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See Dawn of the Dead and Sus­piria in con­cert this summer

13 Apr 2018

Words by Eve Jones

Man playing piano on stage with large, colourful projection behind him.
Man playing piano on stage with large, colourful projection behind him.
Clau­dio Simonetti’s Gob­lin will be per­form­ing their icon­ic scores in time for the films’ 40th anniversaries.

Clau­dio Simonetti’s Gob­lin will be giv­ing hor­ror clas­sics Dawn of the Dead and Sus­piria a new lease of life this August. The band, who com­posed and pro­duced the orig­i­nal scores for the icon­ic hor­rors, will be per­form­ing live in con­cert along­side screen­ings in Lon­don and Edinburgh.

Sus­piria direc­tor Dario Argen­to first hired Gob­lin to cre­ate the sound­track for his 1975 film Deep Red, aka Pro­fon­do Rosso. The com­po­si­tion, sup­pos­ed­ly writ­ten in a sin­gle night, soared into the Ital­ian charts where it stayed for for 52 weeks, memo­ri­al­is­ing Gob­lin in cult hor­ror history.

Re-cre­at­ing this suc­cess, the band then pro­duced the wail­ing and frica­tive score to Sus­piria, adding an immer­sive lay­er to the film set in a can­dy-coloured Ger­man bal­let school. And in 1978 Gob­lin did it again with their wild­ly pop­u­lar sound­track to George A Romero’s Dawn of the Dead, a post-apoc­a­lyp­tic night­mare famed for its grey-faced zom­bies and shop­ping mall setting.

These per­for­mances will be held in some­what grander loca­tions: London’s Union Chapel and Edinburgh’s Sum­mer­hall, as part of Edin­burgh Fes­ti­val Fringe. With Dawn of the Dead soon to cel­e­brate its 40th anniver­sary, and with Luca Guadagnino’s Sus­piria remake set for release lat­er this year, these live events are not to be missed.

These spe­cial shows will take place 5 – 6 August in Edin­burgh and 17 – 18 August in Lon­don. Tick­ets are avail­able from seet​ick​ets​.com/​t​o​u​r​/​g​oblin

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