Former Adam Ant bassist isn’t ruling out a reunion with the dandy highwayman.
Next year marks 40 years of the star’s classic debut solo LP ‘Friend or Foe’, Marking Chris’ bass debut with Adam and featuring the hits ‘Goody Two Shoes’, ‘Friend or Foe’ and ‘Desperate But Not Serious’.
Reflecting on the milestone while promoting his latest project – the One Thousand Motels album ‘Get In Where You Fit In’, Chris tells Retro Pop he “wouldn’t be surprised” if the singer’s making plans already.
“There might be [something in the pipeline],” he hints. “Adam’s sort of off-the-cuff, you know. Sometimes he’ll surprise you and call out of the blue.
“He just says, ‘Hi, it’s Adam. Meet me, eight o’clock, at blah blah blah… this is what we’re doing Chrissy boy.’
“It’s a bit like that, so I wouldn’t be surprised,” muses Chris, before adding, “At the same time, it doesn’t bother me if it doesn’t happen.
“He’s got a new bunch of people around him [and] it’s weird, because I listened to it, and I thought, ‘It sounds so professional. They sound even better than we sounded’.”
He explains: “But it’s not got that sort of reality to it. You know when you watch a movie on a big screen and it’s really clear and it’s like, ‘Oh, I just wanted a little more grit in it…’
“That real feel is missing from it,” he says, insisting: “That’s not a criticism. I’m just saying that, when I listened to it, it sounded so good!”
Chris joined Adam’s band as bass player and backing vocalist in 1982 and also played on the ‘Vive Le Rock’ album. He remained with the band for three years, departing in 1985.
Recorded between London, Memphis and Palm Springs, his latest project ‘Get In Where You Fit In’ is the second album from One Thousand Motels and is released April 30.
