The Soundtracks from Reservoir Dogs & Pulp Fiction

“This concert captures the ‘dark cool’ of Quentin’s work brilliantly. A smoking hot band and fabulous singers. They did the soundtracks proud. You must see this!” Karyn Rachtman, Music Supervisor, Quentin Tarantino’s Reservoir Dogs + Pulp Fiction

New Zealand’s finest rockers together with a smoking hot band are set to recreate Hollywood history, performing the soundtracks to Quentin Tarantino's Reservoir Dogs & Pulp Fiction live in concert this April & May.

Fur Patrol’s rocker Julia Deans, dub-funk powerhouse Laughton Kora (Kora), Pluto frontman Milan Borich and hard rock hellraiser Booga Beazley (Head like a Hole) will be kicking off their shoes and polishing their razors for a walk on the dark side, backed by the Behemoth Big Band Royale.

THE SOUNDTRACKS FROM RESERVOIR DOGS & PULP FICTION proved such a hit with audiences in Auckland a few years back, it’s returning to The Civic in May and will make its premiere in Wellington and Christchurch in April.

Concertgoers said: “One of the best live gigs I have ever been to, and I’ve been to plenty!”, ‘Epic! Fricken brilliant. Want to watch it ALL again!”, “Amazing songs, given the treatment they deserve”, “Stonkingly good band. All the leads were superb” and “Epic night! One of the best gigs I have ever been to. Inssaaaaaane!’

Tickets are on sale now from $89 from Ticketek and Ticketmaster.

Quentin Tarantino's blockbuster arrival in the early 1990s marked a stunning rebirth of cinematic cool steeped in the classiest kind of Top 40 nostalgia.

With its soundtrack programmed by fictional DJ K-Billy for his "Super Sounds of the Seventies" radio show, Reservoir Dogs offset its on-screen uber-violence with the smooth grooves of Little Green Bag by The George Baker Selection, Hooked on a Feeling by Blue Swede, Stuck in the Middle with You by Stealers Wheel, Coconut by Harry Nilsson and more.

Two years later, the frantic surf guitar of Dick Dale's Misirlou kick-started the unchallenged cinematic event of the decade. For Pulp Fiction, Tarantino curated a playlist of sweet rockin' soul with sinister undertones. Dusty Springfield's Son of a Preacher Man, Urge Overkill's cover of Neil Diamond's Girl, You'll Be a Woman Soon and Chuck Berry's You Never Can Tell helped make Pulp Fiction a surprise hit album in 1994, and the coolest retro '60s soundtrack of all time.

Tarantino’s music supervisor for Reservoir Dogs (1992) and Pulp Fiction (1994) Karyn Rachtman, a New Zealand resident, describes the concert as “incredible and so much fun”.

“These soundtracks are beyond important to me,” says Karyn. “In the early ‘90s I was introduced to an unknown writer/director desperately trying to secure his favourite ‘70s song for his film Reservoir Dogs. After reading the script I knew if I could do whatever it took to get Quentin Tarantino the songs he wanted. It would change my life forever.

“This concert captures the ‘dark cool’ of Quentin’s work brilliantly. A smoking hot band and fabulous singers. They did the soundtracks proud! New Zealand, you need to see this!”