Contributions from Paul Weedon | Little White Lies

Contributor Paul Weedon

Paul Weedon is a UK-based freelance writer and journalist. He's been writing about film, music and popular culture for over a decade.

A man, wearing a dark shirt and trousers, working at a professional audio mixing console at Abbey Road Studios. The image shows a variety of audio equipment and speakers.
Hard Craft

How Film Music Comes to Life: Inside Abbey Road

by Paul Weedon

Syn­ony­mous with film scor­ing for over four decades, Abbey Road Stu­dios’ leg­endary Stu­dio One has just under­gone a refurb. But what actu­al­ly goes on behind closed doors?
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Long Read

Wax Entertainment: How Invada Records pioneered a vinyl soundtrack boom

by Paul Weedon

Ini­tial­ly known for its exper­i­men­tal out­put, Bris­tol-based Inva­da Records has spent the last decade and a half carv­ing a rep­u­ta­tion for its care­ful­ly curat­ed ros­ter of film soundtracks.
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Interviews

Robert Levon Been on scoring The Card Counter

by Paul Weedon

Black Rebel Motor­cy­cle Club’s co-founder reflects on going head-to-head with direc­tor Paul Schrader.
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Film Music

Bobby Krlic aka The Haxan Cloak on scoring Midsommar

by Paul Weedon

The British musi­cian dis­cuss­es col­lab­o­rat­ing with direc­tor Ari Aster on his haunt­ing folk horror.
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Film Music

Mogwai on how to turn a film score into an album

by Paul Weedon

Gui­tarist Stu­art Braith­waite reflects on the band’s lat­est orig­i­nal score for the sci-fi action movie Kin.
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Film Music

How to write music for movie trailers

by Paul Weedon

Ursine Vulpine, whose work has appeared in teasers for Alien: Covenant and The Last Jedi, dis­cuss­es his cre­ative process.
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Film Music

Geoff Barrow and Ben Salisbury on their Free Fire soundtrack

by Paul Weedon

The com­pos­ing pair break down their sparse score for Ben Wheatley’s latest.
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Film Music

Hauschka on Jonny Greenwood’s There Will Be Blood score

by Paul Weedon

The exper­i­men­tal Ger­man com­pos­er dis­cuss­es his favourite OST.
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Film Music

Mark Mothersbaugh on shaping Wes Anderson’s sound

by Paul Weedon

The Devo front­man dis­cuss­es the pair’s col­lab­o­ra­tions and plans for a Wes Ander­son theme park.
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Film Music

Composer Hanan Townshend on knowing Terrence Malick

by Paul Weedon

The man behind the scores for The Tree of Life and Knight of Cups reveals what it’s like work­ing with the enig­mat­ic director.
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Film Music

Listen to the greatest film composer you’ve never heard of

by Paul Weedon

Sovi­et mae­stro Mikael Tariverdiev scored over a 100 films in a remark­able career that spanned five decades.
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Review

Weekend

by Paul Weedon

A remark­able fea­ture debut from Andrew Haigh sig­nals an excit­ing new voice in LGBT cinema.

3
Anticipation
4
Enjoyment
4
In Retrospect