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Marc

ACOUSTIC SINGER/SONGWRITER FROM YORK, ENGLAND.

About Me

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Marc has been singing since the age of 13. His first band, XPRESSIONS, was formed in 1984 and played throughout the UK supporting such acts as the LITTLE ANGELS.With a name change to FRONTIER in 1989 the band released their debut album, NO MANS LAND, on a local label.After the band split in 1991 Marc went solo and began developing his song writing and guitar playing. In 1993 Marc took the club circuit, playing as a self-contained act with the aid of backing tracks and his acoustic guitar.Also in 1993 he built his own recording studio, THE BARN, which is where all his albums are still recorded.As well as continuing his solo career, Marc put together a new band, THE COMPANY, in 1995. The band went on to support such names as THE KINKS, THE STRAWBS and TANITA TIKARAM before splitting the end of 1996.During this time Marc won the East Coast regional final of the 1995 SEARCH FOR A STAR competition and came second in the NORTH YORKSHIRE STAR TRAIL in the same year. In 1996 he won the BBC RADIO YORK DOCTOR ROCK SONGWRITING COMPETITION with his song THE CLOSEST THING.At the beginning of 1997 Marc formed a new band, GABRIEL, who played both as a six-piece outfit as well as a two man acoustic based act. Among the many gigs they performed was a well-received support to JIMMY NAIL.In 1999, after the original line up of GABRIEL disbanded, Marc joined forces once more with Andy Seddon and Rob Swann, two band mates from his FRONTIER days, to create a new version of GABRIEL.The band went on to record their debut album, ASCENSION, in 2000, UNPLUGGED in 2001, THE FEEL EP and DEMOLOGY 1 in 2002, DEMOLOGY 2 in 2003 and THE DEMOLOGY COLLECTION in 2004.Supports performed during this time include JOOLS HOLLAND, PAUL CARRACK, GLEN TILBROOK, PAUL BRADY, NICK HARPER, MOSTLY AUTUMN, CARAVAN, DAMIEN WILSON, ROD ARGENT and COLIN BLUNSTONE.As well as concerts with GABRIEL, Marc continues to play solo acoustic gigs as well as acoustic gigs with his sister Janine. With Janine he released an acoustic covers album, SKETCH, in January 2004.Marc released his first solo album, SEASONS OF MY LIFE, in August 2004 and gigged heavily to promote it. Throughout 2005 he worked on tunes for a forthcoming GABRIEL album whilst also collecting tunes for his 2nd solo album.He began recording work for his next solo album at the beginning of March 2006 and the album, entitled THIS IS WHERE WE ARE, was released on 17th August 2006.Marc is has recently completed work on his new 'all acoustic' solo album WOOD & WIRE (due this winter). He is also working on new potential new tunes for GABRIEL's next project (due sometime in the 22nd century!) as well as co-writing new material with Brendan Eyre for a new project called RIVERSEA (check out their myspace page!)

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 4/19/2006
Band Website: marcatkinson.co.uk
Band Members:
Influences: Del Amitri, Train, Marc Cohn, Marillion, Paul Carrack, Crowded House, Peter Gabriel, Seal, Nick Harper, U2, Coldplay, Sting, Bon Jovi, Maroon 5, Francis Dunnery, Queen, Rainbow, Keane,
Sounds Like: ME! My brand new album WOOD & WIRE is available now by clicking the link below. A 2 disc 24 track all acoustic album.

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Record Label: Barn Studios
Type of Label: None

My Blog

WOOD & WIRE is HERE!!!! :o)

Here it is again& That brilliant feeling song-writers call 'New Album Release Syndrome': Where your stomach goes all butterfly-ie at the thought of people actually hearing the tunes you've been workin...
Posted by Marc on Sun, 04 May 2008 05:48:00 PST

So This is Christmas......

'So this is Christmas....' Hi All It's Marcus here with more 'off the top of my head' mutterings. It's the 21st December as I write and Christmas (and a new DOCTOR WHO episode) is just 4 days away. I...
Posted by Marc on Fri, 21 Dec 2007 02:46:00 PST

WOOD & WIRE, RIVERSEA and ETERNAL

Well, here it is at last.... My latest 'mutterings'... My newest 'blog'.... My most recent ramberlings from a disturbed and twisted mind (oh, hang on, that's actually my novel 'ETERNAL'.... more of wh...
Posted by Marc on Mon, 08 Oct 2007 02:49:00 PST

WOOD & WIRE: The End Is Nigh....

Hi All Well, it's been a while since my last 'mutterings' (in fact, I think Patrick troughton was the Doctor when I last posted!) but I have been hard at work on my new acoustic album WOOD & WIRE...
Posted by Marc on Wed, 11 Jul 2007 04:20:00 PST

New Year... New Beginnings

  First of all HAPPY NEW YEAR. Lets hope its a good one... without any tears (and all that!). I've started the new year on a positive foot (my left one, to be specific. Its always been the stro...
Posted by Marc on Sun, 14 Jan 2007 05:33:00 PST

Rants, raves and blessings

Hi ho and off we go with another one of my Bafta winning mutterings. Just how many of you are reading this I can probably count with both hands (Hi Tam, Dave, Karen, Steve, Shaz, John, Jean, Gordon, ...
Posted by Marc on Sun, 26 Nov 2006 03:47:00 PST

Recording updates

Hi There Ive been working hard on the recordings and Im starting to record real REAL lead vocals now. Im hoping to have all the album mixed and mastered by the end of May so it looks like a July rele...
Posted by Marc on Sat, 29 Apr 2006 02:34:00 PST

THIS IS WHERE WE ARE

Hi All I'm currently working on tunes for my 2nd solo album 'THIS IS WHERE WE ARE' so I've put up some early mixes to see what people think. All the vocals on these tracks are guide vocals and not th...
Posted by Marc on Thu, 20 Apr 2006 02:54:00 PST