Check out my new radio show on Sheffield Live - archived playlists etc are here .
And here's a flyer for it:
I'm looking for submissions for the radio show - no straight-ahead indie, rock or pop please, just weird-and-wonderful cross-breed music: electro-punk, mutant disco, jazz metal, and other esoteric art musics and performance pieces.
I am a photographer - I photograph nightlife for Dan Shot Me and I have an exhibition of live music and performance photos currently on at The Washington . I am working on putting together another exhibition and a book featuring people in bars/clubs/gigs/parties - something should be ready in the next six to nine months. You can see more general examples of my photography on my portfolio website as well as on my Flickr page and my personal website .
I play a customised Rickenbacker 4001 bass geetar . For many years I played with Cathy Ray in London. After moving to Sheffield, and several years with nobody to play with, I'm now gigging with two bands: Karen Mulcahey and the 7% Solution feeds the folksy bluesy songy-y part of my soul, and The Tajalli Vortex allows me to let rip with any and every noise my bass is capable of making. I'm still desperate to find a free-jazz-psychobilly funky-punk-pop-improv-noise band that needs a bassist, if you fit that bill then please let me know and I'll come and help fill your bottom end (Mrs).
I am a London emigré, now an honorary Sheffielder. I founded the Internet agency Hard Reality, which was sold to ad agency Leo Burnett in 2001. Since then I've continued with the web work as Mark And Dan , published a magazine ( FAD ), done some writing, charity work, I'm a foster carer for The FCA ... I guess you could say I keep myself busy.
Things I enjoy, and spend far too much time doing: going to gigs, photographing bands and audience members, and discovering new music. I've taken up acting for the first time since I was 17, joined Next Best Thing Productions and somehow managed to land myself major roles in all five plays I've done with them (including the lead in Moliere's "The Miser" - see photos)
Ich spreche gern Deutsch.
You can find all this and much more about me (including my main blog) at my own personal website, sumption.org !
