‘Close Up’ at the greenroom, Manchester is an opportunity to get up close and personal with musicians, poets, artists and actors discussing their life and work in-conversation with DJ/writer Dave Haslam.

The first two events feature Kevin Rowland (Dexy’s Midnight Runners) and Mark E Smith (The Fall), two iconic frontmen with cult followings and uncompromised opinions.

Mark E Smith formed The Fall in 1976 at the age of nineteen, since when The Fall have had an infamously ever-shifting roll call of members, while being prolific in the extreme; as of now (January 2010) we’re awaiting the arrival of what’s thought to be their twenty-eighth studio album . John Peel proclaimed The Fall as his favourite band, explaining, "They are always different; they are always the same." Smith has something of a cantankerous reputation, which much of his autobiography and many of his TV appearances have often confirmed, so this ‘Close Up’ event is not for the faint-hearted!

Saturday 20th March

The event will start at 8pm promptly, with an approximate end time of 9.30pm; to be followed by an official after-party in the greenroom bar, featuring DJs Stefano (Disco Outcasts) after the  event.

Tickets £9 / £6

Box Office: 0161 615 0500 / www.greenroomarts.org

Venue; greenroom, 54-56 Whitworth St West, Manchester, M1 5WW

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