weird and fucked up kind of genius. Bollocks to death.
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Like most, not a devotee but they've always been in the fabric of growing up as a fan of any sort of indie/alternative music in the UK. I was listening to Stewart Lee's Quietus Hour episode at the weekend and he made the point about your attitude for The Fall changing over time and how much you are listening and paying attention to them says more about your life at that particular time than it does about them.
For the scoreboard, saw them twice, many years apart and caught them on good nights each time. I Am Kurious, Oranj remains one of the greatest things in my CD collection and I've held on to it through countless clear-outs (having previously had it on cassette til it got stolen by a burglar with evident taste).
RIP-uh.
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I love ‘Hit The North’ and ‘Free Range’. MES interviews in The NME were always brilliant, but I always got the impression he wasn’t the easiest of people to get on with. He came across as a curmudeingly Shane Macgowan.
But he really was one of the last real characters in music. RIP, MES.
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Bollocks. I am a huge fan of MES and The Fall, in all of their glorious and various line-ups. I have always avidly awaited any new releases, and there's been enough of them, whether new stuff or compilations, over the years. I have seen him/them many times over years (I can recall at least 12 times), some glorious, some not so good. Never been one to have 'heroes' as such, but I am genuinely upset at this news. As MsD said, not entirely unexpected I suppose, but still shit. I have 95% of their music on my phone, The Fall playlist will be on shuffle for many days now as I drive to and from work. RIP MES.
'Always different, always the same'
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I did not expect the collective OTF reaction to this most horrible of news to be "not really a fan but..."
I always assumed this board rode hard for MES but I guess DaVoid was the only true hardcore Fall fan here. And he's probably not here anymore either.
Anyway, MES was the fucking best you philistines.Last edited by Soccer Scrimmage; 24-01-2018, 22:07.
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