Nostalgia Interviews With Chris Deacy

My guest this week is Chris Hamilton, with whom I went to school in Cardiff over 30 years ago. Chris is a full time professional (and award-winning) musician and composer who started his career as a lawyer, having gone to Oxford to study Law and worked in the City for a big corporate firm in London and New York. We talk about having gone ‘full circle’ as Chris learned the piano when very young. We talk about our schooldays and the importance of learning and how Chris loved standing up and performing from a young age. We talk about how school can be a traumatic experience whether you were on the A list or Z list (and we reference a film that is very much a guilty, or not so guilty, pleasure for us both – Romy and Michele’s High School Reunion). We are here because of the past and Chris says that he wouldn’t change any of it. Chris explains why we are the lucky generation in that we have memories of life pre-social media. He talks about going to India and Egypt on a one way ticket and whether that would be fe