The Rise, The Fall, and The Rise

Posted on 03 November 2018 by Brix Smith Start

The Rise, The Fall, and The Rise is the extraordinary story, in her own words, of Brix Smith Start Best known for her work in The Fall at the time when they were perhaps the most powerful and influential anti authoritarian postpunk band in the world This Nation s Saving Grace, The Wonderful and Frightening World OfBrix spent ten years in the band before a violent disintegration led to her exit and the end of her marriage with Mark E Smith.But Brix s story is much than rock n roll highs and lows in one of the most radically dysfunctional bands around Growing up in the Hollywood Hills in the 60s in a dilapidated pink mansion her life has taken her from luxury to destitution, from the cover of the NME to waitressing in California, via the industrial wasteland of Manchester in the 1980s What emerges is a story of constant reinvention, jubilant highs and depressive ebbs a singular journey of a teenage American girl on a collision course with English radicalism on her way to mid life success on TV and in fashion.Too bizarre, extreme and unlikely to exist in the pages of fiction, The Rise, The Fall, and The Rise could only exist in the pages of a memoir. New Read [ The Rise, The Fall, and The Rise ] By [ Brix Smith Start ] – kino-fada.fr I tend to avoid music bios or rock books, except in the case of The Fall The madcap soap opera yielding one solid post punk record after another, each timestamped by the particular line up of talented musicians, coerced and exploited as a means for MES to spit his once dazzling now incoherent verbal tirades, is irresistible for this once obsessive fan Brix Smith pushed the band from their phase of snarling assaul...This is a strange book fascinating in parts, shocking, tedious, boring, hilarious, moving, gripping, sickening and illuminating All in all, its a biography a person in full You cant put the book down without feeling like you know Brix, for better and for worse.Brix is a California girl, born Laura, whose odd journey is told over many short, punchy, well written chapters Early parts of the book reminded me of Donna Tartts The Goldfinch, which I read recently, and whom Brix went to college This is a strange book fascinating in parts, shocking, tedious, boring, hilarious, moving, gripping, sickening and illuminating All in all, it s a biography a person in full You can t put the book down without feeling like you know Brix, for better and for worse.Brix is a California girl, born Laura, whose odd journey is told over many short, punchy, well written chapters Early parts of the book reminded me of Donna Tartt s The Goldfinch, which I read recently, and whom Brix went to college with also in the writing class, Brett Easton Ellis By the end of the book you realise that Brix knowsor less everyone in the celebrity world there s so much name dropping going on you almost feel sorry for her.I ll confess that my interest in the book was Brix s time with The Fall and I skipped many parts which weren t directly related to this They bored me, to be honest Brix seems to guess most people will do this as there are stuck on chap...Mark E Smith famously once saidIf it s me and yer granny on bongos, it s The FallWhich is quite true Numerous bandmates came and went Indeed, so many, that Dave Simpson wrote an entire book The Fallen Searching for the Missing Members of The Fall based around his quest to locate and talk to each and every one of them It s a brilliant read too I followed The Fall pretty much continuously, from their inception in the white heat of punk, through to the bitter end, when Mark E Mark E Smith famously once saidIf it s me and yer granny on bongos, it s The FallWhich is quite true Numerous bandmates came and went Indeed, so many, that Dave Simpson wrote an entire book The Fallen Searching for the Missing Members of The Fall based around his quest to locate and talk to each and every one of them It s a brilliant read too I followed The Fall pretty much continuously, from their inception in the white heat of punk, through to the bitter end, when Mark E Smith died on 24 January 2018.Most fans of The Fall would probably agree that the mid 1980...Bottom line, this is a riveting read, but for alayered opinion, see belowFor the first 268 pagesthan halfway through , I had a simple, undiluted enthusiasm for this book and its author As rock memoirs go, this one is very well written, and Brix comes across as a sweet, complicated, creative, and relatable person with lots of great stories about her crazy childhood in LA Chicago, and the beginnings of her musical career She provides a complex portrait of the famously irascible Bottom line, this is a riveting read, but for alayered opinion, see belowFor the first 268 pagesthan halfway through , I had a simple, undiluted enthusiasm for this book and its author As rock memoirs go, this one is very well written, and Brix comes across as a sweet, complicated, creative, and relatable person with lots of great stories about her crazy childhood in LA Chicago, and the beginnings of her musical career She provides a complex portrait of the famously irascible Mark E Smith, shines some light on the less well known members of the Fall, and writes with equanimity about the joys and sorrows of the unglamorous side of the music world All that relatability goes to smash after she is kicked out of the Fall and her marriage in her late mid 20s, and embarks on a jet setting lifestyle, hobnobbing with famous classical musicians, Princess Di, and various members of the 90s LA glitterati The second half of the book is about her lost years searching for self esteem and a solid i...I am torn on this one Brix s period with The Fall was arguably their best it certainly was the most commercially accessible pretty much entirely the result of her influence on MES the band Being completely honest, without that relatively brief period in her life which she looks back on with very complex mixed feelings , Brix would likely be a nobody despite her VERY privileged upbringing having been pretty much handed whatever she wanted out of life due to her connections and I am torn on this one Brix s period with The Fall was arguably their best it certainly was the most commercially accessible pretty much entirely the result of her influence on MES the band Being completely...Judging by what she s written here, Brix Smith Start is a kind enough, sincere enough person and that she is a very talented person is a long established fact The Fall s very best albums encompass her first go round with them She is probably I have no trouble believing it a better person, all things considered, than the autocratic, sometimes abusive Mark E Smith, her ex husband, whose band, The Fall, she was a prominent and vital member of throughout their marriage And this book is Judging by what she s written here, Brix Smith Start is a kind enough, sincere enough person and that she is a very talented person is a long established fact The Fall s very best albums encompass her first go round with them She is probably I have no trouble believi...I had such a crush on Brix when she was in The Fall and this book has reignited it The first thing to note here is just how well written this is whereas a lot of autobiographies drag until the moment that made the author worthy of a book in the first place, Brix s reminiscences of her early life is rivetting, endearing stuff dysfunction, disease, parental assault, a Mickey Mouse addiction and schooldays with Bret Easton Ellis The section on her time in the mighty Fall is as tawdry and sad I had such a crush on Brix when she was in The Fall and this book has reignited it The first thing to note here is just how well written t...Loved every minute of this book Brix is an amazing woman and her story is well worth a read Now I love her evenxxxGood fun The bits about being in The Fall and giving up luxurious LA for a grimy flat in Manchester were excellent, and the shameless namedropping of all the celebrities she d made a special connection with was a hoot She came over as so guileless and pos...Helmet 2018 20 Taiteilijael m kerta, POPSUGAR 2018 37 A book you meant to read in 2017 but didn t get to There s something utterly charming in the wide eyed naivete Brix displays in her descriptions of her childhood and teenage years It could be jarring the wealth, the name dropping, how are all these people so influential , the stunning houses and the sheltered privilege My public school days were over At least I gave it a go but it s shown in vivid images of California Helmet 2018 20 Taiteilijael m kerta, POPSUGAR 2018 37 A book you meant to read in 2017 but didn t get to There s so...

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03 November 2018

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