Mark was my absolute hero from 1978 till about 1990 .... After that I didn't like to watch the booze winning, but apparently I missed some good things. I don't feel I want to listen to The Fall now, not even today, but every bar of that early music is inscribed on my memory. (I rather subscribe to the Robin Purves view that The Fall were never quite the same after Hex. http://intercapillaryspace. blogspot.co.uk/2009/02/to- iceland-on-improvisation- during-fall.html )