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About Me

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YouTube Video ResizerMarried to Liz, dad to Lucy and Sam, engaged in stubborn, but futile, resistance to getting older (at least physically) 6'2" deputy at a childrens home in Hull. Left field taste in music, off the wall, some may say odd, sense of humour. Loyal, intense, laid back, confused, focused, mortal.Norman Watt-Roy's pic is having a little rest. Not sure I like the new one, might look for something else, its meant to be me you know.I've come to like it now...might change it...might not....
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My Interests

Promoting events at the Shire Hall,having a natter with interesting and interested folk,learning to play the guitar, but never quite getting around to it properly. My kids. Being true to what matters. click here to find out all things Howden Live - Diminishing returns equal dwindling enthusiasm and motivation, but!.....less = more?Look out for a possible rock/blues weekend in November...if the lovely arts council people give us some lolly...If nothing else we will have Geno Washington then...Hang on...can I feel a revival of interest?!

I'd like to meet:

People with common ground, musicians, tech types, promoters, new audience members, anyone with nice as a middle name.One fantastic side effect of setting gigs up at The Shire Hall is that I get to meet all sorts of famous personages. Fantastic gig with The Sensational Alex Harvey for the last ever Cookridge gig, and I beat Zal Cleminson at pool! It doesn't get better than this! Played Zoot Money the other night too....won the first game and lost the next two...never should have suggested best of three!!
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Music:

That horny old chestnut 'a bit of everything really' but mainly rock/blues/acoustic orientated stuff.Always had a bit of a problem with understanding why so many people seem to need to put label's on music and then judge it in a negative way, "Don't like this, don't like that" etc. Open ears = an open mind?..
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Movies:

Not been to the pictures to see anything else but kids films for the last twelve years, but in a non-anorak kind of a way (honest!) Star Wars and Lord Of The Rings...
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Television:

The Magic Roundabout, errmm, Dr Who, bound to be more.

Books:

Tom Sharpe, Graham Greene, Roddy Doyle, music biogs. Jean Paul Satre (but not for the last 30 years)...May remove this last bit...seems a bit wanky...
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Heroes:

Musical ones: Alex Harvey, Joe Strummer, Bruce Springsteen, Richard Thompson, Pete Townsend, my dad (he whistled a bit)
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My Blog

And so it came to pass.....................................

Not a Howden Live gig but Friday night saw ZHAIN at the Shire Hall, for it was they, doing a stand alone gig, reasonable level of promotion, only together with the current lineup for a couple of...
Posted by Mark on Sat, 12 Apr 2008 12:11:00 PST

A reet good review.

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Posted by Mark on Mon, 03 Mar 2008 08:24:00 PST

Evented it...bulletined it...other people bulletined it..blogged it!!!!!!!!!!!

With very little fear of contradiction it would be fair to suggest that this gig has the potential to be one of the best ever musical events ever seen at the Shire Hall. When you consider a lot of th...
Posted by Mark on Tue, 26 Feb 2008 12:08:00 PST

If.....................................................

If there were no-one left to run Howden Live ..........................there would be no live music to listen at the Shire Hall anymore........... Dramatic?...........................Not really.........
Posted by Mark on Sun, 13 Jan 2008 01:14:00 PST

Whats the fuss all about?

Well!......here we are.....fifty bleedin' years old.....fifty!.....fifty!.....bloody fifty!!.....Is that old?... not to me it's not....well it wouldn't be would it?....Or is it?....Should I be buying ...
Posted by Mark on Sat, 05 Jan 2008 06:06:00 PST

Few and far between.

Live music venues, a bit like audiences at the Shire Hall at Howden of late, are not exactly prolific, people like music....ergo... they'll turn out to listen to good quality stuff.....won't they??Not...
Posted by Mark on Mon, 29 Oct 2007 04:18:00 PST

Huh?!

What do we need to do?........Top notch, internationally renowned artist in the form of one Chris Difford accompanied by accomplished musicians Dorie Jackson and Melvin Duffy......fantastic support fr...
Posted by Mark on Mon, 01 Oct 2007 03:01:00 PST

Read this or die!!!!!!!!!

I guess this will be a measure of if anyone ever reads these things or not.Howden Live has just received some underpinning funding from the Arts Council and part of that money will go towards developm...
Posted by Mark on Fri, 29 Jun 2007 09:54:00 PST

The end of the book or just a chapter?

Well...here we are...it seems a very long time ago and sometimes like yesterday that I ignored a left bollock the size of a lemon...its a man thang apparantly...and finally plucked up enough courage t...
Posted by Mark on Tue, 22 May 2007 03:03:00 PST

Not really a blog, more of a record.

Something of a record rather than a blog this, the writer of the review reproduced below has effectively 'retired' from review writing for Howden Live events. Regrettable really, as he invariably ...
Posted by Mark on Sun, 24 Dec 2006 06:05:00 PST