Kris Barras is ticking items off his bucket list so fast there won’t be any left by the time he hits middle age. He recently played the Royal Albert Hall (with Black Stone Cherry) and the London Palladium (as part of an orchestral tribute to Led Zeppelin). By the time you read this, he’ll have led his Kris Barras Band out on to the Second Stage at Download. And before that, at the age of 36, he will have played his first gig at Wembley Arena, with his childhood heroes Thunder.
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