Background
Christopher James Cester was born on 16 September 1981 and grew up in Melbourne.
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The boys attended Street Bede"s College Mentone.
Career
He was the founding mainstay drummer and backing vocalist of rock band, Jet. In March 2012 Jet announced their disbandment. When the Cester brothers played pretend gigs in their living room, Chris was the singer, but he eventually changed to drums, pretending to play while Nic sang.
The two older Cester brothers formed Jet in 1996 with Nic"s school mate, Cameron Muncey on guitar and vocals.
And Mark Wilson on bass guitar. The band used a variety of names before settling on Jet in 2002 – after the 1973 song, "Jet", by former Beatle Paul McCartney and his band, Wings.
Chris played the drums primarily, but also played guitar and sang some of the songs. In August 2004 during the preparation for the group"s second album, Shine On (September 2006), Chris and Nic"s father died of cancer.
Chris used Gretsch drums, with a Brady 14" x 8" Jarrah Ply snare and Zildjian cymbals.
His cymbal set-up was a pair of 15" A Zildjian New Beat Hats, and a 22" K Zildjian Dark Ride. DamnDogs released a debut five-track European Parliament, Strange Behaviour, on 9 August 2011 via iTunes. In March 2012 Jet announced their disbandment.
Cester explained why Jet broke up "More personal tension than anything else.. predominantly, it was just personal things.
And long-standing arguments that never got resolved. Really personal stuff, and between all of us at one point or another".
He continued his work with DamnDogs after Wilson had left the line-up.
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Membership
Their uncle, Eugene Paul Mark Cester (born 1961), as Eugene de la Hot-Croix Bun became a member of the Australian alternative, satire rock band, TISM, from 1982.
