Truly sad news today, that everybody’s working-class hero Mr Mark Edward Smith of the seemingly evergreen Fall band died this morning, aged just 60.
So here, something of the man’s vital early punk-like energy that was married to a razor-sharp perception-graced intellect that perpetually fermented highly bespoke “undilutable slang truth ” lyrics set to the frequent runaway juggernaut-bludgeoning Fall sound.
Over 40 years of almost non-stop gigging and a shelf-sagging number of albums to his now legendary name. – Michael St. Mark

Alexis Petridis saw a tribute style, nicked it and ran it in the next day Guardian..

& from Hammersmith Palais 2007, a fave Fall live performance of “Blindness”

Roaming the Galaxy ( Fruits of Autumn ) Follow-up to the summer edition.
Selected trilogy of shots from another three months of random observations from random wanderings, captured on the Galaxy S7

Dusk @ the Water Tower
Trent Park, N. London

Tinsel Tina / TWHSTL VII
Latest in the (very) long-running ” They Who Have Seen the Light ” LD series

The World is Too Much For Us ( after Wordsworth ) / “Hell is Other People III”
Barnet, Herts.

( Looks like someone who’s seen it all )
” Often it’s the once overly kind & generous who appear bitter with age, in a world of users”  – M. St.Mark

Links to HIOP 1 & II

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Wreck of the Mayflower / A Conservative Lifeboat IV
Michael St.Mark 2017

Dungerness, Kent ( White Cliffs of Dover on the horizon )

December 2017
Aground. Facing the wrong way.  Falling apart – ring any ships’ bells?

Categorized latest in our “A Conservative Lifeboat – not fit for purpose” series.
Links to earlier Works therefrom..

Conservative Lifeboat III

A Very Conservative Lifeboat

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