one thing that's been throughout the entire Guardians is of course the music everyone's a
huge fan of these soundtracks they're in fact the only things that I save to my devices so
when I lose the internet that's what I can go to oh that's good it's quite a compliment yeah
I know it's when you're on the ground and you you know it's yeah I've lost it Guardians straight on
um the songs feel very personal to the characters in each film you know you can attribute things to
each one but you choose them yep so they must have some sort of personal connection to you you know
we've got things like breakups family pets they you know what they some of them do have personal
connections to me but most of them don't like most of them I choose because they're right for the
movie like uh you know uh most you know some of these I've always loved that version of creep that
we have in the movie so that has some connection to me I love the you know I will Dare by the
replacement is one of my favorite songs I kind of snuck it in by my favorite band um and I love uh
and the Mowgli song played at my wedding so that means something to me but most of the songs are
just chosen because they really worked really well that space hog song is just it is outer space that
song is outer space and it just works so well um you know the heart song works because of that song
but those aren't songs that I've had some special connection to over the years it really is me just
trying out just hundreds and hundreds of different things to try to find what works exactly for the
scene and it's it's not easy especially this this movie was the hardest of the first of all three
movies wow okay and and you did say your wedding song was in there you also snuck your other half
into there as well yep she's in there and how did that one come about did you just go did you fancy
this or was it like pulling your arm and saying I want to be in it because I mean well Americans
don't say fancy but um but yes I you know to translate I said do you fancy this yeah um
how did you fancy this yeah forever
um I should try that more often because it doesn't work to do believe me James that's a
big commitment yeah um yeah um I yeah I I can't remember how it came about actually I just you
know we had such a good time working together on The Peacemaker series that I was like let's just
you know she has she comes out and stays with me the whole time and and uh and I'm like yeah
and she's a great actor so it's great all the compliments in there we've ticked every box yes
um some artists are notoriously hard to get hold of for films Beastie Boys in particular yes that's
true such an inspired bit of the film but yeah I mean I was punching the air yeah when that scene
was happening sometimes you have to give the people what they want and that's one of those
moments we're like okay here we go I'm so glad it wasn't sabotaged that was the main thing for me
we've not got sabotaging yet we've got something different in there but are there any songs across
the entire stunning soundtracks is there anyone that you've had to fight for and being like no
I'm having that I had a fight incredibly hard on the second movie for Mr Blue Sky yeah that
was an incredibly big fight um uh he didn't want to give us the the song so it was I was letters
and calling and she wasn't begging and you know it was very very difficult to get Mr Blue Sky
um most of them not most of them are you know some Notorious people out there like Fleetwood Mac not
that easy George Harrison not his estate not that easy but they all love Guardians so they were
great same with the Beastie Boys The Beastie Boys gave us a movie the song for the movie which they
sometimes do but they almost never give you the soundtrack rights and they gave us the soundtrack
rights as well so I'm grateful to them but they're you know supposedly Guardians fans so it's really
cool and and finally James just before I go um absolute radio it's where real Music Matters oh
I think you kind of have that across all of the films and we do something called absolute radio
U where we give a listener a chance to have their own station this year we had absolute radio Kevin
his idea was debut songs I was wondering what would be on absolute radio Jam's gun oh you know
there's nothing I love more than you know creating lists of categories of songs I like you know I you
know I've for years and years I've been collecting hair metal songs and that's what um Peacemaker
then was using those songs that I had collected um right now I'm doing another soundtrack for
another series which is a very narrow set of set of songs so um I'm kind of in that mode right now
which is just a lot of dark Cabaret songs and things like that dark Cabaret absolute radio
jams gonna sounds like a plan perfect we'll get you on the station next year okay great