Soundtrack and Television
In 2008, Spindrift contributed to the soundtrack of the feature film Hell Ride produced by Quentin Tarantino.
The motion picture The Legend Of God’s Gun was inspired by the Spindrift's 2002 album of the same name which was released three years prior to the making of the film. The movie's soundtrack features work from that album as well as tracks by Gram Rabbit and Mike Bruce's own band the Low-flying Owls. The album, The Legend Of God's Gun, was updated and re-released in 2007. In 2009 Tee Pee Records re-released the soundtrack and the band toured the United States, opening for The Dandy Warhols who under their Beat The World record label released the Spindrift album "The West" Nov. 2008.
Spindrift has also contributed to the VBS.tv VICE documentary series "Coffin Joe" and the songs "Ace Coletrain" and "Girlz, Booze, Gunz" were featured in the HBO Comedy series Eastbound & Down." The band has also scored a restored version of "Tecumseh's Curse", a film about the Curse of Tippecanoe by director J.X. Williams.
In 2010, Spindrift went on to supply the score to Mike Bruce's next feature "Treasure of the Black Jaguar", an action survival story loosely based on The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (film).
Spindrift has cited the Sergio Leone film Once Upon a Time in the West and Sam Peckinpah's "The Wild Bunch" as cinematic influences on the band's music and overall style.
In 2011, Spindrift supported the soundtrack of the award-winning skiing documantary fim All.I.Can by Sherpa Cinema with three songs.
The film DUST UP, starring Amber Benson also contained a Spindrift score and was released Oct. 2012.
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