Rebel Roses - A Night at the MAC

David Holmes

David Holmes is a Belfast born DJ & producer. In his varied professional life, he has produced five of his own albums and over 30 film soundtracks.

Albums

David’s first solo record, This Film’s Crap, Let’s Slash the Seats was released in 1995, and plugged into his most enduring and vital source of musical inspiration – cinema. 1997 saw the release of Let’s Get Killed; and 2000’s Bow Down to the Exit Sign was created as the soundtrack to a not-yet-made movie, and which featured a unique collection of collaborators including Martina Topley Bird, Jon Spencer & New York poet Carl Hancock Rux. David staked out new creative ground as part of the band, Free Association & in 2003 David Holmes Presents the Free Association was released. Like his solo efforts, the album received commercial and (massive) critical acclaim. His last solo album, The Holy Pictures (2008) was nominated for the Irish Choice Music Prize, Ireland's answer to the Mercurys as well the Meteor Awards which featured David singing for the first time. David’s ‘The Dogs Are Parading’ was released in 2009 a best of that takes you on a journey through one of the most creative and musically cinematic minds of the last two and a half decades

David Holmes' band UNLOVED, a collaboration with Keefus Green and Jade Vincent takes inspiration from classic Disney films, Raymond Scott, the Shangri Las, the BBC Radiophonic Workshop and Jack Nitzsche. Unloved released their debut album in March 2016. Their second album ‘Heartbreak’ was released in February 2019 and their music has formed the Soundtrack to all 4 seasons of the hit BBC America ‘Killing Eve’ starring Sandra Oh and Jodie Comer. David won a BAFTA for his ‘Killing Eve’ score in 2019. He subsequently scored the second, third and fourth and final series of ‘Killing Eve’.

A new solo single ‘Hope Is The Last Thing To Die’ emerged late in 2021 featuring vocalist Raven Violet. A follow up ‘It’s Over, if we run out of Love’ also featuring Raven was released in February 2022. Both singles were A-listed at BBC 6 Music.

Film & TV Scores

In recent years, David’s work for film has flourished. His successful partnership with director Steven Soderbergh was developed on films ‘Out of Sight’ (1998) & Ocean’s 11(2001), and this has continued through sequels ‘Ocean’s 12’ and ‘Oceans 13’ and more recently in ‘The Girlfriend Experience’ (2009) / ‘Haywire’ (2011) / ‘Logan Lucky’ (2017) / ‘Mosaic’ (2018) / ‘The Laundromat’ (2019) and ‘No Sudden Move’ (2020).

David also worked to create the acclaimed soundtrack evoking the dystopian near-future world of Michael Winterbottom’s ‘Code 46’ (2003).

In 2008 David worked with Leo Abrahams to create the score for the award-winning Steve McQueen film ‘Hunger’, this & his score for the edgy, contemporary coming-of-age film ‘Cherrybomb’ were nominated for Best Score in the Irish Film and Television Awards 2009 - Hunger subsequently won Best Score.

Released in 2009 he completed the score for ‘Five Minutes of Heaven’, a drama set in 1970s Northern Ireland, directed by Oliver Hirschbiegel, which won ‘best director’ at the Sundance Film Festival (Oliver's film Downfall was Oscar-nominated). David also scored Oliver Hirschbiegel’s film ’13 Minutes’ (2015).

David's film project Good Vibrations (2012), the story of Terri Hooley, Belfast's punk godfather and the Good Vibrations Record Shop, is set in the heart of the punk rock scene of 1970s Belfast. Directed by David’s friends and partners Glenn Leyburn and Lisa Barros D'Sa, written by Glen Patterson and Colin Carbury and co-produced by Andrew Eaton [Revolution Films] & BBC films, It was the first feature film from David’s Canderblinks Film company. It was nominated for a BAFTA and the soundtrack was Rough Trade's Compilation of the year 2013.

He then scored the highly acclaimed film '71 (2014) (Ivor Novello Award [best score] winner, BAFTA Nominated, won Best British Independent Film Award).

The BBC series The Fall starring Gillian Anderson and Jamie Dornan had 3 seasons, all three scored by David. His score for the first series was nominated for an RTS Craft & Design Award in 2013 and winner of best score at the Irish film and TV Awards in 2014.

2015 saw his directorial debut with his own film 'I Am Here' starring Edward Hogg, Michelle Fairley, Liam Cunningham and David Wilmot which had its UK premier at the London Short Film Festival and was subsequently screened on Channel 4. He also collaborated with the highly prolific Mark Cousins (The

Story of Film - An Odyessy) for the epic ‘I am Belfast‘, which featured on the 2015 festival circuit.

Also for the BBC, David's score to series 'London Spy' won an Ivor Novello Award for 'Best Score' in 2016. He also scored the British comedy ‘Mindhorn’ (2016) starring Julian Barratt. David’s score for BBC drama ‘Death and Nightingales’ (2018)

Once again collaborating with Glenn Leyburn and Lisa Barros D'Sa, David produced / scored the Canderblinks Film production ‘Ordinary Love’ (2019) starring Liam Neeson and Lesley Manville, which won best film at the Irish Film and TV Awards 2020..

David more recently scored the TV series ‘KIN’ which has been nominated for best score at the Irish Film and TV Awards. He also scored ‘Lyra’ which has been nominated for best feature documentary at the same awards.

Productions / Remixes

Noel Gallagher’s No. 1 album ‘Holy Mountain’ was produced by David and released in the autumn of 2017 to wide critical acclaim. Other productions have included Primal Scream (xtmr), Manic Street Preachers, John Spencer Blues Explosion and Primal Scream album 'More Light'. More recently David has been working with Sinead O’Connor including single ‘Trouble of The World’ (2020).

David recently remixed Orbital track ‘Belfast’, Jarvis Cocker’s single ‘Must I Evolve’ and has previously remixed U2, Manic Street Preachers, Primal Scream, Doves and St Etienne amongst many others.

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