Chris Bell

Chris Bell has been writing and recording music since the late 90’s. Born in Dunnville, Ontario Canada his introduction onto the Canadian music landscape happened via his high school, post hardcore band Chore. They released 3 full length albums for Sonic Unyon Records and after extensive touring and studio time with Chore, Bell began venturing out into the solo realm releasing his first independent record, Time Between Failures in 2001. The formation of Alive and Living after Chore disbanded in 2004, was an even further extension of this softer, more folk oriented approach and kept Bell busy writing and recording. Alive and Living released an ep called PLO in 2004 and toured extensively in Eastern Canada. More recently Bell has been touring and recording, as the bassist, with the eastern Canadian rock band Wintersleep. Appearing on the band's last release, ‘In the Land of’ Bell shifted his role from the bands live sound engineer and tour manager to a performing member. He has worked with many prominent Canadian acts as a live sound engineer; Broken Social Scene, Stars, Basia Bulat, Arkells and the aforementioned Wintersleep to name a few.