DAVID HOLMES (DJ Set) & Johnny Moy // Friday June 25 // Kelly's Galway

Kellys Galway

DAVID HOLMES
& JOHNNY MOY
(DJ Set)
Friday June 25
Kelly's Galway
Doors 10pm
Tickets on the door only

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David Holmes Biography

David Holmes is a Belfast born DJ and producer. In his varied professional life, he has produced five albums and thirteen film soundtracks. His most recent album, The Holy Pictures has been widely critically acclaimed, and has been recently nominated for the Irish Choice Music Prize, Ireland's answer to the Mercurys, as well the Meteor Awards.

David began DJing at the age of 15 and was responsible for a number of era-defining clubs in Northern Ireland being one of the first DJs to play techno and house music. His club Sugar Sweet was the first venue in the region for serious dance music.

David released his first solo record in 1995 - This Film’s Crap, Let’s Slash the Seats - and plugged into his most enduring and vital source of musical inspiration – cinema. It is home to the atmospheric and seductive Gone featuring Sarah Cracknell on vocal duties.

1997 saw the release of Let’s Get Killed. The album featuring snippets of conversations recorded on the streets of New York became David’s biggest selling album to date and garnered massive critical acclaim and features some of his most famous and enduring tracks My Mate Paul, Rodney Yates and Gritty Shaker.

2000’s Bow Down to the Exit Sign was created as the soundtrack to a not-yet-made movie and featured a unique collection of collaborators including Martina Topley Bird, Bobby Gillespie and poet Carl Hancock Rux. The album threw out some classic Holmes material in the shape of Living Room, 69 Police, Jackson Johnson and Hey Lisa.

David staked out new creative ground as part of the band, Free Association and in 2003 David Holmes Presents the Free Association was released. Like his solo efforts, the album received commercial and (massive) critical acclaim and yielded the hit Sugarman.

The Holy Pictures, released in 2008, shares with David’s other work a rich and idiosyncratic fusion of influences from the Jesus and Mary Chain through the Soft Machine and the Beach Boys to Daniel Johnson and early Eno and Lanois. The Holy Pictures is an intensely personal record about the loss of his parents, friends and life in belfast. Featuring David on vocal duties for the first time, the album was recorded in Belfast, which, given its themes, seems only fitting.


In recent years however, 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 13. David also worked to create the acclaimed soundtrack evoking the dystopian near-future world of Michael Winterbottom’s Code 46.

In 2006, with lifelong partners Lisa Barros D’Sa and Glenn Leyburn, David founded Canderblinks Film and Music, a film production company. Its first short film, The 18th Electricity Plan, played at various international film festivals winning a Special Mention in the Best New Director category at the Cork International Film Festival. Canderblinks' next production is for Good Vibrations, a film set in the heart of the punk-rock scene of 1970s Belfast, written by Glen Patterson and Colin Carbury and co-produced by Andrew Eaton of Revolution Films

In 2009, he worked with Leo Abrahams to create the score for the multi international award-winning film Hunger. This and 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.

Also in 2009, David completed the score for Five Minutes of Heaven, a drama set in 1970s Northern Ireland, directed by Oscar nominated Oliver Hirschbiegel, which won ‘best director’ at the Sundance Film Festival, as well as scoring The Gentlemen’s Tea-Drinking Society, his first composition for theatre.

For 2010, David has scored Pierre’s Bounty, a new Irish film that debuted at the Toronto Film Festival, starring Cillian Murphy and Brendan Gleeson.

David’s next score will be for 'Knockout ' the next feature film directed by his long term collaborator Steven Soderbergh starring Michael Fassbender, Ewan McGregor, Michael Douglas and Antonio Banderas.

On the international front, David wrote and produced the music for two of the Apple iPhone ads the first featuring Robert Downey Jr and directed by David Fincher (Seven, Fight Club) and more recently the 3GS Ad 'Break In (HQ)'.

His latest album The Dogs Are Parading, a best of complete with 3 new songs; The Girlfriend Experience, Your On Fire (Too Fat) and The Lower Orders plus 1 brand new remix of 'The Ballad Of Sarah & Jack' by Geese and a very special unreleased mix of Living Room by Kevin Shields is released 26th April on Universal Music