Paul Banks just dropped his own versions of two Iggy Pop songs for the new movie Sister Midnight.
He decided to cover “Gimme Danger” from Iggy and the Stooges, and also “Sister Midnight,” the track from 1977 that inspired the film’s title, which David Bowie helped write and was on The Idiot. Both covers are out now for everyone to hear. Banks, sharing his thoughts, said, “‘Gimme Danger’ is one of my favorite Stooges songs, and ‘Sister Midnight’ I was less familiar with, but it is the titular track of a film that is feral with Stoogian grit and joy, so I was equally excited to immerse myself in it, and find an interpretation that felt authentic to my voice.” Besides these covers, Banks also created the original score for the movie.
Karan Kandhari, who once directed Franz Ferdinand’s “Stand on the Horizon” video years ago, is now making his first full-length movie with Sister Midnight. Kandhari explained in a press release that, “Art comes from the unconscious and the music of Iggy Pop was like a breadcrumb trail I followed through the unconscious as I wrote the film. In a beautiful collision of worlds, our talented composer Paul Banks has reinterpreted two Iggy songs in his own unique and haunting way, serving as celebration of both Iggy and the film’s themes. The lyrics to ‘Gimme Danger,’ a sort of broken misfit love song mirror the central relationship in the film. ‘Gimme Danger little stranger, and I’ll feel your disease…’ I would’ve called the film Gimme Danger, but Jarmusch got there first.”
Fans think it’s cool when musicians cover songs in their own style.
Sister Midnight is already playing in theaters across Europe, and it should be coming to the rest of the world later this year.
