Barry Adamson has announced details of his original score for SCALA!!! – the anarchic, uproarious, and ultimately heart-breaking documentary about London’s notorious rep cinema.
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Adamson’s music for SCALA!!! Or, the incredibly strange rise and fall of the world’s wildest cinema and how it influenced a mixed-up generation of weirdos and misfits (Jane Giles, Ali Catterall, 2023) brings his noir filmic sensibilities to their spiritual home: the legendary Scala cinema in London which ran from 1973-1993. During that time, the cinema hosted truly eye-popping film programming, with double-feature screenings, unforgettable All-Nighters, occasional live performances, and frequent showcases for auteurs such as John Waters, Russ Myer, Derek Jarman and David Lynch, and became hugely influential to generations. The documentary features revealing, hilarious and touching interviews with regulars, staff and artists such as John Waters, Peter Strickland, Mark Moore, Ben Wheatley and Barry Adamson, who talks about the cinema’s impact on his own creative vision.