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| Mark E Smith with black eye why mic stand and friend |
| Conversation on Amtrak Empire Builder Passing through North Dakota in 1993 Talking to 2 Math Rockers from Chicago Made me reallise, in my enthusing and arm-twisting and distance from home, how proud I was of The Fall In that inevitable cultural cringe moment when being English in the company of Americans Means a bout between Tommy Steele and Bo Diddley We get a deserved thrashing But The Fall make even assured Americans shut up for a minute Nowhere else has, or could have, The Fall They have an armour of difficulty That is local and full of spite They stir an Englishness in me that is probably unhealthy They mean more the further I am from home I'd play 'I'm Into C.B.' If I had to choose one song For desert island exhibit a |