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Mark Grassick
I'm Mark. I'm from Dublin but now live in London. I've been writing about music, film and TV for a long, long time, the result of a youth misspent in record stores and tiny clubs that smell weird. I've a strange obsession with film scenes set to music, like that bit in Magnolia when everyone sings Wise Up by Aimee Mann.
What would your specialist subject on Mastermind be? The life and times of The Replacements, the best (and drunkest) band on the planet
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