Mart’s introduction to music began when, as a six-year-old, he was farmed out to Gustav Mahler’s great-great-grand-something-or-other - a piano teacher who lived in his parents’ manor, to be blooded with some truly awful piano lessons on a truly awful piano. Notwithstanding this inauspicious start, he progressed into his first foray with rock music at the age of sixteen, playing with Pete Trewathas (later of Marillion fame) in a local band called Orthi. Sadly university beckoned, then marriage, then children! Eventually music beckoned once again with the formation of Tar; a doomed quintet playing heavy rock for brief periods between extended trips to the pub. Mart’s first serious rock band was, and still is, Bridgefield, although now on the back burner. It still provides him with an outlet for his compositional material which graces such sites as iTunes, Amazon, Rhapsody et al. Redundancy from Mart’s real world job in the City in 2008 provided the perfect opportunity to turn pro, and with the intention of doing a bit of session work he fell headlong over-heels into a little two-tone band called Hope and Glory, which is rather turning out to be a juggernaut in the world of ska. Mart lives in the beautiful Home Counties with his large and extremely musical family, and when he is not aspiring to be the 21st Century’s answer to the Partridge Family he leads the gracious life of a gentleman of leisure.