Strictly Soundtracks

Bond, James Bond. Immortal words and some immortal theme songs too! This week the gang deep dive into their favourite songs from the movies, stemming from the 70s to more recent tracks. You’ll hear everything from Shirley Bassey to Garbage! Madonna, Sam Smith, Wings, Sheena Easton and Duran Duran all feature and what is likely to be the first of perhaps a couple of shows on t

War! What is it good for? Well, as it turns out, it can make for a decent film. This week the team are discussing Civil War and the soundtrack contained within. A little less familiar territory this week with innovative synth pioneers, Suicide, plus De La Soul, Sturgill Simpson and Silver Apples.

Its time for some deep-thinking, tear-jerking love, drama, family and pop music! All of those things feature in the 2023 film All Of Us Strangers. This wonderful film stars, according to Dave, “the beautiful Andrew Scott” and “the beautiful Paul Mescal”, along with Claire Foy and Jamie Bell. Its set in modern times but also goes back in time to the 80s and 9

This week John introduces Dave and Henry to the streaming series, The Last Of Us. A dystopian zombie-genre series set in 2023 and 2003 where mankind has fallen foul of a mutated fungus. While that doesnt sound like much fun, the soundtrack is and that’s what’s important! We share stories of music from Avril Lavinge, Dido, Depeche Mode, Erasure, Aha and Etta James. As we

This week its all glitter and boas as John, Henry and Dave go back to the 70s to talk about the music from Velvet Goldmine. Its all about Bowie (or is it??) and glam rock featuring original songs, covers and even new songs from made-up supergroups asked to make a song like you’d hear at the time. Music from T-Rex, Venus In Furs, Roxy Music, Grant Lee Buffalo, Shudder To Think

Hello Angels! This week Dave and Henry take to the world of the fab “independent women” of Charlie’s Angels. You’ll hear tracks from Destiny’s Child, Heart, Marvin Gaye, Leo Sayer, Michael Jackson and Wham as they explore the movie.

This week the Strictly Soundtracks team are all together for the first time. Join Dave, Henry and John as they discuss the wonderful series Heartstopper, a show set in 2 English schools and telling the story of a group of kids as they discover who they are. Charlie is a gay student and meets Nick, an older boy. They become friends and then something more as we learn about them and

This week while Henry and John are both away, Dave hosted by himself, or so he thought. While playing awesome 80s music from Romy & Michelle’s High School Reunion, Craig Brown from JOY’s The Open Table consensually gatecrashed and reminisced about growing up with amazing 80s music. Listen to The Open Table on Thursdays at 6pm or catch the podcast at https://joy.org.

This week Dave and John are joined by newsreader extraordinaire Sameer who requested a show on The Birdcage, the 1996 film starring Robin Williams and Nathan Lane. Some wonderful songs with a cuban influence as well as some from the film’s drag elements. You’ll hear Miami Sound Machine, La Lupe, Donna Summer and then Nathan Lane.

We’re terrible, Muriel! This week Dave has a Wedding-Off between two great wedding movies. My Best Friend’s Wedding and Muriel’s Wedding. Its not just ABBA though, you’ll hear music from the Rubettes, Ani Di Franco, Jann Arden, Blondie and then yes, some Abba, too. Everything’s better with ABBA.