Speakers Corner Quartet: exclusive studio session
Ahead of their appearance at Chaka Khan’s Meltdown, we met up with the South London favourites at Lewisham’s The Room Studios
Beginning life as the house band for Brixton-based spoken word and hip-hop session Speakers Corner, the four-piece have since become the heartbeat of South London music.
Never straying too far from their roots, the last 15 years have seen them grow and collaborate with a host of musicians and performers including Sampha, Kae Tempest and Shabaka Hutchings.
In this video, introduced by flautist Biscuit, he and the rest of the quartet – Kwake Bass on drums, Raven Bush on violin, Peter Bennie on bass – offered up an 11 minute jam session as they prepared for their gig at Chaka Khan’s Meltdown in June 2024.
Speakers Corner Quartet joined forces with the 35-piece Guildhall Session Orchestra to present brand new compositions and some reworked favourites in a special performance as part of Chaka Khan’s Meltdown, here at the Southbank Centre.
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