A CROSS-dressing singer and music producer from Darwen has composed the soundtrack to a film premiered at Cannes.<\/p>\n
Kurt Walsh, 26, who grew up in Pole Lane, approached Troma Entertainment, the makers of cult 1986 B-movie \u2018Nuke Em High\u2019, after it announced a follow-up was to be made.<\/p>\n
Mr Walsh, aka Kurt Dirt, who dons female outfits for his bizarre rock performances, had been a fan of the company\u2019s films since childhood.<\/p>\n
Bosses at Troma asked him to produce a demo for them and, after hearing his work, asked him to compose the entire soundtrack for \u2018Return to Nuke Em High\u2019.<\/p>\n
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: \u201cIt was pretty easy really as I am heavily influenced by Troma and 80s horror movies. Troma\u2019s heyday was in the 80s and 90s and my stuff takes a lot of influence from those days.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think they like the fact that I use proper synthesisers, whereas a lot of movie composers now use computers.<\/p>\n
\u201cI 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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\u201cThe 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.\u201d<\/p>\n
Mr Walsh, a former pupil at Darwen Moorland High School, who studied on Blackburn College\u2019s Access to Music programme, left Darwen eight years ago when his band, The Exorsisters, split up.<\/p>\n
He had most recently been in a band called Bad Taste Barbies but has now moved to Cleveleys and gone solo.<\/p>\n
He is currently on a music production course at the University of Central Lancashire.<\/p>\n
\u2018Return to Nuke Em High\u2019 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.<\/p>\n
The film premiered at the Cannes Festival yesterday and is due for release in the UK in the near future.