Asian Dub Foundation team up with Iggy Pop on a new version of his  Stooges classic No Fun, recorded in Miami in 2007 and released on the ‘Punkara’ album the following year.

Last night I went to see a special screening of the uncompromising French film La Haine – aka “Hate” – with a live soundtrack performed by Asian Dub Foundation.

It’s such a brilliant film: a gritty, grainy, black-and-white masterpiece shot in semi-documentary style about three youths from a Paris banlieue – one African, one Arab, one Jewish.

Matthieu Kassovitz’s movie takes place over the course of a single night following riots after their friend Abdel was been beaten almost to death by the police.

Over the next 24 hours Hubert (Hubert Koundé), Saïd (Saïd Taghmaoui) and the terrifyingly volatile Vinz (Vincent Cassell) aimlessly wander the streets, on edge and out for revenge.

Along the way they encounter racist cops and racist skinheads, a cocaine-crazed maniac who owes them money, a collection of art world stereotypes at a gallery opening, a middle-aged drunk who tries to help them steal a car, and miss the last train home.

It’s nail-biting stuff and ADF have created a suitably sinister and spacey, tense and dense dubwise soundtrack which they played while the subtitled film was shown overhead on a big screen at the Royal Festival Hall.

It was magnificent. And sent me back to this collaboration with Iggy from a while back: