Punch performing live with Jackie Bristow.
Mark Punch is an Australian-born American guitarist, singer, songwriter, and producer who has performed as a backing vocalist and occasional musician on several Wiggles albums. He is currently based in Nashville, Tennessee as of 2016, and has won the 2011 Golden Guitar Award for Musician of the Year.
Punch's musical career first started in the 1970s, working with Renée Gayer as a member of R&B band Mother Earth and on some of her subsequent solo albums. He has served as a touring and session musician for various other Australian artists such as Tim Finn, Slim Dusty, Beccy Cole, Troy Cassar-Daley, Jimmy Barnes, Kasey Chambers, and former Wiggle Sam Moran among many others.
In 2007, he performed with New Zealand born American singer-songwriter Jackie Bristow on her album Crazy Love, establishing a long-term musical partnership with Bristow that still lasts to this day.
Album Credits[]
- Toot Toot! - Backing Vocals
- Yummy Yummy (North American reissue) - Backing Vocals
- It's a Wiggly Wiggly World! - Backing Vocals
- Let's Wiggle - Backing Vocals
- Yule Be Wiggling - Vocals, Backing Vocals
- Hoop-Dee-Doo it's a Wiggly Party - Vocals, Backing Vocals
- Wiggly Safari - Guitar, Backing Vocals
- Santa's Rockin'! - Backing Vocals, Guitar
- Sailing Around the World - Backing Vocals, Guitar
- Dorothy the Dinosaur's Rockin' Christmas - Backing Vocals (archived recordings)
- Surfer Jeff - Backing Vocals (archived recordings)
- Pumpkin Face - Musician, Backing Vocals (archived recordings)
- Go Santa Go! - Musician (archived recordings)
Trivia[]
- While Punch did not write any original songs with the Wiggles, the song "Heading in the Right Direction", which he co-wrote with Garry Paige, was briefly performed by King Mondo in Space Dancing!.