Biography
About Chris Bostock
Chris Bostock has performed, recorded and written with Dave Stewart, JoBoxers, Subway Sect, The Style Council, Spear of Destiny, Sandie Shaw, Shakespears Sister and more.
His compositions include ‘Just Got Lucky’, UK Top 10 and US Top 40, and featured in the movies The 40-Year-Old Virgin, Just My Luck, Chorus Girl and more.
Chris has toured extensively in the UK, Europe, the US and Australasia and produced albums for EMI and BMG.
Chris’s main instrument is bass with backing vocals, but he also plays keyboards on a number of recordings.
Recent activities are the 2025 JoBoxers Complete Works boxset with new single: ‘A Thorn in My Side‘ (No.11, Heritage Chart), successful 2022 UK tour of festivals and clubs and the Subway Sect album Moments Like These, produced by Mick Jones of The Clash and Big Audio Dynamite.
JoBoxers
New for 2025: ‘Just Got Lucky – The Complete Works of JoBoxers 1983-1986‘, a 3CD box set is now available from Cherry Red Records, and includes all previously unreleased recordings from the lost albums Skin & Bone and Missing Link, all the hit singles, the hit album Like Gangbusters, plus Live at the Phoenix recorded on the Rolling Stones mobile studio.
Promo video to new single ‘A Thorn in My Side’.
Our JoBoxers Summer 2022 tour of festivals and clubs was a huge success. We are hopeful of more live appearances in the future.
Subway Sect
2021 saw the release of our Subway Sect album Moments Like These produced by Mick Jones from The Clash/Big Audio Dynamite who was inspirational to work with. This followed two tours of the UK after Club Left 2014 & 2016 with a revived ‘Club Left’ lineup of Subway Sect. In 2020, we released an expanded edition of our debut 1982 album Songs for Sale.
Dave Stewart & The Spiritual Cowboys
Dave Stewart & the Spiritual Cowboys was formed after the Eurythmics breakup when Dave invited me to join him in LA to form a new group, the Spiritual Cowboys, which resulted in two gold albums in France: Dave Stewart & the Spiritual Cowboys and Honest plus extensive touring in Europe with a lineup that included Martin Chambers from The Pretenders and John Turnbull from The Blockheads. During this period, I had the good fortune of spending a whole night jamming with my hero George Harrison.
The Style Council
After the disolution of The Jam, I was invited by Paul Weller to play on the Style Council’s new concept album that would become Café Bleu. Both The Style Council and JoBoxers were moving in the same musical directions at that time with singles also released at the same time. Mine and Dig Wayne’s composition ‘Just Got Lucky’, was Top Ten in the UK charts.
Spear of Destiny
In 1988 I was drafted for the Spear of Destiny The Price You Pay album and UK touring, culminating in a televised CD Best of – Live at The Forum. This was a really solid lineup that locked in well together.
Sandie Shaw
Growing up with so much ‘60s music really helped with Sandie Shaw’s ’80s comeback with touring, recording, TV shows and televised concert at The Forum. Sandie had actually overlooked a couple of my favourite tracks of hers which we promptly revived. I co-wrote the track ‘Go Johnny Go’.
The Flame
A little-known group but one I really enjoyed were The Flame that included Roxy Music drummer Paul Thompson and Dave Winthrop from Secret Affair/Supertramp. We opened for The Eurythmics and The Beach Boys at Wembley Arena and the National Exhibition Centre