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Mark Clinton

About Me


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SHORT VERSION - Plays Guitar. Writes songs. Smiles Alot :)LONG VERSION - Mark used to be in the Glasgow band Kasino and has in the past played T in the Park and supported Mansun at the Barrowlands. The past year has seen him support Seasick Steve, the Inspiral Carpets and the Nimmo brothers. He has been played on L107 FM radio and opened the Brechin Arts festival, North Lanarkshire Summer Festival, the Kirksytle Festival and the Motherwell Beer festival.Playing throughout Glasgow and Lanarkshire promoting the new material Mark is currently playing solo acoustic gigs these days.In the past he has shared stages with Mansun, Biffy Clyro, Dave Sharpe and The Cosmic Rough Riders.Currently his new release "Move Your Bones" is in post production and songs from his new cd are up here on myspace. Hope you like em :)

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 23/04/2006
Band Website: Coming Soon
Band Members: Mark Clinton. Thats it. No pals. Nada :) One man, a guitar and a bunch of heartfelt songs !
Influences: Too many to mention but if you catch him on a drunken rant about how great music is he will admit to giving his eye teeth up to be compaired and influenced by ; Micheal Messer, The Allman Bros, Radiohead ( the good stuff not the self indulgent nonsense :) ) ,Amos Lee, Damien Rice, Eric Clapton, Alabama 3, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Dylan, Ryan Adams, Ben Harper, Ray Lamontaine, Alison Krauss, Bruce Springsteen, Jimi Hendrix, Jimmy Page, Hells Kitchen and Jerry Douglas. Singer songwriters and anyone willing to take on 21st century blues.Check out further influences or if you are an artist have a look at isound. You can upload mp3 files and promote your music online and its free as well ! Click on the nice link to take you there.
Sounds Like: Beck, Fun Loving Criminals, Steve Earle,Alabama 3.



Record Label: Newrose Records
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

RADIO LINK. L107 FM - Bellshillbeat

Hi   The gig is this Saturday at 7.30 in the Derby in Mossend. Bands appearing are ; The Shirrel Cargo The Tranquil Rockburn   Their are links to all bands from my friends page.   Cheer...
Posted by on Wed, 29 Aug 2007 01:52:00 GMT

Breakfast Show Podcast !

Hiya been featured on a morning breakfast show in Holland that is broadcast by a dutch priest ! How's that for random :) Have a visit at www.sqpn.com/?cat=1559. Thay played fox and the Hare.   C...
Posted by on Wed, 08 Aug 2007 15:27:00 GMT

SEASICK STEVE GIG !

Hi Played a gig the other night with Seasick Steve in The Arches. It wiz the fecking bomb. Ive played the Barras , T in the Park and big festivals before but for atmosphere and audience appreciateion ...
Posted by on Sun, 27 May 2007 18:06:00 GMT

SEASICK STEVE support...

Hiya. For anyone who reads this( does anybody really care ?) I've got a support slot with Seasick Steve in the Arches on the 26th May. Steve is a proper train hopping, hillbilly bluesman and Im really...
Posted by on Thu, 17 May 2007 16:47:00 GMT

NIMMO BROS Support...

Had a great gig with the nimmo bros in the arches. Took me back to the old Kasino days. Big crowd big noise. Excellent stuff for me. Sold a few cd's as well so I was well chuffed :) Mark
Posted by on Thu, 17 May 2007 16:44:00 GMT

New Acoustic podcast play!

Hi. Had a podcast this week but acoustic life podcast. Please have a wee look at his link at http://itsafrogslife.net/podcast to see what he has to offer !   Cheers Mark
Posted by on Thu, 01 Mar 2007 15:22:00 GMT

INSPIRAL CARPETS support slot ! ( ac music club )

Hiya, Thanks to the ac music club I have a support slot with Tom Hingley of the Inspiral Carpets on the 17th Feb in the Kirkstlye Inn, Glenmavis, near Airdrie. Should be a good night. Tickets availab...
Posted by on Tue, 16 Jan 2007 15:44:00 GMT

ezfolk.com

Hiya ezfolk.com is a new online promotional tool for singer songwriter types to stick their music up and give access to your tunes. Its free and pretty easy to use. Go shove some stuff on it. Mark
Posted by on Tue, 16 Jan 2007 15:41:00 GMT

New Podcast plays !

Hi Got played on a new podcast from the uk ... http://startledbunny.wordpress.com/ .. They played my instrumental Fox and the Hare. If you would like to hear it please click on the link above. Hope yo...
Posted by on Tue, 02 Jan 2007 09:59:00 GMT

UK Podcast...

Got played on another podcast www.folkcast.co.uk  I was pretty pleased as it is a decent podcast and has some really good tunes on it. If you like folky stuff you should click on the link and che...
Posted by on Mon, 06 Nov 2006 02:47:00 GMT