Mark McCausland is an Irish songwriter/producer/musician best known for his work as one half of The Lost Brothers. He also produces his own solo material under the name McKowski, and is currently a member of two supergroups: Geckøs, alongside M. Ward and Howe Gelb; and Dead Goat, in which he is joined by Stevie Scullion, Declan McManus and Matt McGinn.

Other regular collaborators include Nick Power (The Coral) and Jolie Holland; and he has also written and recorded with Mark Lanegan, Pulitzer Prize winning poet Paul Muldoon, and Oscar winner Glen Hansard (‘Once’, ‘The Commitments’, The Frames).

More recently, he has gone into film-work, having composed the score for The Spin, a feature length movie that is also based on one of his short stories, and enlisted for that project other musical friends such as Steve Wickham (The Waterboys) and Drew McConnell (Babyshambles).

Having grown up surrounded by music all his life (his mother’s family are from a renowned traditional Irish band, The Moore Family; while on his father’s side, he is a distant relative of Lonnie Donegan!), he relocated to Liverpool at the age of 18, and immediately got signed to Deltasonic Records with his first band, The Basement. In later years he formed The Lost Brothers with Oisín Leech, recording 6 acclaimed albums and travelling the World, before settling back in his home town of Omagh and opening Boneyard Records, the local record shop.

He continues to work from his home studio on the rural outskirts of town, where he runs a writing & recording retreat for fellow artists, but ventures into Belfast on a weekly basis to host his own ‘Speakeasy’ night – McKowski Café - at the Harrison Hotel.