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- He fired people for insane reasons. Smith reportedly fired a studio engineer for ordering a salad. This story went viral on Twitter after Smith died and appeared in several obituaries.
- He once fined his drummers £5 every time they played the tom-tom. This is one of many remarkable stories that surfaced in Guardian writer Dave Simpson's 2006 attempt to track down every former member of the Fall.
- He hired and fired the same drummer nine times. The drummer in question, Karl Burns, often objected to Smith's leadership style, according to that Guardian piece.
- He claimed to have fired one bandmate on the guy's wedding day. Accounts of Marc Riley's dismissal from the Fall vary. Smith claimed to have fired the future BBC DJ on his wedding day, while Riley has maintained that Smith fired him by phone the month after he was married.
Jan 26, 2018 · Mark E Smith, Greater Manchester’s greatest contrarian, has died. So far, the initial shock of Britain’s most antipathetic, fractious frontman’s passing has been met with colossal dread and a perverse sense of expectancy.
Even a failure in the hands of the Fall is a triumph against the banality of comfort and predictability. And at the helm of this mighty outfit, its one and only constant member is of course Mark E. Smith. Like the music that he conducts with autodidactic, anti-conventional venom, he too is completely unpredictable.
Mark E. Smith. Mark Edward Smith (5 March 1957 – 24 January 2018) was an English singer-songwriter. He was the lead singer, lyricist and only constant member of the post-punk group the Fall.
Jan 25, 2018 · The Fall songwriter and arch-provocateur Mark E. Smith died on January 24 aged 60. Endless tales of anarchic behavior aside, Smith was first and foremost a storyteller whose wry, absurdist vision...
Jan 25, 2018 · The irascible leader of the legendary Manchester post-punk group The Fall — who died yesterday at the age of 60 — was a true artist and eccentric. An acerbic British icon with working-class roots,...
ORDER HERE. In 2015, Mark E. Smith of legendary post-punk group The Fall and screenwriter Graham Duff co-wrote the script for a horror feature film entitled The Otherwise. The Fall are recording an EP in an isolated recording studio on Pendle Hill.
