Mark Gillespie

Hello...I'm a 30 year old bass player from Glasgow. I make my living on the bass by playing live and doing sessions throughout the UK and Ireland.The Best advice I ever got regards to being in music...? "Listen" Listen to as much and as many various types of music you can, that's what I try to do, everything from 'Chameleon' by Herbie Hancock to Beethovens 'Moonlight Sonata' through to 'Bonnie and Clyde' by Serge Gainsbourg. Mix it all together within yourself and it's a recipe for some crazy, fucked up sounds and ideas coming out your head!Type of things I'm involved with- I recently became part of the team of musicians at Tonal Film Music in London, run by Sarah Llewellyn. Also there's always grooves to be laid down for the talented people at Mudbone Productions. Working with musicians and producers throughout the UK...Live -wise I've been fortunate to play at many prestigious and not so prestigious gigs...T in the Park/Oxegen/Dublin Olympia/Glasgow Barrowlands and a few more. Recently I've been fortunate to play with The Queen of Rare Groove, Gwen McCrae from Florida.The tracks above are all tunes I play bass on, all with different acts. Mudbone Groove sample is a snippet of a groove being worked on with Billy at Mudbone. The Gay Parrot (I know!) is by the excellent but very short-lived Funkheisen Hangover Band. Finally, Dancing in Kinshasa goes back a few years to a group I played with called Barberstar. This tune was inspired by Muhammad Ali and The Rumble in the Jungle in 1974

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