Welcome to markclark.com.au

• Explore original songs, scripts and spoken-word demos; read fiction and non-fiction writing and educational material.

• Features career highlights (including my role as Pip in the ABC’s Seven Little Australians) my performances on TV from the late 80’s and lots of songs. 

• Ideal for those who need background music, voice work, like to read literary works and listen to songs.

• Contact me for details for collaborations and bookings.

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Every so often I put up some of my YouTube content.

From the program:

We are in the bunker, in Berlin, it’s April 29th, 1945, and the allies are going to break down the door at any time. What better reason for song and merriment? After all, it was good enough for Julie Andrews. So where is Adolf? Probably in Argentina. So who’s gonna take the fall for the Fuhrer? You’ll have to wait and see. Is the show historically correct? What’s with all the questions? Listen, all I know is that Himmler and Goering weren’t really in the bunker, but they are in the show, so that should tell you something! Yeah, but there’s gotta be some historical facts; some edifying aspect to the production? Hey, listen, what d’ya want for a few bucks? It wouldn’t buy you a bag o Matzo, pal. Yeah, but . . . Alright! Alright already! Yes, there are some semi-historical gags for the adults as well as mindless visual gags for the kids. Plenty of colour; catchy songs and you get to yell out a lot at the actors. Happy? Not really. I could be at home watching someone get evicted from something on TV. So stay at home. Do you see me twisting your arm? Anything else I should know? Two things: 1 – if Hitler were still alive today he’d be dead and 2 – one thing is for sure - after this show you will never see ‘The Sound of Music’ in the same light again. If we as a cast can achieve one thing, let it be this.

Here is a song about young love. A few people wrote to me and said that they liked this song, so I had my first attempt at AI and updated the clip.

I was thinking about the quote: 'A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men' from Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory. The quote is originally attributed to Horace. So I wrote this song.

I wrote the next song after I purchased a beautiful 12 String guitar.

Clarky’s Closet - A Podcast

‘Clarky’s Closet’ is a podcast where I talk about my songs, how they came about, when they were written and any related stories. There are five or six songs in each show. The first three seasons have ten episodes. You can listen to any episode on the various platforms, or here:

37 podcasts in all, 5 or 6 songs in each podcast with the stories behind them.

This last show has no music. It is simply my recollections as Pip.

50 years ago, when I was 14, I was fortunate enough to be cast in the role of 'Pip' in the 1973, ABC production of Ethel Turner's: '7 Little Australians'.

This podcast is about my memories of that time.

In 2004 there was a reunion for the show. I have included some pictures from that in the Seven Little Australians section. The two black and white shots are one of Anna Hruby and I at the 7 Little A’s after party, and one of me in 1974 filming a show called, ‘Where did all the Magic Go’.