Mark E Smith

[andrew d]

http://www.getintothis.co.uk/2017/10/falls-mark-e-smith-performs-wheelchair-concern-health-grows/

The second photo in the article shows an almost unrecognisable MES. He doesn't look well. Wishing him good health.

 

[Tony L]

Crikey, that’s pretty shocking. He was on C4 News (I think, though may have been BBC North West) a year or two ago channeling UKIP or something similar in a somewhat drunken manner, but he didn’t look anything like that bad. Not a good week for this sort of thing as Genesis P Orridge has just been dignosed with leukaemia (NME).

 

[RickyC6]

Very sad to see. He would maybe stop now.

 

[paulfromcamden]

I didn't realise Gen was sick - that's a bit of a shock... Wishing her a very speedy recovery.

 

[jackbarron]

Blimey, Mark does look really ill in those pics. I hope things improve for him.

Jack

 

[Tarzan]

Blimey, Mark does look really ill in those pics. I hope things improve for him.

Jack

x2

 

[mikemusic]

Very sad to see.
Wonder what he has done to himself over the years.

Hoping he gets better

 

[docp]

Very sad to see.
Wonder what he has done to himself over the years.

Hoping he gets better

x2 Remember seeing The Fall at The Warehouse, Leeds in the early eighties.

 

[manicatel]

I never liked or “got”him, but nevertheless it’s sad to see him in that state, if that picture of him in a wheelchair is representative.

 

[wylton]

Mark has been a bit of a Curmudgeon and hasn't looked after his health, but he has kept us entertained all these years with his prodigious output.

I do hope that he recovers and keeps us entertained for many years to come; get well soon Mark.

 

[andyoz]

Jesus I laughed a few years back when he was at Glasto and before a song just walked along the back line turning all the musos amps up to 10.

 

[foxwelljsly]

After a string of curtailed gigs, he's just cancelled tonight's show at Koko due to ill health. I hate to sound ghoulish, but this story is starting to show a lot of parallels with Lemmy's decline.

 

[RickyC6]

I’ve heard some horrible rumours from good sources but won’t spread the detail until it’s official. But it’s not good at all.

 

[jackbarron]

There is a post on FB from a promoter I know who used to do a lot of work with Mark. The message was cryptic, but not good if I understood it correctly.

Jack

 

[FireMoon]

If the photo is typical of his condition, that looks horribly like MND to me.

 

[mikemusic]

Hoping for good news