02/02/2011

Cult British band Tindersticks will celebrate their scores for French auteur Claire Denis’ films in a series of concerts across Europe in 2011.

The first of these will be at London’s Queen Elizabeth Hall on April 26 in conjunction with the British Film Institute, with a special screening of Nenette et Boni at the BFI Southbank on April 27, followed by an onstage Q&A with Denis and the band’s Stuart Staples, discussing their work together.

The concerts will be in cinematic settings, bringing together the music with the evocative images that inspired it. April 26 will also see the release of the Tindersticks’ Claire Denis Film Scores 1995-2010, a boxed set collection of six film soundtracks. The set will include music from Nenette et Boni, White Material [+see also:
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Staples said, “Approaching each film has always asked us to step into an unknown, stretch ourselves and do things we did not think we were able. At the end we always feel changed in some way. This has fed into all our other music and is a contributing factor to why we're still struggling to catch our ideas after all these years, still frustrated and fascinated in equal measure.

“Other people have asked us to score their films, but we always reached a point where we realised that the freedom and conversation Claire affords (and expects from) us is not there, and then it becomes something different, making music for a purpose (money?) – something we’re well aware we have never been very good at.”