KR Music - Steve Lyon & Chris Lea

Chris is guitar player, songwriter/composer and music teacher working in a number of schools in South East London. Chris currently performs as half of Folk/Acoustic Roots duo Eggibred with Stephen Skey and is working with Steve Lyon on a number of projects including Movie Moments and the forthcoming Christmas Moments album.

Chris was born on the top of Shooters Hill in South East London. Luckily there was a maternity hospital there at the time. It is an area steeped in history: The original Roman Road of Watling Street, Henry VIII riding up to take part in May Day Robin Hood pageants, highwaymen like Dick Turpin, and near to where Chaucer got mugged twice - sorry Chaucer.

He caught the guitar bug at 14 and it's been all down hill from then on. His first gig in a band was with Mr Skey at the age of 16, while they were both at the London Nautical School. Chris then went on to play in a function band, rock bands, a bluegrass band, 'on his tod', and succession of duos, before giving up regular gigging. More recent musical exploits have included a few medieval banquets as Sir Chris the Balladeer; The DOABOS Band (Dog On A Bit Of String Band) formed with Peter Bundell, along with Mr Skey and some fabulous students and teachers from Blackfen School; writing and performing an electronic music piece at Goldsmiths College; playing banjo with Dartford Symphony Orchestra, and performing as half of the duo White Sands with Steve Lyon.

Being married to a manipulative Brownie Leader, (Sorry Tina, he made me say it!) He was often called upon to do his 'Artist In Residence' bit on pack holidays: making kites, Disney characters, space ships etc with about a thousand scary brownies. (Well it seemed like a thousand). In doing so he would be getting away from a busy life to the freedom of the great outdoors, lured by pack holiday cooking including eggy bread. Hence the name of the duo - EGGIBRED.

Chris is an Associate of the London College of Music and has taught guitar since 1990. In recent years he decided to pursue music more as a career which resulted in him gaining a degree in Music in 2008.

Recordings with Eggibred include: contributing music to the film Tea Time, about a year in the life of the Blackheath Tea Hut (2007), www.teatimemovie.com and contributing songs to the albums Seaside Folk, Summer Folk and Winter Folk (2009), www.talkingelephant.co.uk

Eggibred is about to release the album Postcard from the Eggs, again, through Talking Elephant Music. He is also writing and recording material for a music narrative based on stories of smuggling in Kent in the 18th century. Also of course working with Steve Lyon on the Movie Moments & Christmas Moments albums.