Chris Catalyst

My name is Chris, i’m and independent musician from Leeds in the UK. I did a cover of The Smiths’ classic Please Please Please Let Me Get What I Want last month for a covers thing on my Bandcamp. You can get the studio version over there - chriscatalyst.bandcamp.com. I love this song. Oh, and it’s #BandcampFriday, innit. Loads of stuff reduced today for you. For fans of #TheSmiths / @Johnny Marr Official / #TheSmithsCovers / #AceTunes / #SingersWhoHaveGoneReallyWeird / #fyp

Me new covers album is out today. Music once again is the greatest thing ever. Pick it up at my Bandcamp page. Oh and share it about if you’re into it. #fyp #BandcampFriday #ShamelessSelfPromotion

Hey you lot, here’s the first from my covers project I’ve called ‘Chris’s Kitchen Disco’ - first volume out next Friday for #BandcampFriday! It’s a raucous cover of Bob Dylan’s righteous classic ‘Subterranean Homesick Blues’, which is more salient now than ever. You can watch on Youtube at https://youtu.be/n6KGYAjQER4 Music - and my love of it - saved my life last year, again. I thought it would be fun to give a little back to it. I can’t wait to share all these versions of my favourite tunes. Do share it around if you’re into it. Thanks for listening and, as ever, lots of love! X

Merry Christmas you lot. Thanks for all being pals this year. Lots of love to you all, whatever you’re up to. With love from me and Rose. ♥️

THIS SUNDAY (17 Dec) I am doing a gig at my favourite pub The Cardigan Arms - it’s sold out BUT I’m streaming it online with help from an actual team of professionals. It’ll be ace. 9pm UK time over on www.YouTube.com/chriscatalystmusic. As ever with this kind of thing, we are raising money for a good cause - this time it’s @Action For Children and their #SecretSanta campaign to make sure underprivileged kids get a gift this Christmas. You can donate at www.paypal.me/chriscatalyst and www.ko-fi.com/chriscatalyst It’s pay as you feel, with no obligation whatsoever - times aren’t easy for many at the moment, and - more than anything - I just hope you can come along, join in and get into the Christmas spirit(s). I know I will be. Hope to see ya there. X

#Christmas is coming, we’ve had #BlackFriday and #CyberMonday and so on, just a little message to urge you to try vote with your pockets this year - the corporate world will be alright, so, if you are able, maybe consider all those #independent makers, artists, musicians when buying gifts. Fuelling the independent world waters the well for us all, and gets your loved ones more exciting and interesting stuff, rather than just clicking a link on Amazons or whatever. There’s loads of good stuff out there - support it while you can. Thank you. X #independentartist #corporateworld #youknowthedifference

Here’s some more new music from little me. This is a song called ‘Stop’, and it’s about giving people a break… but most of all, giving yourself a break. Very silly. Do share it around if yer into it. From my recent album ‘Mad In England’. Video by my amazing pal Ash Pears for AshTV. #Stop #DontStop #SometimesStop

The latest video from my dumb Kitchen Disco project is here and it’s a banger. Never Ever Getting Back Together by #TaylorSwift mashed up with Love Is Only A Feeling by the mighty @The Darkness. Do share it about if you’re into it! Video by my wonderful pal Ash Pears for AshTV and his kids. I love this so much, thanks Ash. Volume 3 of my Kitchen Disco thing is out tomorrow for #BandcampFriday and it’s another great fun love-letter to my record collection. Ace times guaranteed. By me. X

MERCH SALE over at my webshop - www.chriscatalyst.com/shop - use the code HAPPY20 for 20% OFF EVERYTHING! One week only, go get it. X

Back out on tour tonight! York Fulford tonight (Thursday), Blackpool Waterloo Friday, Huddersfield Parish Saturday. X

Tour starts THIS TIME NEXT WEEK! Tickets at www.chriscatalyst.com/gigs Went for the ‘Heart Kisses’ filter thingy on this, for no reason at all. #fyp #chriscatalyst #hashtags

My little tour with @The Middlenight Men starts in a couple of weeks! Taking in some of my favourite independent venues - Fri 24 May: Wolverhampton KK’s Steel Mill (with Bldsugr) Sat 25 May: Glasgow Audio (with Powderkeg) Sun 26 May: Edinburgh Bannerman’s (with Holyrude Vault) Thu 30 May: York Fulford Arms (with Heartsink) Fri 31 May: Blackpool Waterloo (with Death Of Me) Sat 1 June: Huddersfield Parish (with @A band called The Empty Page) It’s gonna be a great night of brilliant live music, with a bunch of ace friends playing too. We’ve kept the costs down as much as we can because we know everyone is skint. There’ll be new merch and new tunes and new friends everywhere. Ticket link is www.chriscatalyst.com/gigs - do pick up a ticket if you’re coming, it makes us look cooler to promoters. Independent live music in the UK is really struggling right now. It would be great to see some (lots) of you there. X

Hey chums, the next volume of my Chris’s Kitchen Disco covers project is out THIS FRIDAY. So here’s a video from it, of one of my favourite tracks from the amazing @Pet Shop Boys. Watch the whole thing at my YouTube place, and do share it round if you’re into it. Thanks as always. Video by the ace Tom Hunter, ably assisted by Owen Henley. Song by the Pet Shop Boys, obviously. All instruments played by me except drums by Jase Bowld. Mixed by me and mastered by Dave Draper. Thanks to them all. X #petshopboys #lefttomyowndevices #fyp

Incredible piece of Alan Partridge-esque commentary on the #Chelsea vs #Leicester game just now. #alanpartridge