Chris Millington is a musician based in North Devon.
Having been dragged up through the Manchester Indie scene and various bands, Chris has now found his niche. Inspired by the beautiful north Devon coastline and local stories of smuggling, wrecking and piracy along the North Devon coast, Chris has penned some moving songs in the hope and with the passion of keeping some of these stories alive.
Recently described as the ..'wild eyed boy of Exmoor..' Chris combines the traditional with the contempory singing songs of the sea, the past and the heart.
A multitalented multi instrumentalist Chris feels at ease with anything from the guitar to squeezebox, from mandolin to sitar. This diversity of influences and instruments compliments his compositions and accompanied by a voice that ranges from raucous Bowie-esque vocal to the haunting choral arrangement of the Liberame Domine at the end of the enchanting 'Who Will Cut Me Down?"
Check out Chris Millington's new album 'Warnings of Gales' available now to buy from my website www.chrismillington.com
Bideford folk festival 2008. Video of Broadside. Thaanks to Zoe, Bryony and Smelly and Dad for the video.
'Cassiopeia is Weeping'
Here's a work in progress for my next album written about a recent trip I went on and the people I met.
Check out my video filmed in Ilfracombe for the ballad 'Who Will Cut Me Down?'
Chris plays many gigs mostly in the South West and has just completed the album 'Doubloons, Jewels and Ivory' telling stories of the North Devon Coast and the surrounding area. The title track records the story of the slaver ship The London that was wrecked on Rapparee beach in Ilfracombe in 1796. The bodies of the unfortunate slaves were unceremoniously and hurriedly thrown on the beach and walled up until the 1980's when a storm combined with the high tide unearthed the bones of those who died.
Check out Chris' website for more info and ipod fodder!
www.chrismillington.com
LAtest video: Chris Millington and Babelfish live at the Landmark Theatre, Ilfracombe Sunwest BeerFest 2008 performing Broadside.
Thanks to Mark for the video clip.
Doubloons Jewels and Ivory recorded by Britishbeachcomber at Woody Bay Station as part of the Lynton and Lynmouth Llama festival.
What would I rather be looking forward to on a Saturday night, X factor or Babelfish??? Mmmmm, let me think.... Could always go down to the beach in the Old Market Sqare now.....
meow, how are you? I shud beeeee at the babelfish gig next saturdayyyyy in bideford cus its free and i'm poor , and amazingly i shud also have a lift back homeeeeee for once haha. .. anyway i came to tell you:
If you have never watched space pirates you are missing out. ahaha i discovered it one morning after the torrington may fairy carnival thing, we all camped in friends garden hah and in the mornin , we all sat in their house, turned on the tv and randomly found it on cbebbies and we were all so entertained and amused by it. its by far the coolest kids program i've seennnnn , they shud put it on in the evenings so everyone can watch it i think. haha.
oooh i really like the new song you plaaayed the other day too the one that goes: your talking me down, talking me down, talking me down, down to the ground, down to the ground, down to the ground...
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yeah i thought it had very strong emotion and you sang it so powerfully...it was amazingly beautifully depressing, whichhhhhhh is goooood. :D But then for such a colourful person i am a tiny bit quite extreemly dark.haha
how are you , you seem to be feeling blardefaried..tired, bored, cant be bothered? lol. i know that feeling, hahaha or maybe its that other feeling where u feel weak and almost collapse and lean on people. XD or maybe both? haha or maybe its the wow i must be invincible feeling when u know thats not supposed to happen and cant be right and dont kno what to think haha or not... i'm really bored..
but going to london tomorrow,yay! to emma bells fashion show, part of london fashion week, shes awesome. i cant waittt.
meowww, yeah your gig was awesome the other night in appledoor, i ended up staaying on john lennon(marcus's) sofa ha thats why i left a bit early cus he was gettin a lift back to where he lives in bideford and well i didnt fancy attempting to walk back to ilfracombe or at least barnstaple. altho i wud of done if i had to. i find doing things like that can be fun sometimes, cus then wen you get somewhere it just feels really good and you really appreciate little things like having a cup of tea, ha or something like that.
you know what i mean, hopefully haha.
I cant believe i missed your gig in ilfracombe tho, ha i forgot, even after i turned up a month early! and Yeah damn missing seth lakeman, i wud of came to your gig tho cus i was actulary stuck in ilfracombe with nothing to do. And cudnt go out of ilfracombe cus i had lost my bus pass and i'm poor hhaa.
thankyou so much for playing at Jasons memorial gig last night. it was a shame you couldnt stay long but it was great all the same. We managed to raise well over £100 in the end and it was well worth it thanks again.
Wishing Wednesday works wonderful magic.....for you.....and your life.......and your love of music! If it doesn't have a listen to sheedyfrost! Never fails!¬ Paul and Vincent!
Listened to The Duel's album much?, you need to listen to round and round because i got obsessed with both versions of that song from that album, and rekon you will love this one too.
Christoph! You should listen John Butler Trio, says my friend Ben =P We left you a comment on facebook about it, but Myspace is obviously cooler =P How're your holidays going? x
Hello mate - very much hoping to down the focsle tomorow evening and bringing the family as well with a bit of luck - the last show there was great. It looks as if I might need to buy your cd again as it bloody disappeared after about 2 days and I 've also lost the last album as well.
OOOH MYY! ELEPHANT SKY! i have not posted a comment for ages, what have i been doing! ha. well it was my birthday this month remember ha, ermm, what else.ohh i got invited to emma bells (awesome new fashion designer) fashion show at london fashion week! yay was awesome that was on tuesday so i had a long coach journey and my friend danny came with me and the show was very random! ha awesomeness..and i met so many interet friends in real life! and ahhh all the press took photos of me which made me feel famous when they all wanted me and then ended up being interveiwed and they filmed it haha, just asking if i liked the show etc along with an awesome internet friend ending up in most of the pictures with me she also ended up in the interveiw , was so random. i met everyone but emma bell,well she was very busy but from the times i've spoken to her online and from her family and friends she seems awesome as a person too hehe, i met her family and her brother wanted a photo with me and took one haha..defently a random night, i want it to happen again i cant believe i managed to get invited, and that i managed to get to tickets from the press haa, i did send them a message as soon as i knew it was possible to get tickets, just cus i didnt want them to run out heeeeeehaaaa.
its 5 to 5am , what am i doing, i'm going insane...most likely altho actulary thats prob already happened, i do have an itchy ankle which is quite odd and annoying, oooh and on a slightly more interesting note to the itchy ankle, i've been listening to tori amos for the past 5 hours , she's addictive. i was also bored and started looking up female serial killers, and discovered when susan atkins was younger she looked quite pretty haha, she was a member of the manson family led by charles manson, then i noticed charles mansons mugshot was quite pretty too. hhaha then i wanted to look up pretty serial killers and google wasnt so helpful. ohh well
criss-cross chris-kiss criss-cross chris-kiss that's my new game; crosses and chrises. Or it could be crisses and kisses. Might just keep it as noughts and crosses actually. Ah, what a waste of thought xxx(Khrisses?)
Love The New stuff. Good to see yer that other week back at The Bradburns Emerging Music party. Great acoustic Jam session that for sure. Steve Dambusker. Keep Music Live & KEEP It Real.!!! -
Chris Millington is a musician based in North Devon.
