Birth name Graeme Clark Instruments Bass guitarVocals Occupation(s) BassistSongwriter Role Musician | Genres Pop Name Graeme Clark Years active 1982 - Present | |
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Born 15 April 1965 (age 58) ( 1965-04-15 ) Movies Wet Wet Wet: Playing Away at Home Albums Wet Wet Wet: The Greatest, Popped In Souled Out, Wet Wet Wet: Live at the Royal, End of Part One: Their Greatest, High on the Happy Side | ||
Music group Wet Wet Wet (Since 1982) | ||
Graeme Clark is a Scottish musician, songwriter and record producer. He came to prominence as bass player, founder member and songwriter from the pop/soul band Wet Wet Wet – the band he formed with friends and fellow band members Neil Mitchell, Tommy Cunningham and Marti Pellow whilst attending Clydebank High School.
The band signed to Polygram Records in 1985 and their debut single – "Wishing I was Lucky" was an immediate hit along with the album "Popped In Souled Out". He performs as a solo artist. He released his debut album ("Mr Understanding"; 2012), and has since released three more eps ("Solitary Soul", "Catching Fire 2013", "Dry Land 2014"). In recent years Graeme has toured extensively playing solo acoustic shows around the UK.
Career
Graeme Clark was born in a suburb of Clydebank on 15 April 1965. He got his first electric guitar at the age of 10 but admits that his first and abiding interest was in bass playing citing the music of West Side Story, along with Simon and Garfunkel among his early musical memories. During his teenage years Graeme grew to love the music of The Beatles, The Clash, Simon and Garfunkel and then fell for Memphis & Philadelphia soul with the work of Teddy Predergast, The O'Jays and The Isley Brothers all having a special focus.
Clark was a founder member of Wet Wet Wet. The band released a series of 30 hit singles, including three number ones, and released eight albums to date. Wet Wet Wet split in 1997 when Marti Pellow and Tommy Cunningham both left the band for different reasons. The group have since reformed.
As well as Wet Wet Wet, Clark has worked with Chic and collaborated with Nile Rodgers. He started writing solo music for a film, Shoreditch (Malcolm Needs, 2002) starring among others, Shane Ritchie.
Under his own name, Clark penned two songs for a Bollywood movie soundtrack – American Daylight (Roger Christian, 2004). During 2004, he collaborated with James Fox although none of the work was released. In 2010, Clark began working on new songs for his own use and in July 2011, Clark released his first solo EP, "Solitary Soul", recorded both at his home studio, and at the Foundry Music Lab outside Glasgow. At this time Graeme also played his first solo show in Oran Mor, Glasgow along with shows at a number of UK cities later in the year. Graeme's first album, Mr Understanding, was released in February 2012 and another tour followed in April.
In 2012, Clark performed in the Wilfred Owen musical, Bullets and Daffodils at the Jermyn Street Theatre.