A Night to Remember
With Festival Voices, Olivia Chaney, 2Fox, Ristband Studios & more
Memory Unwrapped
| Festival Voices | |
|---|---|
| Olivia Chaney | |
| Ristband Studios | |
| 2Fox |
Fragmented Recollection:
| Ben Nobuto | Blip |
|---|---|
| Philip Glass | Three Songs |
| Roger Marsh | Not a soul but ourselves… |
| Thomas Tallis | Lamentations of Jeremiah, Part 1 |
| Nico Bentley | If Ye Love Me (after Tallis) |
Kings Place produces a bold night of unexpected encounters, celebrating memory, music and connection for the opening of Memory Unwrapped 2026. Join Festival Voices, Olivia Chaney, 2Fox, Ristband Studios and more for a night to remember.
One Night. Infinite Memories.
The night begins with Festival Voices, renowned for redefining the choral experience, performing a one-hour tour-de-force of Tallis, Glass, Nobuto and more. From there, the evening unfolds across every corner of our building: step into a live music VR experience created by technology studio, Ristband, encounter the haunting intimacy of Olivia Chaney, amongst many other experiences.
At the heart of this festival-like gathering, acclaimed producers 2Fox curate an unmissable soundtrack for our foyer space, bringing artists and audiences together late into the night.
Join us for A Night to Remember, a celebration of memory in all its forms, and of the artists and audiences who keep Kings Place alive.
This event will last approximately 3 hours in total.
Fragmented Recollection
Festival Voices open Memory Unwrapped with Fragmented Recollection, an original choral journey blending Renaissance polyphony, minimalist classics, and cutting-edge new work. Featuring Tallis, Glass, Ben Nobuto, and a new commission inspired by Hildegard von Bingen, this bold performance premieres fresh music and spans centuries, inviting audiences to explore memory’s shifting nature through sound.
Fragmented Recollection is a bold, evocative choral experience that pushes the boundaries of vocal music. Blending Renaissance polyphony, minimalist classics and cutting-edge new work, Festival Voices present choral music heard through the lens of memory: looping, breaking, shifting and reforming.
The programme moves from the raw power of Tallis’s Lamentations of Jeremiah (Part I) to the pulsating clarity of Philip Glass’s Three Songs, the glitchy urgency of Ben Nobuto’s Blip, and Roger Marsh’s jagged setting of James Joyce. Tallis’s If Ye Love Me is transformed by Nico Bentley into a remix that fuses sacred tradition with electronic sound.
Festival Voices also premiere a new commission in response to Hildegard von Bingen, performed live in the foyer to open the evening. This intimate prelude sets the tone for what follows: a journey through music that asks what it means to remember, and what happens when memory begins to slip.
As the centrepiece of a full evening of live music, performance and installation at Kings Place, Fragmented Recollection is an unmissable start to the season. Bold, beautiful and unexpected.
Ristband Presents FORMATIONS
A live performance virtual reality experience & MACHINE MEMORY AV Installation.
Ristband Studios presents a unique award-winning immersive concert combining live music, performance, spatial audio and virtual reality, taking audiences on a journey through memories that are both real and surreal. Visitors will also experience Machine Memory, an installation revealing how computers “see” the world, recognizing objects and movement, and remembering them over time.
Concessions & Under 30s tickets
Kings Place Concessions Tickets
We want to ensure that people who may be struggling financially to purchase a ticket can still enjoy visiting Kings Place. A limited number of tickets are allocated for certain events (if the ticket type does not show in the booking pathway, it means they are not available for this event or have all been sold). Concessions tickets are accessible for people on the following criteria (for more information visit our FAQs)
- Pension Credit
- Universal Credit
- Disability Benefit
- Income Support or Job Seekers allowance
- Students
£10 ‘Under 30s’ tickets
A limited number of £10 tickets for attendees aged under 30 are available for certain shows. To purchase an ‘Under 30s’ ticket, please choose the ‘Under 30s’ price type when selecting your ticket(s). If the option does not appear, this means all ‘Under 30s’ tickets have sold out or are not available for this performance. Please note that proof of age may be requested at the venue. The £10 offer does not apply to premium price categories.
Plan your visit
Getting here
Kings Place is situated just a few minutes’ walk from King’s Cross and St Pancras stations, one of the most connected locations in London and now the biggest transport hub in Europe.
Our address is:
90 York Way, London, N1 9AG.
The Venue
Our performance spaces are situated on the lower ground floor. Hall One, Hall Two and St Pancras are located in level -2, reached by stairs, escalator and lift from the ground floor entrance level.
Event Times
Door times indicate auditorium entrance times only. Visitors are welcome to enjoy the Kings Place seating areas, gallery-level art, canal-side terrace, café, restaurant and bar throughout the day and evening.
- Our events begin promptly at the advertised start time. Typically, there is no support unless otherwise stated.
- We recommend arriving in good time before the performance. The Hall doors will open 30 minutes before the performance to allow time to take your seats, or to choose a space for standing shows.
- Latecomers will be admitted at a suitable break in the performance where possible
Access
We aim to make your visit to Kings Place as comfortable as possible. For more information about the accessibility of Kings Place, including details about our Access Scheme, please visit this page.
If you would like to discuss your access requirements with a member of our team, please get in touch with the Box Office team at info@kingsplace.co.uk.
Food & Drink
Rotunda Bar & Restaurant
Rotunda, situated on the ground floor of Kings Place, offers a unique dining and drinking experience alongside Regent’s Canal. The concert bar in the venue foyer will also be open for select events.
Green & Fortune Café
Recently re-furbished and now open with a new look, the Green & Fortune Café is open for selected concerts. Serving hot and cold food and drinks, including sandwiches, salads, soup, stew and a pie of the day, alongside a choice of cakes made by the on-site bakery team. See here for selected concert dates and standard opening hours.
About Festival Voices
Festival Voices has rapidly built a reputation as one of the UK’s most forward-thinking vocal ensembles. Under the co-artistic direction of founders Gregory Batsleer and Oskar McCarthy, the ensemble creates transformative choral experiences through bold, cross-genre collaboration, with performances at venues including Southbank Centre, Kings Place, the London Handel Festival and Bold Tendencies.
FV’s programming reaches across eras, presenting early music alongside contemporary works in ways that challenge convention and invite new ways of listening. Recent highlights include a radical reimagining of Mozart’s ‘Requiem’ at Bold Tendencies, Terry Riley’s ‘Sun Rings’ at Kings Place, and an electronic reinterpretation of Handel’s ‘Dixit Dominus’ with Doug Varone and Dancers, currently touring in the USA.
Committed to commissioning new work and collaborating across disciplines, Festival Voices rethinks how and where choral music is heard, engaging new audiences in powerful and unexpected ways. The ensemble’s performances are known for their clarity, precision and emotional depth, offering audiences a choral experience that is both rooted in tradition and creatively ambitious.
About Olivia Chaney
Born in Florence to a writer and painter-turned-academic, Olivia Chaney grew up listening to everything from Prince to Joni Mitchell to Henry Purcell. This eclectic mix of influences sparked a passion for songwriting that she nurtured at Chetham’s School of Music and The Royal Academy. After showcasing at SXSW and a stint as lead singer for electronica outfit Zero 7, Olivia signed with Nonesuch, leading to collaborations with Kronos Quartet and a Grammy nomination for Offa Rex, a collection of Fairport Convention-era classics made with The Decemberists.
Olivia’s first solo album (The Longest River), produced by Leo Abrahams, received rave reviews. Following this she recorded Shelter in NYC with genius producer-pianist Thomas Bartlett. These records established Olivia’s reputation as the author of an unmistakable brand of luscious and sophisticated music that explores inherited trauma, the clash of tradition and modernity, and the paradoxes of love.
Circus of Desire, released in March 2024, is the much anticipated third studio album from Olivia Chaney. Worked up over five eventful years, this collection of lovingly wrought songs was recorded in NYC with long-time collaborator, producer and musician Thomas Bartlett. Featuring an all-star line-up of friends old and new, including Sam Amidon, Nico Muhly and remixes by Dave Okumu, Oliver Coates and Vessel, Circus of Desire is Olivia set free.
2Fox
The high-energy sonics and introspective concepts, found in the hotly-tipped pairing of DJ Mag’s ‘July 2023 Best Emerging Artist’, Max Sinàl and Ivor Novello Award-winning Composer and Songwriter Renell Shaw, create a blend of eclectic soulful house under the name of 2fox.
With over 25 Million Streams and 311,000 monthly listeners on Spotify, 2fox continue to connect their global audience with some of the UK’s most exciting, up and coming and established artists such as: House Gospel Choir, Nandi, Afronaut Zu, Rudimental, Hamzaa, Sophia Thakur, Rosey Chan, Liam Bailey, BB James and Laville.
2fox are rooted in the energy of club culture, and are inspired by the diversity, stories, and spectrum of rhythms that can only be gathered together in a cosmopolitan city such as London.