DAVID HOLMES
Sunday 15th June
Vibe @ Milk 3pm-3am
www.ilovevibe.com
Belfast born legend David Holmes is the among the best in a growing cadre of invisible-soundtrack producers inspired by the audio verité of classic film composers -- Lalo Schifrin, John Barry, Ennio Morricone -- as well as the usual stable of dancefloor innovators and a large cast of jazz/soul pioneers to boot. Similar to the work of Howie B, Barry Adamson, and Portishead's Geoff Barrow, Holmes' productions are appropriately spacious and theatrical, though usually focused on future club consumption as well. His first album, hotly tipped in England, rose the stakes significantly for his second. Let's Get Killed hardly disappointed, gaining critical and artistic success given the constraints of instrumental dance music. The increased exposure even helped him hire in on Hollywood's bankroll to provide the score for the 1998 feature film Out of Sight.
He followed with the remix collection Stop Arresting Artists, and in 1998 scored Steven Soderbergh's A-list Hollywood feature Out of Sight with a prescient set of groove-funk. (The attention also earned him a place in Entertainment Weekly's list of the Top 100 Creative People in Entertainment.) His single "My Mate Paul" even featured as the theme music to the Sony Playstation game Psybadek. Essential Mix 98/01 followed later that year, and in 1999 This Film's Crap, Let's Slash the Seats was reissued with a bonus disc of rarities and unreleased tracks. Holmes issued his third studio effort, Bow Down to the Exit Sign, in September 2000. One year later, Soderbergh tapped him to produce another feature-film soundtrack, Ocean's Eleven, and it pushed a single -- Elvis Presley's "A Little Less Conversation," as remixed by Junkie XL -- into the charts (as well as the top spot in many countries).
A man much famed for playing stomping audio-visual parties at The Art College and more recently "real music" sessions at The Lifeboat, David Holmes lands in for a Vibe Courtyard Session, bringing along a selection of his favourite tunes from 3pm. Get down early as he co-hosts the all-day event with Belfast Music Club at Vibe from 3pm! Free BBQ included while stocks last!
Sabres of Paradise : smokebelch 2 (David Holmes mix)...an old favorite!
The Courtyard Sessions
BBQ with BELFAST MUSIC CLUB from 3pm
Belfast Music Club is every Wednesday night in the Garrick Bar (29 Chichester Street). They have Belfasts best DJ's playing each week. Giving them the opportunity to play whatever they like and whatever they can't get to play at weekends. Guests have included David Holmes, Timmy Stewart, Katrina & John Craig playing a mixed bag of allsorts in a groovy chilled out vibe
Daytime entry includes free BBQ while stocks last!
DAVID HOLMES
