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(Telegraph) Interesting Lead singer of The Fall investigated for cruelty after boasting about killing squirrels, saying he'd like to run over seagulls and he'd happily "set about an endangered red squirrel with a set of professional hedge-clippers"   (telegraph.co.uk) divider line 34
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jghanc [TotalFark] 2008-04-09 11:32:27 PM  
And Boris-uh and NatASH-uh
See one face, and face was moose,
And moose-uh, Bullwink-uh-l
Spake unto them
And he said-uh
WATCH-uh a rabbit from thine hat-uh!
Where are the obligatory rodents?
No squirrels in this flat!
No squirrels in this flat!

 
Crosshair [TotalFark] 2008-04-09 11:35:01 PM  
I've run over a seagull on accident before. They aren't exactly the smartest birds in the world. I've seen several dead seagulls on the road near Devils Lake, ND.

 
Kyosuke [TotalFark] 2008-04-09 11:42:42 PM  
Well, he's got that serial killer profile, obviously.

 
Heroic Poser 2008-04-10 12:25:43 AM  
I hear he used to bullseye Wamprats back home.

 
millia 2008-04-10 12:55:14 AM  
Squirrelsuh? Kill themuh? That'suh just not rightuh.

Must be an edited transcript of the interview, since they obviously cut out all the grunts at the ends of the sentences.

/*only* 95 albums? gads, it seems like more.
//yeah, i don't get the Fall.

 
3rdLostPassword 2008-04-10 12:57:46 AM  
I'm becoming everything I used to hate
But I can't go back there
Not back there, I can't go back there
Not back to the park

 
J13P 2008-04-10 02:31:15 AM  
he never said how... i strongly suggest that this is one of those things said for some PR.

and in music....there is no such thing as bad PR. Vince Neil killed ppl, and he is prolly banging a botox beauty right now.

I will also say I love shooting small furry animals. Its fun. Just like making music for my band scream13...hahaha

 
NewportBarGuy [TotalFark] 2008-04-10 02:32:53 AM  
Seagulls are sky rats and should be exterminated... with extreme prejudice.


/I ran so far away.

 
monas 2008-04-10 02:51:26 AM  
That's what those people from Sparta FC are like

 
HappyHarryHardOn [TotalFark] 2008-04-10 08:25:58 AM  
HEY THERE FARKFACE
HEY THERE FARKFACE

I'm feasting on a bald eagle right now, so I'm getting a kick outta this

/50000 falls fan can't be wrong
//mr pharmacist feasting on livestocks

 
Marla Singer's Laundry [TotalFark] 2008-04-10 09:08:33 AM  
J13P: he never said how... i strongly suggest that this is one of those things said for some PR.

and in music....there is no such thing as bad PR. Vince Neil killed ppl, and he is prolly banging a botox beauty right now.

I will also say I love shooting small furry animals. Its fun. Just like making music for my band scream13...hahaha


Wow, zero to asshole in three short phrases.

 
carmody 2008-04-10 10:13:05 AM  
He's talking crap. But I still love him.

I heard on his recent tour of America he fired the entire band and finished the tour with guys he picked up on the road. I bet there were spectacular trainwrecks at every stop.

 
Daemon Spooler [TotalFark] 2008-04-10 10:31:58 AM  
Lead singer of The Fall FAIL investigated for cruelty after....

FTFY

 
J13P 2008-04-10 11:25:27 AM  
Marla Singer's Laundry: J13P: he never said how... i strongly suggest that this is one of those things said for some PR.

and in music....there is no such thing as bad PR. Vince Neil killed ppl, and he is prolly banging a botox beauty right now.

I will also say I love shooting small furry animals. Its fun. Just like making music for my band scream13...hahaha

Wow, zero to asshole in three short phrases.


Marla says the sweetest things to me sometimes

 
safety-math 2008-04-10 12:04:44 PM  
Stephen Malkmus +1, Mark E Smith zero

 
MmmBadEggs 2008-04-10 12:32:53 PM  
4001s.dreamhosters.com

"It's not a pet, it's a wild invalid! And it knows I tried to kill it! As soon as it gets better it's gonna gnaw my brain out in my sleep!"

 
mooseyfate 2008-04-10 12:49:32 PM  
J13P:
Wow, zero to asshole in three short phrases.

Marla says the sweetest things to me sometimes


I feel the love.

 
MikoSquiz 2008-04-10 01:04:28 PM  
Mark E. Smith is and always has been a spiteful, mean-spirited little asshole.

Good tunes, though.

 
onomatopoetic 2008-04-10 01:26:17 PM  
Mark Smith used to work for me. Back in Manchester, back in 1983. Stole all his ideas, FROM ME.

 
J13P 2008-04-10 01:57:35 PM  
NewportBarGuy: Seagulls are sky rats and should be exterminated... with extreme prejudice.


/I ran so far away.


SKY RATS...AWESOME!

 
mooseyfate 2008-04-10 02:15:24 PM  
J13P: NewportBarGuy: Seagulls are sky rats and should be exterminated... with extreme prejudice.


/I ran so far away.

SKY RATS...AWESOME!


I've always referred to Pigeons as "rats with wings" or "winged rats". Seagulls are more like Winged Raccoons, or Winged Oppossums, really. Maybe even Winged Nutria.

 
irockalot 2008-04-10 03:31:15 PM  
That's what you get for having a hobby!

That's what you get for having a hobby!

/loves the Fall

 
goofoffgoose 2008-04-10 03:36:03 PM  
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Oh my sweet lord!

 
Boris S. Wort [TotalFark] 2008-04-10 04:02:55 PM  
No one ever said he was a nice guy.

 
Thunderboy 2008-04-10 05:17:03 PM  
Alcohol psychosis is a biatch.

Several years ago, The Fall played a three-night run at my venue. The first night was relatively uneventful.

The second night, they showed up 5 minutes before we were to open doors, more shiatfaced than I would ever have imagined possible, and demanded a sound check. This would require striking the opening band (a rather sizable and complex ensemble), setting them up, doing the sound check, striking them and setting the opener up again. It very nearly came to blows. We somehow reached a compromise and got doors open about an hour late. Smith and his tour manager/drinking buddy heckled the opener throughout their set, which again almost led to a physical confrontation backstage. The Fall played past curfew, continuing even after the PA was off and the house lights brought up.

The third night, Smith and his tour manager walked in about a half-hour before their set and introduced themselves to me.

 
viccellini 2008-04-10 05:47:25 PM  
I just call them Sky Roaches. "Hey, look at that Sky Roach trying to get at that french fry."

 
terriblist 2008-04-10 06:17:45 PM  
God damn. These new Puritans! Mark is... UNCLEAN!!!

 
pleaseleavemebe [TotalFark] 2008-04-10 06:50:10 PM  
Thunderboy:

Great story.

 
Pontius Gandalf 2008-04-10 07:09:22 PM  
I was shocked, until I realized that it was The Fall, and not The Call.

/La Fin Du Monde, dontcha know.

 
J13P 2008-04-10 07:38:36 PM  
Thunderboy: Alcohol psychosis is a biatch.

Several years ago, The Fall played a three-night run at my venue. The first night was relatively uneventful.

The second night, they showed up 5 minutes before we were to open doors, more shiatfaced than I would ever have imagined possible, and demanded a sound check. This would require striking the opening band (a rather sizable and complex ensemble), setting them up, doing the sound check, striking them and setting the opener up again. It very nearly came to blows. We somehow reached a compromise and got doors open about an hour late. Smith and his tour manager/drinking buddy heckled the opener throughout their set, which again almost led to a physical confrontation backstage. The Fall played past curfew, continuing even after the PA was off and the house lights brought up.

The third night, Smith and his tour manager walked in about a half-hour before their set and introduced themselves to me.


AWESOME STORY....FREAKING LOVE I--

WE HAVE TO REMEMBER THESE GUYS ARE MUSICIANS, NOT EXACTLY THE MOST TRUSTFUL BUNCH. i BOOKED A TOUR FOR A BAND, AND GOT AN EMAIL STATING THE LEAD SINGER PUKED ON HIS DESK BECAUSE THEY ONLY PAID THEM HALF OF THE GUARANTEE...

MUSICIANS, LIKE CHILDREN, DO THE WEIRDEST THINGS

 
crackhome 2008-04-11 02:43:56 AM  
i154.photobucket.com
"Up the stairs mister?
Eat y'rself fitter!"


Squirrels = lean protein-uh

 
crackhome 2008-04-11 02:57:02 AM  
Nows as good a time as any to post some sweet sweet Brix Smith pics...

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Post-punk-a-licious!

 
standard_grey 2008-04-11 04:29:56 AM  
jghanc: And Boris-uh and NatASH-uh
See one face, and face was moose,
And moose-uh, Bullwink-uh-l
Spake unto them
And he said-uh
WATCH-uh a rabbit from thine hat-uh!
Where are the obligatory rodents?
No squirrels in this flat!
No squirrels in this flat!


WIN


/charmed to meet ya
//eat y'self fitter
///up the stairs mister
////eat y'self fitter

da-dumda-dum da da dum x 100000

 
biggusJmanus 2008-04-11 11:05:09 PM  
jghanc: And Boris-uh and NatASH-uh
See one face, and face was moose,
And moose-uh, Bullwink-uh-l
Spake unto them
And he said-uh
WATCH-uh a rabbit from thine hat-uh!
Where are the obligatory rodents?
No squirrels in this flat!
No squirrels in this flat!


Brilliant!

 
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