Nick Laird-Clowes
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Nick Laird-Clowes (born 5 February 1957, in London, England)Script error: No such module "Unsubst". is an English musician and composer, best known as the singer, guitarist, and primary songwriter for The Dream Academy.
Life and career
Laird-Clowes was a member of Alfalpha and The Act[1] before forming The Dream Academy. He was also a presenter for the first series of the Channel 4 music show The Tube.[2]
The Dream Academy formed in 1983.[3][4] Laird-Clowes sang and played guitar for the band[5] and was its primary songwriter.[6] The band's other members were multi-instrumentalist Kate St John and keyboardist Gilbert Gabriel.[4] The Dream Academy is most noted for their 1985 hit single, "Life in a Northern Town" (1985),[7][8] which was a worldwide success and a sizeable hit in the U.S.[3] The band released three albums: The Dream Academy (1985), Remembrance Days (1987)[9] and A Different Kind Of Weather (1990).[7] The Dream Academy disbanded in 1991.[10]
Laird-Clowes released a solo album, Mona Lisa Overdrive, under the name Trashmonk in 1999.[11]
A friend of David Gilmour, with whom he co-produced both The Dream Academy and A Different Kind of Weather albums,[12] Laird-Clowes contributed lyrics to two songs on Pink Floyd's album The Division Bell.[13]
In the 2000s, Laird-Clowes was involved in film and documentary soundtracks. He produced the score for The Invisible Circus (2001), directed by Adam Brooks and starring Cameron Diaz,[14] and was the musical consultant for Bernardo Bertolucci's The Dreamers (2003).[15] Laird-Clowes composed the music for Fierce People (2005), which was directed by Griffin Dunne and starred Diane Lane and Donald Sutherland,[16] and for Wit Licht (2008), directed by Jean van de Velde.[17][18] Nick Broomfield's film Battle for Haditha, which premiered at the London Film Festival in 2007, also had a Laird-Clowes soundtrack.[19][20][21] In June 2009, he scored Broomfield's agitprop documentary for Greenpeace, A Time Comes, featuring the single "Mayday".[22]
In May 2007, Laird-Clowes and Joe Boyd produced a Syd Barrett memorial concert, "The Madcap's Last Laugh", at the Barbican Centre in London; the concert also featured both Pink Floyd and Roger Waters.[23]
In 2013, Laird-Clowes worked as both composer and music consultant for the Richard Curtis directed film, About Time.[21]Template:Better source In 2014, The Dream Academy released a compilation album entitled The Morning Lasted All Day: A Retrospective; it was compiled, annotated, and remastered by Laird-Clowes.[24]
In 2017, Laird-Clowes composed the music for the feature documentary, Whitney: Can I Be Me, directed by Nick Broomfield.[25] In 2019 (and also for Broomfield), he composed the score for the acclaimed Universal film about Leonard Cohen, Marianne & Leonard: Words Of Love.[26]
References
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