Nick Laird-Clowes (born 5 February 1957, in London, England)[citation needed] is an English musician and composer, best known as the singer, guitarist, and primary songwriter for The Dream Academy.
[6] The band's other members were multi-instrumentalist Kate St John and keyboardist Gilbert Gabriel.
He produced the score for The Invisible Circus (2001), directed by Adam Brooks and starring Cameron Diaz,[14] and was the musical consultant for Bernardo Bertolucci's The Dreamers (2003).
[19][20][21] In June 2009, he scored Broomfield's agitprop documentary for Greenpeace, A Time Comes, featuring the single "Mayday".
[23] In 2013, Laird-Clowes worked as both composer and music consultant for the Richard Curtis directed film, About Time.