Mark Toner - Bass (acoustic, electric and midi), Guitar (acoustic, electric and midi), 12-string Acoustic Guitar, Vocals, Harmonica, Stylophone, Percussion and some other stuff, occasionally stretching to keyboards.
Influences
Yes
The Flower Kings
Jon Anderson, Steve Howe, Chris Squire, Pete Banks, Rush, Jethro Tull, Spock's Beard, Transatlantic, The Beatles, Vangelis, Peter Gabriel, Bill Bailey, The Goodies, Rolf Harris, Genesis, Dr Teeth and the Electric Mayhem and many others.
My Dad, Peter Toner, who sang every day, whatever he was doing. My Uncle, Bob Robertson, who gave me my first guitar and my only guitar lesson.
Scottish Folk Music
particularly the fiddle playing of Andrew Robertson (my grandfather)
J S Bach, E Grieg, J Williams, J Horner, D Elfman, A Courage
Sounds Like
Have a listen and you tell me.
Maaan, this is so, well, cute! Especially the last bit is heart-breaking!
Fred Lessingabout some vocals I recorded for one of his Daymoon tracks
For anyone who hasn't heard Gardens yet, I highly recommend it. IMO the best thing from the Flora Majora project(s) thus far. ... Someone referred to this track as "epic". They weren't kidding.
Guy Bestabout Gardens of Virahanka
Jesus, that's great!
Simon Chateabout the guitar solo at the end of Upon The Collapse Of Civilisation
My band, Arbelos, is getting some airplay over at IMRadio.
Ayesongs is the web music project of Mark Toner, bass-player, guitarist and vocalist. It features music written by Mark and his friends over many years. Mark's chief associate in this project is Noel Chidwick, with whom many of the songs were written.
Mark's band history has taken in rock, folk and religious music. In between a succession of careers as a student, a computer expert, a college lecturer and a solar physicist, he has played with the following bands.
The Spiny Anteaters (East Kilbride, late 70s)
The Travellers (Edinburgh, early 80s)
Vigil Service Group (St Andrew's, Dumfries, late 80s)
Some time out was taken in the 90s to get married to Ann and start bringing up Lucy and Simon. However, he had a brief appearance with the Panama Band, when guitarist Noel Chidwick found it a little difficult to play at his own wedding.
Informal Service Group (St John the Evangelist, Dumfries, current) along with son Simon on bass.
Arbelos, prog rock band (cyberspace, current) with aforementioned Noel Chidwick and introducing Ken Grubb.
Flora Majora, another prog rock band, this time consisting entirely of Flower Kings fans. Mark recently contributed to this project, working with Fred Lessing of Daymoon. There is a nice downloadable version of The Gardens Of Virahanka on the Daymoon site.
The Two Piece Orchestra is a new project featuring Mark with Arbelos colleague Ken Grubb playing lounge music - ideal if you need some mood setting for your restaurant. Click on the band name and give them a booking.
Mark has a gallery for his Ayesongs art in his ArtZone space at ArtZone.
Hi Mark, I just put up "The making of FuturePast", the video and the blog on my MySpace site. Feel free to check it out. Have a great week and take care. Hasse (HFMC, The Flower Kings)
Hi Mark Now we have a new blog, also a link to an interview. If you find the time don..t forget to read it:) Wish you a great weekend. Tomas/ Eggs & Dogs
Hi Mark I hope you had a brilliant weekend! We have uploaded a new song in our player. When you find some time...please dont forget to check it out! Wish you an eggcelent week! Tomas/Eggs & Dogs
We're recruiting new members for our street team from our myspace friends. If you'd like to help out and get some free mindflow gear in the process join below!! If you have any questions feel free to comment back with your questions.
Hello ! In preview of the release of my second album "Le 3ème Equinoxe (The 3rd Equinox)", listen to my new track "Les bousiers (Dung beetles)". I hope you will like ! Give me your opinion...
RT Burns has a benefit concert at the beautiful Auditorium, Oran Mor Glasgow on the 28th July. Please help us spread the word about this very special night, tickets at £35 including buffet, can be bought here:
Beneficiaries include the Burns Heritage Park Museum under the National Trust of Scotland and Yorkhill Hospice, Glasgow.
Performers include. Chris Tait, Gari Glaysher, The Trybe,Mike Ogletree, Kevin Walsh, The Skunnered, Elidih Grant, Paul Stirling Taylor, Keith James King, with more guests to follow. Appearance by Bill Little of Scot Films UK.
How's it going? I have some new songs up on my profile. Check it out if you get a chance. Here's a guitar video I did awhile back, if you like it, please tell your friends about me! enjoy!
How's it going? I have some new songs up on my profile. Check it out if you get a chance. Here's a guitar video I did awhile back, if you like it, please tell your friends about me! enjoy!
Just to let you know I've launched a new website: www.StressFreePrint.co.uk. If you get a sec, please take a look around and let me know what you think. As always, give me a shout if you need any leaflets, flyers or posters to promote your gigs. Hope I can help you out sometime.
Take care and keep up the good work, Tom.
P.S. Cheers for your friendship. As a thank you, enter voucher code 'myspace' when ordering leaflet printing, flyer printing or poster printing and I'll knock 15 quid off the cost!
Hello Thanks so much for your friendship it’s a real pleasure for me- I am very impressed by your profile – wow really amazing stuff. Currently I am pretty excited as I have just now released my first solo double album “An Ocean Of Dreams”. It would be a real honour and pleasure for me if you could give it a listen and if you have some time leave me a comment with your thoughts about my baby. I say thanks in advance and wish you a beautiful day Mindmovie
PS. Please watch the brandnew "Mindmovie - An Ocean Of Dreams" video trailer
hi mark, thanks for your comment on our blog, we've had a great responce from people. everyone feels the same about these venues that see the fact that bands have hopes and dreams as something to exploit and make money from in a cynical way, its just not on. we usually organise our own gigs like you but it was the ferry who asked us to play and we feel we were misled. all the very best from the fighting 69th pal. keep on keeping on!
STOPPED BY TO GIVE SOME LOVE AND RESPECT!! STOP BY AND CHECK OUT THE FEATURED ARTIST OF THE WEEK. BANDS CAN PROMOTE ON MY SITE !!COME VOTE ON YOUR FAVORITE PICTURE FROM CRUE FEST '08! HAVE A KICK ASS JAMIN' DAY!!! KIM
hi! iam wolfgang the guitarist of dreamscape. we should learn to be the best persons we can be and our world will change. i try. but it's not as easy as playing guitar in a high class band...
H. Jackson Brown: Good character is more to be praised than outstanding talent. Most talents are, to some extent, a gift. Good character, by contrast, is not given to us. We have to build it, piece by piece -- by thought, choice, courage, and determination.
kind regards! DREAMSCAPE (progressive metal from germany) (new cd september 2009! - buy or let die!)
Hi again, hope you..ve had a nice weekend. Really glad to have you as a MySpace friend. Enjoy the spring and take care. Best wishes from Sweden. Hasse (HFMC, The Flower Kings)
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DICE, “…let”s call it cosmic prog” with their 15th CD “Versus Without Versus, Endpart” and their 2nd DVD “A Long Cosmic Trip” thanks very much for frienship. From germany - best regards!
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You can read our brasilian-interview on our webside: www.dice-band.de . Check it out!
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