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About Me

I'm Chris. Venners to my mates. Christopher to my mum. Christophe to some. Christo to nobody. I used to play guitar for Bristol band The Cuban Heels.I love music more than anything else in the world. Truly.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 21/11/2006
Band Members: venners
Influences: MyGen Profile GeneratorInspirations MUSIC: My Morning Jacket, Tom Waits, Townes Van Zandt, The Lemonheads, Pavement, The Flaming Lips, Television, Charlie Patton, Jellyfish, Big Star, The Clash, The Pogues, Fugazi, Led Zep, Bowie, The Stones, The Band, JJ Cale, Smog, The Black Keys, Neil Young, PJ Harvey, Eels, Brian Wilson, Nirvana, Cap'n Beefheart, Clearlake, Dylan, Gram, Rage, The Shins, Jason Spaceman, Sufjan Stevens, Ben Folds Five, Leadbelly, Weezer, Arcade Fire, Deerhoof and one or two thousand others . . . Inspirations GUTIAR: Marc Ribot, Kurt Cobain, Stephen Malkmus, Robert Cray, John Frusciante, Hendrix, Keef, Neil Young and anyone else who plays the dirty wrong notes from their soul and not the clean right notes from their fingers.
Sounds Like:Here Beside You
Record Label: Unsigned

My Blog

Live music

Been down the Windmill in Brixton a couple of times recently.  It's always been my favourite thing to go to pub type venues and watch up and coming / going nowhere bands.  All the time I was...
Posted by on Wed, 30 May 2007 07:00:00 GMT

Aubade

As I still had space on the page I thought I'd whack up an experimental tune. It's basically 6 channels of guitar feedback. It sounded enormous and ethereal turned way up. The name is ripped off of...
Posted by on Wed, 11 Apr 2007 09:03:00 GMT

London

 I've moved to Clapham.Will probably take some time to get sorted- music may be on hold for a couple of weeks.I know that comes as a blow to all my fans. 
Posted by on Tue, 20 Feb 2007 03:48:00 GMT

Atheism (part 2)

I'm not completely convinced (by Atheism).  To me it's still inexplicable how anything at all exists.  It's a lot more plausible to me than any religion tho.I thought not reaching a conclusion would m...
Posted by on Mon, 19 Feb 2007 03:47:00 GMT

Atheism.

Both my first two tunes I've posted are quite downbeat. Sorry. It's to do with the fact that I'm reading the Blind Watchmaker at the moment and although I've never really believed in God, the thought ...
Posted by on Mon, 29 Jan 2007 16:17:00 GMT