William D. "Bill" Noland (born April 1, 1954) is an American musician, composer, and producer best known for his membership in the New Wave

New Wave music

New Wave is a subgenre of :rock music that emerged in the mid to late 1970s alongside punk rock. The term at first generally was synonymous with punk rock before being considered a genre in its own right that incorporated aspects of electronic and experimental music, mod subculture, disco and 1960s...

/Punk groups Wall of Voodoo

Wall of Voodoo

Wall of Voodoo was an American New Wave group from Los Angeles best known for the 1983 hit "Mexican Radio". The band had a sound that was a fusion of synthesizer-based New Wave music with the spaghetti western soundtrack style of Ennio Morricone.-Formation:...

 and Human Hands during the late 1970s and '80s.

Human Hands

Noland was a founding member of Human Hands and was their keyboard player who wrote and produced some of the band's material. Rodney Bingenheimer

Rodney Bingenheimer

Rodney Bingenheimer, born December 15, 1947, is a radio disc jockey on the long-running Los Angeles rock station KROQ who is notable for helping numerous iconic bands become successful in the American market. His contribution to the music business has been described as important...

 helped to break them by playing their music on KROQ-FM

KROQ-FM

KROQ-FM — branded 106.7 KROQ — is a commercial modern rock radio station licensed to Pasadena, California serving the Greater Los Angeles. The call sign is pronounced "kay rock." It is the flagship station of Loveline hosted by Dr...

. Human Hands split up at the end of 1981 and Noland went on to became a member of Wall of Voodoo.

Wall of Voodoo

Bill Noland joined the band shortly after the release of "Call of the West

Call of the West

Call of the West is the second studio album by Los Angeles new wave band Wall of Voodoo, released in 1983. "Mexican Radio", released as a single and as a video that received moderate airplay on MTV), is the group's most well-known song....

" on I.R.S. Records

I.R.S. Records

I.R.S. Records was a record label, started in the United States in 1979 by Miles Copeland III along with Jay Boberg and Carl Grasso. Miles was also the manager of Wishbone Ash, The Police, and later, Sting, as well as other bands. I.R.S. was the sister label of Copeland's Illegal Records .I.R.S...

. Noland played keyboards, trumpet and sang back-up vocals with Wall of Voodoo while touring exstensively in the USA, Canada, Puerto Rico, and England. The culmination of the tour was Wall of Voodoo's 1983 US Festival

US Festival

The US Festivals were two early 1980s music and culture festivals sponsored by Steve Wozniak, formerly of Apple Computer. The first was held Labor Day weekend in September 1982 and the second was Memorial Day weekend in May 1983...

 performance for an estimated crowd of 150,000 fans. Shortly afterward, Bill Noland, Stan Ridgway

Stan Ridgway

Stanard 'Stan' Ridgway is an American multi-instrumentalist singer-songwriter known for his distinctive voice, dramatic lyrical narratives, and eclectic solo albums and was the original lead singer of the band Wall of Voodoo...

 and Joe Nanini

Joe Nanini

Oliver Joseph Nanini was a drummer, most famous for being part of the New Wave group Wall of Voodoo during their heyday in the 1980s. He was known for using pots, pans and other objects as drums. He, along with Stan Ridgway and Bill Noland, left the band after their performance at the US Festival...

 left the band.

Solo career

After Wall of Voodoo broke up, Noland became a sound engineer, mixer and producer. He produced tracks for Thin White Rope

Thin White Rope

Thin White Rope was an American rock band fronted by Guy Kyser and related to the desert rock and paisley underground sub-genres. It was formed in Davis, California in 1984, and released five albums to critical acclaim....

 on Frontier Records

Frontier Records

Frontier Records is an independent record label, started in 1980 in Los Angeles by Lisa Fancher, a former employee of Bomp! Records and writer of the liner notes for the first album by The Runaways....

, Field Trip for Slash Records

Slash Records

Slash Records is a record label in Los Angeles, originally specializing in local and punk rock bands.The label was formed in 1978 by Bob Biggs as an outgrowth of the Los Angeles-based fanzine, Slash. Biggs, a painter, initiated the label with a seven-inch single from The Germs in 1978. A full album...

, and produced and collaborated with Ridgway on his solo albums, The Big Heat

The Big Heat

The Big Heat is a 1953 film noir directed by Fritz Lang, starring Glenn Ford, Gloria Grahame, and Lee Marvin. It is about a cop who takes on the crime syndicate that controls his city after the brutal murder of his beloved wife. The film was written by former crime reporter Sydney Boehm based on a...

 (IRS, 1986), Mosquitos (Geffen, 1989), Partyball

Partyball

Partyball is the third album by Stan Ridgway and his last release by Geffen Records.-Track listing:All tracks composed by Stan Ridgway# "Watch Your Step/Jack Talked " - 4:19 # "I Wanna Be a Boss" - 4:52...

 (Geffen, 1991), Songs That Made This Country Great

Songs That Made This Country Great

Songs That Made This Country Great is a compilation album by American New Wave artist Stan Ridgway with songs spanning from his time with Wall of Voodoo to his third album Partyball. It was released on February 25, 1992 through I.R.S...

 (IRS, 1992), Black Diamond

Black Diamond

-Minerals:* Anthracite* Carbonado, a natural diamond that is black in color* A black synthetic diamond, specifically CVD polycrystalline diamonds or HPHT polycrystalline compact diamonds...

 (Birdcage, 1995), Work the Dumb Oracle (IRS, 1995) and The Way I Feel Today

The Way I Feel Today

The Way I Feel Today, released in 2002 on Beggars Banquet in the UK and Mantra Records in the US, was the third studio album by Nottingham-based indie rock band Six By Seven...

 (Impala, Disinformation, 1998).

Noland also worked as a foley

Foley

-Places:United States*Foley, Alabama*Foley, Minnesota*Foley, Missouri*Foley Field, baseball stadium in Athens, Georgia*Foley Square in ManhattanCanada*Foley Island, NunavutNorthern Ireland*Foley, County Armagh, a townland in County Armagh-People:...

 and ADR

ADR

ADR is a three-letter initialism that may refer to:* Académie de Roberval, a school in Montreal, Canada* Accident Data Recorder* short for Accord européen relatif au transport international des marchandises dangereuses par route, also known as the European Agreement concerning the International...

 engineer and mixer for Brian Singer's film Public Access

Public Access

Public Access is a 1993 American drama film directed by Bryan Singer in his feature film debut. Singer also wrote the screenplay with Christopher McQuarrie and Michael Feit Dougan. The film was shot in 18 days for US$250,000. It was screened at the 1993 Sundance Film Festival, where it was...

, and the films Wizard of Oz (short), and Snow White (short) as well as numerous television and cartoon features.

Bill Noland composed and produced the scores for the 2001 film The Vampire Hunters Club and the 2003 film The Low Budget Time Machine.

Currently, Noland has two solo albums available, "Mandala La La", and "Red Naugahyde Clyde"