The Rubberbandits have achieved a major coup. One of their tracks, ‘Dad’s Best Friend’, has been chosen for the soundtrack to what promises to be one of the filmic events of the year, Trainspotting 2.

The film is based on Scottish writer Irvine Welsh’s novel Porno, which revisits the lives of the original cast of characters featured in his breakthrough novel, Trainspotting. The latter book was turned into a very successful movie, released in 1996 and directed by Danny Boyle, with a screenplay by John Hodge. Fascinatingly, all of the actors involved in the original film have agreed to participate in the follow-up – a remarkable testament to just how fully they have collectively have bought into the concept. The lead actors include Ewan McGregor, Jonny Lee Miller, Robery Carlyle and Ewen Bremner. The film, which will shift the time difference to 20 years, will again be directed by Danny Boyle and scripted by John Hodge. The Original Trainspotting was voted the Best Scottish Filmof All Time, in a poll conducted for The List magazine in 2004.

The Rubberbandits (pictured with Stuart Clark of Hot Press) will be keeping good company on the soundtrack of Trainspotting 2. Among those that have tracks on the album are Frankie Goes To Hollywood, Iggy Pop, The Clash, Blondie, Underworld, Wolf Alice, Run DMC vs. Jason Nevins and Blondie. The full-track listing is as follows:

1. Lust for Life (The Prodigy Remix) - Iggy Pop
2. Shotgun Mouthwash - High Contrast
3. Silk - Wolf Alice
4. Get Up - Young Fathers
5. Relax - Frankie Goes to Hollywood
6. Eventually But (Spud's Letter to Gail) [feat. Ewen Bremner] - Underworld
7. Only God Knows - Young Fathers
8. Dad's Best Friend - The Rubberbandits
9. Dreaming - Blondie
10. Radio Ga Ga - Queen
11. It's Like That - Run DMC vs. Jason Nevins
12. (White Man) in Hammersmith Palais - The Clash
13. Rain Or Shine - Young Fathers
14. Whitest Boy On the Beach - Fat White Family
15. Slow Slippy - Underworld