David Holmes has hand signed this copy of the “David Holmes Presents The Free Association” Promo CD on the front cover in black ink.
After releasing a remix album, Come Get It I Got It, in 2002, Holmes released David Holmes Presents The Free Association. This was a departure for the artist as all his previous work had been solo. The Free Association featured four other bandmates who toured with Holmes after the album was launched. As a remixer he has reworked tracks by artists such as U2, Doves, Manic Street Preachers, Primal Scream, Page and Plant, Saint Etienne and Ice Cube. Before beginning his musical career, Holmes worked as a hairdresser and chef. He also briefly owned and ran a café called Mogwai near the Queen’s University of Belfast and, since 2009, has run an intimate club in South Belfast called The Menagerie.
In 2008, he composed the music for the “New iPhone” ad campaign. An album, The Holy Pictures, was released on 8 September 2008, from which the track “Holy Pictures” was selected for the soundtrack of Pro Evolution Soccer 2010. The first track from this album, “I Heard Wonders”, also featured in the Opening Ceremony of the 2012 Olympics. In April 2009, he topped the Irish Times’ “50 Best Irish Acts Right Now”. Holmes’s latest release is The Dogs Are Parading, a best of compilation released on 26 April 2010.