Chris is a very experienced and well-travelled performer. He started playing the concertina at five years old and then quickly moved onto the guitar.

By his mid teens, he was playing regularly on the pub and club circuit in the midlands. At the age of eighteen after finishing Music College, he went into the entertainment business and got a job at Kiln Park.

At Kiln Park, he supported acts such as the Searchers, Edwin Star and the Drifters, sometimes joining them on stage for jams. He then took part in an established show, The Blues Brothers that travelled around the south coast playing theatres, entertainment centres and other events in front of audiences ranging from three hundred to fifteen hundred people. The show ran for six nights a week for nine months.

He was then offered a job with the Debbie Angel variety show. After this he played the part of Frankie Avalon in the Musical, Grease.

It was at this time time Chris decided to start a new act with a lifelong friend and musician James Hickman. They formed The Badgers and have had many successful performances since.