Tom Clarke

Tom Clarke, otherwise known as Sparkles* (born March 17, 1988), is the lead singer and keytar player for the Bristol-based rock band Area 11 and one of the two band members working at the YogTowers, the other being Alex Parvis. He works at the YogTowers as a music and video production manager.

Sprinkles* is Sparkles* female persona.

Quotes

 * Sparkles*: "I can't remember how do you make mushroom soup." Turpster: "Put the mushrooms above the bowl." Sparkles*: "Yeah, but that's what I did... maybe it's to surround a bowl with mushrooms? Or maybe just a singular mushroom but surrounded with several bowls."
 * "You know what, Turps? There's really not much chance of me surviving much longer, so...I've got this ender pearl, I might as well go out on my own terms. (Throws the Ender Pearls) Goodbye, cruel woooooorld!"
 * "Ooh, who's the real king of sparkles? It's me." (After killing Captain Sparkles)
 * "He's probably gonna try and run awa- no, he's not, he's coming for me. C'mon Panda, let's go!"
 * "Now the question is, there's a creeper over there. I could use this enderpearl to try and get high, but the last time I tried to use an enderpearl in this game, I *blows up* fuck... fuck..." Parv: "Wow..." Sparkles*: "...fuck." Parv: "...wow..."
 * Sparkles*: "I really, really like J-Rock... yeah"
 * "Parv, why are you so great, I am such a noob"
 * [During Martyn and Turps' Just Dance 4 session] "Oh my god, I'm so hard."
 * "Thank you guys, for making our dreams a reality... Don't quote me on that!"
 * "That changed my life," [After Sjin's cover of I Believe In A Thing Called Love]
 * "Because I'm a Bastard"

Trivia

 * Sparkles* hasn't personally revealed his name, but it was first revealed by Parv in 11 Minutes with Area 11 Volume 1.
 * People often mistake Sparkles* for CaptainSparklez, a popular American YouTube gamer, for obvious reasons.
 * Sparkles* appeared in The Survival Games series and was partnered with Turpster. He also appeared in Crown Conquest, with Parvis.
 * Sparkles* is an anime fanboy, along with Martyn and Strippin. Sparkles* has stated that he enjoys Sword Art Online, but it is far from being his favourite.
 * He has an account on this wiki: Ghostofsparkles.
 * During the Christmas livestreams of December 2012 Tom formed team Sparkles* a group of programmers who he met on twitter. Team Sparkles* made many overlays and counters which were later put on the livestream.
 * He is a Renowned Smooth Jazz Deployer, deploying smooth jazz at 11:30 sharp every night during the 2012 Christmas Charity Livestream
 * He admited on the Yogscast Christmas livestream 10/12/2012 admited that he thought Euphemia sounded better sped up and that when his voice was sped up he sounded like a hot chick.
 * Sprinkles* is his female alterego.
 * It is also a newly revealed fact that Sparkles* only owns stripey jumpers.
 * He is a huge fan of t-shirts with cassettes on them.
 * He has a sister called Katy.
 * He is known as Sparkles* to pretty much everyone he knows, and uses his birth name only on official documents and by very select friends.
 * He recently reveald on tumblr that he is ...'Forever alone' (after a fan asked if he was single).
 * He had a small band before Area 11 which was called Ghost Cassette.
 * He is the only person in the office with a tattoo. His tattoo is a ghost with a cassette over the face. (It was the same as one of the covers for his old band Ghost Cassette. The EP was called Obsolete.)
 * Sparkles* won 5 Yognaught Choice Awards. He won in catagories like Best singer, Best smile and Choise Tumblr. (He and Sips both won the most of all which was 5 each).
 * Sparkles* plays an AX-Synth (keytar).