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Brix Smith Start

  • you can drumThe Rise, The Fall and The Rise - Brix Smith Start (Faber)
    The Big Midweek: Life Inside The Fall - Steve Hanley and Olivia Piekarski (Route)
    You Can Drum But You Can't Hide - Simon Wolstencroft (Route)

    Yep, You read the headline correctly. I'm serious. Cobain was such a fan of The Fall he tried to get on their tour bus and travel with them. 

    The Fall refused.

    There's an absence in our culture. You may not have noticed. It's like some necessary abscess has been entirely excised from our cultural body. We needed that pain, that savagery, to tell us what we are, what we shouldn't be, and to remind us that we can be more than what we are. 

    This article is all about Mark E. Smith. Because his personality, his drive and charisma shoved a certain rock'n'roll band forward through barrier after barrier...