In some respects, Mark E Smith must have been a music journalist's dream interviewee: the reliable source of a steady stream of pull-out quotes, many of which would be hilariously scathing comments about fellow musicians. But he was also infamously cantankerous, unpredictable and unaccustomed to suffering fools gladly, and so those assigned the task of talking to him probably approached their mission with a significant degree of trepidation.
In an excerpt from his new book Paper Cuts, Ted Kessler recalls his three encounters with the Fall frontman - the first a short and rather confrontational phoner; the second a hastily arranged pre-gig meeting in a hotel room that felt like Smith holding court; and the third a drunken chat in his natural habitat, a Manchester boozer.
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