[4] Clarke began in music in NE Scotland to which his family had finally moved after various spells in Liverpool, Nottingham, Huddersfield and Skipton, when his father was engaged as the Director of Robert Gordon University.
This album rather shows Rob Clarke's strengths, his warm voice and sensitive musicality, coupled with memorable songs that somehow evoke the spirit of Liverpool, and will touch the heart of many, particularly the title track'.
[2] Third album About a Time (2013) contained 'Millican's Green'[12] about the alternative lifestyle of Millican Dalton and was the subject of a BBC Radio Merseyside Folkscene special[6] in which Clarke's song writing motivation and process was explored.
Clarke's recent work with the Wooltones[13] displays a rougher electric edge, once described by Spencer Leigh (BBC Radio Merseyside),[14] as 'Sounds as if you are all spaced and stretched out on the floor' and by Liverpool Gigs as 'Their songs give me traumatic sixties flashbacks and I wasn't even alive then!
[17] They later contributed an electric guitar cover, likened in style to that of The Bevis Frond, of the BBC The Sky at Night theme originally composed by Jean Sibelius to the Fruits de Mer Records release Do Not Adjust Your Set.
[20] Big Night Out also included a bonus disk recorded live in 2017 at St Peter's Church, Woolton, Liverpool at the 60th anniversary celebration of when John Lennon met Paul McCartney, featuring original drummer Colin Hanton of The Quarrymen.
Authenticity and approval are boosted by the presence of original Quarryman Colin Hanton as second drummer... Clarke’s vocals do the business on songs played that day which are delivered faithfully, rocking out and swinging with style.