The first Fall song I ever heard was It's the New Thing on John Peel, and I had never heard anything like it. Here was a guy singing about the computer centre over the road or eating a packet of crisps and you felt it was coming directly from his life. Smith's look inspired the young Frame's fashion sense, what he calls "the indoor look", but with sensible shoes in case you had to make a quick getaway from the local thugs ... Mark E Smith ... would be wearing a tank top from Marks & Spencer. From then on, I started buying my clothes from the Co-Op.