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BIOGRAPHY My name’s Chris, and I’m addicted to making music. That’s why I do it, and I’ve been fortunate enough to have had enough good things happen along the way that I know it’s the thing I need to keep doing. I came to it all quite late at sixteen, having recently become irreparably infatuated with the sweet sound of the Rock Music, and played a lot and got good pretty quickly.Having been self-taught for about four years, I sought some formal training and graduated from what was at the time London’s ‘Musicians’ Institute’ school, with a platinum award. Since then I have made an instructional video (for shred techniques and such), played in cover bands, won Guitarist Magazine’s Guitarist Of The Year contest (back in 2000 – I know “get over it already”), joined the band TEN for six years, during which time I got to be a minor rock star in Japan and play on a goodly number of albums and generally strut around in leather trousers at rock festivals in Europe and what have you. I have also been teaching guitar professionally for about twelve or thirteen years and I had my own band, the Chris Francis Band, for a little while (back in 2003). I’ve also lectured a bit at Thames Valley University on things that I either know a lot about or had thought I did until trying to lecture on them (thankfully, mostly the former). I’ve also toured in the world of musical theatre as a pit musician (in 2007), played a few sessions on commercial albums - as well as library music collections for TV and what-not -, released two solo albums – these got some good reviews (they can be found here and I mostly agree with them) and some bad ones (they can too, and I mostly disagree with them). I have also been sighted playing my little instrumental songs at trade shows (though I’ll not be doing them again, sir. No, sir) and colleges, and I am now working on the start of the next chapter of my musical travails (my life has seen a mouse take up residence in the very hand from which a plectrum was never easily pried in days gone by – and pro-tools screens are now what I see when I close my eyes). It’s all in the name of some very ambitious rock music that I look forward to you being able to hear soon. Thanks for reading. Chris |
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