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The Big Chill 2004
Channel 4 2004
Sweaty live funk, a dinner-jacketed ukulele orchestra, Senor Coconut’s cha-cha-cha version of heavy rock classic Smoke On The Water and a six-strong hen weekend in tiaras and angels wings plotting sex games… just some of the highlights of The Big Chill 04, a half-hour film documenting Britain’s favourite alternative festival. Mixing live performance, interviews with Sir Norman Jay, Tom Middleton, and festival founders Pete Lawrence and Katrina Larkin and documentary footage, The Big Chill 04 captures the surreal atmosphere of this uniquely British event, a mad hatter’s tea party for the post-dance generation, and leaves you picking grass out of your hair, almost convinced you were there.

Guardian Pick of the Day
Documentary capturing the mellow atmosphere of an alternative festival that mixes up dance music, theatre and a surreal sense of anything goes. Alongside such highlights as a dapper ukulele orchestra in dinner jackets, the likes of Norman Jay and Tom Middleton provide soundbites.

Director: Dom Phillips
Duration: 30 mins

The Big Chill 2005
Channel 4 2005
Presented by Perrier Newcomer Award-winning comedy duo Noble & Silver from the UK's biggest alternative festival, The Big Chill 05 is a 40 minute music programme with a difference. Mixed with surreally hilarious sketches and links from this dangerously innovative comedy act are live performances and deadpan interviews with boho disco diva Roisin Murphy, psychedelic country combo The Earlies, hip hop/jazz act Youngblood Brass Band, Finnish lounge lizards Husky Rescue, funk legends Fatback, desert bluesmen Tinariwen and the notorious Can Can Girls.

Director: Dom Phillips
Duration: 40 mins