David Holmes’ first solo LP since 2008’s ‘The Holy Pictures’ is out today – revisit our review and stream it right here.
“It’s easy to think of David Holmes in the guise of composer, scoring movies like Ocean’s Eleven or hit TV show Killing Eve, a content man in his fifties who mixes with entertainment royalty and has the gold statuettes to prove it.”
“The truth however is far more complicated. Born in Belfast as the Troubles first began to escalate, the Holmes family were Catholics in a majority Protestant area and were devilishly acquainted with the sectarian Pogroms of the era when their home was pipe bombed when he was only four. DJ’ing and promoting from fifteen in a city full of soldiers, openly carried weapons and meaningless murders on an industrial scale, in 1989 he co-started a nightclub.”
“Sugar Sweet was no ordinary venue however: in the wake of the ecstasy-soaked arrival of acid house across the Irish sea in clubs in the rest of Britain, narcotics ensured a hedonistic crowd made up of people from either side of the peace walls coexisted happily. It was a radically human idea in a country where life for some despotic gangsters had ceased to have value according to what building they prayed in.”
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