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Mark Alchin

About Me

2007 saw me celebrating thirty years involvement in the Australian music scene!
My first band was Rain (1976-77), quickly followed by The Clones (1978-1980) then after a brief stint with The Turnaround (1981), including appearing with them in the Gillian Armstrong film 'Starstruck', I went on to form The Reasons Why (1983-1987) [with 2 ex-Clones] and The Groovediggers (1991-1992) [re-formed Clones].....in 2000 John Salway (from the Clones) and myself did a one-off reformation playing old Clones originals as The Knickersnippers!
Until very recently I played bass with Bang Shang a Lang

Now I'm concentrating on writing new originals and sharing them around - read the blog for future plans...cheers

Copyright notice: All songs on this profile are original songs written by Mark Alchin-copyright held by Reasonable Songs

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Member Since: 06/11/2006
Band Website: www.theclones.net.au.50megs.com
Band Members: Mark Alchin - all instruments & vocals & drum programming


Influences: The Beatles; Paul McCartney; Brian Wilson; The Beach Boys; John Salway; The Zombies; Crowded House; They Might Be Giants; Jellyfish; Matthew Sweet; Gilbert O'Sullivan; John Lennon; Mental as Anything; Squeeze; Glenn Tilbrook; The Posies; Mark Mulligan; Elvis Costello; Ken Stringfellow
Type of Label: Unsigned

My Blog

Songs for free?

Hi new friends,Thanks so much to everyone who's accepted my requests...I really appreciate all the messages and fantastic comments about my songs; it means a lot to me!Just so you know, I'm not trying...
Posted by on Sat, 14 Feb 2009 19:06:00 GMT

Songs now available for free download

Have just made four of the five songs here available for free download from today.The fifth track, Brief Encounter, is only a very rough demo so I'll keep that as a listen only one until I can record ...
Posted by on Tue, 18 Nov 2008 19:57:00 GMT

Plans

Ok - so here's my planSometime next year (I hope not too far in the future) I'll be setting up a quality digital home studio and I'll be re-recording these tunes properly - I'll also start recording s...
Posted by on Sun, 28 Sep 2008 01:04:00 GMT

Now on Facebook

Have created a profile on Facebook - check it out herecheersMark
Posted by on Mon, 04 Aug 2008 15:34:00 GMT

Two more new .mp3s up

Finally got around to putting two more original songs up: Both of these are unfinished demos so I had more trouble with these ones....Brief Encounter only has an acoustic guitar backing with a bit of ...
Posted by on Sat, 26 Jul 2008 17:28:00 GMT

3 new .mp3s up

Just finished uploading three new .mp3s of some of my solo demo recordings...These were done on a four-track cassette (remember them?!) machine in the early 90s....I haven't set these to be downloadab...
Posted by on Thu, 03 Jul 2008 19:18:00 GMT

All new .mp3s coming very soon

After a long delay I'm currently editing my solo tunes and they're all just about ready to go up here.The first one is up now and is called The World Revolves Around You - as can be heard, it was a bi...
Posted by on Thu, 03 Jul 2008 14:00:00 GMT

Hi new friends

Hey new friends - I can only put originals here so don't forget to check out www.theclones.net.au.50megs.com where there are heaps of FREE .mp3s to download including live and studio covers by The Clo...
Posted by on Fri, 30 May 2008 17:17:00 GMT

New mp3s up

Just uploaded a couple of new mp3s - two Reasons Why songs; a studio version of Pictures on My Mind by the 3 piece line-up and a live version of I Don’t Understand You recorded [I think!] around...
Posted by on Mon, 31 Mar 2008 16:00:00 GMT

My band's new CD!

Hey all, The band that I currently play bass guitar for, Bang Shang a Lang, now have our CD available to buy via our website [11 songs inc. four original tunes]!I know a lot of overseas fans have been...
Posted by on Wed, 04 Jul 2007 00:20:00 GMT