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Death From Above 1979’s Official Statement
About 5 years ago the Canadian punk duo Death From Above 1979 abruptly called it quits. At least to fans it was quite abrupt considering the couple years prior to their break up they were gaining a bigger following and becoming more and more successful. The duo for the last year of them being a band were at constant odds and always on the verge of calling it quits. Instead they decided to finish up their last booked tours and go separate ways. I along with a lot of other people were devastated. Well it was recently announced that they were getting back together and having their reunion show at this year’s Coachella. I was skeptical but yesterday they released an official statement.
Read past the break for the statement! “It’s been 5 years since Death From Above 1979 played a show, 10
years since Jesse played me the first demos & 11 years since we sat in his
parents basement and played so loud we knocked the china off the shelves
upstairs. 11 seems to be a YES number for me. Though I am usually a pretty
rational guy, if I have something on my mind and I see an 11 somewhere, I know
I’m on the right path. It’s one of my last remaining superstitions. 2011 has a
nice ring to it & if you’re so inclined, it may be the last year ever! So
why not say YES? Why not say YES to Coachella? Why not say YES to playing the
music we designed to be an undeniable source of power? Why not say YES to
stirring up a writhing pit of sweaty humans? YES to riots! YES to heavy music!
YES instead of maybe, and YES to make death your adviser and remind yourself
always, that this is not a dress rehearsal. This is the big show.
Jesse and I have decided that what we can do together should
not be denied.
Together again, as was always the intention, as a collaboration.
The collision of two different worlds.
As this all takes shape, we will reveal it to you.
All of it happening, as it always has, in our own way.
Thank you all for sharing in our excitement!
Yes.
SEBASTIEN”
Death From Above 1979 “Romantic Rights”
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Synthwave outfit GUNSHIP has released a new official music video this morning for their cover of Cyndi Lauper’s “Time After Time” featured on the soundtrack to Corin Hardy’s (The Nun, The Hallow) supernatural horror film Whistle.
To bring it full circle, Corin Hardy directs the music video himself, incorporating previously unseen footage from Whistle. More specifically, the new music video features an extended sequence from the film.
This collaboration builds on GUNSHIP’s longstanding relationship with Hardy, who previously contributed vocals to the band’s track “Cthulhu.”
“Working with Corin is a total dream,” said GUNSHIP. “He’s an old friend who we bonded with over our love for cinema and music, and we were honored to have our song featured in the film. After the Whistle premiere, we were chatting over a pint, and he told us about a beautiful pseudo ‘one shot’ sequence he was heartbroken to lose in the final film. We suggested resurrecting it and using it as a music video. Corin got it immediately, and the result is perfect. It’s heartbreaking, haunting and pure 80s noir soaked.”
Corin Hardy added: “I wanted Whistle to feel like a horror movie I might have watched around the late 1980s, alongside films like A Nightmare on Elm Street, The Lost Boys, and The Breakfast Club. Films steeped in teen-angst and heightened feelings. Music was such a huge part of creating the romance of those cinematic worlds. Gunship’s synth-drenched cover of Cyndi Lauper’s ‘Time After Time’ was always top of my list. Their unique heart-on-your-sleeve sound was the perfect choice for a key moment in the movie. To come together post-release and create this extended music video is simply the cherry on top. Dan, Al & Al (Gunship) have provided the film a real companion piece in the world of Whistle… it makes me want my MTV again!”
It’s a fitting collaboration, as music serves a narrative purpose in Whistle. Music, the director told Bloody Disgusting, was a means of immersing viewers in this world and its characters’ perspectives. Hardy even touched on this particular track: “So in a way, the music you’ll listen to is effectively what Chrys is listening to, which is her dad’s record collection. Then there are other songs like the Gunship track, which is a Cyndi Lauper cover, which is more like Rel’s [Sky Yang] music. It comes in when we have a sequence in Rel’s romantic heartbreak moment. So yeah, I made a character list of who might be listening to what.”
Whistle sees a misfit group of unwitting high school students confronted with mortality when they blow a cursed Aztec Death Whistle, setting a terrifying chain of events in motion.
Dafne Keen (Logan, “The Acolyte“), Sophie Nélisse (“Yellowjackets”), Sky Yang (Rebel Moon), Jhaleil Swaby (“Supergirl”), Ali Skovbye (Grizzly Night, “Firefly Lane”), Percy Hynes White (“Wednesday”), Michelle Fairley (“Game of Thrones”), and Nick Frost (Shaun of the Dead).
The supernatural teen horror movie is available to stream on Shudder now.