Bio
Mark was born in 1971 and raised in the picturesque town of Falmouth, one of the most popular tourist attractions in Cornwall, UK. At an early age, he was brought up on music as his mother force fed him on the sounds of Elvis Presley.
During the 80's, a very fine era...he grew to like the sounds of Duran Duran. After a few years, Mark and his parents had to move to a small town next to Basildon in Essex called Laindon where one day, Mark happened to be taking one of his leisurely strolls and came to a small hall where he actually witnessed a group of 4 practicing with synthesisers. To this day, Mark always believes that he saw Depeche Mode practicing, back then when Vince Clarke of Erasure was a key feature to the foursome. Music in Mark's life has played such a valueable part. He used to be picked regularly for quizzes as his knowledge of music is very widespread.
During the late 90's, Mark was invited with the local job centre back in Falmouth (as his parents decided to move back home a few years previously) to attend a job based scheme. The invite was at BBC Radio Cornwall studio's in Truro, Cornwall. Something Mark always wanted to do.
He was to be trained as a radio journalist and he was even encouraged by a few of the local special dignatries with interviews including an interview with a gentleman who suffered with Parkinson's Disease to raise the awareness in the local community about how individuals could help someone who suffered with this. The station's producer for The Action Desk was very impressed by Mark's technique. Mark was given a small script of questions to ask the gentleman but it seemed that Mark was very interested in the interview as he was able to start asking questions that wasn't even scripted. This had enabled Mark to move onto the next stage of the course and that was to interview Parliamentary figures in the world of Politics. Mark was never particularly interested in this subject but was given the opportunity to interview a major name who was also once an Olympic athlete. Lord Sebastian Coe had attended City Hall in Truro and Mark and a couple of other trainee journalists was invited. Mark immediately made a bee-line for Coe and conducted an interview that BBC Radio Cornwall deemed as more than professional for such a small community radio even that it was owned by the Beeb. This interview was ideal for BBC World Service and the interview was never broadcasted. Mark has been on FM radio however as he was invited by BBC Radio Cornwall to have his own radio show which featured the music of the 1980's. As the station had such a huge variety of vinyl and CD's from that era, it wasn't going to be hard for Mark to pick his weekly selection. But, sadly....his show didn't survive the test of time as the stations listeners found this type of music to be less interesting than that of the music from the 1950's to 1970. Now, Mark has his show "Decades" on a variety of internet based radio stations but would revel in the chance of having the show air on FM or DAB style radio.
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Member since: 13 Mar 2014
