After releasing a remix album, "Come Get It I Got It", in 2002, Holmes released "David Holmes Presents The Free Association". This was a departure for the artist as all his previous work had been solo. The Free Association featured four other bandmates who toured with Holmes after the album was launched. As a remixer he has reworked tracks by artists such as U2, Doves, Manic Street Preachers, Primal Scream, Page and Plant, Saint Etienne and Ice Cube. In 2008, Holmes composed the music for the "New iPhone" ad campaign. An album, "The Holy Pictures", was released on 8 September 2008, from which the track "Holy Pictures" was selected for the soundtrack of "Pro Evolution Soccer 2010". The first track from this album, "I Heard Wonders", also featured in the movie "Cherrybomb" and the Opening Ceremony of the 2012 Olympics to accompany the footage of David Beckham and Jade Bailey bringing the olympic flame up the River Thames by speedboat. He worked with Leo Abrahams to create the score for the award-winning film "Hunger", directed by Steve McQueen, about the 1981 Irish Hunger Strike. The score won an IFTA at the Irish Film Awards.