The Chancres have revisited a moment from their more recent past: the July 2022 live set at the Canberra Irish Club. Three tracks from that night, Airbus, Ancient Door and Free Enterprise Fans, played with the usual tight, no‑nonsense timing—have now been remixed in London by guitar legend punk busker and audio tinkerer extraordinaire Little John Guelfi. LJG didn’t try to reinvent anything. Instead, he leaned into what was already there: a band playing close, listening hard, even rigid, and […]

How Christopher James Paxman Became Pax of the People (POTP) Every band has a bass player. Only one band had Paxperson. And only one human bean [sic] — born Christopher James Paxman, Kalgoorlie WA, July 1962 — could have risen from the red dust of the Goldfields to become a rhythm section punkish hero of The Chancres. 🎸 Kalgoorlie Beginnings: Heat, Dust, Destiny Kalgoorlie, where the ground shakes, the air shimmers, and hardy local denizens develop a kind of mythic […]

Mr Little John Guelfi (although he is of normal stature) of Camden Town, London has remixed another two live Chancres performances from the Canberra Irish Club, July 2022. For your audio delectation, My Mistress and Goodbyes are not Worthwhile can be found at https://soundcloud.com/user-25648475/my-mistress-remix-by-ljg-wav and https://soundcloud.com/user-25648475/goodbyes-are-not-worthwhile-1. My Mistress is our adaptation of Shakespeare Sonnet 130 (look it up in your FunkNWagnalls) and Goodbyes is always the song we finish on, based on “Without Ceremony” by lyrical poet Thos Hardy (1840-1928).