Eliot and drill music are soundtrack for Coventry

The words of George Eliot, the Victorian author, have been married with drill music in a project “breathing new life” into Coventry as this year’s City of Culture.

Producer Coolie, 31, has created a soundtrack to a film titled Timeless Words Made New that takes inspiration from Eliot, the pen name of Middlemarch writer Mary Ann Evans, who lived in the city. He said the drill scene had more in common with Eliot than might first appear, because both the musicians and the author had the odds “stacked” against them.

The film, which marks the start of Coventry’s year as City of Culture, takes viewers on a journey in the city.