Mogwai are set to score a new documentary focusing on the 70th anniversary of Hiroshima.
The Mark Cousins documentary Storyville: Atomic – Living in Dread And Promise will detail one of two occasions an atomic bomb has been used on civilian population, and will receive full soundtrack treatment from Mogwai.
The band have previously worked on soundtracks for Zidane and Les Revenants, and the group's guitarist Stuart Braithwaite is a longstanding member of CND.
Speaking to Clash last year, Stuart actually named a visit to the city of Hiroshima as representing a political awakening of sorts.
“I’m a member of CND and that came after visiting Hiroshima,” he says. “It had quite a big effect on me. I just thought: ‘anything I can do to stop this ever happening again.’ To stop us wasting money on these evil contraptions.”
“I’ve got largely socialist beliefs too,” he continued, “and I find the idea of nuclear weapons which cost a £100 billion that no one has any intention of ever using being 30 miles away from the biggest city in Scotland – where people are having to go to food banks because they can’t afford to eat – I find that insufferable.”
Check out the trailer for Storyville: Atomic – Living in Dread and Promise below.
Atomic – Living In Dread And Promise will be aired on August 9th.
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