HEY! Happy new year! If we’re still doing that.

I’m really chuffed to announce my new covers project that I’m planning on peppering 2024 with. In 2023, I had some really strange and slightly turbulent times, and – as ever – music was there to patch me up. I threw myself into a fairly aimless project where I decided to record some covers for an EP, and – as ever – I took it way too far and found myself really enjoying it.

The aim was to do some versions of songs that I’d really loved throughout my life, partly to pay tribute to them, and partly because… well, as a songwriter I’m always trying to up my game, and I thought that getting ‘under the hood’ of some of my favourite tunes might teach me a bit about writing and how those songwriters came up with those ideas and pieced them together.

It was a wonderful learning curve that taught me a bunch of stuff as well as took my mind off a bunch of other stuff. There’s FOUR of these ten-track albums coming to you over the course of the year. The first video came out last week, my cover of the classic ‘Subterranean Homesick Blues’ by Bob Dylan, which you can see here:

So I’m dead excited to share them all with you RIGHT NOW over on my Bandcamp page https://chriscatalyst.bandcamp.com – and, as it’s Bandcamp Friday, for today only ALL of the profits go direct to the artist without any commission.

It’s called ‘Chris’s Kitchen Disco: Vol. 1’ and the first one’s tracklist is:

1. Subterranean Homesick Blues (originally by Bob Dylan)
2. Call Me (originally by Blondie)
3. Up The Junction (originally by Squeeze)
4. Hungry Like The Wolf (originally by Duran Duran)
5. Life’s What You Make it (originally by Talk Talk)

6. Cornflake Girl (originally by Tori Amos)
7. Sweet Dreams My LA Ex (originally by Rachel Stevens)
8. Crazy (originally by Seal)
9. If I Can Dream (originally by Elvis Presley)
10. Please Please Please Let Me Get What I Want (originally by The Smiths)

This is no acoustic album – this is full-bore full-band versions of loads of my favourite songs, some of which you’ll be very familiar with, and some of which you won’t.

Thanks for ALL your support in 2023… here’s to a load more fun in 2024. Speaking of which, tour dates anyone? Coming soon.

Cheers all,
Chris X