at the 2009 Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival. McCartney is scheduled to perform at 10 p.m. on the Coachella stage.
From the Holmes release:
Sir Paul became a fan of Chris after hearing his DJ set at the Grammy afterparty for Radiohead. He personally gave Chris a call asking him to DJ before his set at Coachella. For his 20 minute set on the main stage, Chris is putting together his own remixed versions partially culled from the old STAX Beatles covers by classic soul artists like Otis Redding, Booker T and Isaac Hayes.
Chris Holmes DJ Bio
As a DJ Chris has had several residencies in Los Angeles, Chicago, and New York. He djs with Felix Da Housecat regularly, and has djed with Radiohead, Busy P, Daft Punk, Tommie Sunshine, Soulwax, LCD Soundsystem, The Rapture, Prince, Metro Area, The Faint, Death in Vegas, Bloc Party, The Fields, Interpol, Bauhaus, Billy Corgan, Tiga, Justice, Placebo, LA Riots, Spank Rock, Fischerspooner, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Whitey, Peaches, Erol Alkan, She Wants Revenge, Chemical Brothers, The Juan Maclean, MSTRKRFT, Lazaro Cassanova, Hot Chip, Derrick Carter, Greenskeepers, David Holmes, Mark Ronson and many others. He has played at Coachella, WMC, South by Southwest, Lollapolozza, and CMJ. Chris recently has along with Ana Calderon been the chief resident djs and promoters at Amanda Demme’s new club Hwood. Chris was also chosen to dj the radiohead grammy party.
As a remixer Chris and electronic music producer Chris has worked with Felix Da Housecat, Radiohead, Smashing Pumpkins, She Wants Revenge, Fischerspooner, Tommie Sunshine, Dandy Warhols, Hole, the Bravery, Usher, Prince, Britney Spears, The Pippettes, Regina Spekter, Greenskeepers, Usher, Rachael Yamagata and others.
In December of 2008 Chris collaborator with Hip Hop Icon Talib Kweli and the LA Opera and performed a live remix Bizet’s Carmen for the Art of Elysium Gala Ball.
As an artist Chris signed to Atlantic Records, releasing the record “Dan Loves Patti” under his “Yum Yum” moniker, which Rolling Stone Magazine heralded as “more than holds it own in comparison with influences as the Beatles, and Beach Boys circa Pet Sounds”. Chris then went on to tour and record with the Smashing Pumpkins and Felix da Housecat. Over past the few years he has been busy co-producing tracks for the P. Diddy record with Felix Da Housecat, working with Billy Corgan on his solo album and co-writing with Rachael Yamagata and Mandy Moore, in addition to producing Joshua Radin’s successful “We Are Here” album, which received a four star review in Rolling Stone.
Recently Chris has been collarborating with Brian Liesegang on Ashtar Commnad. The first fruit from the tree yielded a song entitled “Summers End” sung by Sinead O’Conner and collaborated on with Marius DeVries (Massive Attack,Madonna,Bjork,Moulin Rouge,Kylie Minogue,Rufus Wainwright,Annie Lennox etc…). Part new millennial Pink Floyd, part confrontation of dirt meets transcendence, and part open-ended ambition and concept. Choosing to exist outside label constraints, the two have contributed songs to Fox’s “The O.C.”, scored music for Microsoft’s Zune campaign, licensed “On The Way Down” for a four part Nissan Altima campaign with top ad house Chiat Day. The record is being recorded with a host of contributers, becoming part of the larger “Ashtar Collective”, a partnership of other talent and insight including Matt Walker (Filter, Smashing Pumpkins, Garbage, Morrissey), Oliver Kraus (Beth Orton, Josh Radin, Sia, Rachael Yamagata, Tom McCrae) Siggi Baldersson (Sugarcubes), Hanson, Cory Nitta (Pink Enemy, Phillipians), Solomon Snyder (Morrissey, Vincent Gallo Year Of The Rabbit), Alex Ebert (Ima Robot), Rachel Yamagato, Priscilla Ahn, Z Berg (the like), Har Mar Superstar, Taylor Goldsmith (Simon Dawes), Warisi Brothers Qawalli Singers, and are working on collaborations with Brian Wilson.
Chris was listed in URB magazine’s next 100 for his remix and DJ work in 08, and was regularly featured in BPM and has a photo editorial quarterly with them on his dj travels.
Chris Holmes will be available for interviews Friday, April 17th in the afternoon before his set. Please contact me for scheduling.
For more on Chris and his various projects including Ashtar Command, check these sites out:
www.myspace.com/chrisholmesmusic
www.myspace.com/ashtarcommand
