Close Up… at the greenroom is a series of exclusive opportunities to get up close and personal with musicians, poets, artists and actors discussing their life and work in-conversation with DJ/writer Dave Haslam. The first two events feature Kevin Rowland (Dexy’s Midnight Runners) and Mark E Smith (The Fall), two iconic frontmen with cult followings and uncompromised opinions.
On Saturday 20 March Dave’s second Close Up is with Mark E Smith. Smith formed The Fall in 1976 at the age of nineteen, since then The Fall have had an infamously ever-shifting roll call of members, while being prolific in the extreme; as of now (January 2010) we’re awaiting the arrival of what’s thought to be their twenty-eighth studio album . John Peel proclaimed The Fall as his favourite band, explaining, “They are always different; they are always the same.” Smith has something of a cantankerous reputation, which much of his autobiography and many of his TV appearances have often confirmed, so this ‘Close Up’ event is not for the faint-hearted!
