Mark Lanegan

[VinylGuy]

i read that exchange between Mark and Lee and it was quite moving, specially with Mark now being gone.

A collaboration between those two after so long would have been special.

[coptheriotact]

i love this book, Ill admit, i havent read many books to compare but this probably my favourite. Mark Lanegan makes every little story fun to read, even ifs its a harrowing/sad/boring situation. I only knew a few tracks from whisky for the holy ghost + gravedigger song/long gone day/nearly lost you before reading the book. but the book has made me a bit obssessed.

This was made around the same time as the book and i cant stop listening to it.

[VinylGuy]

thats one of me favs from that album

[verb_to_trust]

I recently read Sing Backwards and Weep. Wow! Singer Mark Lanegan struggled with addiction and also did not like the Screaming Trees!

[knee tunes]

I'm 1/3 of the through it about.

I just read the part where he deposited a lit cigarette into Matt Dillon"s suit jacket pocket . for royalties I guess

[verb_to_trust]

I just finished the book by the singer Mark Lanegan! I'm surprised he did not mention Mr. Greg? Dulli! It is a shame he did not live long enough to write another book about the later years of the singer Mark Lanegan's career!

[VinylGuy]

Probable last footage of Mark.

[verb_to_trust]

He's on the new Afghan Whigs record

[Revelator]

Probable last footage of Mark.

A moving video, and I normally hate music vids. This one got me a bit at the end dammit

[kreng]

The AFTER DARK WITH WES AND MARK podcast is available to stream now via Anchor, Spotify, Apple and Google.

"That people's memories are maybe the fuel they burn to stay alive. Whether those memories have any actual importance or not, it doesn't matter as far as the maintenance of life is concerned. They're all just fuel. To the fire, they're nothing but scraps of paper. It's the exact same thing. Important memories, not-so-important memories, totally useless memories: there's no distinction--they're all just fuel.”
― Haruki Murakami, After Darkr Dark

2020 - I'm going to Mark's often during the pandemic lockdown. After we made Plague Poems, Mark wanted to do a podcast together with the idea that the listener would be a voyeur to the candid conversations we were having... the type of delirious and open talks that arrive on an all night drive. We recorded a few episodes for fun and were just getting started, and that is what you will hear here, presented unedited and in crude glory.. when Mark moved to Ireland we had plans to continue and were reaching out to friends we planned to have on. The podcast was being pitched to places at the same time he landed in a coma, and that was that. When he came out, he still wanted to pursue it and hoped we would in time, but we never got there.

Mark, I want to thank you for the laughs and inspiration and friendship.. I listened to the first episode last night and felt that I still had my friend next to me.

Thanks to Amy Lee for putting this together and also thank you to Wyatt Oberholzer in Philly who worked on the recordings to make them audible for you. These were in my pocket but there is no reason to hold on to them and I hope you'll find them enjoyable.

Extra thanks to Dylan Carlson, Warren Ellis, Peter Hook, Jack Bates and Calvin Johnson for their time.


Listen on Spotify

https://open.spotify.com/show/2PIPXIm8l ... 14819&nd=1

Listen on Apple.

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a ... 1628471666

[psychobain]

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he recorded my favourite ever Nick Cave cover — an astonishing version of ‘Brompton Oratory’

[Birds in Hell]

I finally finished Mark's book yesterday, I bought it before his death but hadn't got around to reading it until recently.

I have an immense amount of sympathy for all his bandmates and anyone who had to work with him - what an insufferable jerk!

[VinylGuy]

yeah, he doesnt really is shy about how difficult he was around those times and afterwards too.

[oasisfan35]

[VinylGuy]

Cool.

I had the audiobook but never finished it.

[VinylGuy]

Van Conner died

Damn

[Ello Sailor]

Ongoing illness, eventually pneumonia took him. Shitty deal.

[joostone]

Thats sad, only 55.

[LetMeSleep]

Van Conner died

Damn

[knee tunes]