Mark Jones

Mark has hosted countless events: he’s always spontaneous, quick-witted and totally professional. He has appeared in numerous prestigious venues such as The House of Lords-Westminster; Macau-China; Berlin-Germany; Geneva-Switzerland; Gdansk-Poland; Kuala Lumpur-Malaysia; Lisbon-Portugal; Cyprus, Chicago-USA, etc… this list keeps growing.

Mark has unrivalled experience as one of the UK’s top radio presenters. He made his name at Liverpool’s Radio City during their illustrious heyday, where he regularly interviewed the likes of Michael Jackson, Phil Collins, Madonna, Ozzy Osbourne (and Sharon), Peter Gabriel and Lionel Richie; he’s a Sony® award-winner for his hosting of Michael Jackson’s record-breaking Aintree Racecourse concert (the ‘Biggest Solo Concert in History’), where he entertained the crowd of over 125,000 all day from the stage. Regularly voted UK radio’s ‘Presenter of The Month’, Mark has also received accolades from the Variety Club of Great Britain, where he’s a He also covered Manchester United’s, Glasgow Celtic and Liverpool FC’s pre-season American tours for UK radio.

After several years broadcasting on the Century Radio networks (now Smooth), Mark returned to host a daily networked programme on Magic, and was also heard on Manchester’s Magic 1152 (formerly Piccadilly Radio) too.

In 2001, Mark was much too close (just a few blocks away) from New York’s Twin Towers during the 9/11 terrorist attacks. He spent the rest of the day as a Salvation Army volunteer helping First Responders and Emergency Services. For the rest of that week, he reported ‘live’ from Ground Zero for UK radio.

Mark has even spread his experienced wings (and tonsils) to America, featuring on radio stations W-E-F-T and Q-96 in Champaign, Illinois, where he hosted the American Heart Association’s black-tie fundraising gala dinners, helping to raise record-breaking amounts in the auctions.

Not restricting his talents to just radio and live events, Mark has also written several books, including the best-selling ‘Mark Jones’ Birthday Book’, which became the definitive UK reference book.

He recently appeared on GB News talking about his long career in radio and some of his event highlights; he’s also appeared in TV’s ‘Cold Feet’, ‘The Forsyte Saga’ and ‘Clocking Off’.