eFG : Share a bit about yourself for the efanguide public please
Mark: I'm Mark from BBMak, and I'm one of the singers and also one on the
songwriting team. 22 Years old from Manchester, England. I'm a scorpio. I've
got one brother, one sister, both older than me and I'm a big big fan of
music.
eFG : What made you decide to cover "Ghost Of You And Me"?
Mark: Well actually, we was in the studio in Los Angeles. Was actually
recording one of the tracks, 'Unpredictable' and we'd actually gone on a
break. And I went to a guys house called John Linde. He had a demo in his
house and he played it to me and I thought it was great, fell in love with it
straight away. So I took it to the studio and let the other guys listen to it
and it was like an instant sort of reaction. "Gotta do that song!" It was a
perfect BBMak song.
eFG : Any particular reason you decided to release it as a single?
Mark:It's just a big ballad. When we recorded it we were so pleased at how it
turned out to be. We had a full orchestra on the track,. It sounds big, its a
big epic ballad. It's one of those songs you know when you hear it you fall
in love with it. So from our reaction as well we were very confident it would
be hit.
eFG : I know you added 3 new tracks to the UK edit of Sooner Or Later, and
there are also different tracks on the Asian edit as well. Is there any
reason the US, UK and Asian albums are all different?
Mark: Well what it was, when we first released the album it was in Asia and
at that point we was kind of happy with the album. I think as time went along
we were just writing better songs. There were a couple of songs that came
along, like "Ghost Of You And Me" and "Unpredictable" and we thought you know
these are such great songs and we had written a couple of great songs
ourselves. So we said why not just take off some of the tracks we were
unhappy with on the Asian album and add these tracks to the American album to
make it stronger. And we did that and we believe the American album has great
12 tracks. And again we just wrote some more songs. We knew we wanted more
tracks on the UK album. But the Americans aren't going to lose out on the
extra tracks we put on the UK album because hopefully we're going to put
those on the next album.
eFG : How does it feel to finally have "broken" home? Is Fame in the UK
different from fame in the US?
Mark: It's all the same. I think its a bit different for me and for the lads
because you know its home. England is our home and that's where our friends
and family are.. And for them to see all the success grow as well. They
couldn't see all this when we were in America, they missed out on all of it,
it just feels nice. It's more of a pride thing, you know getting the success
in the UK. And everything's going fantastic.
eFG : And of course with fame in the UK comes fame in the tabloids. Any
horrible stories printed that just aren't true? Because I actually read one
this morning...
Mark: There's actually one.. Well which one did you read?
eFG : I read you got kicked out of Disney....
Mark: I know yah, well it wasn't just me! ::laughs:: I'll tell you the story,
we were doing a gig and it wasn't actually last week, this was like last
year. Summer of last year, we was in Disneyland doing a couple of gigs. And
it was really a hot day so we just took in about 6 drinks between ourselves
and the band. Cuz it was a hot day and everything so we did that. It just got
taken completely the wrong way. We was just in our dressing room, had a beer
each and we got kicked out. We didn't mean to do that, you know what I mean?
eFG : I saw on the MSN chat last night that you all spend time on the
internet, do you visit your official message board at BBMak.co.uk a lot?
Mark: Eh not lately because we've been on the bus a lot and its hard to get
online. But Christian uses it a lot more than me or Stephen does.
eFG : Why do you think you have such a devoted Internet fan base?
Mark: I think its just because you know all these fans you know they all
become friends on the internet. And they think, they got their whole BBMak
Army,with their websites and it all just snowballs. It can only get bigger.
The more people who hear about us, a lot more people to help out to spread
the word of BBMak. I think its just the whole thing of all these fans talking
to each other on the web. Just getting together and doing something about it
really.
eFG : This next question actually came from a fan on that message board. Why
is your name BBMak with an AK? Why not BBMc with a C and no A since Stes name
is McNally with a C?
Mark: Because visually it looks better.
eFG : What are you doing after you finish your leg of the NSYNC tour?
Mark: Well we're going to be going back to the UK, hopefully. We've got two
weeks off after the NSYNC tour. We're gonna go on a holiday, chill out for
two weeks then go back to the UK and promote "Ghost Of You And Me".
eFG : What has been your most embarrasing moment on stage?
Mark: I think, a lot of times when you're on stage, you get rocky, you get a
rocky stage and the mics move backwards and forwards and many times the
microphone has hit me in the face when I've been dancing. Not dancing,
dancing but moving and singing to the mic. Turned around and the microphone
has hit me in the face and a lot of people have seen it. But I think the most
embarrassing thing was last year we did a show at a baseball ground in
America and halfway into the set I got hit between the legs...it wasn't like
sudden pain, like 5 seconds later it really hurt and I was in pain on stage
and everyone seen it. A lot of people were laughing. And then later all of a
sudden this big baseball flew past. I think it was some jealous lad.
eFG : If you weren't in the music business, and on stage everyday what do you
think you would you be doing now?
Mark: Well before the band I was actually training to be a fireman. So I
think I'd be putting fires out now. Because I was always so athletic in
school and college. I always liked the physical part of things so probably
the fire service now.
eFG : If you were in the audience and you wanted to get the singers
attention,what would you do??
Mark: Probably throw something.. ::laughs:: aim between the legs ::laughs::
eFG : I heard you all have a few girls who follow you in England who actually
flash you...to get your attention.
Mark: There was actually one incident when we did a gig in Liverpool. One of
our own BBMak gigs, fantastic gig. It was very hard to get out of the place
because it was barricaded with fans. And we got in the van and driving off
and 3 or 4 girls flashed us, in front of the van, it was quite amusing
actually.
eFG : Does stuff like that shock you?
Mark: It can be at times because a lot of young fans that surprise me
actually with the way they are. I know if I was that age I don't think I
could ever be like that. We have some cheeky fans...
eFG : You are all very stylish, do you have a stylist or do you pick them out?
Mark: We do have a stylist but the good thing is we don't get told what to
wear. You know we've got the clothes you see on tv and go on stage. We're
comfortable wearing them. It's not like "Oh you gotta wear that you gotta
wear that." We just wear whatever we're comfortable wearing. Jeans, t-shirts
any jacket. You know easy on the eyes. Simple, yet effective.
Now for the fun short questions!
eFG : Coke or Pepsi?
Mark: Coke
eFG : Atari (old game system) or Playstation 2?
Mark: Playstation 2
eFG : Liverpool or Man-
Mark: MANCHESTER U!! ::chuckles::
eFG : David Beckham or Victoria Beckham?
Mark: Victoria Beckham
eFG : Eminem or Dido?
Mark: Eminem
eFG : 5ive or Westlife?
Mark: umm......Westlife...
eFG : Billie Piper or Britney Spears?
Mark: Britney Spears
eFG : Best Buy or Walmart?
Mark: Best Buy!
eFG : British Accents or American Accents?
Mark: American Accents
eFG : Disneyworld or Disneyland?
Mark: Disneyworld
eFG : Batman or Spiderman?
Mark: Batman
eFG : I can't thank you enough for taking the time to do this.
Mark:Oh you're very welcome.
By Stephanie Latta
