Bring Back Chap Roz!

I was fortunate enough to meet these Brit-rockers in San Ramon back in 2002 during the tour for their first album on the Esophageal Records label, 7 Deadly Sinz. They were a blast to party with, and after hearing their tunes I became a fan for life. They even brought me along in their limo as they barhopped throughout the East Bay. I snapped this photo as a memento the following morning after the guys had already boarded their tour bus.

I've long been bewildered by the absence of a Chap Roz web presence - the bands official site (http://www.chap-roz.co.uk) has been offline for years. Most of the band members are notoriously reclusive, and when I had the good fortune to stumble across an email address for their longtime manager/spiritual guru Sid on a press release, this blog was born.

Sid has offered up rarities from the C-R archives which I'll be sharing with you - from official press releases to band member bios to lyrics to information on lost (and unreleased albums). I don't want to get ahead of myself, but I'm also hoping to post interviews with some of the members of the band as well. If everything goes according to plan, this blog will become the destination for Chap Roz fans.

I searched long and hard for a photo of Chap to use on the page, and I've only encountered two - the late 80s fan magazine clipping in the Blog header and this paparazzi shot from outside a club in his hometown of Basildon, England, last year.


If you have any photos, or reviews of albums or live shows, please post comments and share them with the rest of the Chap Roz fan community. If there's enough interest, I may even be able to convince Sid to let us post some MP3s, or one of the band's extremely rare music videos.

Thanks for stopping by, and remember - CHAP ROZ RULES!