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Folk on Foot

Chris Wood in Faversham

Folk on Foot

Matthew Bannister

Music Interviews, Performing Arts, Music, Nature, Arts, Science

4.8526 Ratings

🗓️ 6 August 2020

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

The award winning singer, songwriter and guitarist Chris Wood has lived in Kent all his life. “If you keep moving around, how much can you trust your judgement?” he asks. “If you stop where you are, the world does eventually come to you.” Since the Brexit referendum and election of 2019, Chris has been in challenging mood.  On this walk with his dog Dancer and Matthew Bannister, Chris performs his song “Take Back Control” and contrasts the commuters on the London-bound platform at 6 every morning with what he calls “the slope-shouldered, whey-faced broken people” in Faversham’s greasy spoons and declining market place. “This is my muse,” he tells us. “This darkness and this hypocrisy and these contradictions – I thrive on it”.

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0:00.0

I know, I know.

0:07.0

That one with the arch.

0:09.0

That was the alley that went up.

0:12.0

Little bay south facing bay window.

0:15.0

Used to sit in there.

0:18.0

Enjoy the winter sun.

0:20.0

And now the sun doesn't shine on that house.

0:24.6

Because this is wood there.

0:29.6

It's a blustery overcast but mercifully dry January day

0:34.6

and we've come to the historic town of Favisham in Kent.

0:38.4

It's home to Britain's oldest brewery, Shepherd Neem, which traces its roots back to the 1500s,

0:44.4

and to the ore gunpowder works which provided the explosives that powered the Industrial Revolution.

0:49.7

Music I suspect there might be a few detonations in today's episode

1:05.3

as we meet the award-winning singer, songwriting guitarist and fiddle player Chris Wood.

1:11.1

Chris has lived in Kent all his life and writes songs which put a spotlight on the minutiae of ordinary lives,

1:17.3

often in a very poetic and moving way.

1:20.0

But since the Brexit referendum and the Tory victory in the 2019 election,

1:24.5

Chris has been in a challenging and questioning mood.

1:28.0

Let's find out why.

1:49.0

This is where. This is where I used to live for about 37 years, number 40. Is that the one there, the terraced house, with the alleyway down the side?

1:52.0

Great big white van parked out the front.

1:55.0

On the pavement, I've got so many photographs.

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