The album is out NOW!
16 songs. Streamable where you stream.
Downloadable most places you can download HOWEVER – BandCamp is best for download- it’s cheaper to you there and has secret extras….
If you’re old-school like me you can buy a CD of the full album, or a vinyl of selected tracks, form ElasticStage.
Album #3 from Violet’s Gone is now available to pre-order!
Releases fully on August 7th 2026
| Digital Download + Digital Booklets http://violetsgone.bandcamp.com | CD and Vinyl Formats ElasticStage |
*Digital formats are available elsewhere (Apple, Amazon etc.) but I strongly recommend purchase from BandCamp because…it’s cheaper to you there, and you will receive not only a higher quality file (if you choose) but you will also receive an extra song (shhhhh! It’s a secret!), but you will also receive the full colour artwork booklet and covers for the album in PDF format too. And also for the selfish reason that I receive a fairer share of the sale value, meaning Violet’s Gone IV can happen in the near future!
**Physical formats are provided by ElasticStage.com on a made-to-order basis. Made-to-order means it can take up to a month for products to be produced and shipped. Shipping is calculated by the manufacturer and will come up on the checkout page (typically between £6-8 for UK shipping on vinyl)
***Vinyl format…I love vinyl records, so it was important to me that this release had a vinyl option. However, I’m not rich enough to gamble on investing in a full pressing run. The current press-to-order service doesn’t allow for a double album length – as such you will see on ElasticStage that there is a Part I (with booklet) and Part II (without booklet), ordering one or the other does work but you’ll only get half the experience. I appreciate it is expensive but I opted for the most economic vinyl packaging option they offer – and I have to say, it looks gorgoeous!
**** Finally! If ordering a physical format; I can provide a download code for BandCamp if you contact me at violetsgone@yahoo.com with proof of purchase of either format from ElasticStage.
Violet’s Gone is due to make a debut performance as a group!
We’re playing a mostly acoustic thing in the corner of the shopfloor of HMV Northampton.
August 8th 2026
1PM
Save the date.
Chris will be singing and making noises with an acoustic guitar and drum machine.
Jon Stolber (of A Knife Ballet) will be playing electric guitar
Scott Humphries (of The Coping Mechanism) will be playing bass guitar.
The 1st single from the third Violet’s Gone album is out now!
‘Caves’
available to stream pretty much everywhere you can stream.
download available in various places but BEST price to you is at BandCamp.
Other news!!!!!
There will be a 2nd single…announced shortly
The album itself releases on August 7th!
Chris will be talking about the record live on BBC Radio Northampton on the day of the album release
AND
Violet’s Gone make a rare, currently 1-off, live performance…AS A GROUP! August 8th, HMV Northampton.
More news to follow…
Violet’s Gone album # 3 is set to release on August 7th.
If all goes to plan, there will be physical CD and Vinyl options alongside the usual BandCamp platform.
Here, we are going right back! Way, way back! Around 2005/2006 time was where it all began. A young Chris dressed head-to-toe in black singing sad, mostly acoustic songs into the microphones at Beck Studio in Wellingborough. The Beck Studio sessions never got released to the world because I felt my inexperience shone through a little too much. The first songs that made it onto the internet were 4-track cassette demos and then from these demos I returned to a studio. Hot Rock in Northampton was recommended to me by Stevie Jones of the Wildfires so I sought them out to complete a demo CD of ten songs playing acoustic guitar, bass, lap-steel and vocals. I’m still proud of it as a whole but for similar reasons to the Beck sessions they’re not out there in the world anymore; I was young and not fully developed as a songwriter and definitely not as a singer. It was still the days when MySpace reigned supreme that these songs got any air.
I’m contemplating putting together a compilation of earlier songs via Bandcamp in the near future and may well include a song or two from these sessions if I feel they can still work and survive in the real world.
Below is a song that was written for the Beck recording sessions – although the version shared was recorded around 6 years later at home, with a more focus approach on production.
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