bio - chris

Chris is the singer.

Chris has played in many diverse bands over the years, including Dark Instinct, George Plays it Cool, Stanley Duke's Statue and The Flow. He has been playing guitar for 10 years and been writing and singing for almost as long. Now a qualified studio engineer, he handles the lonelyband production duties, and says that the new material is by far the best he has ever worked on.

Full Name
Christopher Stephen Dabner

Instrument
Vocals & Guitars

Colour of eyes
Blue

Height
6'

First record you bought
The Michael Jackson Mix- a lame collection of Jackson 5 tunes.

Last record you bought
Machine Head- Through the Ashes of Empires.

Favourite Book
A Cure for Gravity, by Joe Jackson. Every musician MUST read it. Gav hasn’t. Funder hasn’t. And neither has Tarik as far as I know. Pussies.

How many tattoos do you have and where are they?
None. Yet.

in running order, which 5 bands or artists (living or dead) would play at your fantasy festival?
Metallica Radiohead Coldplay Anthrax QOTSA (with Grohl and Oliveri)

What do you eat for breakfast?
Coffee. And some lumps of dough.

Who or what would you most like to be trapped in a lift with?
A fit, naked, desperate female nympho lift engineer. That looks like Tori Amos.

Who or what would you most hate to be trapped in a lift with?
Claustrophobia

Who or what inspires you?
My sad little life, and the sad little things that happen in it.

If you could time travel which era would you go back to and why?
I’d like to go back and see ‘tallica with Cliff. Day on the Green 1985.

If you could have one super power what would it be?
To turn invisible. And back again.

Would you sell your granny for rock & roll?
No, but I’d sell a bit of Rock and Roll for a new Granny.

What gets your goat?
A Goatherder.

What makes you smile?
The muscles in my face.

Once you’ve made your millions where will you retire to?
Back to my studio. To keep on working until my bladder gives out. Then I’ll get a new waterproof studio and keep on working until I drown.

What’s your party trick?
Getting invited to parties in the first place.

If you could ask James Hetfield any question what would it be?
Did you actually bother to rest on the seventh day, or did you just go down the pub?

Favourite Queen song
I believe (in a thing called love).

What can we expect from the lonelyband in 2005?
The best record that an unsigned band has ever made. Seriously.