Mark E Smith Tapestries
Description: Hit the North Hit the North (Hit the North) my Cat says eeeee-ack Hit the North Hit the North Hit the North Ninety-five percent of hayseeds (Hit the North) are corn-pones, guaranteed Hit the North Computers and fashion hotels Cops can't catch criminals But what the heck, they're not too bad, they talk to God Religious Hit the North Hit the North Hit the North Manacled to the city Manacled to the city (hit the North) All estate, all es, all estate agents alive Yell down nights in hysterical breath Those Northern Lights, so pretty Those big big big wide streets Those useless MPs Savages Hit the North Hit the North Hit the North (Manacled to the system) Hit the North
Description: A battered transmission from an imaginary Northern department where repetition is procedure and printing errors are policy. Built from fractured type, industrial linework, bureaucratic marks and xerox-worn textures, this piece channels the stubborn visual disorder of late-'70s and early-'80s British post-punk ephemera.
Description: Bend Sinister was the third and last Fall album to be produced by John Leckie. When recording began, the band was without a drummer, as Karl Burns was fired shortly before sessions began. Ex-member Paul Hanley stepped in at first before permanent replacement Simon Wolstencroft was found. However, Leckie and Mark E. Smith argued during the recording, with Smith complaining that "he'd always swamp everything, y'know, put the psychedelic sounds over it". Leckie, for his part, drew the line at Smith's insistence that some tracks be mastered from a standard audio cassette that Smith had been carrying around and listening to on a Walkman.
