I knew it was coming. I knew they didn't have the nerve. Three days in and they've got faces like vexed tomatoes, their skins flaking sci-fi style: burnt to fuck. They were an embarrassment; not only to me and the wife and The Fall fans but to their own generation.

Mark Edward Smith (born 5 March 1957) is the lead singer lyricist frontman and only constant member of the English post-punk group The Fall. He has also appeared in several films made by the artist Mark Aeriel Waller including "Glow Boys" and "Midwatch". A fuzzy muted version of the song "Hip Priest" appeared in the movie "The Silence of the Lambs.

Mark Edward Smith (born 5 March 1957) is the lead singer lyricist frontman and only constant member of the English post-punk group The Fall.