Tim Atack writes contemporary film/tv music as well as co-writing, recording and producing with Des’ree her multi- million selling albums and singles. He scored Ricky Gervais’ first Hollywood movie as writer/director/star, The Invention of Lying, which received great reviews in the US and UK and is now on general release, and Tim’s gone straight on to Ricky’s new feature Cemetery Junction after completing the UK feature Re-Uniting The Rubins for producer Jonathan Weissler. He composed the music for the BBC’s Roman’s Empire, Much Ado About Nothing; Krakatoa and The Quatermass Experiment; ITV’s Quite Ugly One Morning, starring James Nesbitt and the films Among Giants and Elephant Juice.

In 2007 Tim scored the feature Wounded Knee for director Emma Burge and Hayhead Films. He wrote the music for the BBC’s spectacular production of Krakatoa – The Last Days, directed by Sam Miller, and Much Ado About Nothing, directed by Brian Percival, for the BBC’s contemporary ‘Shakespeare Retold’ series, produced by Diederick Santer. Recently finished Roman’s Empire for director Elliot Hegarty and BBC2. His other recent tv drama credits include ITV’s Quite Ugly One Morning, starring James Nesbitt, diected by Sam Miller for Clerkenwell Films; and the BBC’s live production of The Quatermass Experiment for which he provided a totally ‘live as it happens’ score for the re-make of this seminal cult work starring Jason Flemyng and David Tennant. (www.bbc.co.uk/bbcfour/cinema/features/quatermass).

His feature film credits include Among Giants (Kudos/Fox Searchlight), starring Pete Postlethwaite, Rachel Griffiths and Lennie James; and Elephant Juice (HAL/Miramax), starring Emmanuelle Beart and Daniel Lapaine. Both films were directed by Sam Miller.

The hit song Kissing You, which he co-wrote and produced with Des’ree, played an important musical thematic role throughout Baz Luhrmann’s cult 1997 movie Romeo & Juliet (20th Century Fox). In addition to being a featured song, an instrumental version was also used, as well as additional music for the famous balcony scene. The film premiered at no. 1 at the US box office and was a huge international hit. The soundtrack album has sold in excess of 5 million copies worldwide and was number 1 in many countries.

In the early 90′s he toured and recorded with Oleta Adams and Des’ree, becoming the latter’s Musical Director in 1995. He did three world tours with her in two years, promoting the I Ain’t Movin album, which sold 1.7 million copies worldwide. It was while they were performing in Australia that they co-wrote Kissing You which Baz Luhrmann heard and decided to feature in Romeo & Juliet.

In 1998 Tim wrote, recorded and produced with Des’ree her album Supernatural, sales of which now exceed 2 million copies. In the second half of 1998 Tim worked with Des’ree as keyboard player and Musical Director to promote this album on her world tour. He has also featured on keyboards on live dates with Michael Kamen and Bryan Ferry.

 First Lie from The Invention Of Lying: Play Now | Play in Popup

 All is Revealed from Much Ado About Nothing : Play Now | Play in Popup

 End titles from Quite Ugly One Morning: Play Now | Play in Popup

 Mum's Dead from The Invention Of Lying : Play Now | Play in Popup

 36,000 dead from Krakatoa: Play Now | Play in Popup

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TIM ATACK’S CREDITS INCLUDE

Features
THE INVENTION OF LYING (Lin Pictures/Warner Bros.) producer Lynda Obst directors Ricky Gervais & Matthew Robinson

CEMETERY JUNCTION (Sony Pictures) Producer Sue Baden Powell Directors Ricky Gervais & Stephen Merchant

RE-UNITING THE RUBINS  (Balagan Prods)  Director Yoav Factor  Producer Jonathan Weissler

AMONG GIANTS (Kudos Films/Fox Searchlight) producer Stephen Garrett
director Sam Miller

ELEPHANT JUICE (Hal Films/Miramax) producer Sheila Fraser Milne
director Sam Miller

ROMEO & JULIET (Bazmark Productions) producers Gabriella Martinelli & Baz Luhrmann director Baz Luhramann
note: the song ‘Kissing You’ and the main theme based upon it

TV Drama

ROMAN’S EMPIRE (BBC2) director Elliot Hegarty
KRAKATOA – THE LAST DAYS (BBC1) director Sam Miller
MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING (BBC) produced by Diederick Santer
director Brian Percival
QUITE UGLY ONE MORNING (Clerkenwell Films/ITV) producer Murray Ferguson
director Sam Miller
THE QUARTERMASS EXPERIMENT (BBC) producer Alison Willett
director Sam Miller