“MARK was pretty intense but always very amusing. He had a great sense of humour, a great sense of fun right from a young age. Because he was much taller than anybody else he could get into nightclubs and all that sort of stuff when nobody else could. But because of that he also used to get picked on. He had a few nasty little beatings that he was always pretty brave in facing up to. One particular one, these guys were hitting him with pool cues and he was just shouting at them: ‘You’re pathetic! Can’t you do better than that?’ So he was pretty resilient.
“He had a relentless energy and an incredible amount of information at his fingertips. He hoovered up anything from daytime TV to astrophysics and seemed to be able to talk about it at the drop of a hat and have a valid opinion on it. He was also an enormous fan of music. Whether it was David Bowie or Jah Shaka Soundsystem, he really loved it and he really loved to share it. He was so enthusiastic he would be able to get anybody interested in anything he was interested in.