Chris Bergstrom: live ‘n’ Dandy
Chris Bergstrom is front of house manager for The Dandy Warhols. Here he shares some lockdown experiences and knowledge for any live musicians and engineers…
Photo: John Thackray
It was during his 16th year, while playing in bands and working at Guitar Center, loading the gear in and out at a club in Portland for $50, that Chris Bergstrom got hooked to working in the live arena. He quickly moved into live mixing, cutting his teeth with a Mexican events band, before getting a couple of in-house club gigs and then an internship at Horne Audio, the company he now runs.
Following a short spell mixing the audio at a church in Portland and running his own sound company, Bergstrom left his hometown and moved to Nashville. When a good friend went on tour for two-and-a-half years with OK Go, Chris agreed to help him out for a month on a prearranged leg with The Dandy Warhols, a job offer that would become life changing. Seven years on and Chris is running Horne Audio as their operations manager and he still goes on tour with The Dandies as the band’s front of house manager. He’s also moved back to Portland, and it’s in his home studio that we catch up with him.