03 May 2021 - 0 Comments

The Soundtracks from Quentin Tarantino’s Reservoir Dogs & Pulp Fiction performed Live in Concert!

July 10 | The Civic, Auckland | Book Now at Ticketmaster
Featuring NZ's finest musicians:
Tami Neilson | Laughton Kora | Milan Borich - Pluto | Booga Beazley - Head Like A Hole

Quentin Tarantino's blockbuster arrival in the early 1990's marked a stunning rebirth of cinematic cool steeped in the classiest kind of Top 40 nostalgia.

With its soundtrack programmed by fictional DJ K-Billy for his "Super Sounds of the Seventies" radio show, Reservoir Dogs offset its on-screen uber-violence with the smooth grooves of Little Green Bag by The George Baker Selection, Hooked on a Feeling by Blue Swede, Stuck in the Middle with You by Stealers Wheel, Coconut by Harry Nilsson and more.

Two years later, the frantic surf guitar of Dick Dale's Misirlou kick-started the unchallenged cinematic event of the decade. For Pulp Fiction, Tarantino curated a playlist of sweet rockin' soul with sinister undertones. Dusty Springfield's Son of a Preacher Man, Urge Overkill's cover of Neil Diamond's Girl, You'll Be a Woman Soon and Chuck Berry's You Never Can Tell helped make Pulp Fiction a surprise hit album in 1994, and the coolest retro 60's soundtrack of all time.

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