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Marcus O'Dair is an English writer, musician/manager, broadcaster and lecturer. He is most notable for his work as part of the band Grasscut, described by Clash magazine as "genuinely daring electronica artists". He is also notable for his 2015 biography of musician Robert Wyatt, a book described in the London Review of Books as "fascinating".
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Career
O'Dair works as both a music lecturer and journalist. He is also the author of Different Every Time: the Authorised Biography of Robert Wyatt, which was published by Serpent's Tail and features a foreword by Jonathan Coe. The book was described by The Guardian as "exhaustive and affectionate", and as an "meticulous and vivid account". He co-compiled the accompanying compilation, released by Domino Records.
As a writer, he has written for publications including The Guardian and the Financial Times.
O'Dair is a regular studio guest on The Freakzone (BBC 6 Music) with Stuart Maconie, and in 2015 recorded an essay about swimming in the Lake District for BBC Radio 3.
Along with the songwriter Andrew Phillips, O'Dair is one half of Grasscut, who have previously released two albums on Ninja Tune (1 Inch: 1/2 Mile and Unearth) and a third on Lo Recordings, 2015's Everyone Was A Bird. The band have been described as building their reputation on "writing about situations and places, rather than standard pop songs", with The Quietus reviewing Everyone Was A Bird as "that rare slab of post-rock that uses the genre's textures and general ethos of exploration to create new sounds instead of rehashing old ones".
O'Dair is also a lecturer in Popular Music at Middlesex University.
In 2016 O'Dair co-authored a report on the use of blockchain technology within the music industry titled Music On The Blockchain.
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Muppet1 Inch / ½ Mile · 2010
The Tin Man1 Inch / ½ Mile · 2010
PiecesUnearth · 2012