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Marcus

Smegged in the head with a head full of Smeg

About Me

I am a person. Always a good way to start. I am also getting old to fast, but hey, nevermind. I work in the music industry as a musician, promoter, engineer and producer. I play guitar for Downfall, and I also co-own a recording studio and own a music promotions company "Redrum Promotions", a.k.a Frightfest Concerts. I also work for a company called Caravan Music Promotions who deal with artists all over the world. As you can tell I have a slight interest in music. As for my band Downfall, It's a pretty heavy. We, as a band have been together for a while. We are now where we want to be as a band and have an album coming out this year. I have been playing guitar for and I also teach guitar. I am an honest person who has had a fair amount of shit thrown my way. Be it from people or corporations. The worst is from people who I thought were my friends (they all know who they are and they can all collectively kiss my ass). So thats me...sort of....

My Interests

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I'd like to meet:

Anybody who would like to meet me.

Music:

My Band
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As for bands - well it would be a really long list but here are a few -
Rush, Pink Floyd, Tool, Meshuggah, Downfall (Shameless plug), Lamb of God, NIN, Skinlab, Filter, Fear Factory, REM, Decapitated, Slayer, Alanis Morrisette, Testament, A Perfect Circle, Morbid Angel, Napalm Death erm.....loads and loads more.......

Movies:

Star Wars (Come on, it's the law to love em), Lord of the Rings, Anything by Martin Scorsese or Ridley Scott, Hitchcock movies, Taxi Driver, Most John Carpenter movies especially The Thing and Big Trouble in Little China ("How did ya get up there egg?? Wasn't easy"), Hellraiser, Dead Trilogy, Evil Dead Trilogy, Indiana Jones Trilogy, Quentin Tarantino movies, Existenz, King Kong, Stanley Kubrick movies, The Godfather trilogy, Ong-Bak, David Fincher movies....erm....again the list goes on.

Television:

24, Lost, Battlestar, The 4400, Band of Brothers, Blackadder, Red Dwarf, Futurama, The Simpsons, Family Guy and other stuff....

Books:

Poe, Stoker, Shelley, Koontz, Herbert, King, Pratchett

Heroes:

Geddy Lee - Bass God.
Alex Lifeson, David Gilmour and Dimebag Darrell (R.I.P) - Guitar Gods.
Neil(The Professor)Peart, Tomas Haake, Danny Carey - Drum Gods.
Syd Barrett (R.I.P) My Band mates Tom, Hippy, Tristan and Tom.
Shaun and Shona - 2 of my best friends ever
Ivor and all my Friends
Jackie Chan, Bruce Lee (R.I.P), Bill Hicks (R.I.P), Muhammed Ali, Robert De Niro, Al Pacino, Salvador Dali (R.I.P), H.R.Giger, Brian Griffin, Blackadder, Bender and Indiana Jones.

My Blog

RIP Vitek

It's always a tragedy when someone is taken so young....Vitek was without doubt one of the most talented drummers I have ever heard and seen....I seen Decapitated in Bristol UK on tour...They were ama...
Posted by Marcus on Tue, 06 Nov 2007 04:23:00 PST

Snakes and Arrows

Well,I got home last night to find a nice shiny package at the foot of my door. To my joy it was the new masterpiece by Rush "Snakes and Arrows".I turned down the lights and turned up my stereo. My ...
Posted by Marcus on Tue, 03 Jul 2007 04:30:00 PST

Music Tech Courses

Hi all in Myspace land,Well, It's been a while since I said anything usefull so i'm going to try now. I have been asked by The Engine Room Media centre in Bridgwater Somerset to run a series of Music...
Posted by Marcus on Tue, 22 May 2007 07:23:00 PST

New World Antics

Hey all,Well just to say a few things. Downfall are progressing nicely. We are finishing the vocals with our new guy. Will keep you posted on that. Also I have purchased some nice shiney Rush tick...
Posted by Marcus on Sat, 31 Mar 2007 06:09:00 PST

Are you the NEW Downfall Vocalist???????

Hey all,Just to say thanks to all that showed up for the gig on Sunday night.All the bands were great and the support was amazing. It was a suitable send for our old vocalist Shaun.Which brings us to ...
Posted by Marcus on Tue, 30 Jan 2007 07:57:00 PST

Downfall news - New vocalist needed

Hay all. As you may or may not know. Shaun our long time vocalist will be leaving the band after our gig on the 28th of Jan. I have know Shaun since his afro days at school. it is a sad day and he...
Posted by Marcus on Thu, 25 Jan 2007 05:34:00 PST

RIP Jesse Pintado

RIP Jesse Pintado. Long time guitarist for Napalm Death and Terrorizer. We have lost another great guitarist.
Posted by Marcus on Fri, 29 Sep 2006 05:08:00 PST

Death of a Legend

I have just heard that Syd Barrett from Pink Floyd has just died. I believe the world has just lost a great artist. He, through his music, helped me discover what I wanted to do and what I wanted to...
Posted by Marcus on Tue, 11 Jul 2006 07:07:00 PST

Downfall news and stuff

How typical.Almost finish guide tracks for the up-coming Downfall Album and disaster happens. One of my most treasured bits of equipment finally gave up it's fight for life. My Digitech 2120 fx unit...
Posted by Marcus on Mon, 01 May 2006 06:11:00 PST

Learn from the masters R30 DVD

Just watched the whole of the new Rush DVD R30. I went to see them on that tour twice (1st one in London was my birthday, happy birthday to me). Went on the 1st and last day of the uk tour. First t...
Posted by Marcus on Tue, 07 Mar 2006 11:27:00 PST