Mark The C

Woke up this mornin'... duh da-da duh................................Former Eastender who was blown further east along the Thames Estuary sometime in the mid-70s, then even further east much later on. Now hanging on to the coast for dear life in case there's a fierce wind and I end up somewhere like Holland.................Reviewing my previous biog I realised that, although true, it sounded acutely pretentious and I don't much care for that................So all you need to know (if indeed you give a monkey's) is that since 1979 when they let me out of school, I've done very little else than be involved in music. As a musician/singer/songwriter/producer/jingle creator/plectrum wielder/hired hand/string winder/occasional humper of flight cases/occasional kicker downer of large white cardboard bricks/member of bands/unknowing ex-member of same bands... the list goes on and on and on. I play bass, guitar (12 string acoustic is my speciality), slide guitar (similar to Harrison's style), drums (like a frustrated Kenney Jones) and dabble on keyboards. Still awake? Good..................Once I realised I was never going to be as famous as Brian & Michael (of course you remember Matchstalk Men & Matchstalk Cats & Dogs), pretending to be a wild rock star started to become less of a priority. So I started writing about the big bad biz and hey-ho, as if by magic I now run a magazine that deals with the subject of hairy-arsed roadies and their expensive gizmos. Well, that's the simplified version. Anyway it gets me around the planet and serves to bolster my huge collection of backstage passes which I stick on my walls to hide the damp spots....................I also host an annual awards event which is frequented by many of those neanderthal road warriors, and also (I'd like to add) some of their celebrity bosses......... Riddled with envy? Oooh you don't know the half of it...........................When not writing and editing this funky little mag (see it at www.mondiale.co.uk/tpi), I'm either found washing-up, cooking meals that no one likes, ferrying my off-spring around to dubious nitespots or to casualty, telling the worst jokes you've ever heard, or sleeping.......................I am a firm believer that I was supposed to have been born on a different planet, but obviously someone cocked up and I'll just have to make the best of it.............You don't need to know anything else about me. Really. But I don't mind you asking.Oh.... and that version of John Lennon's "Love" that you can click on below... that's my musical contribution to this site. It's all ME ME ME... what I mean is it's ME singing with my voice and playing all the instruments you hear. All at once, in fact. I have several sets of arms and legs, all of which are interchangeable and of varied sizes. I'm available for children's parties as a novelty magic act... width="425" height="350" ..