Curiosity, with a soundtrack.

I’m Marcus. Welcome to my corner of the internet, where music, technology, curiosity and the occasional slightly questionable idea all tend to collide.

I’m originally from Guernsey, but these days I live in Newcastle upon Tyne with my better half, my wife Rachael. I also have a wonderful son and daughter-in-law, and three amazing grandchildren who are a huge part of my life and a constant reminder that some of the best things in life have absolutely nothing to do with guitars, screens or technology.

Music has always been one of the biggest ways I make sense of the world.

I write songs about people, memories, love, relationships, places, technology, identity, neurodivergence, politics, humour, loss, hope and pretty much anything else that manages to lodge itself in my head long enough to become a lyric.

Sometimes a song starts with a melody. Sometimes it starts with a single line. Sometimes it begins with an idea at an inconvenient hour and refuses to leave me alone until I’ve done something with it.

That is probably the part of songwriting I love most. Taking something that exists only as a thought, a feeling or a half-formed idea and slowly turning it into something another person can hear, connect with and hopefully recognise a little of themselves in.

I’m not particularly interested in writing music without substance. I like songs that have something to say, even if what they have to say is funny, strange, uncomfortable, nostalgic or completely ridiculous.

Some songs are deeply personal. Some are observations about the world around me. Some are stories. Some are social commentary. Some are just the result of my brain deciding that a melody absolutely has to exist.

And occasionally, the best ones seem to arrive from nowhere.

I’m also late-diagnosed AuDHD, which means I’m both autistic and have ADHD. For me, getting that diagnosis felt less like being given a label and more like finally being handed the instruction manual that should probably have come with me at birth.

I genuinely see it as a blessing.

My brain can be chaotic, intensely curious, relentlessly creative and spectacularly unwilling to leave an interesting idea alone. I can disappear down a rabbit hole for hours, notice details other people miss, become absurdly enthusiastic about something in the middle of the night and somehow emerge with a song, a piece of code, a new project or several browser tabs that I definitely intended to close.

That way of thinking naturally feeds into my music.

I tend to explore ideas from several angles at once. A lyric might begin as a memory, become a question, turn into a story and eventually end up saying something completely different from what I originally expected.

I like that.

For me, creativity should have room to wander.

Professionally, I work in Digital Transformation, exploring how emerging technologies can solve real problems, improve the way people work and open up entirely new ways of creating, communicating and building things.

That work overlaps naturally with my creative life because I’ve always been fascinated by the point where technology and imagination meet.

I’m interested in how new tools can help people turn ideas into reality, whether that means building software, experimenting with sound, producing visuals or developing new workflows.

Family is the other constant running through everything.

Rachael has been beside me through more ideas, projects, experiments and creative rabbit holes than any reasonable person should probably be expected to tolerate, and my family gives me both inspiration and perspective.

There is something quite grounding about spending hours thinking about music production or some complicated technical problem and then being reminded that your grandchildren are far more interested in whether you are going to play with them.

And rightly so.

Beneath the music, technology, sarcasm and occasional chaos, I try to keep a fairly simple outlook on life.

I believe strongly in kindness, compassion, understanding and second chances.

People are complicated. Life is messy. Nobody gets everything right.

I admire people who stay curious, who create things, who question things, who can laugh at themselves and who are willing to change their minds when they learn something new.

This website is really an extension of all of that.

You’ll find my music, the stories behind the songs, political rants, thoughts and ideas, experiments with technology, creative projects and probably a few things that only made complete sense to me at the time I created them.

Have a look around. Listen to something. Read something. Discover a song you connect with. Find something you disagree with. Maybe even stumble across an idea that sends you down a rabbit hole of your own.

Welcome to my little corner of the internet.

Or, more accurately, welcome to my brain.

I’ve tried to organise it.

It didn’t work.