(Please note, as one of the world’s least musical people, I’m
going to make no attempt to describe any of this music.)
Vince Clarke
The guy from Erasure, Yazoo and early Depeche Mode provided
the soundtrack for Blood, directed by Charly Cantor in 2000. A stunning ‘inverse
vampire’ tale of a genetically created woman with addictive, narcotic blood,
the film has frustratingly never been released uncut (except in France, where
it was dubbed).
Tracy Thorn
Fifty percent of Everything But the Girl, Thorn composed the
score for Carol Morley’s terrific 2015 feature The Falling, in which Maisie
Williams is at the epicentre of a fainting sickness outbreak in a 1960s girls’ school.
Guy Fletcher
As well as playing keyboards in Dire Straits and on Mark
Knopfler’s subsequent solo projects, Fletcher composed several film soundtracks
including one for the awful 2005 movie Spirit Trap. (The cast included Billie
Piper when she was still primarily known for her records and also Russian
Eurovision singer Alsou.)
Robert Fripp
Steve Oram’s bonkers 2015 humans-act-like-apes feature
Aaaaaaaah! includes among its cast former 1980s pop star Toyah Willcox. When
her husband, King Crimson rocker Fripp, heard about the movie he offered Oram a
collection of unreleased tracks from which to collate a soundtrack.
Graham Coxon
Steven Nesbitt’s 2010 film Curio, a sort of Misery/Psycho
mash-up (with ghosts) features a soundtrack from Coxon, lead guitarist with
Britpoppers Blur. The film was released in the States as Mother’s Day Evil.
Steven Severin
Former bassist for Siouxsie and the Banshees, Severin has provided the soundtracks for two British horror films: Robert Pratten’s atmospheric 2004 feature
London Voodoo and Paul Burrow’s 2006 anglo-giallo Nature Morte. (He has also
composed a score to accompany silent classic Vampyr.)
Orbital
The only vaguely good thing about Octane, a terrible
horror/road movie directed by Marcus Adams in 2003 (released as Pulse in the
States), was the soundtrack by dance duo Orbital. Every single other aspect of
the film was really, really bad.
Matt Johnson
In 2009, when Gerard Johnson needed music for his
brilliantly bleak character study Tony, about a socially awkward psychopath, he
turned to his brother Matt. Music fans know him better as the main guy behind
alternative band The The.
