Since 1700's Chris Field's family have been pushing the boundaries in one-way or another. Chris' some would say crazy, others would say heroic Great Great Grandfather one Captain Matthew Webb was the first man to swim the channel between Britain and France, he saved a drowning passenger fallen from a Liverpool to New York steamer and then came a cropper in his attempt to swim the rapids of Niagara Falls.

"Nothing great is easy" Captain Matthew Webb

Two generations later Chris' grandfather, Ron Mcfarlane, tunes up the steels strings of his 12 bar gee tar and with a country twang in his voice entertains a young grandson Chris whose eyes light up and passes the seed of those vagabond blues to the next generation of Fields. Born and raised in a British settlement in the small Canadian town of Dundas inspired by those early musical influences, Chris was born to own a guitar and found his first set of strings in a pawn shop for two dollars. Music to his ears; cousins from back in England sent shoddy tapes of The Beatles and Stones the sound of the Small faces turned heads in his small community and Chris stood apart from the rest.

"Dressed in a Blood stained Army jacket,Wrap around raybans and shaged out hair like he was Mr. Lennon,Dylan,Jagger himself...27 year old Chris field Made this audience believe every bit of Rock and roll truth he was preaching ." The Sun

At the age of 18 Chris broke free from the small town shackles and set off with his battered guitar aboard a Greyhound bus bound for Vancouver.
With no cash in his backburner and did what he did best with a stratocaster and a fender twin...Chris soon found himself hanging out with underground hipsters and risers, opening for John Spencer Blues Explosion and Performing late night parties with the likes of Pine top perkins and Sonny rhodes.This was the real deal.

So then you find yourself in the Railway Club with Hunter S Thompson talking about native Indians and downing another bottle of Jack While chain smoking 4 packs of red marlboro's.
How does that happen? No one knows but it happened.

"The Edge... There is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over.
The others --- the living --- are those who pushed their control as far as they felt they could handle it, and then pulled back, or slowed down, or did whatever they had to when it came time to choose between Now and Later.
But the edge is still out there. Or maybe it's in. The association of motorcycles with LSD is no accident of publicity. They are both a means to an end, to the place of definitions." --- HST

Eventually the Vancouver scene went hazy and sensing this Chris moved to Toronto where unbeknown to him he was becoming something of a cult hero, the buzz was great the crowds were wild and Chris was soon opening for British rockers the Super Furry Animals and Japan's Garage rock Legends Guitar wolf.

"Plug into Chris field's mind and plug into the sound of 10,000 volts of power which holds the Morals of the Adult world against the wall"
Chart magazine

Chris' own British influences mixing well with the British rock resurgence of the scene, later that year Chris released his self titled album debut, which caused a stir at radio and a swell in numbers at shows which got bigger hotter and sweatier at each throw; a national tour of his homeland followed.

By another strange turn of events Chris met another rock legend Bob Rose who was producing and touring Julian Lennon's latest outing in Toronto and had been handed a copy of Chris's Independent album by a writer from the Sun.
The phone rang, it was Bob who had tracked him down and insisted that Chris make a journey to the UK where he should lay down a new album.
Circles and squares fit together like pieces in a jigsaw. One dimension of a different shape, altered but from the same root.
At the same time Chris had been in the studio putting down some underground voices in his head with Electronic producer Steve Yanko. The resultant Sure Thing by The Voices melted the New York underground scene occupied by the DFA, !!! and The Rapture and crossed to the UK and the hippest clubs of Paris, Seattle, LA and Berlin.
Chris Field a many shaped object, adapting to fit the circle in the square.

Whilst on a flight from New York to London Bob Rose now Chris' mentor happened to be seated next to old friend Sam Brown and whose mother he knew from their days recording with George Harrison. Sam was on the way back from a recording session with her band and heard and loved Chris' music. Before the plane touched down a deal had been done and Sam had made a rare exception to contribute to another artist's album.
Make It Tonight is the result. Things moved fast and soon freewheel in'
Chris found himself settled in London, with a roomy flat overlooking Notting Hill's Powis Square and sessions at Rockfield Studios notoriously famous as Queen's favourite recording home and Sir george Martins Air Studios. The ball is rolling.

Take Blondie and Stooges era Iggy bassist Nigel Harrison, Robert Plant/Iggy guitarist Robbie Blunt and Tears For Fears/Peter gabriel drummer Manny Elias fronted by Chris Field and what have you got. A great band, that's what. Couple that with Sam Brown's horn section who were also sold on the quality of the songs they heard on that same New York flight and you have possibly one of the best collection of top musicians you could imagine.

During the final recording sessions of Chris' album at Air Studios a final beautiful double bowed rainbow was cast upon proceedings, when Beatles Legend Sir George Martin gave his regal seal of knowing approval over the final album mix while further credence followed as Powis Square was sealed when Kinks legend Ray Davies hot footed it to studio 1, and as his cab ticked over outside, he blessed the session and gave it a thumbs up While Bob rose Laid down the final mixes.

As the sun rises over Powis Square Chris Field can look back over a circuitous journey from trans Atlantic underground hero to a glimmering future amongst rock n'rolls top table in the UK, safe in the knowledge that the same genes that urged his great great grandfather to take that final plunge and swim the seas are the same genes that moved him to write such an empowering debut album. The circle is squared.