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Yahoo
30-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
28 Years Later Has An Amazing Music Callback To The Original. Here's How The Song Ended Up in 28 Days Later
When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. As you all have probably heard by now, 28 Years Later, which just premiered on the 2025 movie schedule, is an all-around great cinematic experience (even more so in the 4DX format). Like a lot of the critics who saw it before release (including CinemaBlend's Mike Reyes, who gave it a 5-star review), I loved just about everything about the movie, including a great callback to 28 Days Later. If you're wondering if I'm talking about Godspeed You! Black Emperor's 'East Hastings,' then you'd be correct. After hearing the song that first introduced me to one of my favorite bands more than 20 years ago, I started to recall all these stories from the early 2000s about how Danny Boyle was able to get the anti-capitalist Canadian post-rock collective to let him use the track in 28 Days Later's iconic London sequence. If you're not familiar, the story is really cool… If you have a conversation with someone about 28 Days Later, the conversation is going to turn to the scene where Cillian Murphy's Jim is walking through an abandoned London. The scene, which takes place weeks after the zombie apocalypse started in England, was actually the first thing Danny Boyle shot, as he revealed in a June 2025 interview with NME. During the chat, Boyle was asked about the music that inspired his film, and the filmmaker was quick to point out: I remember, because we shot the opening sequence a couple of months before we did the rest of the film, and we put it together and put that track on it, and you just thought it's very rare that you feel, oh God, that it works. I don't care what anybody says about if it works, but very rarely, you feel that. It's easy to see why Boyle would gravitate towards Godspeed You! Black Emperor's 'East Hastings' and became immediately attached to it. The intensity of the track complements the eerie and chaotic tone of the sequence and ramps up the intensity before throwing the audience into the rest of the movie. However, getting the band to sign off on it was no easy task. Considering the personal politics and ideologies of Godspeed You! Black Emperor, both as individuals and as a band, it should be no surprise that the group was reluctant to let Danny Boyle and Fox Searchlight Pictures (now Searchlight Pictures after the Disney acquisition) use the track in 28 Days Later, but the director persisted. During a June 2025 conversation with Soundtrack Extra with Edith Bowman, Boyle said the band was 'quite suspicious about Fox,' the company that owned Searchlight at the time, and rightfully so. However, upon traveling to Newcastle to see the band and have dinner with them, Boyle was able to show them the scene and explain what the movie was about. Though the band eventually signed off on it, they didn't allow the track to show up on the soundtrack, as pointed out in a 2022 Guardian piece on Godspeed's rise in popularity. Just like in 28 Days Later, the use of 'East Hastings' in the final part of 28 Years Later creates an incredible and instantly iconic movie moment that I'll be thinking about for a long time. However, getting permission to use the track this time around was a whole lot easier for Danny Boyle and company. In the NME chat mentioned above, the director revealed that this time around, it was just a simple conversation and request, with Godspeed You! Black Emperor signing off on its use without any trouble. Just don't go buy the 28 Years Later soundtrack expecting to hear the track, as it's once again left off the album release. Though 'East Hastings' isn't on the official 28 Years Later soundtrack, which is one of the best in recent memory, you can find the legendary song on Godspeed You! Black Emperor's classic album, F#A#∞.
HKFP
13-05-2025
- Entertainment
- HKFP
Clockenflap 2025 line-up: Rich Brian, Jacob Collier, Franz Ferdinand, Passenger, Panther Chan among first acts
Hong Kong's biggest international outdoor music and arts festival – Clockenflap – returns this December with Rich Brian, Jacob Collier, Franz Ferdinand, Yoga Lin, Beth Gibbons and Panther Chan among the first acts to be confirmed. The festival will run from Friday, December 5 until Sunday, December 7 at the Central Harbourfront. Indonesian rapper Rich Brian, will be joined by British singer-songwriter Jacob Collier and Canadian post-rockers Godspeed You! Black Emperor. Taiwanese superstar Yoga Lin, Beth Gibbons – the former Portishead lead – and local singer Panther Chan will also feature. Indie legends Franz Ferdinand return to the city, whilst Bitter Tea of General Yeng will make their Hong Kong debut – both playing on the Sunday. Fans will also catch German electro-house hellraiser Digitalism's DJ set, Britain's Passenger, Chilli Beans from Japan, and US alt-indie favourite Soccer Mommy. TV Girl, Riria, Bitter Tea of General Yeng and Phum Viphurit have also been confirmed for the initial line-up. More acts will be announced soon, Clockenflap said on Tuesday. 'With its spectacular outdoor setting between the towering skyscrapers of Central and the epic vistas of Hong Kong's iconic harbour, this year's edition of Clockenflap will once again feature the full, world-class festival experience that has made the event an unmissable occasion for music fans across the city and beyond,' their press release said. Tickets: Limited early bird tickets are available now via Ticketflap. Early Bird 3-day General Admission tickets at HK$1,790; Early Bird single-day General Admission tickets (Fri/Sat/Sun) at HK$1,150; Early Bird 3-day U18 tickets at HK$1,430; Early Bird single-day (Fri/Sat/Sun) U18 tickets at HK$790. Venue: Central Harbourfront Event Space, Central. Dates: 5-7 December, 2025.
