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Mark Allan

Baritone Saxophone / Band Manager / VJ

smiling man selling CDs in the street

Bio

Mark was instrumental in forming the Bollywood Brass Band in 1992 and has managed the band ever since. These days, as well as playing baritone sax, he operates video and mixes sound for their live gigs.

Mark started off playing tenor sax with the Fallout Marching Band in the 80's, playing on peace and anti-nuclear demos and harassing Ronald Reagan around Europe. The band got some money to buy a baritone sax, and that was the beginning of Mark's love affair with low grunty noises. Together with Will and Nick of the Bollywood Brass Band he formed Emergency Exit Arts' other professional street band Crocodile Style in the late 80's, and also spent 10 years playing with and administrating the unfeasibly large left wing big band The Happy End, sharing the baritone section with Sarha Moore, now soprano sax player with the Bollywood Brass Band.

Mark has taught courses in the Music Business at Kingston University, and writes reviews for Songlines magazine.

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Four funky drummers and six hot horns play massive hits
from Indian films, all driven by the huge beat of the dhol drum.