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Mark Khaladj Oates

About Me

I started playing guitar 15 years ago when I was 12. Since then I've played in various bands playing different styles of music such as Rock / Folk / Blues / Metal / Ragga / country / Pop / Indie / Clasical / Spanish / Jazz.I play Guitar in and Run a covers band called ECHOPARK (Check out our myspace page www.myspace.com/echoparkuk). We play covers of MODERN indie and rock bands such as Killers, Kaiser Chiefs, Stone Roses, The View, Stereophonics, Green Day, Happy Mondays, The Cure, Razorlight, Coldplay, The Strokes, etc. (Strictly NO Summer of 69 or Whitesnake old biddy Rock)I've just passed my popular music degree at Huddersfield Uni/Barnsley college. where I have learned how to read and write music, teach guitar up to grade 8 and above, Playing and Performance techniques, Music History, also I did a music tech - Recording module where I gained first hand experience at using PRO TOOLS HD to record different instruments using various mics and Production techniques. I'm currently looking at doing more original stuff with my band ECHOPARK, we are recording our first DEMO so will keep you up to date with that as it develops. Its sounding ACE by the way check us out below!!

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Member Since: 3/22/2006
Influences: Pink Floyd, U2, Stone Roses, Talking Heads, Hendrix, Jethro Tull, Frank Zappa, Dave Matthews, Bert jansch, Robert Johnson, Bob Dylan, Thin Lizzy, ACDC, Metallica, Black Sabbath, The Who, Led Zeppelin, The Yardbirds, Ian Brown, Happy Mondays, Charlatans, Radiohead, The The, Small Faces, Manic Street Preachers, The Strokes, Gorillaz

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My Blog

Hello

Hello its me, I'm studying for the 2nd year of a music degree at Barnsley College and record all my own stuff from home. I live in Barnsley where a music scene seems to be building. I've bee...
Posted by Mark Khaladj Oates on Wed, 22 Mar 2006 03:12:00 PST