caption website associated_acts article_title background birth_date instrument genre image origin name
mark . jackson live at starlite room , edmonton 2006 -lsb- http://www.vnvnation.com/ www.vnvnation.com -rsb- vnv nation mark jackson -lrb- musician -rrb-
 non_vocal_instrumentalist 10 may 1970 drums , keyboards futurepop , synthpop , trance , ebm , electro-industrial mark-jackson . jpg essex , england mark jackson
mark jackson -lrb- musician -rrb-

mark jackson is a member of futurepop duo vnv nation , along with ronan harris .
he is responsible for electronic drums , percussion and live keyboards .
he is also established as a professional club dj and remix artist .
in addition to his work with vnv nation , mark has been involved in numerous artistic collaborations with other musicians and producers in the electronic music scenes .
notably including vocal work with rotersand , reaper , oliver huntemann and the parallel project as well as live work and guest appearances with acts including combichrist , straftanz , apoptygma berzerk and kloq .
mark originates from essex , england and worked as a software developer , internet programmer and web designer for compuserve , msn and microsoft .
he played drums and keyboards as part of the electronic duo manzero -lrb- 1991-1993 -rrb- and was vocalist and front-man for faith regime -lrb- 1993-1995 -rrb- before becoming a full-time musician with vnv nation in 1996 .
he now lives in south-west france in the basque country region .
a hobby of his is raising tarantulas .
