Education
Wolstenholme holds an honorary doctorate of arts from the University of Plymouth.
Wolstenholme holds an honorary doctorate of arts from the University of Plymouth.
Chris Wolstenholme grew up in the English town of Rotherham before moving to Teignmouth, Devon. While living there, he played drums for a post-punk band, while Matthew Bellamy and Dominic Howard played in another. While the two bands rehearsed in the same building, Bellamy and Howard walked over to Wolstenholme and asked him if he would like to play bass in their band, Rocket Baby Dolls, later renamed Muse. Wolstenholme was eager to join their band but didn't know how to play bass. He picked one up quickly and taught himself.
5 official albums: Showbiz, Origin of Symmetry, Absolution, Black Holes and Revelations, The Resistance
Wolstenholme and his wife Kelly married in December 2003 and have six children. He is known to be very devoted to his family, phoning home twice a day when on tour. In late April 2010, the family moved to Foxrock, Dublin. He said their decision to move to Ireland was based on their need to be beside a major airport and a desire to avoid London, England.
In 2003, when the band sued Nestle, he was the main reason behind it, being against the company that had a dubious reputation when it came to the promotion of powdered milk to new mothers in the third world. At the time, he had had his third child.
