I was born on the Sussex Downs
Nurtured in the Ashdown forest
Moved to Salisbury Plain a mile from Stonehenge.
Used to walk across the fields and scramble over the menhirs. My first whispers of inspiration
Went to boarding school in England.
Corporal punishment? Even the senior boys were granted canes. If you got the cane you either loathed it or became a devotee! I became a devotee of caning the people who caned me.
Music- “ Let there be drums “
During break time a coeval and I would mouth percussive salivated versions of the Sandy Nelson hit until a monitor strutted in with the cane.
Father refused to sign my grant form for Westminster Tech . Broke, I escaped to Dorset to explore my first love, poetry…I became a floor singer in all the local pubs.
Returned to London and started to write songs especially through the pervasive influence of Alan Gruner
Herein lies evidence of that collaboration from early danes to modern strains
I gabble in the hinterland of rock and roll and fear no parking meters!
Alan has supplied this trading post to broadcast my wares…
As well as this anthology of songs I am working on a song cycle about Weymouth and my home town, Walthamstow.
Let me take you down…cos I’m going too
For £8 you will soon be able to order an anthology of 12 Mark Unwin songs right here on this site. In the meantime have a listen to the jukebox on the Musician and Band page where you find several samples of my work… |