Kim Halliday
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Biography
"Kim began playing the violin at age 7, took up the guitar and dropped the violin (although he kept the bow) at 13, and spent his early teens trying to become Jimmy Page. Rescued from a life in prog rock by Dr Feelgood, Kim signed up for the punk wars having seen Wilko Johnson prove that a Telecaster could be a lot more exciting than a Pantechnicon full of guitar effects. After several years of punk, new wave, psychobilly and ska, in garages, rehearsal studios, and a short and very depressing time recording in a front room painted completely black, Kim decided that life in a sweaty transit van with several blokes he hated wasn't a sensible career goal, so he set off on a path towards movie composer superstardom.
Somewhere along the way he seemed to have picked up how to play keyboards and sax, and he went to the London International Film School to find out how difficult writing to picture really was. Having scored several prize winning shorts at the Film School, he inflicted his music on the waiting world in such classics as "The Thames Path", "CGX - the Awards Show", "The Television Show", "Pakex - the Movie" and the now legendary "A Time To Manage (Inland Revenue Training Department)". He also worked with Clive Langer on Still Crazy, arranged strings for The Family of Free Love and worked with Rat Scabies on songs and pieces, as well as becoming experienced writing music for theatre, television, video and multimedia projects. His CV continues to grow with short films, an independent feature film (Pink Pumpkins at Dawn, directed by Rick Onorato) and whatever else comes his way.
At some point he obviously earned some money, as he built his own studio under the Heathrow flight path and equipped it with as many weird instruments as he could think of, including a Waterphone, a Mandocello, an Autoharp, a Duduk and lots of guitars. A chest full of itchy and scratchy percussion is also available, mainly to keep small children (and Kim) amused. Visitors to the studio have included the afore-mentioned Rat Scabies, author Jeanette Winterson, the legendary Nick Lowe, and assorted other like-minded folk.
Now writing music interlaced with sound effects, electronic processing and live instruments and percussion, Kim is working on a Postgraduate qualification in Composition, during which time he's studied with Simon Holt and Howard Skempton."
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