In the run up to Chris Coco and Ben Osborne playing the first post lockdown gig together, here’s a remix Ben made of Chris’ 2005 track , Memory of A Free Party.
The track retains parts of the spoken word vocal and a reverse sitar from the original, with Ben replaying bass and guitar, Simon Burwell playing keyboard and James Thompson doing beats. The remix is based around a glam guitar line recorded into a portable mini cassette player. Intended originally as an aide memoire, the distortion on the recording became the foundation of the remix.
When Chris heard it he said: “It’s like having a new song.”
It came out for a nano second in 2005.
Today’s event marks 15 years since Ben and Chris played the launch events forNoise of Art in partnership withThe Tate and BFI Southbank in London on the last week of April and first week of May 2006.
This May we launch Civil Nights, a spring multi-venue series. The new festival celebrates Thomas and John Clarkson, founders of historic civil rights campaigns against the slave trade and for global peace, who lived in Woodbridge. Friday 22 May launches
New night of music and interviews, it features a musical Q&A followed by DJ sets. The first night sees Stage, TV and film star and vinyl DJ, Ben Miles, joining host DJ, music writer and Woodbridge Festival founder Ben Osborne.
This year Woodbridge Festival of Art and Music starts with a London launch party on 26 August and takes place over two days in Elmhurst Park on Friday 1 September (headlined by Caswell) and Saturday 2 September (headlined by Jazzie B
UK Reggae pioneers Aswad celebrate 40 Years of their seminal 1983 LP, Live and Direct, on Saturday 26 August as part of Woodbridge festival's London launch and Windrush Day 75 Grant celebrations.
