Peaky Blinders

Tras un año en mi carpeta de pendientes, me he puesto al día con Peaky Blinders y desde el segundo uno del primer capitulo supe que tiene que formar parte de Sounds for Series, ambientada en  en Birmingham en 1919 nos cuenta la historia de una familia de mafiosos recién reestructurada después de la I Guerra Mundial.

Cillian Murphy, que nunca deja de sorprendernos desde 28 días después hasta Origen pasando por El viento que agita la cebada (en la que ya interpretó a un revolucionario irlandés en los 20'), llega a protagonizar Peaky Blinders poniéndole cara al cabeza de familia y gangster despiadado Tommy Shelby.

Peaky blinders fueron una banda real de la que su creador Steven Knight ha creado una obra de arte, aunque ha sido acusada de ser una versión británica de Broakwalk Empire, demuestra en cada movimiento de cámara, cada traje, cada escenario, cada canción, que es algo nuevo, con personalidad. Cierto es, que se le puede reconocer alguna mejora, en el guión, algún personaje, nada que no estén arreglando en esta segunda temporada.

La banda sonora tampoco te dejará indiferente. a pesar de hablar de la Inglaterra de los años veinte salpican los capítulos temazos de rock contemporáneo que se resumen en escenas magníficas.
 La gran parte de la banda sonora esta en manos de Nick Cave tanto junto a Bad Seeds como en el opening que hoy os traemos o con temas compuestos para El asesinato de Jesse James por el cobarde Robert Ford que tanto nos gusta, pero el que se lleva la palma es Jack White incluyendo temas de The Racounters y The White Stripes. También hay excepciones como Tom Waits o Dan Auerbach. Sin lugar a dudas, merece la pena.

Red Right Hand - Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds

Take a litle walk to the edge of town
Go across the tracks
Where the viaduct looms,
Like a bird of doom
As it shifts and cracks
Where secrets lie in the border fires,
In the humming wires
Hey man, you know
You're never coming back
Past the square, past the bridge,
Past the mills, past the stacks
On a gathering storm comes
A tall handsome man
In a dusty black coat with
A Red Right Hand


He'll wrap you in his arms,
Tell you that you've been a good boy
He'll rekindle all the dreams
It took you a lifetime to destroy
He'll reach deep into the hole,
Heal your shrinking soul
But there wont be a single thing
That you can do
He's a god, he's a man,
He's a ghost, he's a guru
They're whispering his name
Through this disappearing land
But hidden in his coat
Is a Red Right Hand


You don't have no money?
He'll get you some
You don't have no car? He'll get you one
You don't have no self-respect,
You feel like an insect
Well don't you worry buddy,
Cause here he comes
Through the ghettos and the barrio
And the bowery and the slum
A shadow is cast wherever he stands
Stacks of green paper in his
Red Right Hand


(Organ solo)


You'll see him in your nightmares,
You'll see him in your dreams
He'll appear out of nowhere but
He ain't what he seems
You'll see him in your head,
On the TV screen
And hey buddy, I'm warning
You to turn it off
He's a ghost, he's a god,
He's a man, he's a guru
You're one microscopic cog
In his catastrophic plan
Designed and directed by
His Red Right Hand


(Organ solo)

Extra verse from DJ Spooky Remix (From Scream 2 Soundtrack):
He'll extend his hand, real slowly for a shake
You'll see it coming toward you, real slowly for a shake
(Grabbing at your peril buddy?) cause you know you ain't
Getting near much as he will take.


He's a...

He's mumbling words you can't understand
He's mumbling word behind his Red Right Hand.