For the past 4/5 months I have been worked hard on my first feature film: Burn It Down!
Perhaps I should qualify it as a feature length documentary, but one that had its premiere at the Prince Charles Theatre in Leicester square on the opening night of the BFI London Film Festival. Which was last Wednesday – Oct 6 2021…
It’s produced by Dorothy Street Pictures and is about the somewhat disastrous reboot of the Woodstock festival which took place 30 years on from the original in 1999. I worked closely with director Tim Travers-Hawkins and editor Mike Rolt, creating a score based around the musicality of the times. Lots of guitars then, but also a fair amount of tweaked and twisted electronic as well as poignant pianos and strings.
I also, managed to get permission from the Pixies to cover one of the most iconic tracks – Where is My Mind and it was great to get some of my favourite session players in to help me do it justice. We went as far from the original as possible with a piano and strings version. You don’t want to get on the wrong side of Frank Black after all.
It was a really fun few months and am really happy with the result. It was also a thrill to see it play out in 5.1 on a big screen in Leicester Square!
The film is not yet out on general release but when it is I shall post details and of course some of my work.
In the meantime here is a link to the pre-view of the film
http://whatson.bfi.org.uk/LFF/Online/default.asp?doWork::WScontent::loadArticle=Load&BOparam::WScontent::loadArticle::article_id=61607DAA-EB27-46F6-A256-4C7D36DDB520&BOparam::WScontent::loadArticle::context_id=B3E91B5D-7B9B-4FE2-8002-5B2B687EA434
