Fourmarks
Music for a hypernormal world
Life is short – far too short not to take a gamble on your creative dreams. Fourmarks know that better than most.
The London-based four piece band came together eighteen months ago, sharing a wild vision of progressive, omni-faceted noise loaded with invective, satire and ideas. They sketched out plans to blow the lid off the hyper-normal world with live shows shattering the boundaries between concert and experience, turning performance into an event. Their music – a genre-splicing molotov cocktail of whipsmart electronics, razor-sharp rock dynamics, lysergic pop savvy and provocative lyrical substance– is big enough to carry their complex ideas, and accessible enough to sell them. And the musicians behind the project – Marc Singh-Jones and Sean Douglas – possess the drive and hunger to make their visions a reality.
Life is short. That much became clear to Singh-Jones a little while back when fate served him one of its occasional time-checks, as he weathered the deaths of his grandparents, and then the passing of a friend his own age. Marc had a comfortable career, a solid income, a predetermined future. But he also had a passion for music, a taste for fine British satire, a need to express the ideas cooking in his head, and recent events had spelled out for him that time isn’t limitless, that you should get started on your dreams today, not tomorrow. He quit his job. He dug out his music gear. He started laying his concepts down on paper, his sketches on tape. Today had come. It was time to get to work. He put out feelers for a creative partner who could help realise the nascent tracks he was building, who could massage these genre-clashes into something that made sense, that cut to the quick.
Fourmarks have played numerous shows in the clubs of London working on their vision for their experiential live experience. “We want to blend contemporary theatre, projection and music, electrifying performances with a punk edge” Marc says, “an experience the user can engage with, that overwhelms them, that they won’t forget. We want to make an impact. We’re going to make an impact.”Gram Gram
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