WES BANDERSON
“I wanted to do it before anyone else, because I was convinced nobody else could give it the level of detail needed,” Adam Znaidi tells me. It’s a fair assertion, considering what he’s aiming to do, and the profundity of his inspirations. The Physics House Band bassist is close to bringing his new musical project to Hove’s The Old Market, after becoming yet another pandemic postponement in 2019.
With works like , and , iconic director Wes Anderson has helped transform attitudes around music in modern cinema. In turn, Znaidi is now recreating a selection of Anderson’s most celebrated scores for the stage. “It started because I wanted to do from for a live session, as I thought it would be really fun. It made me realise no-one has done a music of ‘Wes Anderson’ show.” Live performances of film and game music are very much in fashion, with shows around Star Wars or Skyrim being staged around the world. Znaidi says he’s been obsessed with Anderson as a director, and in turn the music in his films, for a long time. A simple ambition to play music created for while wearing recreations of the film’s Team Zissou outfits has snowballed into an entire show.
