🎸 Remixes from the Canberra Irish Club gig Featuring the improbable origins of “Hypoid Boy” and “Road to Hell” The Chancres have once again displayed perfect retrovision, specifically back to July 2022, when they performed at the Canberra Irish Club. It was a typical mid‑winter evening: heaters humming, glasses clinking, and the band playing with the sort of unshowy competence that tends to confuse people expecting theatrics. The latest two tracks from that night have now been remixed in London […]

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 […]