Musician Chris Clifton – AKA Chris Funkos – has written a song with his band The FM to celebrate Barbara Windsor’s exit from EastEnders this month after 17 years.

And he recruited what seemed like the whole of Lydd-on-Sea when he shot a video for Peggy Mitchell, You Can’t Play Bass, which is released on iTunes on Monday.

The video has had about 5,000 hits since it appeared on YouTube last month and now Chris hopes it will hit number one.

It will be featured from this week on music video site muzu.tv and soon it will have its cultural debut, too, at Denmark’s Bornshorts film festival on August 27-28.

The comedy video, directed for free by Folkestone-based Peter Black, features a moustached Chris touring the seaside town’s sites with friend Nigel Gibbs, dressed up as Chewbacca from Star Wars.

They speed round in a car nicknamed the “Ratmobile”, borrowed from the British Hot Rod Association, and host a blinding gig at the Ship Inn pub in Taylor Road.

The video even features Lydd-on-Sea’s most famous asset, as the pair get stuck at a crossing for the Romney, Hythe and Dymchurch Railway.

Chris, 38, who works as a hairdresser when not writing what he calls “Indie-Retro-Electro-Punk”, said: “It was hard work. We shot the video in May and I spent months planning every little gag.

To watch the video click here