Iain McIntyre on keyboards. Those who helped out include Cat Hope (Gata Negra), Meg Butler (ninetynine, Tarantula), Evelyn Morris (True Radical Miracle, Baseball), Perri Kenrick (ex Scarecrow Tiggy), Elizabeth Downey (ex Sir), Van Walker (Swedish Magazines), Laura MacFarlane (ninetynine, Tarantula), Tim Picone (ex Night Terrors), Naomi Evans (The Disappointments, Tarantula) and Maria Fitzgerald.
Influences
Soylent Green, Idaho Transfer, Across 110th Street, Assault On Precinct 9, Psychomania, The World Of Acid, Conquest Of The Planet Of The Apes, THX1138 and many more...
The A Warning project first took form whilst Iain McIntyre (ninetynine, Thee Stag Knights, The Hatchetmen) was living in London in 2004. Inspired by the film work of composers such as John Carpenter and John Cameron and gifted the use of a three track recorder and a Holiday Genie organ McIntyre crafted a soundtrack to a “lost” dystopian film set in the US of the Nixonian 70s. Completing work on the soundtrack using a number of analogue synthesizers during 2005 and 2006 McIntyre invited a number of Australian musicians to contribute vocals, strings, piano and drums to the project. Those who helped out include Cat Hope (Gata Negra), Meg Butler (ninetynine, Tarantula), Evelyn Morris (True Radical Miracle, Baseball), Perri Kenrick (ex Scarecrow Tiggy), Elizabeth Downey (ex Sir), Van Walker (Swedish Magazines), Laura MacFarlane (ninetynine, Tarantula), Tim Picone (ex Night Terrors), Naomi Evans (The Disappointments, Tarantula) and Maria Fitzgerald.
Alongside work on the musical side of the project McIntyre utilised various video and online archives (primarily archive.org) for stock footage and educational films with which to create the surreal “lost” movie the soundtrack accompanies. 15 separate clips have been put together to tell the story of a shell shocked and alcoholic journalist who is forced into private detective work following a 1972 military coup within the US. Traveling across America in search of the runaway daughter of a high ranking politician our hero experiences saucer landings, fish falls and earthquakes. Are these phenomena merely the result of his fast deteriorating psyche or are they part of some wider conspiracy involving his quarry?
Iain McIntyre’s A Warning OST was launched in Melbourne in 2007 at Bar Open. Elizabeth Downey (ex Sir), Van Walker (Swedish Magazines), Laura MacFarlane (ninetynine, Tarantula), Tim Picone (ex Night Terrors) and Naomi Evans (The Disappointments, Tarantula) performed their songs from the soundtrack. Since then the DVD has been screened in Sydney, Manchester, London, Amsterdam and Rotterdam.
