(Source: 200troubledteenagers, via tttotallywired)
MES appears for ‘Glitter Freeze’ during Gorillaz’ headline slot of the biggest music festival in the world… and fiddles with Mick Jones’ amp. Perfect.
The Fall’s Mark E Smith is releasing an unofficial World Cup 2010 song for the England team.
The singer has teamed up with former Fall member Ed Blane plus Jenny Shuttleworth (who records as Girl Peculiar) to release the song, titled ‘England’s Heartbeat’.
The trio are releasing the song under the name Shuttleworth. It will receive an official full release on June 7, but will be available to download from May 4.
See Voiceprint.co.uk for more information.
Submitted by slang-king
Happy 53rd Birthday Mark E. Smith! (born March 5th, 1957)
‘When I started the band in 1977 there weren’t a lot of really raw records around like this, plus it was the only thing we could play. It’s got those really corny jungle drums - dumma-dumma-dumma-dum - done on a floor tom that I’m always a sucker for, and the vocals are a sort of clipped, hillbilly whine.
… If in doubt, sing out of the corner of your mouth in a high voice - that’s what I do - it’s pretty unpopular. The bass line’s pretty corny too, it’s just running up and down the scale. It’s always been one of my strengths, not knowing how to play - you can sound quite good on an instrument until you get familiar with it.
I’ve had ‘Jungle Rock’ for years and still get something out of it every time - things like that are very rare. I don’t know what the words are about… something about the animals all having a party in the jungle… ‘
Mark E. Smith Interviewed by Lauren Laverne on Transmission (2007)
Mark E. Smith, Blake and auto-didactic opposition to the objectivist tendency
”In 1957 Richard Hoggart published a book which examined the changes the advent of mass, popular culture had wrought upon working-class life. In that book The Uses of Literacy, as part of that examination, he identified a section of the working-class he categorizes as the “earnest minority”. That section of the working-class, Hoggart suggested, resisted, by and large, the “attractions” of mass-produced culture, preferring to focus on the likes of Bernard Shaw and H.G. Wells and to spend their time involved in adult-education and trade-unionism. The contention of this paper is that the model Hoggart proposed of the “earnest minority” was, over time, to evolve and expand until the term was applicable not just to the sort of tee-total, bicycle-riding vegan George Orwell was famously so disdainful of but applicable to, as well, the type of person who would spend their free-time wandering round Heaton park searching for magic-mushrooms, before returning home to work on their poetry.”
