Marc Sinclair is one of those characters who flits between projects and cross-pollinates as he goes. A child of the sixties, well very late fifties, he began playing the violin at age nine, and progressed to the Guitar and Bass.

Active in many local bands in the Lancaster area, including Route 66, Frenchie and the Breton Fishermen, famous (infamous) for their surreal gigs, once playing a whole set naked in a balloon basket.

At age seventeen he ran away to London with best friend Jeff Hurst and lived on the streets for nearly two years.

"we spent a cold winter in 'phone boxes and on the circle line, where kind train guards let us stay asleep and we would always get fed by someone with spare food, from then on I realised that even if everything fails, you don't die."

In those years, music was important, Marc seemed to fall on his feet, working sessions on bass in the Matrix and Vineyard studios, rubbing shoulders with the likes of Chris Spedding and Olivia Newton-John. He worked in rockstar studios with the Glitter band and Mike Leander. He was briefley signed as an artist to A&M Records and Oval Records.

In his spare time he used to frequent Ronnie Scott's Jazz Club, where several of his friends worked as waiters.

"I met Count Basie and Oscar Peterson there. Oscar was fascinated by computers, and we nattered for ages about the latest microprocessors."

The other love of Marcs life was to take over for the next years as he worked on some of the worlds most sophisticated computer control systems.

Music was never far away and Marc would always keep a "hand in" by singing or session work. Cedar was his first classical project and shows that creativity will come out, whatever the medium.

Marc is currently working on a project with a young Salford band, "these kids remind me why I got involved in music, to make that song in your head come to life"

Who knows where he'll flit next...