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THE BIGHEAD featuring Mark Da Costa

" Righteous and Authentic"

About Me

Singer/Songwriter of New Band 'THE BIGHEAD' coming to a town near you soon !!!

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 7/12/2006
Band Members: Will update soon with the new band line-up for UK dates. 18/9/07 xMDC
Influences: I like .....Gap T-shirts, IKON shoes, MERC Sta-prest, Dub Reggae, The Associates, Culture, Jah James, Splif Stevenson, Skinny Models, Rioja, Pol Roger Champagne Bedouin Soundclash, Agent Provocatuer, Clash, Bertold Brecht, The Four Tops, Charles Mintz, The artist formally known as Cat Stevens, Bombardier Bitter, Oxford, Chester,Oslo, Docklands, Sywell Country Park, Roy Lichtenstein, Woody Allen, Roots Reggae Mike Scott, Roddy Frame,Sex Pistols, Magazine, Scott Walker, Paul Simon, Bob Dylan, Rob Bray,Marc Bolan ,Lost in Space Vol.2 ,Groucho Marx, Scritti-Politti, the Brothers Finn, the brothers Da Costa, Beatles, Byrds, Costello, Nick Lowe, Chrissie Hynde. Steve Martin, Jaco Pastorius, James Jamerson. Saint Julian of Cope and Sir Bob of Dylan....Hoo-Hawr !!!!!!!!
Sounds Like: Dance-Hall for New Moderns...Banging on a Ragga Tip !

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Record Label: Boot-Town Recording
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

LIVE SHOWS !!!

THE BIGHEAD SHOW FINALLY HITS 'THE ROAD' !!!!!!!!! Tonight   Club Bibliotek  Northampton 13/6    The Picturedrome  Northampton  New Orleans Charity Event  ...
Posted by THE BIGHEAD featuring Mark Da Costa on Thu, 01 May 2008 06:05:00 PST

Yes " I feel the earth move, under my feet....."

OK we had a 5.2 Richter earthquake in Northampton last night, and No it was'nt our Bass player trying out his new Rig ! I confess to being shaken and stirred despite similar experiences in LA. Pass th...
Posted by THE BIGHEAD featuring Mark Da Costa on Wed, 27 Feb 2008 02:53:00 PST

’Valentines’

just a word of warning....   mercury is retrograde with potential 'antagonistic influences on Venus.   be careful out there tmrw sensitive hearts , its a veritable minefield...   xxmdc...
Posted by THE BIGHEAD featuring Mark Da Costa on Wed, 13 Feb 2008 01:15:00 PST

Tabla Revolution and Birthday Bwoy

Cherubs, A whirlwind week took me in front of a new audience as part of Alpesh Moherir' s and Paul De Gallier 's 'TABLA REVOLUTION' project. Two short improvisational spots in C-Sharp re-introduc...
Posted by THE BIGHEAD featuring Mark Da Costa on Fri, 08 Feb 2008 04:52:00 PST

The Bighead 2008

Wo ! its the end of January and I haven't 'blog'd' since 2007.... Whilst dealing with the detritus and general 'unfinished business' of year 2007 and I temporarily left the myspace time continuum to r...
Posted by THE BIGHEAD featuring Mark Da Costa on Tue, 22 Jan 2008 02:25:00 PST

Spinning through time an space ( a slight return )

Propelled at faster than light speed from October straight into the Festive season without time to look over your shoulder and trying to put the remaining pieces into the jigsaw puzzle....( Well that'...
Posted by THE BIGHEAD featuring Mark Da Costa on Tue, 04 Dec 2007 02:23:00 PST

Telfords Chester Show Postponed

I had to postpone my date at Telfords Chester this week as a result of an extended head-cold putting me behind with recording and rehearsing my new combo.....   I shall catch up ! Apologies to al...
Posted by THE BIGHEAD featuring Mark Da Costa on Mon, 05 Nov 2007 03:48:00 PST

THE RETURN OF PAY-TO-PLAY !!

It seems like a few promoters are getting the jitters so badly about audience numbers at music venue's that the dreaded 'Pay-to-Play' scenario seems to be creeping back into the live circuit . Pr...
Posted by THE BIGHEAD featuring Mark Da Costa on Mon, 01 Oct 2007 10:53:00 PST

Australian Pop Idol - Its not me !!!!!!!!

It seems that a namesake of mine in Oz is in the top12 finalists for Australia's version of Pop Idol. Although the young man is better looking and younger than me, anybody that knows the UK Mark Da Co...
Posted by THE BIGHEAD featuring Mark Da Costa on Sat, 15 Sep 2007 02:02:00 PST

Sawyers Show, Stevie Jones & Spain

Hello Punters Many thanks to Stevie Jones who promotes a fine evenings worth of Music at Sawyers in Kettering . I enjoyed the show and found the sound particularly good, ( getting the chance to blow t...
Posted by THE BIGHEAD featuring Mark Da Costa on Thu, 06 Sep 2007 09:38:00 PST