Introducing the band

Hello to anyone crazy enough to be actually reading this nonsense torn from the minds of two boys who really should find something better to talk about.  Welcome to the Two Stroke Blog.

A few things to clear up before we continue, and to save time explaining later.

What is Two Stroke?

Two Stroke, or Two Stroke Productions, or Two Stroke TV

or even twostroke.tv is the brainchild of Patrick Charlton (that's him) and Marc Burrows (that's me), University chums, flat mates, colleagues and partners in a very heterosexual way. Two Stroke is a production company aiming to make amazing music based television and web content that is completely in sync with the way we consume music and media, both in new and old ways.  We make music videos, music based TV programmes and radio.  We also have a vague hankering to branch out into comedyand a million other of the facets of popular culture that fascinate us.

What is Fuzzed?

Fuzzed is the principle project of Two Stroke, at least for the moment.  A music television show synced into a profile website, aimed at bringing down the boundaries between musicians and their fans. 

Bands and music fans can upload their profiles and discover and swap music and videos.  Band's videos are voted on weekly, and the the vote determines the stars of next weeks show.

Every week we film a show, filming a band on stage and backstage, giving them and thier fans cameras and letting the stories unfold.

Fuzzed should kick of this year, with luck and skill (and money) and will be preceded by a club night, which will herald its coming, a bit like John the Baptists, or the Silver Surfer.

Who Are Pat and Marc?

Pat and Marc met at University where they stumbled into the University radio station, LCR1350, and almost immediately started making the most irreverent and exciting student radio ever. In their second year they were given the Breakfast Show, which quickly become the best student Breakfast Show ever.  In their third year they got the drive time show. It quickly became the best student drive time show ever.

Around this time Pat was elected co-station manager and promptly licked LCR into a genuinely competitive and exciting real world radio station with non of the student radio tat you normally get. Unfortunately this hasn't lasted, and since Pat relinquished control it has taken the station years to get back to the ammatureish and overly beauracratic geek fest it was before he came along.

Meanwhile Marc was elected Editor of the Student magazine.  He nearly got arrested after his first issue told students to steal things, and it went downhill from there.  What followed was a weekly delivery of excitingly designed spelling mistakes intended to be the best possible companion to student life.  Opinion was divided but Marc was proud, as was his team of good looking hand picked sub editors.

By this point Pat and Marc were sharing a house. This quickly became the most exciting student house ever.

Presently the pair were picked to host the only English speaking radio show at the Roskilde festval. They designed a show intended to be the best Festival Radio show ever to be hosted by two english Students in Denmark. They spent hours devising brilliant features and exciting concepts. Then Marc went off on tour for a week to play bass with his band, had his passport stolen and couldn't go. Pat went on his own and the resulting show won awards in both the UK and Denmark.  Pat would go back and do the show every year, Marc so far has only managed to make it once.

Cut to the present day, and having been firm friends and partners in infamy for nigh on 6 years, Pat and Marc live together (in seperate rooms, no funny business. We're not Burt and Ernie or Morcambe and Wise.) in a West London basement flat where they continue their plots for media domination.  Over the last year they have taken Two Stroke and Fuzzed projects to the Edinburgh TV festival, to Denmark and to Austin Texas, they have met with suits, and hung around with sweaty band types. Something hugely unlikely happens to them at least once a week.

When not conquering the world of media on their own, Pat and Marc have other jobs.  Marc books gigs for comedians as a promotions assistant for Avalon, the countries biggest comedy agency and writes articles, while Patrick presses buttons for BBC Radio.  

Together they will one day rule the world.  Or at least the cool bits.