David Holmes: This England (Original Soundtrack)

David Holmes (Ocean's Eleven, Out of Sight, Killing Eve, The Fall, '71) new soundtrack to Sky limited series 'This England' is released via Stranger Than Paradise Records. The show is co-written and directed by Michael Winterbottom (A Mighty Heart, The Road to Guantanamo) and stars Kenneth Branagh as Boris Johnson and Ophelia Lovibond as Carrie Symonds. The 6-part drama is based on Boris Johnson's tumultuous first months as Prime Minister and traces the impact on the country of the first wave of the Coronavirus pandemic. The plan for the music for THIS ENGLAND came in 3 parts. 1. We wanted to create a theme that was high in tempo. A theme that moved as fast as the virus was spreading. We wanted to always feel that we were chasing the vaccine but were ultimately never catching up as the virus took hold through huge events like Cheltenham & Champions League matches that should never have gone ahead. All the rhythms within the score were created using heart beats, ventilators, defibrillators, ECG machines etc. Even though these weren't obviously noticeable I felt that it worked great as a linear thread and gave the piece real human movement, emotion and tension that told the story in an original way. 2. The second theme centred around the virus itself as it creeped, crawled and spread through cities, countries and ultimately the world, the horrific nature of it and how the world practically changed overnight. I wanted to create a sense of danger that was uncomfortable. It also had to work with the recklessness, nativity and ultimately mismanagement that was witnessed day in day out in Downing Street. 3. Emotionally, we had to be really careful. The last thing we wanted was to be overblown with the emotion. It was very important to deal with the raw human emotion in a very delicate way that had a profound feeling as people of all ages were dying unnecessarily by the 100s every day. The care homes were very tricky because of the hopelessness and obvious outcome of the situation. There was no room for sentimentality. We also wanted to create a darker sense of melancholy as Boris Johnson was not taking the virus at all seriously as he drove off to Chequers week after week.

1. Welcome to Brexit Britain
2. Meanwhile in Wuhan
3. Astrazeneca
4. Herd Immunity
5. Care Homes Catastrophe
6. Why? Why? Why?
7. Why Are They Not Testing?
8. A Very Different Britain
9. 15000 Discharged from Care
10. Homes
11. No Morality
12. National Health Service
13. Test! Test! Test!
14. Another Break at Chequers
15. Jobs for the Boys
16. Forget About the Floods
17. Human Too Human
18. Failure of Leadership

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