My name is Mark Driscoll and here is my musical resume

I am a guitar, drum and bass teacher based in Bromley, Kent. I have been fully DBS checked and I teach at my home studio or at a students own home if required. Please read on to see my musical history.

I began playing guitar in 1988. Like many people I had been interested in playing the guitar for some time but had never done anything about it. I finally took the plunge after seeing a friend playing the acoustic guitar. After borrowing his acoustic for about a month I finally bought my first electric guitar and never looked back.

I formed my first band with friends about 2 years later. I ran this band for the next 10 years through various name and line up changes playing, rock, blues, rock and roll, 60’s soul and reggae covers. The band gigged regularly in the London and Kent area, often playing 2 to 3 times a week. This helped me to develop as a versatile guitarist, as I provided both the lead and rhythm back bone of the band.

During this period I began to teach guitar to a few students, but mainly concentrated on my own playing which had branched out into original projects, as a guitarist in a pop band and as a bass player in a rock band. Both of these bands played in various London venues including The Rock Garden.

From 1996-2000 I was also playing main guitar in a duo covering a wide range of material and gigging throughout London, Essex and Kent. During this time I also started playing the drums, initially just jumping on the kit during breaks at band practices and then gradually taking it more seriously.

In March 2004 having taken a few years out of gigging and teaching, I formed a new band with my old drummer and bass player. We called ourselves Adrenalin Switch and with a new singer have been performing more and more ever since. We cover material from Hendrix, Cream, ZZ Top, Kravitz, Nirvana, Foo Fighters, Metallica and many more! Check out the link for the bands YouTube on the links page!

Having taught guitar to many people over the years in early 2006 I decided to start teaching more seriously. I now regularly teach electric, acoustic and bass guitar lessons from home and also travel to some students. I also started teaching drums in 2008 and now teach either from my home studio or at the students home if prefered.

If you would like more info on my drum lessons please check out my drum lessons website a link for which can be found on the links page. For more info on guitar and bass lessons please check out the rest of this site.

Bringing things up to date as of 2020

In November 2011 having run my band Adrenalin Switch for over 7 years we finally played our last gig at the same local Bromley pub where it had started The Railway Hotel. We had at our peak played 7-8 gigs a week, virtually every Friday and Saturday night, and regularly played to over 100 people at the Railway.

For the next couple of years I focused on my teaching and also helping some of my students with their own bands. In 2014 I decided to get back into live playing and feeling like a change decided to concentrate on drumming this time. I joined a band called Frankhams Flashbacks and played a few gigs with them until they split up in 2015.

After a couple of tries at putting together my own band I finally formed a band called Mark In Time with a couple of my students and one of their friends. At that time they were all aged about 18-19 years old. I had taught one of the students guitar since he was about 12 and the other bass and guitar since he was about 14. The bass players friend was already an accomplished drummer and singer. We played our first official gig together in May 2017 with me swapping from guitar in the first set and changing to drums in the second. The two students played bass and guitar with the bass players friend singing and swapping with me from playing the drums in the first set to playing rhythm guitar in the second.

We played about 18 gigs in 2018 and when the singer left at the start of 2019 I swapped to just playing the drums. At that point we had a female singer join us along with a guitarist. This guitarist then left towards the end of 2019 and my student playing bass then switched to the guitar. Luckily the partner of our female singers was an experienced bass player and he took over the bass playing duties.

We have been playing together with this lineup since then and if you would like to check out the band and maybe see us play please find a link to the bands Facebook and Youtube pages on the links page.

As well as gigging I am still teaching more and more students the guitar, bass and drums so for more information please check out the rest of the website. Thanks for reading and I hope you find the site helpful and interesting.