The film adaptation of Ciarán McMenamin’s 2018 novel is being compared to Trainspotting
Carl Cox has contributed unreleased music to a new film set in the ’90s Northern Irish rave scene called Skintown.
The Kieron J. Walsh-directed feature premiered at the Edinburgh International Film Festival this past weekend. Adapted from Ciarán McMenamin’s 2018 novel, the film follows Jack Rowan and Chris Walley’s characters as they attempt to escape their small hometown of Enniskillen, nicknamed Skintown, through schemes including selling stolen MDMA during the 1994 IRA ceasefire. Derry Girls’ Jamie-Lee O’Donnell and Hope Ikpoku Jr. also star.
The film centres around a rave and beach afterparty where Carl Cox is due to appear. Alongside unreleased music from Cox, the soundtrack features The Prodigy (heard in the clip below), as well as Elastica, Happy Mondays, and Jeff Mills.
“This isn’t necessarily a film about the Troubles”, Rowan said in an interview with The Hollywood Reporter. “It’s actually just a film about people just getting on with their lives… I would just hope people enjoy it, appreciate it, and have as much fun watching it as we did filming it.”
Carl Cox recently contributed music to Andy Serkis’ animated adaptation of Animal Farm.
He’s also is in the midst of his [UNVRS] Ibiza residency. This past weekend, his guest Miss Monique invited Robbie Williams on stage to perform their new collaborative single, ‘Beauty In Us’. At the end of July, Cox and David Guetta played a b2b set for the first time.
