Past. Present. Future.

Mark has been a part of the Adelaide music and entertainment industry since the age of thirteen.

Learning guitar at eleven (11) was the kick start as Mark has enjoyed a career in music essentially since the age of thirteen (13). Performing regularly on Adelaide Television saw, at the age of fifteen (15), his band “Inpack” selected as regular performer and co-hosts on Nine Adelaide’s version of “Hey Hey its Saturday” hosted by Dean Davis. The group was required to perform two songs each show and we all had to interview and introduce various segments.

In the late 1970’s Mark played the rock / town hall circuit in bands “Montana” and “Borg” primarily throughout the south west corner of the Adelaide metro.

THE BEAT BOYS: In 1980 Mark formed a band called “The Beat Boys” and during the decade that followed they commanded the prime corporate work and support work across Adelaide and South Australia. The Beat Boys regularly performed in the order of six (6) performances per week during those years. The Beat Boys were invited by the then Lord Mayor of Adelaide Steve Condos to perform at his first Lord Mayors New Year Eve street party in King William Street Adelaide to, according to the Advertiser, 25,000 people.

BODY HEAT: The Beat Boys Drummer (Jim Latta) invited Mark to join his Big Band called Body Heat. Body Heat was regularly engaged to support acts such as The Four Kinsmen, Jade Hurley, The Deltones and many more high profile acts in large venues across Adelaide along with season shows at venues like the Palladium Room at the Bridgeway Hotel etc….

PEEPING WILLY AND THE “Y” FRONTS: Throughout the 1990’s and beyond Mark developed other big bands, nominally “Peeping Willy and the Y Fronts” that was made up of the Police band horn line and some of Body Heats regulars such as Tony Lillywhite and Alan Waller (R.I.P.). This band was principally a Rock and Roll swing band.



MOSS: In more recent times Mark formed a Band called MOSS. MOSS started by performing covers in all kinds of venues from pubs to music festivals. But the pull and desire to write and perform their own music became stronger as time progressed. Eventually, MOSS decided as a band to stop marketing as a cover band and begin the journey of writing and performing their own material. As mature aged musicians MOSS, by way of their years, are blessed with real life experiences and as parents and grandparents they take seriously the legacy they will leave behind for their children and grandchildren. Mark, working collaboratively with Suzie Craig (Lyricist) and Clive Pollard (Keyboards), have chosen therefore to use his art as a medium to progress discussion and awareness of key social and political issues. In more recent times, songs like "Shift the axis of your world" and "Rock God" have been total band collaborations.

HIGHLIGHTS: AFI award winning cinematographer Malcolm Ludgate makes a music video for our song Belle (Will you still love me when I change). The Song “You’re braver than you believe” has been embraced by the Portugal prevention against domestic violence organisation APAV of whose image appears on the cover of our first CD and recently “You’re braver than you believe” made the top 30 in the 2016 Australian Songwriters Association Inc (ASA) Australian Songwriting Contest.