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Music Director
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Northern Ireland, United Kingdom
Edit pageDavid Holmes
Biography
David Holmes (born 25 February 1969) is an Irish musician and composer. He worked as a DJ before releasing several solo albums that have incorporated elements of trip-hop, big beat, electronic, and rock. In the late 1990s, he also began composing film scores, establishing a long-standing collaboration with director Steven Soderbergh that includes Out of Sight (1998) and the Ocean's trilogy.
Holmes is currently a member of the band Unloved, whose music has been used extensively in the television series Killing Eve, for which Holmes is also a composer. He has remixed songs for numerous artists and produced albums for Primal Scream and Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds.
His 1997 Essential Mix, a mixture of northern soul, psychedelic funk, and hip hop was voted mix of the year by Muzik magazine. In 1998, Danny DeVito commissioned him to do the score for Steven Soderbergh's film Out of Sight. He scored a second film for Soderbergh in 2001, including some songs from Let's Get Killed and Bow Down to the Exit Sign on the Ocean's Eleven remakes.
In April 2009, he topped The Irish Times' "50 Best Irish Acts Right Now". His film project Good Vibrations, was the first feature film from David's film company Canderblicks Film. Set in the heart of the punk rock scene of 1970s Belfast, it tells the story of Terri Hooley.
Directed by 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 nominated for a BAFTA and the soundtrack was Rough Trade's Compilation of the Year 2013.
