About Us

what is biggertunes?

Biggertunes is a showcase for music created individually, or jointly, by Jez Alan and Mark Marrington. We write music that we enjoy listening to. Our overall aim is that other people will also enjoy it. If you can tell us which 'genre' we are we'd be interested to hear from you!

Mark Marrington

• Favourite Film: Ferris Bueller’s Day Off
• Favourite 1950s crooner: Lonnie Donegan
• Career highlight: 'Meeting Jez Alan (apparently)'
• Who is really the genius behind Bigger Tunes? 'I am'
• Which record producer that went 'off the rails' do you most admire? It’s a toss up between Phil Spector and Joe Meek'
• Preferred key for composition: ‘D# minor (although I’ve never used it)’
• Greatest musical achievements:
  ‘Noone like you’: instrumental track in the style of Kenny G for the album For the One I Love (1997), recently re-released in France to no acclaim;
  Nineteen Gilbert and Sullivan Favorites arranged for Classical Guitar (Mel Bay, 2004)
  Fugue for orchestra on Europe’s ‘The Final Countdown’ (2005)

Jez Alan

• Favourite Meal: 'The next one'
• Favourite Baroque Composer: 'JS Bach'
• Shoe Size: 'Libra'
• Name a chord you have never used intentionally: 'Gb13-6sus4'
• Name a chord you have used by accident because you couldn't play G7 properly: 'Gb13-6sus4'
• Who is really the genius behind Bigger Tunes? 'I am'
• Bands you have played with that feature an exclamation mark in the name:'SOS!, Girls At Our Best!, Sadodada!'
• Any others? 'The Tall Boys, Sex Beat'
• Career highlight: 'Meeting Dr. Mark Marrington (apparently)'
• Any Doctors you wouldn't let near you with a scalpel: 'Dr. Mark Marrington -This is because he is, in fact, a Dr. of Music (he knows the difference between 'Leonin' & 'Perotin')