Christian Burns

80’s synthesizer rock, memorable melodies and great beats, were the inspiration for Christian Burns’ brand new project The Bleach Works. With a nod to the goth rock of The Cure and the electronic synth pop of Depeche Mode, the Bleach Works is jam packed with these juxtapositions and pays homage to the music that Christian grew up with.

Christian was always surrounded by music, his father played guitar for The Signs, a Liverpudlian three-piece rock band that once opened for The Beatles! At age 14, Burns began learning guitar by mimicking his dad and playing by ear melodies that he heard in his head. Christian states, “I would always get these melodies when my dad would be playing guitar, and I would get melodic bits and pieces stuck in my head until I could work it out on the guitar.” It was then Christian began experimenting as a writer and singer which inspired his dad and he to build a make shift 4-track studio in their back garden. “We built this out of old bricks, and once constructed I was hooked! Me and my mates would go and record music at any given moment.”

It was a great training ground which lead to Christian fronting 90’s pop rock band BBMak and opening for artists such as Britney Spears and N’Sync before going on to sell over 3 million records world-wide. “Performing in a band like BBMak gave me confidence and really made me learn a lot about being an artist, creating, and performing. It definitely brought me forward as an artist. It was a time where boy bands ruled and we were a band that actually played our instruments and wrote our own songs!”