The Band - All the info you never wanted to know!
Kris Barnett
Instrument: Vocals & acoustic guitar
Began playing: 1994
Guitars: Tanglewood acoustic with Artec Blender fitted, one soft Dunlop flat pick!, and one 6 year old pair of
vans trainers!
Musical influences:
Paul Weller, Shane McGowan, Paul Rodgers, Caleb Followill, Alcohol, Peter Green,
Mick Hucknall (for having guts, or sheer brass neck, to grow ginger hair!), and Elvis Costello.
Top 3 albums:
My answer to this would change from day to day!
- Dummy - Portishead
- Disraeli Gears - Cream
- Pronounced Leh-Nerd Skin-Nerd - Lynyrd Skynyrd
- or
- Wild Wood - Paul Weller
- Blow Up! - James Taylor Quartet
- Solid Air - John Martyn
Most memorable gig:
The Beastie Boys - T in the Park (1998). Up to our knees in mud, soaked to the skin,
smacked on the back of the head with a beer bottle, then suddenly “Sabatage” kicks in...hairs on the back of the neck were well and truely erect!
Any other comments: “To all those folks who chuck pints of beer at gigs, Stop it! What a waste of booze! Get pints of water to throw. There are alcoholics in some third world countries who could get wasted for a week on the drink wasted at some gigs. Please spare a thought for those less fortunate.”