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July 25, 2011 by MZ

New Releases Page

I think that I may be coming down with a cold. But lets hope not as, being a male, any mild sickness that I have to endure I tend to exaggerate.

Anyway, this is just a quick message to let anybody who reads this stuff know that I have now included a release page. It has links to the album I am about to release as well as all of my previous releases.  You can listen to them all in full and also buy them if you wish. Buying them would be amazing as I have two more releases that I am planning on recording this year and need to pay for them.

Speaking of that does anybody want to give me a job?

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June 19, 2011 by MZ

I am not a Nihilist – Album Launch – Tickets on Sale

Hello everybody

I have been quite busy with preparations for the new album, launch and other new projects so I haven’t updated my site in a while. I will give a proper update soon however this is just a quick one to say that tickets are now on sale for the “I am not a Nihilist – No Ooo’s No Ahh’s No Audience” album launch on Friday August 12 at Metro Arts.

Click on the I am not a Nihilist page or contact me at [email protected] for tickets.

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April 6, 2011 by MZ

Busy Business Cut

Its amazing how busy I have been recently given the fact that I am currently only working two days a week, but I have been doing a lot with the whole music thing. Here is a list. Everybody loves a list.

  • Band practices with Curlew & Knee Chin
  • Recording the “I am not a Nihilist” album. (Nearly at full completion)
  • Preparations for the album launch
  • Doing the radio show (Weeds & Wildflowers 4zzz 102.1 fm 6-8pm Sunday)
  • Playing squash
  • Reading books

As an undercurrent to my new found happiness, I have been quite worried about money. I accidently brought an expensive guitar on ebay, which turned out well by the way. Other than that I have a large amount of debt and very little income. That is part of the reason for the following.

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I think its like one of those movie Nazi haircuts, or a corporate hair cut, but I guess they are the same thing. It will probably improve my squash playing.

Now all I need is a decent playing part time job.

Peace

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February 21, 2011 by MZ

New album, new band, new radio show

This is sort of a needle in the haystack, a piece of news wedged between my rants.

I have recently been recording a new album. It is a solo acoustic album, currently with 13 tracks. It will be realised under the name of “I am not a Nihilist” and is more than likely going to be called “No Ooos No Arrhs No Audience”. At the moment all of the songs have been tracked live and after listening to them over the next week we will decide if any need to be rerecorded. I will post some rough mixes soonish.

My friends Callum and Nick have been recording me at Callum’s parents house. Its really nice of the guys to record me and amazing that somebody will let me do it in their house. Before the last session they even made us dinner, which was really really good.

Callum and I have also formed a band with our friend Liza called ‘Curlew’ (which may change but who really knows). I am playing guitar and singing, with Liza playing bass and Callum on drums. It’s a nice change to be able to play some of my songs with a band, and hopefully we will start gigging in the next few months.

Last but not least, I have started co-hosting a radio show on 4zzz (102.1fm) called ‘Weeds and Wildflowers’ with Liza. Its on every Sunday night from 6-8pm, with a focus on new, weird, interesting and under appreciated music. We have done 3 shows so far and its been heaps of fun. Liza is also doing a blog for it, with some excerpts of the shows so have a look. http://4zzzs-weeds-wildflowers.tumblr.com/.

Bye

p.s: I started a twitter account,  so lets see how long this is going to last.

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September 21, 2010 by MZ

The First

Hello

It has been a while since I have ventured into the cyber world with any sort of enthusiasm. In this age of “in your Facebook” or “take away Myspace” it can be hard enough to get time to think let alone enjoy the ultra connectivity of the modern world. And such an insight into so many peoples personal lives usually leaves me with information that I would rather not know that takes longer to process than it does to obtain.

So getting to the point, I have had this website for about a year now, my friend Ricky set it up for me, and I started with grand plans and ideas of what I could do with it. It turns out that I’m not so great with computers or motivation, which has left this site in a severe state of neglect.

So, mark this as my attempt to throw myself into the cyber world. I will use this blog to write thoughts, poems, lyrics and news on what is going on with my life and various artistic projects.

I would like to apologise for the bare surrounds of these pages and I’m sure that as I get better at this I will be able to make it more aesthetically pleasing for you.

So for an update on what has been going on. (if you want to know about the past have a look at the about me section)

This past year has been quite intense, I have had firsts, seconds and lasts. I found love and unfortunately lost it again. I have made friends and again unfortunately lost some. And I have written alot about it, but haven’t really been playing live and sharing much of it.

I am currently in the process of working on the following projects.

  • A split album between Knee Chin & Scruples
  • A full length Scruples album
  • A full length I am not a Nihilist album

Hopefully this will be the first of many. Hopefully

Mark

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