Monday 13 December 2010




West One Music soundtracks the trailer for one of the most hotly anticipated feature films of 2011, NEDS (Non-Educated Delinquents). A Bluelight/Fidélité Films/Studio Urania Production presented by Film4, UK Film Council, Scottish Screen and Wild Bunch, NEDS has already taken two top honours at the San Sebastian Film Festival.

Directed by Peter Mullan, the film is a coming of age drama set in 1970s Glasgow, exploring the violent upheavals of adolescence as an intelligent boy struggles with gang warfare, an alcoholic father and class barriers.


Mullan recently stole the show as the Death Eater Yaxley in "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows", his previous work includes roles in "Children of Men" & "The Red Riding Trilogy" as well as Mel Gibson's "Braveheart", Ken Loach's "Riff-Raff" and Danny Boyle's "Trainspotting". NEDS marks his third feature as a writer and director, after Orphans and The Magdalene Sisters.


You can check the trailer below, it features tracks from West One Music albums Absolution and Enlightenment.


Wednesday 24 November 2010


Homefront is the new video game developed by Kaos Studios and published by THQ. It’s set in 2027 when a now-nuclear armed Korean People's Army invades the USA after the economic downfall of the United States of America, and the unrest that seems to grip the nation before the invasion.


The game is written by John Milius, who co-wrote Apocalypse Now and wrote Red Dawn. The track hand picked for the trailer was Black River from our latest addition to West One Music’s trailer collection Apocalypse which is packed with immense trailer cues from a dark, twisted world.



Tuesday 9 November 2010


A selection of Fired Earth Music tracks have been chosen to soundtrack a number of exciting trailers for new cult game, Vanquish.

Vanquish is launched worldwide October 2010 and is the latest work by world-renowned games developer Shinji Mikami (Resident Evil Series, Devil May Cry etc.) in association with Platinum Games.

Check out one of several trailers, where tracks from the Fired Earth Music album Vulcano provides the high-octane musical accompaniment.






Tuesday 12 October 2010



News just in… Subway's latest campaign uses our showbiz big band swinger, 'Opening Night', found on Jazz Fuel Volume 1. The album is the 3rd release from our spanking new retro label, Refuel Music.

The TV ad is directed by Jared Eberhardt and produced by Partizan. Shot in a single sideways take, there are six actors for eight roles across a series of visually diverse sets.It takes consumers on a little magical adventure illustrating how Subway works and why it does things a bit differently...

A bit like the team here at the West One Music Group. Would you like some cheese with that?



Monday 4 October 2010


West One Music are excited to announce that Warner Bros. latest release 'The Town', directed by Ben Affleck features the pensive and thrilling original score written by West One Music composer David Buckley.


Featuring a star-studded cast including Ben Affleck, Jeremy Renner, Rebecca Hall and Chris Cooper, 'The Town' took in an estimated $23.8 million in its first three days has made it to the no.1 spot at the US Box Office!


Read more and check out the trailer here.


Tuesday 7 September 2010




West One Music is excited to announce that several tracks from Enlightenment (WOM 207) have been selected for use in Submarine, the latest release from a Warp Films productions (in association with Ben Stiller’s Red Hour Films and Film 4) whose past work includes such critically acclaimed features as Dead Man’s Shoes, This is England and the recent Four Lions.


The film stars Noah Taylor (Shine, The Life Aquatic…), Paddy Considine (The Bourne Ultimatum, Hot Fuzz) and Golden Globe winner Sally Hawkins (Happy Go Lucky). It is the feature film debut of actor/writer/director Richard Ayoade (The IT Crowd, The Mighty Boosh, Dir. Arctic Monkeys, Vampire Weekend music videos). Submarine is an adaption of Joe Dunthorne’s novel, a coming of age comedy set in Swansea. It tells the story of 15-year-old Oliver Tate (Craig Roberts) as he struggles to save his parent’s marriage while dealing with his own burgeoning romance with an eczema-strafed, pyromaniac girlfriend played by Yasmin Paige.


Submarine made its debut early October at Toronto International Film Festival where it was acquired by the Weinstein Company. The film will be released in 2011.


Warp Films have hand-picked the West One Music tracks to sit alongside an original soundtrack composed by Andrew Hewitt with contributions from Alex Turner (Arctic Monkeys, Last Shadow Puppets) and James Ford (Simian Mobile Disco).



Tuesday 10 August 2010


In the last few years, Golden Globe and Emmy award-winning American series Mad Men has become something of a phenomenon (even Barack Obama is a fan!), and West One Music is proud to be playing its part with Paul Reeves'Charleston being one of the tracks chosen to appear in the third season of the critically acclaimed show (the scene in question even entering the very definition of the Charleston in Wikipedia).

The track, from Quirky Vintage (WOM 140) also recently featured in major hit series Gossip Girl, whileWe Take It Allfrom WOM 123 has been selected for use in the opening moments of each and every episode of series 7 of the HBO smash Entourage.

Tuesday 13 July 2010

The Last Exorcism Film Trailer



West One Music's reputation in the trailer world proves as strong as ever with another track chosen to soundtrack the trailer for the creepy new film 'The Last Exorcism'. The creatives at LIONSGATE Films picked 'The Cult' from West One Music's trailer specific collection 'Fired Earth Music' to help heighten the horror of this seriously disturbing clip.

If you'd like to receive the Fired Earth Music collection on nifty USB simply get in touch.