In a fairly surprising move, electro-pop siren Alison Goldfrapp has announced on her blog that her band will be providing the score to the imminent young John Lennon biopic “Nowhere Boy.”
NME noticed over the weekend a new post from Goldfrapp, who writes, “We have emerged from an intense period of work and I’m pleased I can now tell you about it (as it is official). We have written the score for a film called “Nowhere Boy.” It’s about John Lennon as a boy and stars Aaron Johnson, Kristin Scott-Thomas and Anne Marie Duff. It’s Sam Taylor-Wood’s first feature film and it’s truly amazing that they gave us the opportunity to do this. We are all really excited about going to Abbey Road Studios soon to record the strings with the full orchestra. The film is closing the London Film Festival and is premiered on 29th October at Odeon Leicester Square. Now our work on the film is almost finished, we will carry on writing the Goldfrapp album.”
It’s a decidedly left field choice, particularly given the fairly conventional nature of the early footage we saw at the London Film Festival launch a few weeks back not to mention their seemingly incongruous electro-disco futura sounds. They’re a band not known for being particularly retro (although, quite frankly, they should be at the top of anyone’s list to record the next Bond theme tune), so this could prove interesting, one way or another. The band’s most recent album, the typically excellent Seventh Tree, combined electro-pop with Vashti Bunyan-style pastoral folk, so this may be where the band are heading with the score, although talk of a full orchestra suggests that it may be a bigger affair.
We’re intrigued to hear this, and we’ll be catching up with both the film and the score when it premieres at the London Film Festival at the end of October. There’s still no word on whether the filmmakers have managed to license early Lennon songs, but we’ll report back as soon as we know.