First album review:
“With Another Violet Night Mark Sheeky stands like an Easter Island head on the Cheshire Plain, a conduit of the passing ages but placed in the 21st century here and now. Songs to see you through, a flood of media and gadgets which define the now, to whistle defiantly as the familiar powers that be play on our paranoia.
On that windswept Cheshire Plain the sounds of Syd Barret, Depeche Mode, the Penguin Café and John Taverner, travelled the airwaves to the stone edifice of Mark Sheeky who was listening and absorbing nuances, gathering, mixing and adding his own identity.
Here are tunes and words to give courage in the predicament of a cruelly evolving world where defence comes in the form of show tunes and music hall with synth beats to accompany the disco of disaster.
In this instance the show tunes are an insight into the creative process where this is, the Mark Sheeky show.”
Peter Lilley, Nov 2025
