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About Me

Solo artist and guitarist Mark Blacker has been at it since 1977 when he formed his first punk band the Anthrax AAnorax . 5.30 Boots his second band with Bart Coles on bass and Dave (polly) Perret on drums soon evolved into Ultimate Dance where punk met funk in a Gang of Four / killing joke style .Sally Bennet was the first of several singers closely followed by punk poet/comedian Lee Coombes in an ever changing line up . Hey Joe featuring Jo Nye and Jim Barr was the most promising musical project from 1985 to 1988 with a prolific Blacker/Nye song writting partnership but sadly it came to nothing . Having rejected computer based music since the dawn of the I.T revolution Blacker has only recently discovered the use of digital multi tracking as a way to create music with out having a band. A simple guitar riff might form a platform around which live guitar bass keyboard and vocals are added ,often they are first takes with no pre concieved ideas about direction .Its a "warts and all" approach with no attempt to correct mistakes to capture that live performance feel as opposed to a clynical clean studio sound. The result is a crude but dynamic sound that captures the essence of what Mark Blackers music is all about.Heart is a good example of this technique. Recent collaborations include work with the crazy Catalan, Xavier Panades. The tracks Stain and Skrap were put together from nothing in a couple of hours.The Minipixels are now age 8 and 6 and tend to hi-jack any new material to claim as their own ;-)To bring things right up to date The Blacker/Nye song writting partnership is about to be rekindled with a view to performing at this years Glastonbury Festival

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 15/09/2006
Band Members: Mark Blacker
Influences: Gang of four . Magazine . Buzzcocks . Clash . Trojan records .The Only ones .. John Peel . 70,s funk . Trance and Dance . Hawkwind. Glasto . The Damned. Ian Curtis . The Doors .Janis Joplin .chelsea . Spizz .Mark Perry . Talking Heads . The Sweet. Pretty Things . Joe Strummer . The Who . Slits .The Coventry Specials .John Cooper Clarke .The Orb . Wire .
Sounds Like: ....Minipixel

Type of Label: Major

My Blog

Glastonbury 2010 Clapped Out Stage

After a successful first year as a crew venue the Clapped Out stage faces an uncertain future as plans are underway to expand Shangri-la into Clapps Ground.My latest idea is to keep Clapped Out where ...
Posted by on Wed, 06 Jan 2010 06:13:00 GMT

Clapped Out at Jazz World Glastonbury 2009

Here are some of the acts who are on the list to play Congregationhttp://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction= user.viewProfile&friendID=103266404http://profile.myspace.co m/index.cfm?fuseaction=use...
Posted by on Wed, 11 Feb 2009 16:04:00 GMT

Glastonbury 2009

After 20 years working at Glastonbury festival doing security I have finally been given something more creative to do.I will be establishing a new backstage venue at Clapps ground (Jazz World/Avalon c...
Posted by on Tue, 18 Nov 2008 09:22:00 GMT

Stuff

I mentioned in my last blog that I was doing some stuff with Xavier Panades.I have come up with a couple of ideas which I recorded last week. If anyone is interested in hearing it you can go to &...
Posted by on Fri, 02 Mar 2007 06:50:00 GMT

What no blog ?

I have been doing some music with Xavier Panades .The plan is to try and record some of his new material in more commercial /electric style .I am hopefull that I can come up with with something really...
Posted by on Fri, 09 Feb 2007 08:22:00 GMT

What no new tunes?

Decided to slow up on the posting of new tunes .I quite like my current 4 songs ..However .I have been helping my 'mate' Spik Bebis get some tunes together in a similar style to my music .Its worth a ...
Posted by on Fri, 22 Dec 2006 14:02:00 GMT

What next

Technology does my head in .Last week the computer crashed and had to be repaired.Now my song counter has stopped working so I have no idea how many plays each song is getting.The profile co...
Posted by on Mon, 27 Nov 2006 01:20:00 GMT

Why download ?

It is now two months since the start of this my space project. For those of you who have only recently found my site or have been in from start and just haven't noticed ,The Wheels is the twelfth song...
Posted by on Sun, 12 Nov 2006 02:46:00 GMT

My music

My site has been up and running for a few days now.I am surprised at the level of interest in it as i have told about 15 people . Although I have not played live on a regular basis since the demise of...
Posted by on Mon, 25 Sep 2006 01:20:00 GMT