Just as Fight Club author Chuck Palahniuk denied the employment of Radiohead as score supremos for his new flick Choke, one member of the band has been branching out into Hollywood on his own.
Thick-thumbed Colin Greenwood has contributed to a soundtrack for a new film released this year.
In amongst playing some massive outdoor dates, rewriting the textbook on how to release an album and recording groundbreaking videos the Radiohead bass player has found time to perform on the OST for new independent film Woodpecker.
Teaming up with Lee and Tyler Sargent of Clap Your Hands Say Yeah and composer James Lavino, Colin has followed his younger brother into Hollywood after Jonny last year wrote the music for Let There Be Blood.
The film, directed by Alex Karpovsky, has already had screenings at a number of festivals including South By South West, Wisconsin and Maine International film festivals.
Spacey swooner Wayne Coyne has shot his load and giving information on the The Flaming Lips’ two biggest projects to date.
Talking to BBC 6 Music on Saturday (July 12) and in typical fantastical style Coyne gave details of the band’s new album, its disparate influences and the imminent release of their long-awaited feature film.
“Some of it sounds like John Lennon, but if he got together with Miles Davis and they went back in time, but there was a supercomputer that they could figure out how to work!”
We’ve done a couple of songs, but we have a handful of other songs that I know have a good vibe to them. We’ve been wanting to do it for a while, but we’ve been trying to find the right combination of song and mood. But I think we’ll get there.”
On top of all this activity the first ever full-length Flaming Lips feature film, Christmas On Mars, is in the can. Seven years in the making it looks set for a DVD release toward the end of the year:
“We never knew when we were gonna release the movie for sure. We started making it in 2001, but we always knew were gonna release the Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots album [2002] before that came out.
“But then after Yoshimi came out, we never got to go home again. So luckily we were interrupted by popularity – or whatever you want to call it. And luckily we were able to get back to it and I think it’s better now that we didn’t finish it that early because computers, technology, skill level, bravery and all those things, just changed for us. I think we’re able to do something a lot more interesting, a lot more emotional and a lot more weird. It’s just been made better because it took us so long.”
The film’s plot is perhaps as randomly psychedelic as the band’s multi-layered lunacy hints at.
“There’s an abandoned space station on Mars, where there’s a baby being born that happens to be coinciding with Christmas - the baby’s accidentally being born on Christmas Eve,” explains Coyne.
“There’s a major disaster, the oxygen generator breaks, they don’t know if the baby’s gonna survive, but my character [a green-faced Martian] shows up and through some magical thinking, some great things happens.”
For more Flaming Lips craziness check out the video to the band’s 2006 single ‘The Yeah Yeah Yeah Song (With All Your Power)’ below:
This news story can be found on the Quietus with other pieces by Dean Samways.
A series of short films are being made to accompany the reissuing of Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds entire back catalogue.
From Her To Eternity, The First Born Is Dead, Kicking Against The Pricks and Your Funeral My Trial are to be digitally remastered and remixed in full 5.1 surround sound and released at the end of the year with more released throughout 2009.
Each super-dooper deluxe collector’s edition will include the remastered stereo album, the new surround mix, the b-sides from the singles, exclusive sleeve notes and a specially commissioned documentary by acclaimed artists Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard.
This epic film-making project will be touring the globe looking for fans who are willing to interviewed talking about their favourite band.
Taking in London, New York, Melbourne and Berlin, Forsyth and Pollard will be looking for people who feel they have a connection to the band's music, or a particular song.
Each film is likely to be a powerful montage of people chatting directly into the camera about their experiences with the band’s work. From the famous to the infamous and not-so-famous, everyone will have a chance to have their say.
The artists already have a history of working with Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, and have spent the last six months working with them on several projects. They have produced four promo videos for the new album Dig, Lazarus Dig!!!, some live studio footage and a set of seven one minute 'seance' clips which have been broadcast on YouTube.
If you are interested in participating visit the artists’ website here.
Watch the first seance film below:
This news story can be found on the Quietus with other pieces by Dean Samways.
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