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Mark Kermode
BBC Music Magazine
|September 2025
Film Critic, Broadcaster
One of the most trusted names in cinema criticism, Mark Kermode is known to millions thanks to his popular radio and podcast double-act with Simon Mayo. Also a talented double bassist, he performs regularly with his band The Dodge Brothers. His new book on film music, Mark Kermode's Surround Sound, is out on 11 September.
When I was a kid I wanted to be a pop star or a film critic, and when I was at school I built an electric guitar; it was meant to take a couple of months but ended up taking two years! I played it in bands, but I was never very good at it. I studied piano a little bit, and I'd failed grade four French horn spectacularly, so I decided I wasn't going to do more formal music training.
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