Mark Roberts was born on November 3, 1969 in Llanrwst, Wales, UK. During his teenage years, he sing and played the guitar in the Welsh band, Y Cyrff. He then meet Cerys Matthews and formed Catatonia along with Paul Jones. He claimed for a a number of years that he had stumbled across Matthews busking in Cardiff and offered her a guitar string she was missing, which led to them playing together, but in actual fact they were ina long term relationship and cohabiting when they formed the band. Their split eneded their songwriting partnership and subsequently Roberts was resonsible for much of the band's lyrcial output. In Catatonia, Mark only played guitar and provided the backing vocals. After Catatonia, Mark did a spell of producing and formed (with Paul Jones and John Griffiths and Kevs Ford of LLwybr LLaethog), Sherbet Antlers. November 3 is the 307th day of the year (308th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 58 days remaining. ... 1969 was a common year starting on Wednesday (the link is to a full 1969 calendar). ... Llanrwst (pronounced approximately hlanROOST) is a small town and Community on the A470 road and the River Conwy in the county borough of Conwy, traditional county of Denbighshire, north Wales. ... National motto: Cymru am byth (Welsh: Wales for ever) Waless location within the UK Official languages English(100%), Welsh(20. ... Y Cyrff were a popular Welsh language band in the 1980s. ... Cerys Matthews (born April 11, 1969 in Cardiff, Wales, UK) was the lead singer of the band Catatonia. ... Catatonia were a popular music band from Wales that gained a national following in the United Kingdom in the mid-late 1990s. ...