Music

MJ started his music career as a founding member of the British folk rock band Frogmorton who played festivals, clubs and radio throughout the 1970s and released the album At Last in 1976 on Philips/Phonogram Records.

After the demise of Frogmorton in 1976, he spent some time in America before returning to the United Kingdom and starting up The Extraordinaires along with John Evans. During the time he was touring with The Extraordinaires, he wrote the hit single "Blue Skies" for The Jets. The Extraordinaires ran out of steam in 1985; this is when he turned to film and television work.

In the mid-2000s, he refocused his talents as a songwriter, writing and performing as Mandolin Jack and has spent much time in the States. From 2011 until 2013 he was the UK co-ordinator for the Nashville Songwriters Association (NSAI) based in Roy Acuff Place, Nashville, Tennessee. Until 2020 he ran his own monthly radio show Songwriter Radio with Mandolin Jack on CMR Nashville radio.

In addition to his own song-writing, he actively supports local songwriters by organising sessions & featured spots in venues in South West London. As The Mandolin Jack Experience he performs with Dave Woodhouse AKA Airfix on guitar & Caspar Sewell on bass & Mary Tulloch on vocals

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