Mark E Smith on 'Dead Man's Shoes'

[cudas]

not sure if this has already been noted on this forum, but in his recently-published hardback-bestseller autobiography Renegade, Mark E Smith (of legendary band The Fall) spends a longish paragraph extolling the virtues of Dead Man's Shoes. I can copy it in if required.

[shindig]

Ah. For a minute there I thought this was a cameo. Aye, copy and paste it. He's always got interesting things to say, even if they're mumbled by his collapsing face.

[Morell™]

I wouldn't mind seeing some extractions from said publication.

[cudas]

OK. I'll type it in (no technology for "scanning"), but it will have to be next week - apologies - as I'm still in Edinburgh (till Saturday evening) and my copy of the book is down in Sunderland.

[shindig]

I haven't been to Sunderland in ages. It never strikes me as having stuff in it to do.

[cudas]

i remember reading somewhere that we've got more square miles of beach than any other city in the country. And it's all good beach!

[cudas]

sorry for the delay...

Renegade - The Lives and Tales of Mark E Smith,
page 24

There's a dearth of original scripts, that's why Hollywood has to remake everything. The only one I didn't mind was The Manchurian Candidate; not as good as the original, but there was something there.
Nothing touches Dead Man's Shoes though. British film -- set in Nottingham [sic]. Not many people have heard of it, because it isn't your average idea of Britain. It's not Notting Hill or Hugh Grant, and it's not even Mike Leigh or Ken Loach. It doesn't patronize or meander and it's not afraid to tell a story. I like the way it captures Britain in the summertime, when some people don't have enough money to go on holiday and they spend most of their time drinking or doing drugs: walling themselves off. There's a lot of frustration there; it doesn't help when they're seeing their bosses and workmates fucking off on another holiday. You can see it in the pubs; men who've been out all day in the sun with big red faces that you could fry an egg on, bruised complexions, looking at you...

www.penguin.co.uk/nf/Book/BookDisplay/0,,9780670916740,00.html

[josephcroft]

Mark E Smith-ah, likes Dead Man's Shoes-ah.