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Date: Tue, 6 Dec 1994 17:24:14 +0000
From: cockeril[at]-remove-europa.lif.icnet.uk (Matt Cockerill)
Subject: Mark E Smith
>Southern Mark Smith is indeed one of my JBC favorites (either version!)...
>But I have *never* been able to extract from anyone, be they English, or
>English Majors, exactly what *is* a Southern Mark Smith?
>Surely someone in the online JBC brain-trust can help!
Mark E. Smith is the off-centre genius behind The Fall.
He comes from Manchester, which counts as The North.
Pat comes from Northampton, which, frankly, is The Midlands, not The South.
But anyway, I believe that's the origin. There are all kinds of JBC/The
Fall links of varying degrees of convincingness. Both can produce seriously
wonderful lyrics on a good day.
For example
You are stuck like a pig
On a castle lawn
Who says, "Look at what's happened to my leg."
"Past Gone Mad", The Fall (from the LP "Infotainment Scam")
Matt
Matthew Cockerill <cockeril[at]-remove-europa.lif.icnet.uk> Tel: 071 269 3877
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