“Mark Gemini Thwaite is a man who should need no introduction, given the breadth of artists and musical styles he’s made his indelible mark in. Lending his skills as a composer and guitarist to the likes of goth/rockers like The Mission and Peter Murphy, classic rock & rollers like Thin Lizzy’s Ricky Warwick and The Who’s Roger Daltrey, and well known in industrial circles for his collaborations in Primitive Race, Revolting Cocks, and Gary Numan” -REGEN magazine
Mark Gemini Thwaite (aka MGT) was born in Birmingham UK and has been the guitarist for a number of British rock bands and artists over the last two decades, including The Mission, Tricky, Peter Murphy, New Disease, Spear of Destiny, Theatre of Hate, Mob Research (with Paul Raven of Killing Joke), and Canadian band National Velvet plus various live and recorded appearances with Al Jourgensen, Revolting Cocks, Gary Numan, Roger Daltrey, P.J. Harvey, Alanis Morissette, Combichrist, Primitive Race, Ricky Warwick and The Fighting Hearts, Black Star Riders, Ginger of The Wildhearts, Stan Lee of Marvel Comics, Miles Hunt of The Wonder Stuff, Ashton Nyte of The Awakening, Franz Treichler of The Young Gods and Ville Valo of Finnish band HIM.
In 2016 MGT announced that he had signed with Hanover record imprint SPV records and released his first solo album, “Volumes” under his MGT acronym. The lead single, “Knowing Me Knowing You”, a cover version of the ABBA classic featuring guest vocalist Ville Valo of HIM, was released in April 2016, mixed by Tim Palmer (HIM/Pearl Jam). The promotional video featuring both MGT & Valo has since received over 2 million+ views on YouTube and counting, plus over 300K plays on Spotify.
Valo was not the only guest musician on “Volumes”, other appearances included Wayne Hussey of Mark’s previous band The Mission, Miles Hunt and Erica Nockalls of The Wonder Stuff, Ricky Warwick (Black Star Riders, Thin Lizzy), Raymond Watts (PIG, KMFDM), Saffron (Republica), Julianne Regan (All About Eve), Ashton Nyte (The Awakening), Carlo Van Putten (Dead Guitars) and goth legend Andi Sex Gang
IN June 2017 MGT & Friends performed at Wave Gotik Treffen in Leipzig Germany and Proud in Camden, London UK.. WGT is the worlds premier goth/ebm/industrial festival. Headline acts at WGT this year included Mark’s former band The Mission, Skinny Puppy, VNV Nation & Sex Gang Children, plus many more.. ‘MGT ‘s live band featured songwriting collaborator and frontman ASHTON NYTE and performed songs from ‘Volumes’ CD plus other surprises from MGT’s back catalogue, including The Mission.. most importantly the band played several new songs from the forthcoming ‘Gemini Nyte’ album, all co-written with vocalist, multi-instrumentalist and songwriter Nyte, who has released 7 stylistically diverse solo albums, as well as 8 albums as The Awakening, who recently completed a European tour with The Mission. The MGT band’s sophomore album ‘Gemini Nyte’ is slated for a Feb 2018 release on Cleopatra records, with a single/video preceding in late 2017. http://cleorecs.com/home/mgt-sign-to-cleopatra-records/
Mark Thwaite
“Mark Gemini Thwaite is a man who should need no introduction, given the breadth of artists and musical styles he’s made his indelible mark in. Lending his skills as a composer and guitarist to the likes of goth/rockers like The Mission and Peter Murphy, classic rock & rollers like Thin Lizzy’s Ricky Warwick and The Who’s Roger Daltrey, and well known in industrial circles for his collaborations in Primitive Race, Revolting Cocks, and Gary Numan” -REGEN magazine
Mark Gemini Thwaite (aka MGT) was born in Birmingham UK and has been the guitarist for a number of British rock bands and artists over the last two decades, including The Mission, Tricky, Peter Murphy, New Disease, Spear of Destiny, Theatre of Hate, Mob Research (with Paul Raven of Killing Joke), and Canadian band National Velvet plus various live and recorded appearances with Al Jourgensen, Revolting Cocks, Gary Numan, Roger Daltrey, P.J. Harvey, Alanis Morissette, Combichrist, Primitive Race, Ricky Warwick and The Fighting Hearts, Black Star Riders, Ginger of The Wildhearts, Stan Lee of Marvel Comics, Miles Hunt of The Wonder Stuff, Ashton Nyte of The Awakening, Franz Treichler of The Young Gods and Ville Valo of Finnish band HIM.
In 2016 MGT announced that he had signed with Hanover record imprint SPV records and released his first solo album, “Volumes” under his MGT acronym. The lead single, “Knowing Me Knowing You”, a cover version of the ABBA classic featuring guest vocalist Ville Valo of HIM, was released in April 2016, mixed by Tim Palmer (HIM/Pearl Jam). The promotional video featuring both MGT & Valo has since received over 2 million+ views on YouTube and counting, plus over 300K plays on Spotify.
Valo was not the only guest musician on “Volumes”, other appearances included Wayne Hussey of Mark’s previous band The Mission, Miles Hunt and Erica Nockalls of The Wonder Stuff, Ricky Warwick (Black Star Riders, Thin Lizzy), Raymond Watts (PIG, KMFDM), Saffron (Republica), Julianne Regan (All About Eve), Ashton Nyte (The Awakening), Carlo Van Putten (Dead Guitars) and goth legend Andi Sex Gang
IN June 2017 MGT & Friends performed at Wave Gotik Treffen in Leipzig Germany and Proud in Camden, London UK.. WGT is the worlds premier goth/ebm/industrial festival. Headline acts at WGT this year included Mark’s former band The Mission, Skinny Puppy, VNV Nation & Sex Gang Children, plus many more.. ‘MGT ‘s live band featured songwriting collaborator and frontman ASHTON NYTE and performed songs from ‘Volumes’ CD plus other surprises from MGT’s back catalogue, including The Mission.. most importantly the band played several new songs from the forthcoming ‘Gemini Nyte’ album, all co-written with vocalist, multi-instrumentalist and songwriter Nyte, who has released 7 stylistically diverse solo albums, as well as 8 albums as The Awakening, who recently completed a European tour with The Mission. The MGT band’s sophomore album ‘Gemini Nyte’ is slated for a Feb 2018 release on Cleopatra records, with a single/video preceding in late 2017. http://cleorecs.com/home/mgt-sign-to-cleopatra-records/