Mr Braby likes to put it about musically and has his dirty fingers in many a pie. Such pies are as follows or can be found on the musical download pie chart up the top of this page:LOST ROBOTS: Since 2003, Lost Robots have been recording improvisations with a view to re recording and re working successful ideas alongside further free improvisation. The music can be experimental leading to repetative and hypnotic grooves. Band members alongside Mark Braby are Richard Sanderson, Andy Coules, and Clive Pearman. Please refer to Lost Robots Myspace for more information.VIC GODARD AND THE SUBWAY SECT: Braby is pleased to be playing bass guitar in classic cult punk/lounge band The Subway Sect. Vic was recently a guest on Mr Braby's Resonance fm show 'Full Circle'. More info at Vicgodard Myspace
LONDON FIRESKY: Mark Braby, in collaboration with Andy Zammit, play ostensibly bass guitar and drum led sonic power pieces. the work in progress, entitled 'Good Shepherd Gone Bad' can be heard by selecting this on the above music chart and the compilation album from which it is taken is available at Bronzerat records Myspace or at Bronzerat records homepage .NITWOOD: Braby has joined this instrumental combo as their lead guitarist. Other members are Simon Charterton (ex Higsons) on drums, Richard Duguid on keyboards, and Colin Young on bass guitar. Together, they concoct their unique blend of 'Kraut Rock Exotica'. Check out their myspace site Nitwood MyspaceJOE'S COMFORTERS: Although no longer together, this unit, once described as 'Roxy Music in a car crash with The Birthday Party', lasted only two years before imploding. Clive Pearman (Lost Robots/McDeath Trio) played guitar, Cal McCormick was on bass, Braby on drums and vocals, and Mark Norton (Gene Drayton Unit) played sax. The music was abrasive, loose yet tight, and intense. Sample the track in the pie room above.JAIL: Combining the groove of The Fall and Pavement, the humour of Syd Barrett and Half Man Half Biscuit, the beauty of Sparklehorse, and sheer nonsense, Jail are perfect quirk punk pop. Mr Braby bangs the drums for them. Jail Myspace or Jail website .THE ORCHESTRA PIT: Mark Braby runs a club dedicated to experimental and exciting new music. Acts such as Charles Hayward, Terry Edwards, Nought, Giddy Motors, and Adcock and Bell have graced the stage at Orchestra Pit events. Also, in collaboration with Andy Coules and Shaun Hendry, Braby co presents and co curates the smaller and more regular club SCALEDOWN which takes place once a month in the room above the King and Queen in London's beautiful Fitzrovia. Such performances are captured aurally and subsequently broadcast on SCALEDOWN RADIO SHOW on Resonance 104.4fm. Please refer to Resonance FM or The Orchestra Pit for further info. alternatively, check out their gorgeous myspace site: The Orchestra Pit Myspace The Orchestra Pit has recently become a record company promoting such acts as LOST ROBOTS, NIAM AMOR, POCKET, TERRY EDWARDS, and BLURT.
Mark Braby has, in the past, played drums in mondo ray trash guitar instrumental combo The Charles Napiers and had a brief stint in punk pop synth band Hicks Milligan Prophecy. Braby has also played the bass in ex Cardiac keyboardist William D Drake's Barnacles, pastoral prog outfit Defeat The Young, Eva Lema (dream pop band led by ex Sidi Bou Said leader Claire Lemmon), prog blues artist Charles Campbell Jones, Gemma Ray Ritual, and occasionally for psychedelic unit Organ Morgan.
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