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Having started playing piano in local pubs at the age of 16 in what was then home, the Peak District, Chris decided to point his thumb in the direction of London in the mid 80s most notably to end up regularly performing in the bar of George Best’s nightclub in Mayfair. Transferring to the international pianobar circuit of Scandinavia in 1985 Chris toured as a solo artiste living mostly in Sweden for a total of 7 years before finally realising there was perhaps more to music and the world than “play it again, Sam” and another one-pub Swedish town, respectively.

7 further years of full time touring thus ensued at overseas resorts and Cruise Ships, including aboard the Cunard QE2 as part of the covers band Spangle, as well as long-term residencies for the Hilton and Sheraton hotel chains in Turkey, UAE, China, Israel and Morocco. There was also a season completed at Pontins in Prestatyn, Wales, and Chris has even had the pleasure to have played “within earshot” of HM Queen Elizabeth herself – although this wasn’t at Pontins, apparently. Performances were occasionally leading a 5-piece band but more usually as the male half of the Lounge Duo, Body & Soul, who infamously had their World Cruise in 1996 aboard the M/S Sagafjord somewhat abruptly aborted due to a debilitating engine room fire several hundred miles off the Philippine coast. What a way to get fired, I guess (!). In 1999 however he decided to quit the travelling and packed the keyboards away to embark on the ultimate and most challenging appointment to date, something known as fatherhood …

As soon as the kids had grown out of the nappy stage there was a year or so as the keys player with function group The Basement Band in East Anglia, prior to moving the family over to Towcester in 2003. Musical semi-retirement finally took its toll by 2007, however, hence a return to regular Sunday lunchtime classic piano performances at Whittlebury Hall, and even the Northampton Hilton.

The Pink Floyd tribute band Time To Breathe (quite renowned for their impressive laser light show) also beckoned last year, and moving forward in 2008 Chris now plays an integral part of this exciting showcase band, on a part-time basis, incorporating all styles of dynamic keyboard performances.

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