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Brix Smith-Start talks to Sarfraz Manzoor

The Rise, The Fall, and the Rise

Hay Festival 2016, 

Brix spent ten years in the band, The Fall, before a violent disintegration led to her exit and the end of her marriage with Mark E Smith. Her story is much more than rock ’n’ roll highs and lows in one of the most radically dysfunctional bands around. Growing up in the Hollywood Hills in the 1960s 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.

Brix Smith-Start talks to Sarfraz Manzoor