Liam Lynch wears many hats in the entertainment industry. He was the creator, co-writer, musician, actor, director, and executive producer of MTV’s Sifl and Olly Show. The daily show ran three seasons and was ranked among MTV’s top ten shows at the time. His surreal sock puppet show is still airing in countries around the world.
Lynch started the show while living in Liverpool, England. He was one of 40 musicians chosen from around the world to study at the Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts founded by Sir Paul McCartney. Lynch was not only in the institute’s first graduating class, but one of 5 musicians hand-picked by the ex-Beatle to work with on an one-on-one basis.
Lynch has been writing stories and original music since age 12. He wrote, recorded, and produced his first album of original songs at age 15. By age 18, he was a published writer and poet. By the age of 21, Lynch was professionally touring, working in music publishing, and had landed recording deals with large studios in Nashville, TN. At 26 Lynch found himself working in recording studios in Liverpool with Sir George Martin and attending lectures with Brian Eno.
While in England, Lynch produced local Liverpool bands, worked with writer/producer John Parish, acted in television commercials, was featured in three BBC documentaries, and interviewed for publications around the world – all before deciding to create his own television show in his living room and getting it on the air worldwide.
Lynch also works as a consultant to leading software designers in the development and testing of new technologies, from video compression to robots. Lynch worked with The Jim Henson company creature shop and helped develop ideas for their new motion-capture digital puppeting system.
He also writes music for television and film (Clone High, The School of Rock) writes comedy for television and film, and has been releasing his own albums and DVDs on his 111 Productions label.
With a recent radio hit for his song, “United States of Whatever,” Lynch now works and records with his second Beatle, Ringo Starr, who plays drums for Lynch on his album, “Fake Songs.” The album went top ten in both the U.K. and Australia. Liam’s homemade music video for the song was a regular on British Television and was nominated for several awards. The song was played so much it was even spoofed by British Television shows using a George Bush impressionist singing Lynch’s track.
While working on the album, Fake Songs (which also comes with a DVD full of his short films), Lynch somehow managed to find time to direct a music video for the Foo Fighters, work on DVDs for No Doubt and Tenacious D, direct several television commercials and write screenplays. Although he’s a nerdy insomniac that rarely leaves his home studio, he’s been featured in every magazine from Time to Rolling Stone.
Liam recently completed work directing and editing the Sarah Silverman film, “Sarah Silverman: Jesus is Magic.” Besides developing and directing the film, Lynch co-wrote songs with Silverman and performed, engineered and produced her soundtrack album. The film was selected to play at South By Southwest and the HBO Comedy Festival in Aspen in 2005, and will be getting theatrical distribution from Roadside Attractions.
Lynch has been busy working on many projects with long time friends, Tenacious D. Lynch won the Music Week 2002 CADS award for best International Video for his video he wrote and directed for “Tribute.” From short films, DVD sets (Tenacious D - The Complete Masterworks. 5x platinum sales), documentaries, commercials, to co-writing and directing their feature length movie for New Line. The film titled “Tenacious D In the Pick of Destiny” has finished filming this past summer.
