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Name: Marc Farquhar
Age: 27
Hails from: Newcastle, North West England
Favourite Band(s): Metallica, Foo Fighters, AC/DC, Megadeth, Queen and Tenacious D
First ever concert: Metallica in Newcastle in 1996
Musical Hero: James Hetfield
Additional info: Farcs is left handed, therefore has to pay more for his guitars! there's no justice in the world. On the album "Odds Of The Gods" he plays all of the rhythm guitar, all of the bass and all of he lead guitar work, as well as writing all the lyrics and signing the vocals. He hopes that this is not the case for the bands second album as he intends to find a lead guitarist, and a bassist to take care of those duties on future records...
Currently: In the studio working on the album, whilst looking for a lead guitarist, a bass player and a drummer to complete the line up.
History...
Farcs started out playing guitar when he was 12 when his parents bought him an acoustic guitar after lots of pestering.
Previously he had tried the drums and piano but just couldn't get into them and did not enjoy them, but once he picked up a guitar he felt at home and knew it was something he should pursue.
In the early 90's he became heavily into rock music after bands like nirvana and guns'n roses had released albums of great quality, but it wasn't until a friend of his lent him Metallica's "Black Album" that it
hit him like a punch in the face! he suddenly felt a sense of belonging as far as music was concerned. Previously he had just listened to pretty much anything and just went along with whatever was
going on in music at the time. But after listening to the black album a few times he soon found himself inspired to take his passion for the guitar and rock/metal music in general even further.
In 1999 he acquired his first recording facilities with the help of a very good friend of (www.jonastral.co.uk) who also realised his passion and wanted Farcs to be able to get his
enthusiasm out in the form of his own music. Since then Farcs has spent many an hour and many $/£'s on recording his own material, now he is nearly in a position to
release an album of all his own compositions.
Quote:
"As mentioned earlier I had had to play all the parts for this album, including all the solos which I've struggled with as rhythm guitar is what I do! I bought a bass guitar so I could lay all the bass lines down and purchased some drum sampling software so I could add high quality drums to the track. I've had to program each track manually from scratch using very basic beats to build them up to full drums tracks with fills and structures. I've written lyrics for all of the tracks and worked out the vocal melodies.
Now I'm focussed on finishing the album, finding a lead guitarist, a bass player and a drummer to taking this beast out on the road!!!"
Farcs, June 2008
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