Audio addict, drummer, promoter, label boss and general all round nice guy. Whether he is performing under his Disco alias of CONAN THE SELECTOR or as one half of electronic act ARCADE 82 or even if he is dropping House Classics under MARK PICKUP you can be sure he will have a massive smile under that beard and so will everyone on the dance floor.

He has recently shared the stage with such industry heavy weights as Dimitri From Paris, Joris Voorn, Art Department, Sasha, Miguel Campbell, Basement Jaxx, David Morales, Maceo Plex, Crazy P, Pete Tong, Soul II Soul, Yousef, Roger Sanchez, Groove Armada, 2ManyDJs, James Zabielia, The Script, Brand New Heavies, to name a small few.

2011 was very kind to him - closing Faithless's last ever international gig, infront of 15,000 people on the Sandance beach at Atlantis Hotel on the palm Dubai and secondly was playing main stage at Creamfields Abu Dhabi. 2013 was also huge which included one of his biggest gigs to date - playing immediately after Jamiroquai at Sandance in front of 12,000 people and then the month after playing Creamfields Abu Dhabi with Disclosure, The Prodigy and many more.

He has been fortunate to have played his music in Las Vegas, Miami, Ibiza, Paris, Madrid, Los Angeles, Mauritius, India, Russia and all over the Middle East and the UK.

Mark is also part of electronic act ARCADE 82, they are signed to such labels as Toolroom, D-Vine, King Street NY, Sleazy Deep, Night Vibes, Spirit Soul Records, Deepalma to name a very small few. They opened for The Chemical Brothers at the Abu Dhabi F1 post race concerts at the Du Arena infront of 18,000 people and then went on to do a tour of Russia straight after it. In the summer of 2017 they were honored to have been asked to play at the legendary Cafe Del Mar in Ibiza and did an amazing live sunset gig there. Mark is about to re-launch Arcade 82 with a new band member and fresher deeper sound later in 2020 so watch this space as his most successful musical project to date is about to resuscitated after a 2 year absence from the scene.

Mark is also co-label boss and A&R of Hot Gorilla Records, a joint project with his long time musical buddy Andy Buchan. Their first two releases made Top 10 on Juno were they were asked to do a live stream on their platform during lockdown and they have so far had some credible remixers on board including Fingerman, Chewy Rubs, Cuz Electric to name a small few and support from Greg Wilson, Derek Kaye, Craig Charles, PBR Streetgang which for a brand new project is a great accolade at this early stage of the label.