Dave Sardy
Dave Sardy | |
---|---|
Birth name | David Stuart Sardy |
Born | Brooklyn, New York, United States |
Genres | Film score |
Occupation(s) | Film composer, musician, songwriter, record producer |
David Stuart Sardy (more commonly known as D. Sardy) is a Brooklyn born-and-raised composer, musician, songwriter, and record producer. He came to prominence as the leader of 1990s noise rock band Barkmarket before turning mostly to production work, often with alternative rock, hard rock, metal and related genres.
Biography
In the late 1980s and early 1990s, Sardy was active as a singer, songwriter and guitarist (most notably with his group Barkmarket), but since the mid-1990s, he has been more active as a producer, writer, composer and mixer. He has worked with an eclectic mix of rock, punk, alternative, electronic and industrial rock performers, and critics have called him a "Hardcore super-producer."[1]
In 2006, Sardy won six ARIA Awards for his work with Jet and again in 2008, three more ARIA awards for Wolfmother; he has also received three Grammy Awards (for OK Go, Wolfmother and Marilyn Manson) and multiple Brit Awards for Oasis, Marilyn Manson, Wolfmother and The Ting Tings. He was Grammy-nominated again in 2007 for LCD Soundsystem's Sound of Silver and in 2010 for the Band of Horses album Infinite Arms.
Sardy has been involved with some of the most popular licensed music for film and advertising although never writing for directly for commercials, he has produced music used in many campaigns including 3 key iPod campaigns; Jet, Wolfmother, and The Ting Tings.
He produced Oasis' seventh studio album, Dig Out Your Soul, in 2008. This was Sardy's second time working with the band, having produced their 2005 album Don't Believe the Truth and he worked with Noel Gallagher again in 2011 with Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds.
Sardy scored the Stage 6 Films logo for Sony Pictures Entertainment, as well as the films 21 and Zombieland, and the drama End of Watch, written and directed by David Ayer, all of which went to number one at the US box office. More recently, Sardy contributed work to The Green Hornet, Lawless and Eat Pray Love and scored Premium Rush, Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance, and Sabotage, working once again with David Ayer.
Film score
Year | Title | Director | Studio(s) | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|
2008 | 21 | Robert Luketic | Columbia Pictures Relativity Media Trigger Street Productions |
Also music supervisor |
2009 | Zombieland | Ruben Fleischer | Columbia Pictures Relativity Media Pariah |
N/A |
2011 | Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance | Neveldine/Taylor | Columbia Pictures Marvel Knights Crystal Sky Pictures Hyde Park Entertainment Imagenation Abu Dhabi |
N/A |
2012 | Premium Rush | David Koepp | Columbia Pictures Pariah |
N/A |
End of Watch | David Ayer | Open Road Films StudioCanal Exclusive Media Crave Films CECTV Films Emmett/Furla Films |
N/A | |
2014 | Sabotage | David Ayer | Open Road Films Universal Pictures Albert S. Ruddy Productions Crave Films QED International Roth Films |
N/A |
2016 | Monster Trucks | Chris Wedge | Paramount Pictures Paramount Animation Disruption Entertainment |
N/A |
He was also a music supervisor for Lawless.
Productions
Sardy has produced and mixed for the following artists, among others:
- The Airborne Toxic Event
- Atari Teenage Riot
- Autolux
- Badly Drawn Boy [2]
- Band of Horses
- Barkmarket
- Beware of Darkness[3]
- The Black Angels
- Black Mountain
- Boy Kill Boy [4]
- Brand New
- Brendan Benson
- Bush
- Campfire Girls
- Carey's Problem
- Catfish and the Bottlemen
- Children Collide
- Chris Cornell
- Cold War Kids
- Cop Shoot Cop
- Crash Kings
- The Cubical
- The Dandy Warhols
- Das Pop
- Death from Above 1979
- Devo
- Dirty Pretty Things [2]
- Dragpipe
- Duels [2]
- Enon
- Evil Superstars
- Fall Out Boy
- Far
- Funeral Party
- Giant Drag
- Goose
- Gorillaz featuring André 3000 and James Murphy
- Hank Williams III
- Harmful
- The Head and the Heart
- Health
- Helmet
- The Hives
- Holy Fuck
- Hot Hot Heat [5]
- Hundred Reasons
- The Icarus Line
- Ida Maria
- Jay Z
- Jet
- Jimmy Gnecco
- Johnny Cash
- LCD Soundsystem
- Magic Wands
- Marilyn Manson
- Mauro Pawlowski
- Melanie C [2]
- Middle Class Rut[6]
- Mikky Ekko
- Monster Magnet
- The Mooney Suzuki
- Nick Cave and Warren Ellis
- Nine Black Alps [2]
- Nine Inch Nails
- Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds
- Oasis[7]
- OK Go
- Orange 9mm
- Paolo Nutini
- Primal Scream [2]
- Rage Against the Machine
- Red Hot Chili Peppers
- The Rentals
- Reverend and The Makers
- The Revolution Smile
- Robert Francis
- The Rolling Stones
- Rufus Wainwright [2]
- SALEM
- Satin Peaches
- Serafin
- The Shelters
- Shihad
- Slayer
- Soulwax
- Spongehead
- Spoon
- Starlight Mints
- The Strays
- Supergrass
- System of a Down
- Tegan and Sara
- The Thrills [2]
- The Ting Tings
- Twisted Wheel
- VAUX
- Vision of Disorder
- The Walkmen
- Wild Feathers
- Wolfmother
- ZZ Top
Other productions include:
Film soundtracks: The Green Hornet, Wanted, Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, I Love You, Man. Igby Goes Down, Flushed Away, Shrek the Third, Jackass Number Two, Shoot 'Em Up, The Replacements, Little Nicky, Antitrust, Sugar & Spice, Crazy/Beautiful, Summer Catch, Clockstoppers, Mayor of the Sunset Strip, Foolproof, Dig!, Delirious, Man of the Year, Numb, If I Stay, The Big Bounce, The Holiday, Wild Hogs, What Happens in Vegas, A Lot like Love, Grind, Going the Distance, EuroTrip, The Longest Yard, She's Out of My League, Battle of the Year, TMNT, The Comebacks, Drillbit Taylor, School for Scoundrels, The Game Plan, Spring Breakdown, 500 Days of Summer, Lesbian Vampire Killers, The Hangover, MacGruber, Here Comes the Boom, The Snow Queen 2: The Snow King, War Dogs
TV show soundtracks: The Sopranos, Cold Case, Entourage, One Tree Hill, Criminal Minds, CSI: NY, Grey's Anatomy, Scrubs, The O.C., Six Feet Under, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Chuck, Fresh Meat, Beauty and the Geek Australia, Roswell, Teachers, Dancing with the Stars, Skins, 24, and Ed.
Video game soundtracks: Guitar Hero, Rock Band, Gran Turismo 4, Le Mans 24 Hours, MotorStorm, Pure, Saints Row 2, NHL 2004, Tony Hawk's Project 8, FlatOut 2, and Rugby 06.