James Cripps

{{Short description|British musician}}

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James Cripps is an artist and musician from Kensal Rise, London. He studied at Richmond upon Thames College.{{Cite web |title=Artist profiles - Anklebiter |url=https://www.yourlocalguardian.co.uk/leisure/comedy/4522304.artist-profiles-anklebiter/ |access-date=2022-12-10 |website=Your Local Guardian |date=31 July 2009 |language=en}}

His 2009 art exhibition was with other young artists who went by the group name of 'Anklebiter'. The show received with acclaim,{{Cite web |url=http://www.artrabbit.com/uk/events/event/13301/anklebiter |title=ANKLEBITER at Hepsibah Gallery |access-date=3 November 2009 |archive-date=7 July 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110707171243/http://www.artrabbit.com/uk/events/event/13301/anklebiter |url-status=dead }} the center piece of his work being an abstract version of Bouguereau's The First Mourning.

Cripps fronted the punk band Stavin' Chains who cite their influences from Frank Sinatra to The Birthday Party.{{Cite web |url=http://thisisoffset.co.uk/?p=2043 |title=GDLI 23RD JULY: The Guillotines, Speak and the Spells, Stavin' Chains |access-date=3 November 2009 |archive-date=21 August 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090821191747/http://thisisoffset.co.uk/?p=2043 |url-status=dead }} The BBC invited them to play The Roundhouse 2009 Emerging Proms{{Cite web |url=http://www.ilikemusic.co.uk/music_news/Roundhouse_Emerging_Proms_2009-8128/3 |title=Article on the Emerging Proms season |access-date=2009-11-03 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110723134711/http://www.ilikemusic.co.uk/music_news/Roundhouse_Emerging_Proms_2009-8128/3 |archive-date=2011-07-23 |url-status=dead }} The band was dissolved in 2011 when its members formed the band Dogfeet.{{Cite web |title=Dogfeet biography |url=https://www.last.fm/music/Dogfeet/+wiki |access-date=2022-12-10 |website=Last.fm |language=en}}