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Mark inherited his interest in music from his family, whose gift
of a cassette recorder on his fifth birthday led to a long and productive
career of low-level music piracy and critical aloofness. Eventually he
realised that not all pop music was awful and that there was good music to
be found outside the rosters of Warp, Rising High and Planet Mu, and he
harbours a fondness for the 19th century Romantic greats and a secret
soft-spot for female singer-songwriters. He buys most of his new music in
the local and unsigned sections of the few remaining record shops he can
find, preferably abroad, and he wants to move to Reykjavík.
Beginning as a violinist and singer, he spent many years playing drums in
bands in Oxford and clearing dancefloors from the DJ booth. Having
accepted that he will never be Roger Taylor from Queen, or Luke Vibert, he's
now set his sights on becoming John Peel (!), and to that end produces and
presents regular podcasts for MusicInOxford.co.uk as well as his own
monthly "Eclectronimentica" show at Podomatic.com. Like Peel, Mark enjoys
gigs and recordings by bands he's never heard of, cries over the music of
Roy Orbison and plans to die on holiday.
Mark is on Twitter: @markwilden
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