Douglas Stuff

  "Gary Numan, was one of my very first influences. His minimal synth melodies, electronic arpeggiated chord sequences and understated vocals, juxtaposed with his innovative ambient industrial soundscapes nurtured and cultivated my primordial electronic musical conception." Mark O'Leary

 In my Synth pop band Voltaire, when we started, we actually played a few Human League riffs, right at the very beginning, so we started with those songs as we all knew them and then we started extemporizing and it sounded like Cabaret Voltaire, who were receiving a lot of airplay at the time on MTV, so during our tea break I mentioned to the lads, we should call the band Voltaire, because what we just played, sounded like them, they agreed and that is how we started.

  Mark O'Leary played in concert with Jack DeJohnette and Billy Hart, both performed on the Miles Davis Album Big Fun. During the performances with Jack DeJohnette and Billy Hart with Tomasz Stanko the music played exemplified the aesthetic of Big Fun. Modal vamps, polyrhythms, wah wah guitar, grooves, fragmented trumpet, tabla like drum patterns, all had their primordial origins in the Miles Davis album Big Fun. Jack DeJohnette and Billy Hart both played drums on Big Fun. 

 

 Mark O'Leary before U2, Before Fontaine's DC  and Rory Gallagher never played Ukraine Mark O'Leary Played on guitar with one of the most iconic jazz musicians in the former USSR and founder member of the Ganelin trio; Vladimir Tarasov on Drums and Percussion Saxophist  Anatoly Vapirov and the most in demand pianist in the former USSR Yuri Kuznetsov. Performing in the Philharmonic Hall in Odessa Here is the original poster of the event with Mark O'Leary's name in cyrillic

 Mark O'Leary was the First Irish person to headline a festival in Iceland On the same bill as Dave Douglas. Mark O'Leary performed in a trio featuring Icelandic musicians Mark O'Leary Guitar Matthias MD Hemstock on Drums and Kjartan Valdermarsson on Piano

 San Lucar de Barrameda Jazz Festival Poster Paul Bley Trio Paul Bley Piano Mark O'Leary Guitar Jeff Williams Drums