Mark is married to Jo and is a 23 year old youth and schools worker based in South Cave (near Hull). Mark spent 4 years as a youth worker in Peterborough whilst studying for a degree in youth work & ministry with Oasis.
Back in 2001 as a family we tuned into ‘Popstars’…a new concept as far as TV Shows went…as the weeks went on we went from seeing people audition to finally ending up with ‘Hear Say’. The show continued introducing us to the band as they recorded their first single and filmed their first music video [...]
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Isle of Wight Festival
On June - 18 - 2010 ADD COMMENTS
Last weekend myself, Joel, Stuart & Greg headed off to the Isle of Wight Festival…boarding the half 5 ferry at Portsmouth and arrived at the picturesque island (which I haven’t visited for about 15 years) around half 6. Whilst I have managed a fair few gigs in the last 5/6 years a festival is one [...]
Escape This Town (My Album)
On May - 20 - 2010 ADD COMMENTS
Before I waffle on for a bit you can download ‘Escape This Town’ free here at bandcamp (name a price of zero) or be lovely and pay for it on amazon mp3 or iTunes Back when I was 16 and I could only play the drums (and a tiny bit of keyboard) I started song [...]
The Rise & Fall of Five Iron Frenzy DVD Review
On April - 21 - 2010 ADD COMMENTS
Back in 2003 the Christian band Five Iron Frenzy called it a day…played their last gig at Filmore (USA) and the 9 piece band separated…I was 17 and had never heard of the band. It wasn’t until I was introduced to them by Ben & Hayley individually in 2004 that I eventually purchased their EP [...]
The King Blues Gig
On April - 13 - 2010 ADD COMMENTS
Last night Jo and myself went to Manchester to see The King Blues play on their headline tour. I got into The King Blues just over a year ago and love their blend of ska and acoustic punk combined with fantastic, passionate lyrics. I first saw The King Blues back in September as part of [...]
Day 44: Alkaline Trio – This Addiction Review
On April - 1 - 2010 ADD COMMENTS
I’ve been aware of the punk rock band Alkaline Trio for a few years no but I’ve never got around to listening to them…I don’t know why but for some reason it never happened…until last week! I stumbled across a video of them playing their new single ‘This Addiction’ on the Letterman show so thought [...]
Day 41: Can’t we just have RATM again?
On March - 29 - 2010 5 COMMENTS
A campaign has sprung up in the last month aiming to get the Delirious? song ‘History Maker’ to number 1 for Easter…the Facebook group (here) has almost 50,000 members (which I’m not sure is enough for a number 1) and is encouraging people to download 1 of 2 versions of the Delirious? song. Alongside this [...]
Day 20: Newton Faulkner
On March - 8 - 2010 ADD COMMENTS
For Christmas both myself and Jo managed to independently go for gifts ‘you do’ for each other and Jo’s gift to me was tickets to see the genius that is Newton Faulkner and so last night I headed down to Sheffield for the Newton Faulkner gig. I’ve been going to gigs since I was 17 [...]
Day 18/19: Oops & talent
On March - 7 - 2010 ADD COMMENTS
Yesterday I managed to forget to blog but seeing as Sunday’s in lent don’t technically count today can count as yesterday! I had a few things I wanted to blog yesterday so I’ll pan them out over the next few days however last night I went to ‘South Cave’s Got Talent’ which was a fund-raiser [...]
Day 14: Owl City – Ocean Eyes
On March - 2 - 2010 ADD COMMENTS
A while back a friend on Facebook posted the status ‘If you like Relient K look up a band called Owl City’ and so I headed to Spotify and I have to say I wasn’t impressed. In all fairness I had it on in the background and didn’t pay a lot of attention to it [...]
Day 11: Mixing
On February - 27 - 2010 ADD COMMENTS
Over the last few years I’ve been gradually recording a series of songs which I’ve written and they’re at the place now where it’s really just a matter of recording the odd vocal track and mixing them. On a personal note it’s quite interesting to see the journey these tracks have been on, 3 years [...]
Day 8: How He loves us
On February - 24 - 2010 ADD COMMENTS
Yesterday I posted this on my twitter; ‘checking out the new David Crowder album on Spotify…whilst it’s good the majority of the lyrics seem a little meaningless’ Now whilst this tweet seems negative let me clarify that I do actually quite like David Crowder as a musician however as a worship song writer he is [...]
Worship – Screaming
On February - 6 - 2010 ADD COMMENTS
A couple of years ago I post some stuff on the lack of lament in our worship using the picture to the left and once again in recent weeks as I’ve pondered worship and varying the music we use to worship (see this post) I’ve been thinking about the way we express our worship. Dave [...]
Christmas Number 1 is RATM!
On December - 20 - 2009 1 COMMENT
I’ve been thinking about this blog for the last 24 hours and what to say as a reaction to the number one and I have to be honest, although I had high hopes for Rage I truly expected to be hearing Joe as number 1 however Rage have just been announced as Christmas number 1. [...]
Top Albums Of 2009
On December - 19 - 2009 ADD COMMENTS
As the year nears a close and the battle for the Christmas number one ends tomorrow I thought I’d blog my top 6 albums of 2009. I always buy a lot of music and 2009 has been a good year for music so here is my favourites! (in no particular order) 1 – Bowling for [...]