Marcus began playing trumpet at 8 years old, and was soon playing with the local wind bands. At the age of 13 he began singing in a 5-piece band with a group of friends, writing original songs and music. The band needed a bass player, so at 14 Marcus started to play the bass guitar, as well as doing the lead vocals, and also started to pick up some ability in playing drums.

After a couple of years, this group morphed into a three piece punk band and changed its name to The Natural Disasters. By the age of 16 they were performing at the trendy live music venues in the area, and appeared at some festivals across the country, such as the Nottingham Punks Picnic and the Plymouth Punks Picnic. They recorded and released an album entitled Trapped, which was sold through the Ruptured Ambitions label, and some tracks also appeared on compilation albums released by Beer City Records in the USA.

Around the age of 20, after briefly playing with a couple of Indie Rock bands and spending some months busking across Europe, Marcus delved into the electronic music scene and became part of the Panic group – helping to organise large Techno and Drum’n’Bass events across the South West of England – both indoor and outdoor. These were very successful.

At 22 Marcus was playing bass with functions bands, such as the 10-piece soul/funk band Mystery Train, doing weddings, corporate events and festivals. Around this time he began learning the piano and guitar, as well as studying music theory and composition, with the goal in mind of producing solo work.

His musical direction was to shift again at with new influences the following year, when he started getting into Jazz, Fusion and Classical music. The first real experience of playing jazz came with the Teign Valley Stompers – a full-time engagement as this was a very busy working band at the time. The Stompers played a mixture of Mainstream, Traditional and Dixieland jazz, but after a couple of years Marcus was branching out into more modern forms of jazz with bands like The Maill High Jazz Club and The Charlie Hearnshaw Quartet. He was a founding member of the Speakeasy Jazz Club in Torquay, which grew to feature national and international stars. Now an established player on the local jazz scene, Marcus performed with some of the biggest names in UK jazz when they were touring the area, such as Alan Barnes, Jim Mullen and Henry Lowther. He also worked with the French tribute group Projet Brassens; performing in festivals in Belgium and France.

Continuing to work on his own compositions through this period, and learning sound recording and engineering skills, Marcus produced his debut solo album The Sleepless Dream in 2005. This instrumental work combined all his musical influences to date, and featured Marcus playing guitar, piano, bass, trumpet and drums, along with synthesizers and other electronic sources.

Marcus then travelled to the USA for several years, and along with joining a functions band and doing some jazz gigs, he performed with international pop stars such as Alberto Plaza, Michele Henderson and Kate Ceberano.

Returning to the UK, Marcus was soon back on the music scene with various outfits, and working on a new arts project involving the production of 3D sound in a Musical Universe. As well as composing for this project, he continued to write arrangements for some bands he was performing with, such as the Mojito Jazz Trio. His other engagements included the 9-piece soul band The Rhythm Machine, the classic hits Acoustic Sunshine Band (bass and backing vocals), and various stand-in gigs with Rock’n’Roll bands and jazz outfits such as the Martin Dale Quartet, The Metropolis Swing Quartet and Men Behaving Tradly.

In more recent years, Marcus has gotten involved with big band jazz, and was a regular member of the Dave Hankin Big Band, as well as performing with the Cooperative Big Band. He has also appeared in the orchestra pit for several theatre shows such as The Producers, Godspell, and The Rocky Horror Picture Show.

Marcus recently spent two years living with his wife in Taiwan, where he performed as a musician with various functions bands and jazz ensembles, along with continuing to compose solo works. He is now living back in the UK, based in Wales, where he continues to perform with various groups – now primarily playing the double bass. And he is still composing. 2021 saw the release of Solotude – an collection of pieces for solo bass. And the end of 2023 sees the culmination of an ambitious project Portrait of a Day – an instrumental conecpt album featuring several special guests.