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Name & Nickname |
Chris ‘ Bamber’ Bainbridge |
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Date and Place of Birth |
6th March 1974. Bolton, Lancashire |
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Instrument/s |
Bass guitar. Rhythm guitar. Vocals. Keyboards. |
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Current Band |
None. Living in London. Running own website and contributing to Link2Wales from time to time. |
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Previous Bands by year |
1991-1993 – Sympathy Jones (Vocals/bass) 1994-1995 – Stale Elvis (Bass) 1995-1997 – Slouch (Bass/bk. vocals) 1996 – Perry (Bass/bk. vocals) 1996 – Lemon Sole (Bass/bk. vocals) 1996 – 1997 – Slide (Bass/bk. vocals) 1997 – 1998 – Supermania (Bass/bk. vocals) 1998 – Sons of Selina (Bass/bk. vocals) 1998 – 1999 – Pocket Venus (Rhythm guitar/keyboards/bk. vocals) |
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Instrument of choice |
Rickenbacker 4003 Bass |
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Favourite Gig Played |
Penrhos College (500 screaming teenage girls. Oh yes) |
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Favourite Venue Played |
Tivoli, Buckley |
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First Gig Played |
The Greenlawns Hotel, Colwyn Bay. 1991 |
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Trivia |
The name ‘Bamber’ was given to Chris by Pocket Venus bassist Naldo due to the amount of useless information he used to come up with. Chris organised and staged a charity gig at the Arcadia Theatre in Llandudno. Bands featured included an embryonic Frank’s Dad and PSST. £200 of damage was caused and subsequently not a penny of the takings went to charity. The gig was the last show to be performed before the Arcadia closed its doors for the last time in 1992. Chris was a founder member of Pocket Venus along with Chris Yates, Naldo Algieri and Steve Jones. Chris once turned down a job working for V2 records in London cause he couldn’t be arsed making the hour long journey every day. |
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Most Memorable Event |
‘We (Pocket Venus) played at the Red Eye in London; it was a good gig with a good audience including Mark from Catatonia, Jon Lee from Feeder and Matt Priest from Dodgy. After the gig we hung out with them, I think Naldo has a picture of it somewhere.’ |
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