MULLIT - Darren Biography

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Darren "Tagman" Taggart - Lead Guitar

It’s 6th August 1985. Madonna’s Into the Groove was number one, President Forbes Burnham of Guyana dies and under a full moon in Barts Hospital I was born. I grew up in the City of London, one of four with a fairly musical upbringing. I got my first guitar on my eleventh birthday, it was one of those little black Encore numbers from Argos and it became my favorite toy.

I started guitar lessons at school and carried them all the way through, taking on GCSE music and drums lessons to boot. I’d also started gigging in a few different bands in school and outside school in youth clubs and Scout halls, I’d grown to love the buzz of playing and gigging and decided to enroll on a music course at my local college. By now I had moved to Bromley and had joined my first circuit band, who I continued to play with for the following seven years.

I completed the course to a high enough standard to enroll at the Brighton Institute of Modern Music on the Higher Diploma, I met and played with many well known and well respected musicians of a high standard who influenced me as a guitarist and as a musician in general. I graduated with a high level pass and returned to Bromley, eager to broaden my experience of working in music in general.

The following five years I spent working in as many different roles within the music industry as I could get including promoting, live and studio engineering, session work, DJing, stage crewing and even teaching Music Technology A Level at two local secondary schools. Some of the work took me all around the country and involved meeting and working with many different musicians from many different backgrounds from teenagers with dreams of ‘making it’ to established artists who have sold millions of albums at venues holding 50 people to more than 50’000 at festival stages. All while gigging the London circuit with my own band.

In mid 2009 I had come to the conclusion that the band I was a part of had run it’s course and left to join Mullit. The caliber of musicianship in the band is unreal, it’s a pleasure to play with such talented musicians and the fact that they’re all top blokes just adds to it. I put everything I’ve got into every show I play and I have no intention of letting that slip, the day I do is the day I should probably give up.

Thanks for reading, Peace.

Darren