Chris Childs Interview from SE Bass Bash November 2025 - We were there...

[Sean]

 

This was a fabulous day out and one of the many highlights was @Mike Brooks doing this interview with Chris Childs. 

 

It’s a very insightful chat and even if you’re not that familiar with Chris’ work and extensive resume, it’s fascinating and very funny in places. Very enjoyable watching. 

[Mike Brooks]

Thank you sir, appreciate it! Nice one!

[Owen]

Ooh ooh ooh. I have a Chris Childs story! As he moved up the ladder, he left a vacant spot with a Cardiff based Theatre Company which were pushing forward the boundries of theatre as we then knew it. They were called Brith Gof. With substantial Arts Council funding. I have no idea how my name came up. I lived 5 hours away at the other end of Wales. Anyway, they were writing their next production (8 way sound system on 40 foot scaff towers in one of the Harland and Wolf shipyard buildings). One player on each tower and a joystick to pan us to anywhere while the audience were pounded by waves of sound. They were also dodging earth and chalk dust. While the performers flew in on harnesses.

 

I was sent a cassette of what Chris had put down. It was a fretless concerto. I immediately knew that I was WAY out of my depth and my time with them would last the 10 minutes it took for the MD to realise I was not Chris and never would be Chris. 

 

Astonishingly I was kept on. If you ever read this Chris, cheers! I had a lot of fun. 

[Misdee]

Thanks for posting this, I'm a big fan of Chris's playing going back to the days when I didn't know who he was, or indeed that it was Chris playing the bass parts I was so enamoured of. We take it for granted in the internet age that you can find out who played what for whom, but it wasn't always that way.

 

I remember seeing Chris on TV playing his Status five string live with Go West back when five strings were still a novelty, and I always loved the bass on this track :

 

I had assumed it was Pino, especially as the band were from Cardiff, but it was in fact Chris Childs. Only took me about thirty years to find out by accident!