Motion Picture Soundtrack

Motion Picture Soundtrack are a British alternative rock quartet from Canterbury, Kent, England. Since their inception, the band has been composed of Alastair Blackwood (lead vocals, guitar, piano), Nick Watts (lead guitar, backing vocals), Graeme Blackwood (drums, percussion and backing vocals), and Will Hasler (bass).[1]

This article is about the British alternative rock band. For film soundtracks, see Soundtrack. For the song by Radiohead, see Kid A.

Motion Picture Soundtrack
OriginCanterbury, Kent, England
GenresAlternative rock
Years active2003–present
LabelsSelf Released, End Game Records
Websitewww.motionpicturesoundtrack.com
MembersAlastair Blackwood
Graeme Blackwood
Nick Watts
Will Hasler

The name comes the band's love of film soundtracks, not, as many people assume, from the track by Radiohead. They cite influences such as Thomas Newman, Craig Armstrong, and alternative acts such as Sigur Rós, Talk Talk, Cocteau Twins, Jeff Buckley and Massive Attack.

Motion Picture Soundtrack self-released their first studio album The Shapes We Fear Are Of Our Own on 1 March 2010,.[2]

Produced by Paul Schroder (The Stone Roses, The Verve) in Copenhagen, the band returned to London to mix the record with engineer Cenzo Townshend (U2, Thirty Seconds to Mars, Florence and the Machine, Snow Patrol) at Olympic Studios.

Motion Picture Soundtrack released their debut single Departure on 7 September 2009,[3] reaching No. 6 in Total Guitar's top download charts,[4] with the follow-up Glass Figures (#10 in TG's top download charts)[5] on 22 February 2010. The album The Shapes We Fear Are Of Our Own was released on 1 March 2010. The band were invited on 29 March to the BBC's Maida Vale Studios for a live session.[6] and winning the Emerging Talent DIY Award at Camden Crawl[7] and performing at the Reading & Leeds festival 2010[8] courtesy of the BBC Introducing stage.[8]

References
  1. "Band | Motion Picture Soundtrack". Web.archive.org. 3 March 2010. Retrieved 21 October 2020.
  2. "The Shapes We Fear Are Of Our Own | Motion Picture Soundtrack". Web.archive.org. 14 July 2011. Retrieved 21 October 2020.
  4. Total Guitar, September 2009
  5. Total Guitar, March 2010
  7. Emerging Talent DIY Award 2010: "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 18 March 2012. Retrieved 23 July 2013.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  8. "Reading + Leeds Festival - Motion Picture Soundtrack". BBC. Retrieved 4 June 2020.
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