Music Composed, Arranged and Conducted by Nigel Westlake

Music Supervisor Andrew Kotatko

Score Co-ordinator and Contractor Jan Loquet Westlake Score Recorded, Edited and Mixed by Christo Curtis Recording Assistant Simon Denny

Orchestra led by Kirsten Williams Piano Bernadette Harvey-Balkus Guitar Slava Grigoryan Orchestral Musicians booked by Alex Henery Latin Band led by Mark Isaacs Soprano Solo Samantha Maddison Composer's Assistant Aaron Symonds Score Preparation Aaron Symonds, Laura Bishop Jon Drummond Copyists Laura Bishop, Jessica Wells Orchestra Recorded at Eugene Goosens Hall, ABC Centre, Sydney

"Tequila" Performed by The Champs Written by Chuck Rio 1958 EMI Longitude Music Co & Powerforce Music Licensed by EMI Music Publishing Australia & BMG Music Publishing Australia Courtesy of Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC trading as Masters International

"Rich Girl" Performed by Selwyn Written by Daryl Hall 1976 Unichappell Music Inc (BMI) & Hot-Cha Music Co (BMI) Used by permission of Warner/Chappell Music Australia Courtesy of Epic Records by arrangement with Sony Music Entertainment Australia "We Are The Champions" Performed by Queen Written by Freddie Mercury 1977 Queen Music /EMI Music Publishing Licensed by EMI Music Publishing Australia Courtesy of EMI Music Australia

"Patricia" Performed by Perez Prado & His Orchestra Written by P. Prado Published by Southern Music Publishing Co Australasia Courtesy RCA Records Inc Under license from BMG Australia

"Run To Paradise" Performed by Choirboys Written by M. Gable & B. Carr Published by Mushroom Music Publishing Courtesy of Festival Mushroom Records

"Down In The Lucky Country" Performed by Richard Clapton Written by Richard Clapton Published by Festival Music Publishing Courtesy of Festival Mushroom Records

"Beat The Mundane" Performed by Alex Lloyd Written by A. Wasiliev Published by Rondor Music Australia Administered by Universal Music Publishing Courtesy of EMI Music Australia

"A Man And A Wurlitzer" Performed by Sarah McGregor & David McCormack Written & Arranged by Antony Partos Published by Leosong

"Don't Worry Be Happy" Performed by Bobby McFerrin Written by Bobby McFerrin Published by Prob Noblem Music Used with the permission of BMG Music Publishing Australia Courtesy of EMI Music Australia

"Get Up And Out Of Your Mind" Performed by Irwin Thomas Written by J. Jones & R. Brown Published by BMG Music Publishing Australia & Warner-Chappell Music Australia Courtesy of Gotham Records under license from BMG Australia

"Life's Great If You Don't Weaken" Performed by Gyan Written by Gyan Used by permission of Deston Songs /Sony/ATV Music Publishing All rights reserved

"Love Hangover" Performed by Jacqui Hunt Written by Pam Sawyer & Marilyn McLeod 1978 Jobete Music Co Inc (ASCAP) Licensed by EMI Songs Australia Courtesy of BMG Australia

"Poor Poor Pitiful Me" Performed by Deborah Conway Written by Warren Zevon 1978 Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp (BMI) & Dark Room Music (BMI) Used by permission of Warner/Chappell Music Australia Courtesy of BMG Australia

Soundtrack available on BMG BMG Australia Limited - logo

Lyrics:

There's a few lines of a Queen song heard in foreground at the start of the movie (see this site's 'about the movie' section). At the end, Bobby McFerrin's Don't Worry, Be Happy starts up, but generally stays below the dialogue until the very end, and it's followed by a couple more tracks:

Out at their prospecting ground, instead of deciding to follow a signal from God for another strike, the Tar Gang trio head to the fridge for a beer, as the song's lyrics come into the foreground:

Here's a little song I wrote, You might want to sing it note for note, Don't worry, be happy

(The camera pulls up high as the trio sit and enjoy their beer)

In every life we have some trouble

(The camera moves off them and ends on a white cloud high above)

But when you worry, you make it double… Don't worry, be happy … Don't worry, be happy now …

(The image does a slow fade down on the cloud to black, and end titles begin)

Whoohoohhoo (etc, singing the melody line) Don't worry … be happy …

(The song fades out by the time of Eric Bana's credit and is replaced with instrumental rock music, Irwin Thomas performing Get Up And Out Of Your Mind, with the lyrics beginning over Max Cullen's credit)

Coming around this time Tumbling down this time And before I know I'm hanging with nothing to show Letting me down this time Get up and out of your mind Get up and out of your mind Standing around this time It's getting me down this time I need to know I'm hanging with nothing to show Am I runnin' around this time? Get up and out of your mind Get up and out of your mind I have to focus on making it a better day now I want to be, yes, I want to liiivvvve …

(Instrumental)

I have a focus on making a better day now

(The song fades down and mixed into Alex Lloyd doing Beat the Mundane)

She came down like a bucket of rain Through the pores of a lovesick drain No-one talks on the bus anymore Together alone, seated in fours This could be forever Stand alone together 'Cause we're nowhere now Beat the mundane Beat the mundane Beat the mundane Beat the mundane Beat the mundane Beat the mundane

(as that lines continues, another line comes in over the top)

Can't stop talking 'bout it Beat the mundane

(this intermingling then repeats)

Can't stop talking 'bout it Beat the mundane

(The rest of the song plays as instrumental until the final copyright notice)

As a piece of trivia, Irwin Thomas played at the Mudgee premiere party, and was featured in DVD coverage of the launch: CD:

A CD of the soundtrack was released:

CD BMG 74321941382 2002

Executive soundtrack album producers: Bill Bennett & Jennifer Cluff Music supervisor & soundtrack album coordinator: Andrew Kotatko

1. We are the Champions, vocals: Queen. 2. Get Up and Out of Your Mind, vocals: Irwin Thomas 3. Rich Girl, vocals: Selwyn 4. Poor Poor Pitiful Me, vocals: Deborah Conway 5. Beat the Mundane, vocals: Alex Lloyd 6. Patricia, Perez Prado & his Orchestra 7. Tequila, vocals: The Champs 8. Run to Paradise, vocals: Choirboys 9. Down in the Lucky Country, vocals: Richard Clapton 10. Life’s Great if You Don’t Weaken, vocals: Gyan 11. Love Hangover (The Morning After Mix), vocals: Jacqui Hunt 12. Don’t Worry Be Happy, vocals: Bobby McFerrin 13. Heart of Gold, vocals: Felt 14. Suite from "The Nugget", Nigel Westlake Composer Nigel Westlake:

Nigel Westlake’s first feature film was the relatively obscure feature about prostitutes, Candy Regentag, aka Kiss the Night, and he followed this with the documentary Antarctica and another obscure feature, Backsliding.

In the 1990s, it was his work with George Miller on the Babe films that made his name outside the realm of classical music.

Westlake has a relatively detailed wiki here.

At time of writing, Westlake had his own website under the name Rimshot Music here, which contained this CV, as well as many other details:

Nigel Westlake's career in music has spanned more than 3 decades. He studied the clarinet with his father, Donald Westlake (principal clarinettist, Sydney Symphony Orchestra 1961-1979) and subsequently left school early to pursue a performance career in music. Nigel toured Australia and the world playing with ballet companies, a circus troupe, chamber music groups, fusion bands and orchestras to the cities of London, New York, Rome, Washington, Tokyo, Beijing, Paris, Amsterdam, Vancouver, Moscow, Hong Kong, Berlin, New Delhi and Singapore and many others. His interest in composition dates from the late 1970's when he formed a classical/jazz-rock/world-music fusion band to play original music. During this time he started to receive offers to compose for radio and circus. Commissions for TV and film soon followed. In 1983 he furthered his studies of contemporary music in the Netherlands. From 1987 to 1992 he was a clarinettist with the Australia Ensemble resident at the University of New South Wales. In 1992 he joined guitarist John Williams's group 'Attacca' as a performer and composer for tours of the United Kingdom and Australia. Since then he has given his primary attention to composition.

His film credits include the feature films MISS POTTER, BABE, BABE - PIG IN THE CITY, CHILDREN OF THE REVOLUTION, A LITTLE BIT OF SOUL, THE NUGGET and the Imax films ANTARCTICA, IMAGINE, THE EDGE & SOLARMAX. His romantic score for the Beatrix Potter biopic Miss Potter won "Feature Film Score of the Year" & "Best Soundtrack Album" at the 2007 APRA / AGSC Screen Music Awards. The films Babe & Miss Potter were both international hits, being No. I at the box office in many territories around the world. His television credits include documentaries, telemovies, news themes & station idents. Westlake's work has been widely performed and has earned numerous awards, including the Gold Medal at the New York International Radio Festival and numerous APRA and Screen Composer Guild awards for his film and concert music. The feature film Babe won the Golden Globe Award in 1996 for "best feature musical/comedy". His conducting debut was with the Queensland Symphony Orchestra in 1997. He has since conducted all the major Australian Symphony Orchestra in recordings and performances of his own works.

His works have been performed by:

John Williams, London Symphony Orchestra, Royal Scottish National Orchestra, The Takacs Quartet, The Australia Ensemble, Michael Kieran Harvey, Synergy Percussion, Amsterdam Percussion Ensemble, Trilok Gurtu, New York Percussion Quartet, Craig Ogden, Slava Grigoryan, Leonard Grigoryan, Timothy Kain, Karin Schaupp, , Goldner String Quartet, Elektra String Quartet, Macquarie Trio, Sydney Symphony, Melbourne Symphony,Tasmanian Symphony, The Queensland Orchestra, West Australia Symphony, Australian Chamber Orchestra, Saffire, Guitartrek, Ogden Tanner, The Seymour Group, Australian Virtuosi, The Academy of Melbourne, Simon Tedeschi, Ensemble Aark, Percadu, Rebecca Lagos, Catherine McCorkill,Schoenberg Ensemble, Berlin Philharmonie, 4-Mallity Percussion quartet, Storioni Trio, Alice Giles, Camerata of St John's, Australian Festival of Chamber Music (Composer in residence 2012) and conducted by:

Kent Nagano, Paul Daniel, Richard Hickox, Markus Stenz, Ola Rudner, David Porcelijn, Yaron Traub, Jean Louis Forestier, Richard Gill, Brett Kelly,Benjamin Wallfisch, David Stanhope, Vladimir Verbitsky, Andrew Litton, Michael Christie & John Demain, Reinbert de Leeuw, Benjamin Northey

His opus one, Omphalo Centric Lecture (1984) for percussion quartet has become one of the most frequently performed and recorded works in the percussion repertoire by groups in the USA, Japan, Europe and Australia.

In 2004 Nigel Westlake was awarded the HC Coombs Creative Arts Fellowship at the Australian National University. In 2008 he was voted onto the board of APRA as Writer Director. In 2008 he founded the Smugglers of Light Foundation in memory of his son Eli, to promote cultural awareness and empowerment through education via the mediums of music and film in youth and indigenous communities. On Australia Day 2011, he conducted a suite of his music for Symphony on the Bay, a music & fireworks spectacular, to an estimated audience of 200,000 in Sydney's Darling Harbour. * His tribute in music to his son, "Missa Solis – Requiem for Eli", was the winner of the prestigious 2013 Paul Lowin Orchestral Prize (one of Australia's richest prizes for music composition), won the 2011 Limelight Award for Best New Composition, was named Orchestral Work of the Year at the 2012 Art Music Awards, and has recently been released to critical acclaim on ABC Classics, conducted by the composer. It has received numerous performances by the Melbourne Symphony and Sydney Symphony Orchestras in 2011 and 2012. He holds an honorary Doctorate in Music, awarded by the University of New South Wales in 2012. "Compassion" - a song cycle in 7 movements based on a collection of ancient Hebrew & Arabic texts, composed in collaboration with Melbourne based singer songwriter Lior, won the 2014 ARIA for Best Classical Album

(Below: Nigel Westlake)