tod dockstader,fifty foot hose,bruno nicolai, p.i.l,silver apples, bruno spoerri, kevin shields, johnny burnette, harpers bizzarre, john and alice coltrane, tommy morgan,georges teperino, the strangeloves, dynastie crisis, miles davis, norman mc claren, beach boys, soft machine, os mutantes, jean claude vannier, serge gainsbourg,captain beefheart,egisto macchi, skip spence, caetano veloso,thee headcoates, kent records, gal costa, vampires of dartmoor,bernard parmegiani,the white noise, woody jackson, martin hannett, ennio morricone, the mary chain, herbert henk,carl orff,joel v.d.b,martin rev,faust, panda bear, velvet underground, steve riech, terry riley, the creation, francois roubaix,spacemen 3,raymond scott,weatherall, can,gerhard trede,cluster,Alessandro alessandroni, la dusseldorf, gary irwin-the vendetta suite, twinkranes, neu, eno, lanois, phil spector,les baxter,leo abrahams,jon hopkins,bowie,iggy pop,roy montgomery, delia derbyshire, tomita, bernard herman, elmer bernstein, john barry,jd robb, 13th floor elevators, globlin,steve hilton,charley feathers, joe meek, maurice blackburn, basic channel, rick rubin, mark lanegan and isobel campbell, scott walker, holy fuck, edda dellorso, arthur russell, guy pederson, georges garvarentz,perry kingsley,peter thomas,jean le fennec,thierry de mey,Krzysztof Komeda
David Holmes is set to release his long-awaited fourth solo album through Canderblinks/Mercury/UMC, and The Holy Pictures is an album whose incubation has lasted almost the entire length of Holmes’ career.
To cut straight to Holmes’ own words, “The story of this album really began on the 4th of August 1996, when my mother, Sarah Holmes, passed away. I had always wanted to make a record about my life in Belfast and all the things attached to that – family, friends, loss, love and starting a family of my own. All the stuff that shapes the person you become.” Personal themes as a basis for creative work proved to be challenging though, hence The Holy Pictures brewing for a period of over a decade while Holmes carried on with his eclectic and productive career to date.
In terms of its musical direction, The Holy Pictures shares with Holmes’ other work a rich and idiosyncratic fusion of influences. The first single, I Heard Wonders, (which will be released with a remix by Andrew Weatherall and flykkiller) calls to mind The Velvet Underground, Blondie and La Düsseldorf. David teamed up with Martin Rev from Suicide to write the lyrics for this track. Threaded through the rest of the album are myriad other influences – from the Jesus and Mary Chain on Story of the Ink, through the Soft Machine and the Beach Boys on Melanie and Hey Maggy, to Daniel Johnson,herbert henk and early Eno and Lanois on the beautifully haunting track The Ballad of Sarah and Jack. As well as Rev, The Holy Pictures features collaborations with Leo Abrahams and Jon Hopkins. The album was recorded in Belfast, which, given its themes, seems only fitting.
The Holmes career that has played out in the foreground, while The Holy Pictures developed in the background, started with the release of 1995’s This Film’s Crap, Let’s Slash The Seats, an album that plugged immediately into what remains one of his most enduring and vital sources of musical inspiration – cinema. Further commercial and critical acclaim came with 1997’s Let’s Get Killed and 2000’s Bow Down To The Exit Sign, followed by 2003’s David Holmes Presents the Free Association, the latter leading to a hectic spell on the road with the Free Association. After that, work commenced in earnest on The Holy Pictures.
Alongside these releases came a successful partnership with director Steven Soderbergh, resulting in the soundtracks to Out Of Sight, and all three Ocean’s films – Ocean’s 11, 12 and 13. this year Holmes has also just scored a new Apple iPhone advertisement featuring Robert Downey Jr and directed by David Fincher (Seven, Fight Club. he also scored along side leo abrahams the winner of the camera D'Or at this years cannes film festival 'Hunger' directed by the great artist and turner prize winner Steve mc queen. He is currently working on 5 minutes of heaven directed by oscar nominee and director of the mindblowing 'Downfall' oliver hirschbiegel.and later on in the year 'Cherrybomb' directed by his life long collaborators and 2 of his best friends Glenn Leyburn and Lisa Barros D'Sa.
Hi there, if you get the chance please check out my debut feature film Apollo Music Club, made on €3,000 and set in Dublin. Cheers. http://www.vimeo.com/5444338
One afternoon, in the waiting room of a needle exchange, I watched afternoon telly and bashed out four new tracks. Individually, in one take, I recorded them live onto tape.
Outside, methadone addicts argued ferociously about hardcore lager and fed a dog raw steak. Inside, an over sensitive monster vented at the imagined scent of a tofu passanda.
Acroplane now present you a small slice of my life, down and around BN1 4GB.
ALSO APPEARING, THE LEGENDARY DAVID VORHAUS & MARK JENKINS’ WHITE NOISE!!
Thankyou for adding Sonic World Festival, 4/5th September 2009. Tickets are available from www.sonicworldfestival.co.uk and www.myspace.com/harveybainbridgemusic as well as our own myspace site. £30 for the whole weekend, indoor toilets, free showers, free camping, bars, bar meals and restaurant, indoor venue. Please check out our blogs.
Hey Sexy Sassy Friend! Have a safe and fun 4th of July! Follow me on Twitter @kayleenb Check out my new blog called "Lap Dances, Rock Stars, and Crashed Cars" http://kayleenb.blogspot.com
The brothers John and Paul Healy, collectively known throughout the world as Somatic Responses, are still native residents of a small industrial mining community snugly located in the southwest region of Wales. Somatic Responses are into complex dislocated & broken beats, distorted intelligent constructions, fascinating sonic structures, force and sweetness intertwined.
If their early productions were of the hardcore and techno kind, and while they later moved on to breakcore territories, Somatic Responses have now embraced more up-to-date and modern sounds and tackled the current dubstep sound that has taken their native UK by storm, and are ready to out-bass pretty much everybody else.
Mercury is definitely an important release for SR as it displays their progression further into dubstep & it's ever mutating siblings. A shape of things to come AND some of their best material for some time.
This is Uranus calling David Holmes, this is Uranus...
Check out 'A Testimonial to Boss Goodman: Portobello Shuffle : A Tribute to the Deviants and Pink Fairies for sound clips from Mick Farren and the Deviants featuring former Motorhead drummer Philthy 'Animal' Taylor;past
and present members of the Damned - Rat Scabies and Brian James, and Captain Sensible and Monty Oxymoron; Wilko
Johnson Band; Clark Hutchinson; Darryl Read, John Perry, Adrian Shaw and Rod Goodway; Pink FA featuring Nik Turner
and Terry Ollis; John Sinclair and His Ladbroke Grove Blues Scholars (AKA George Butler and Slim Tim Slide) and
Felix Dennis. Further clips forthcoming from Jello Biafra and the Pink Finks themselves, plus other surprises
maybe!
For more details visit http://www.myspace.com/deviants_pinkfairies ---------------------------------- Keep It Together! Cosmic Boogie with the Deviants and the Pink Fairies by Rich Deakin with an introduction by Mick
Online Now!
