Originally taught classical guitar by recitalist Julian Byzantine Mick was offered a course at the Royal Academy of music in London, he declined this in favour of the bass guitar and the possibility of money.
In the 70’s he did ‘Top of the pops’ with an embarrassing band and toured Europe.
During the 80’s Mick did some BBC TV sessions and toured the UK with the infamous ‘Killer Whales’ being produced by Mike Ratledge and Carl Jenkins from ‘Soft Machine’ from 1984 Mick was the in-house bass player for a studio in Acton in west London, doing loads of sessions playing fretless bass, he was also starting to write his own material and in 1987 he was commissioned by the labour party to write a song for Neil Kinnocks election campaign.
In the 1990’s Mick was still doing some session work , the most notable being ‘David Hasselhof’ (Arista records) and ‘Aquarius’ (yello records). From 1992- 1993 Mick was involved in producing dance records for a subsidiary label of Virgin records with percussionist ‘Pascal Benadjoud’.
In 1994 he was managed for a while by Handle artists.
In June 1995 Mick joined the ‘David Cross’ band and within a couple of weeks was touring Germany playing bass and doing lead vocals, Mick says ‘ I very quickly realised Paul’s incredible ability and talent ‘ in 1998 David, Mick, Dan Maurer and Pete Sinfield co wrote and produced ‘Exiles’ (Red Hot Records)
Mick says ‘ working with David, Pete, Robert Fripp, John Whetton, and Peter Hammill was awesome.
In 2005 Noisy Records released ‘ Closer than Skin’ written and produced by David, Mick, and Richard Palmer James, also in 2005 the DC band toured Japan , the line up, which Mick says is awesome was David Cross violin /Paul Clark guitar/Alex Hall keyboards/ Joe Crabtree drums/ Mick Paul bass.
In 2006 the DC band did a tour of the UK and Mick and Joe played on ex Coliseum guitarist ‘James Litherland’s album ‘Real men cry’.
In 2007 the David Cross band played a televised concert in Rome.
In July/August rehearsals started for ‘Clarky’.
Mick runs his own commercial recording studio in West Sussex.
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