CHERRY RED ON YOUR SCREENS!

Cherry Red own a vast amount of catalogue, often used in well-known hit TV shows and movies. Below are just a few of the recent shows where you might have heard a Cherry Red tune!

 WATCHMEN – HBO

First published in 1986, Watchmen was a ground-breaking comic/graphic novel series created by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons. presenting a dystopian, crime-infested world of has-been superheroes and larger-than-life villains. Last year, Watchmen was reimagined to critical acclaim for a TV series on HBO. The stunning soundtrack included a perennial 80s classic by Howard Jones, used for ironic effect: ‘Things Can Only Get Better’.

Watch the trailer here.

Buy Howard Jones – Dream Into Action 2CD/DVD Edition here.

Buy Howard Jones – Dream Into Action Remastered CD Edition here.

Listen in Spotify here.

STRIKE BACK – SKY ONE

Strike Back is a hugely popular UK/US action-adventure/spy-drama TV series based on a novel by former S.A.S. soldier Chris Ryan, available to view in the UK on Sky One. First aired in the spring, Season 8 includes, in its soundtrack to one episode, ‘Getting Nowhere Fast’, a post-punk favourite from 1980 by Leeds band Girls At Our Best. We represent all of their recordings, including this fizzy, fast-and-furious mix of pop melody and punk energy.

Watch the trailer here.

Buy Make More Noise! Women In Independent Music 77-87 feat Girls At Our Best here.

Listen in Spotify here.

THE SALISBURY POISONINGS – BBC

Evolving out of an early line-up of Adam & The Ants, The Monochrome Set signed to Rough Trade in 1978. Their debut single. ‘He’s Frank’, crystallised their style of arch, arty, jangly guitar pop, pre-empting the likes of The Smiths by half a decade. ‘He’s Frank’ was recently used to soundtrack The Salisbury Poisonings, the BBC’s three-part TV dramatisation of the horrific events in the Wiltshire town in 2018, when Sergei and Yulia Skripal were found unconscious on a park bench, suffering from Novichok poisoning.

Watch the trailer here.

Buy The Monochome Set Eligible Bachelors 3CD Exanded Edition here.

Listen in Spotify here.

DIRTY JOHN – NETFLIX

Based on a podcast by Christopher Goffard, Dirty John is a U.S. true crime TV series, available outside the US via Netflix. It stars Eric Bana as John Meehan, a con man with a history of deceiving women. Season 2, subtitled The Betty Broderick Story, premiered at the end of May. One episode includes in its soundtrack the Howard Jones hit, ‘Like To Get To Know You Well’ (which reached No. 4 in the UK charts, as well as breaching the US Top 50, in 1984).

Watch the trailer here.

Buy Howard Jones – Dream Into Action 2CD/DVD Edition here.

Buy Howard Jones – Dream Into Action Remastered CD Edition here.

Listen in Spotify here.

I KNOW THIS MUCH IS TRUE – HBO

The Mickey Finn were a London-based beat/R&B band who recorded for a variety of labels across the Sixties. Produced by Shel Talmy (The Who, The Kinks), their 1965 single, a version of Ian Whitcomb’s ‘The Sporting Life’, has just been used in HBO’s US TV mini-series I Know This Much Is True. Based on the 1998 novel by Wally Lamb, it stars Mark Ruffalo in two roles, as identical twin brothers Dominick and Thomas Birdsey.

Watch the trailer here.

Buy Halcyon Days: 60s Mod, R&B, Brit Soul & Freakbeat Nuggets feat Mickey Finn here.

Listen in Spotify here.

DENNIS AND LOIS – DOCUMENTARY

Immortalised in song by Happy Mondays, Dennis and Lois met at New York venue CBGB’s in 1975. They befriended The Ramones – and so began a life as “super fans”, travelling thousands of miles around the globe to see some 10,000 shows over a 40-year period. The pair made Manchester something of a second home, which helps explain why the soundtrack to a new Dennis And Lois documentary includes a Frank Sidebottom song ‘Monopoly’.

Watch the trailer here.

Listen in Spotify here.

BOOM FOR REAL – US JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIAT DOCUMENTARY

Boom For Real is a U.S. documentary film directed by Sara Driver, which tells the story about the late artist Jean-Michel Basquiat and his key role within the New York City art scene of the late 1970s. Basquiat first achieved fame as part of SAMO, a graffiti duo responsible for enigmatic epigrams across Manhattan’s Lower East Side. The film’s soundtrack includes a post-punk period piece by Spizzenergi, ‘Soldier, Soldier’, originally a single in 1979 on Rough Trade. Cherry Red represent many recordings by Spizz, under various guises, from that period.

Watch the trailer here.

Listen in Spotify here.