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\nLast weekend saw the official end to this year\u2019s summer of music festivals with Bestival on the Isle Of White. But anyone feeling nostalgic for the last few months of live outdoor music can keep that feeling burning a little bit longer with the release of David Mackenzie\u2019s \u201cYou Instead\u201d. Filmed at Scotland\u2019s T In The Park festival last year, the film tells the story of two musicians who are handcuffed together during an argument by an eccentric pastor who wants them to appreciate the unifying aspect of live music. Inevitable high jinks and stirred emotions abound as the pair spend the next few days chained together and are forced to work together to make their stage times. Wonderland favourite Luke Treadway takes the lead role in the festival drama as Adam, the front man of a successful electro two piece headlining the festival, bound to head strong Morello (played by a fiery Natalia Tena), and talks us through the pressure of completing a live action film at one of the UK\u2019s biggest music festivals and brings us up to speed on his projects since he appeared in our pages back in 2009.<\/p>\nDo you go to lots of music festivals?<\/strong>
\nAs much as I can. I went to Latitude a few weeks ago and you get things there that you don\u2019t get at other festivals, like raving in the woods until 7 in the morning with amazing lighting and weird dub step sounds. I had a great time.<\/p>\nDid you enjoy filming You Instead at T In The Park?<\/strong>
\nYeah, amazing! There was an amazing party atmosphere, although we were in a different mindset to the other people that were there as we were running around trying to make a 90 minute film. We had 20 minutes to shoot a scene and then you had to move on so we rehearsed every day for three weeks before shooting and then in the evenings went to a studio with Eugene Kelly from The Vascelines who wrote some of the music for [on-screen band Treadway\u2019s character fronted] The Make. Except for the song, \u201cYou Instead\u201d which I wrote.<\/p>\nWow! Had they named the film before you wrote that?<\/strong>
\nNo, it was meant to be called \u201cIn The Park\u201d and then they changed the title to that song, which is mental. <\/p>\nIn your role, your band plays to a large crowd towards the end of the film \u2013 how was that orchestrated? Did you have to stop the festival and make everyone aware and do a quick set?<\/strong>
\nNo, it\u2019s all clever editing. You would need about five hours to set all that up, logistically it would be impossible to do in a half hour set. But also the audience have paid to come and watch bands they want to see and I think morally it would have been slightly questionable had we gone \u2018yeah, we\u2019re going to play now and we\u2019re a fake band in a film.\u2019 So we played Thursday night before the festival began and there was the field and a few people down at the front to create the audience so I could walk down to them. But, in my mind there was a fuck load of people.
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\nHow was it to work with director David Mackenzie?<\/strong>
\nI think he is an incredibly brave film maker and has such a creative mind \u2013 especially if you look at his other films. He\u2019s not afraid to take risks. And this was definitely a risk. He said to me the first time I met him, \u201clook, I don\u2019t know if this is possible. If you want to come on this journey, well find out.\u201d The fact a film that is watchable has come out of it is quite an achievement. I\u2019d love to work with him again.
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\nYou are cuffed to Natalia Tena for most of the film \u2013 how was she to work with?<\/strong>
\nI\u2019d never met her before and she is a force of nature. We bonded on the fact we were about to take on a huge monumental task and I remember we all went out in Glasgow for dinner before we went out to film and realised this isn\u2019t a film you can over-run, you can\u2019t drop a few scenes, you\u2019ve got 18 scenes to do each day. So we got berocca inside us and went out. She\u2019s in a band herself, so she\u2019s a musician and we played around with that and we played music and stuff together and we got on really well.
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\nYou\u2019ve done the big Hollywood thing, having been in Clash Of The Titans last year [for which he played the part of mad cult leader Prokopion], which must have had a massive budget and then You Instead must be really small. What\u2019s the main difference?<\/strong>
\nCatering. Literally a days catering on Clash Of The Titans could have paid for this film. It was crazy. But, bizarrely, I thought I would struggle with Clash Of The Titans because everything else I\u2019ve done has been more independent and lower budget so I thought staring at a tennis ball at the end of a stick in front of green screen would not be for me but I really got into that. And I loved working with the director, Louis Leterrier, and he would let me come in and say \u201cLouis, I\u2019ve re-written this part of this speech in the script\u201d and he\u2019d be like \u201cyeah, cool.\u201d I thought he would have to go and check with 12 producers over the change of a comma, but he would let me gabble on and so I really enjoyed that.<\/p>\nWhat attracts you to every project?<\/strong>
\nEvery job I want a different colour for my pallet. If it\u2019s something close to me I find it harder. That\u2019s why my first job with my brother [twin, Harry in 2005\u2019s Brothers Of The Head] was amazing as a conjoined twin because it\u2019s a physical thing. Learning to play music for this was great and that\u2019s what I really enjoy \u2013 becoming someone else. Doing \u201cAttack The Block\u201d recently where I play a posh stoner, my mum was like \u201cyou\u2019re playing yourself!\u201d And I was like, \u201cWe\u2019re not posh. We are not a rich family.\u201d<\/p>\nHaving now played a rock star and revealing to us that you have a talent with music, do you feel you are at a crossroads where you could go down either route?<\/strong>
\nI think I want to do it all really! Even in the next six months I plan to record an EP and play some gigs but I\u2019m not trying to take over the music industry. If someone who is really famous as an actor tries to put a single out it can be weird. But I\u2019m not that and I think it can be very separate so if I make songs up and play them in a pub in Camden, people won\u2019t really know. I\u2019ve been lucky I can do it in a film.<\/p>\nYou Instead is in cinemas tomorrow.<\/em><\/p>\n
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