Playlist: Daniel & Matthew Wolfe

Acclaimed director reveals his audio inspirations...

If you appreciated Jake Gyllenhaal's hipster-killin' turn in The Shoes' video for Time To Dance, your curiosity will surely be piqued by the video director Daniel Wolfe's debut feature film Catch Me Daddy which will be released in UK cinemas on Friday. Written and directed alongside his brother Matthew Wolfe, it's a visceral and distinctly stylish debut which sets the horrors of honour killing to a desolate and downbeat Yorkshire backdrop.

Having fled her family home in her teens, Laila (newcomer Sameena Jabeen Ahmed) is a young British-Pakistani woman who lives in a caravan on the edge of town with her boyfriend Aaron. Their shared hand-to-mouth existence is interrupted by bounty hunters who have been hired by Laila's father to return her home at all costs. It commences a terse chase across the bleak moors. Can Laila escape from her pursuers?

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Mavado – 'Real Killer (No Chorus)'
This was a big inspiration. The operatic depiction of violence. A true lyricist. Playing this at 3am in Sami Khan (the production designer's) car as we hurtled across the moors, satellite towns blurring past, vibed mythic madness.

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Buffy Sainte Marie – 'Cod'ine'
A ballad to Aaron and Laila's drug of choice, codeine. Fifty years later Southern rap is still rhyming on this opiate.

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Future 'Deeper Than The Ocean'

My pain runnin' deeper than the ocean
Pain runnin' deeper than the ocean

A genius lyricist. The feeling of this song was a spark for Aaron and Laila's relationship with each other and with codeine.

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Big Brother and The Holding Company – 'Combination Of The Two'
Our dad had this on vinyl when we were kids. The cover is designed by Robert Crumb, in a weird way it influenced the script and the poster. This song has an insane energy. It's electric. Freedom and danger. It made us picture the moors on fire. We were going to open with this song, but it felt too much in the edit. The album was later released with a live version of 'Catch Me Daddy', which is where the name of the film came from.

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Alley Boy – 'Up And Runnin'
Pure Nihilism. A feeling of lawlessness. Love the amount of hiss on the opening sample. This to us plays like a modern western. Mob shit. Zone 6 shit.

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Patti Smith – 'Gloria'
Van Morrison's Gloria, delivered with abandon by Patti Smith. We played this while writing. Patti Smith's intro is cinematic. The energy is crazy. In the film we feature a dance scene to Patti Smith's 'Horses/Land of 1000 Dances'. Laila and Aaron together, alone, a moment suspended in time. Riders approaching. A bubble about to burst.

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J.S. Bach – 'BWV 668, Vor Deinen Thron Tret Ich Hiermit'
Bach's deathbed Chorale played beautifully by Martin Lucker. A moment of peace.

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Van Morrison – 'He Ain't Give You None'
This was Tony's theme. It inspired his character. Soul man.

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Catch Me Daddy is out today (February 27th).

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