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Crafting the ‘28 Years Later’ Soundtrack: How Scottish Band Young Fathers Worked With ‘King of the Needle Drop’ Danny Boyle
Scottish band The Young Father discuss making the '28 Years Later' soundtrack with 'King of Needle Drops' Danny Boyle
Think Iggy Pop’s “Lust for Life” in “Trainspotting” as Ewan McGregor pounded the streets of Edinburgh or the movie’s euphoric closing moments as Underworld’s era-defining track “Born Slippy” played. The three-piece — who won the Mercury Prize for their debut album “Dead” in 2014 and are made up of Alloysious Massaquoi, Kayus Bankole and Graham ‘G’ Hastings — had worked with Boyle before, writing the song “Only God Knows” for his 2017 “Trainspotting” sequel “T2 Trainspotting.” The director described it as “the heartbeat of the film” (and used five other tracks by the band on the soundtrack). But because we didn’t want to get bogged down in the actual composing element and still try to keep that needle drop thing alive, we would sometimes just see the scene then turn it off, do some music in the room and throw it to see if it works.
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