A CROSS-dressing singer and music producer from Darwen has composed the soundtrack to a film premiered at Cannes.
Kurt Walsh, 26, who grew up in Pole Lane, approached Troma Entertainment, the makers of cult 1986 B-movie ‘Nuke Em High’, after it announced a follow-up was to be made.
Mr Walsh, aka Kurt Dirt, who dons female outfits for his bizarre rock performances, had been a fan of the company’s films since childhood.
Bosses at Troma asked him to produce a demo for them and, after hearing his work, asked him to compose the entire soundtrack for ‘Return to Nuke Em High’.
Mr Walsh, who is married to Lisa and has an eight-month-old daughter, Minnie, said it was a dream come true to work with the film company. He said: “It was pretty easy really as I am heavily influenced by Troma and 80s horror movies. Troma’s heyday was in the 80s and 90s and my stuff takes a lot of influence from those days.
“I think they like the fact that I use proper synthesisers, whereas a lot of movie composers now use computers.
“I have always gone for the John Carpenter-style 80s spooky kind of sound. I was given free rein to create whatever sounds I wanted, which was great.
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“The director, Lloyd Kaufman, would call and say he needed music for a girl being chased down a hallway or something, and I just did what I thought was best, and they loved it.”
Mr Walsh, a former pupil at Darwen Moorland High School, who studied on Blackburn College’s Access to Music programme, left Darwen eight years ago when his band, The Exorsisters, split up.
He had most recently been in a band called Bad Taste Barbies but has now moved to Cleveleys and gone solo.
He is currently on a music production course at the University of Central Lancashire.
‘Return to Nuke Em High’ features a group of high school students whose school is next door to a nuclear power plant. When the plant is taken over by a food firm, it leads to disastrous mutations.
The film premiered at the Cannes Festival yesterday and is due for release in the UK in the near future.
