For the past 15 years, world-renowned French filmmaker Claire Denis and composer Stuart Staples—best known as the primary singer and songwriter for groundbreaking British chamber rock band Tindersticks—have engaged in an inspired and fruitful collaboration. 

Tindersticks: Claire Denis Film Scores 1996–2009 is live music & film project and a new recording.  The UK October tour is the live music/cinema project where, in the first part of the show, the archive has been scoured to assemble strikingly sensual and alternately meditative and shocking clips from Nénette et Boni, Trouble Every Day, Friday Night, The Intruder, 35 Shots of Rum and White Material (the 2010 stunner featuring Isabelle Huppert). Viewed—and heard—anew, Denis’s singular images will soar on screen as the band’s live music envelops the concert hall.  The second part is a concert performance set by Tindersticks.

The projects was set in motion by an invitation from the San Francisco Film Festival to perform in May 2011 and the project has since gathered interest and momentum.   Claire Denis Film Scores 1996 – 2009, a boxed set collection of 6 Claire Denis film soundtracks that will be available for the first time together on cd and vinyl from 26^th April 2011 and the live music/film show will also premier in London at the South Bank Centre on the same date.  The UK national tour will takes place in October 2011.

• 16 OCT EDINBURGH Usher Hall
• 17 OCT MANCHESTER Bridgewater Hall
• 18 OCT LIVERPOOL Philharmonic Hall
• 19 OCT BASINGSTOKE The Anvil
• 22 OCT COVENTRY Warwick Arts Centre
• 24 OCT YORK Barbican
• 25 OCT NORTHAMPTON Royal & Derngate