Brix Smith Start met Mark E Smith in Chicago when The Fall toured America in 1983. They hit it off immediately, married soon after and had also joined the band as second guitarist. Her pop smarts and ...

Former guitarist for The Fall (and former wife of the late Mark E Smith) Brix Smith will release her first-ever solo album, Valley of the Dolls, on March 10 via Republic of Music. The album was ...

The punk legend, known for her work with The Fall as well as her own band The Extricated among others, was speaking at the AIF Festival Congress 2022 in Bristol earlier this week to discuss her work ...

Brix Smith has recalled her 24-hour stint as a member of Hole, describing it as “a super-intense whirlwind”. “That was one of the most action-packed, memory-stuffed 24 hours of my life,” Smith ...

Brix and the Extricated will release their second album, Breaking State, on October 26, via singer Brix Smith Start’s own newly founded label, Grit and Glamour. The album follows on from last year’s ...

"I LOVE Belfast, we played there many, many, many, times," enthuses Brix Smith Start of her previous visits to the north, back when she was just Brix Smith – singer/guitarist with Mancunian post-punk ...

Leeds duo Menace Beach have just announced that they'll release their third album, Black Rainbow Sound, at the end of the summer. It's their follow-up to Lemon Memory, which came out early last year, ...

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Putting her phone down she smiles broadly and replies, "Oh yes! We’ve just been offered a live session on Marc Riley’s show in the New Year. That’s wonderful!" "We" is Brix And The Extricated, the new ...

Ahead of the publication of her memoirs, Brix Smith-Start recalls her time in The Fall. Brix was born in LA as Laura Elisse Salenger, but changed her name to Brix after the 1980 Clash song, The Guns ...

Brix Smith Start paid tribute to the Fall’s Mark E. Smith, her former bandmate and husband who died Wednesday at the age of 60. Writing on Twitter, Start called Smith “a true artist” and applauded his ...