Chas - Bass Guitar

Chas Maguire is a freelance musician who has performed the length of Britain as well as in Monaco, the Netherlands, Spain and the Czech Republic – not to mention the gig in a Circus in the car park of Brent Cross Shopping Centre. When not absorbed in creating music in his studio, Chas finds time to ride motorcycles, walk dogs and avoid finishing all those DIY tasks he has started over the past 10 years. 

Chas started playing bass guitar aged 11 when the school music teacher burst in and found him jamming with some classmates in the music room one lunchtime. This teacher’s instruction for Chas to stay behind after school that Friday turned out to be Chas’ first rehearsal with the school band and led to a love of bass which has only grown as the years go on. His musical influences are many and wide ranging, and has led to Chas playing every style of music from smooth dinner jazz, passing through cheesy pop, avant-garde cartoon big band, disco and funk, right up to hard rock and heavy metal; very few genres haven’t had a look in at some point (and occasionally in the same gig…) Favourite bassists include: Trevor Dunn, Roger Waters, Paul McCartney, Tony Levin, Robert "Kool” Bell and Donald “Duck” Dunn.