DJs Ben Miles and Ben Osborne and VJ Girl In A T-Shirt round off the festival's annual event in the park with a night of all vinyl DJ sets and projections.
Mixing cutting edge beats, art and film, tonight boasts famed TV and film actor and DJ Ben Miles, Noise of Art creator DJ Ben Osborne and First Light Festival resident artist and VJ Alice Stallard, aka Girl I A T-Shirt. Expect a riot of electronic beats, post punk dance, acid house bleeps and live audio visuals.
TV and film star Ben Miles is best known for starring in Coupling, The Forsyte Saga, The Crown, V for Vendetta, Douglas Is Candelled and a host of high profile TV shows. But his roots are in vinyl DJing, and his creativity and skill is equally evident spinning on the decks as it is on stage. Ben Osborne’s cross platform arts career has trail-blazed grass roots arts and included DJing clubs and festival’s internationally, writing two books on music, including his best selling Arctic Monkey’s autobiography, and being an award winning and pioneering creative producer. He DJs iconic places from Stonebridge Stage Glastonbury to BT Tower for the Olympics. Described as a ‘polymath’ by Time Out, Ben’s also presented radio shows for Xfm, NME Radio and Slack City Radio.
VJ Girl In A T-Shirt, AKA artist Alice Stallard, is a Battery of Ideas commissioned artist with many years delivering barrier-breaking art in both educational and community art settings. Alice’s work has included clients such as Tate Britain, Waterloo Carnival Arts, Gate Curate and the South Bank Coin Street Neighbourhood Centre. She headed up a West London art department and her recent work includes large scale, site-specific commissions for the Ackerman Studios and Daisy Green Collection. She's currently chair of Woodbridge Festival of Arts and Music.