NEWS
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Gavin Friday to play Crossing Border festival (NL & BE)
Read more: Gavin Friday to play Crossing Border festival (NL & BE)We are happy to confirm that Gavin Friday is booked for both the Dutch and Belgian editions of the 19th Crossing Border festival this year. He is set to appear and play live in The Hague (NL) on Friday 18th of November and Antwerp (BE) on Saturday 19th. Tickets for The Hague (€37,50) are on sale now via the festival website www.crossingborder.nl and at the ticket box of the Royal Theatre (Koninklijke Schouwburg) in The Hague. Price excludes service costs. Ticket sales for Antwerp start August 27th. Since Crossing Border’s inception in 1993 it has sought to find a unique…
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Tune into Turntable.FM with Gavin Friday (USA only)
Read more: Tune into Turntable.FM with Gavin Friday (USA only)Gavin will be the featured DJ in the launch event for the Summer Fridays series on Turntable.FM, co-hosted by MB3 Records and Mashable this Friday, July 8. Join Gavin Friday and friends for the Summer Fridays series from 4:00-6:00PM EST: http://turntable.fm/summer_fridays. Turntable access is currently restricted access to the United States only due to licensing constraints.
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Watch the new video for Gavin Friday’s ‘Able’
Read more: Watch the new video for Gavin Friday’s ‘Able’Gavin Friday’s music video ‘Able’ premiers today, taken from his current album ‘catholic’. Click to watch Gavin Friday – Able – the video Gavin Friday enlisted the expertise of highly acclaimed and renowned director Kevin Godley and producer Ned O’Hanlon for its making. Both Godley and O’Hanlon have both worked on many creative projects in the art and entertainment medium with star artists such as U2, Paul McCartney, Blur, Rolling Stones, Oasis to name but a few.
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Gavin Friday and Crash Ensemble – Coming Together
Read more: Gavin Friday and Crash Ensemble – Coming TogetherGavin Friday and Crash Ensemble will be performing together at Cork Opera House on July 31st, 2011. They will reprise their 2005 live performance of composer Frederic Rzewski‘s “Coming Together”. Crash Ensemble will also perform works by Steve Reich and Donnacha Dennehy (with Iarla Ó Lionáird). Program: REICH: 2 x 5 DENNEHY: Grá agus Bás (featuring Iarla Ó Lionáird) RZEWSKI: Coming Together (featuring Gavin Friday) REICH: Double Sextet Book your tickets now from the Cork Opera House website.
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Steve Reich Remix Competition
Read more: Steve Reich Remix CompetitionGavin Friday is on the judging panel of the Cork Opera House “Reich Remix Competition”. If you are a musician, DJ, music producer, remixer or Steve Reich aficionado and want to create your own original Reich Effect, then this is for you. The Judging Panel will produce a shortlist of entries, and the final winning track will be selected by Steve Reich himself. Competition winners will be invited to perform at the Remix Club in the Pavilion on Friday 29th July 2011. Competition open from Thurs 26 May – Fri 17 June All submissions must be received by 5pm on…
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Gavin and Me by Pat McCabe
Read more: Gavin and Me by Pat McCabePat McCabe (Author of The Butcher Boy, The Dead School, Breakfast on Pluto) writes about his longtime friendship with Gavin Friday. He remembers Dublin in the 80s, collaborating on Emerald Germs of Ireland and Shag Tobacco, and shares his thoughts on the new album, ‘catholic’: We started to spend some time together – a lot of time, actually. That he liked disco music I was pleasantly surprised to hear – and his Behanesque combination of sensitivity and pugnaciousness was something to which I found I willingly responded – in the same way as I would, later on, to Shane MacGowan’s…
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Friday on The Saturday Night Show
Read more: Friday on The Saturday Night ShowGavin Friday will be on RTÉ’s The Saturday Night Show tomorrow evening. (RTÉ One, Saturday, May 7 at 9.45pm) He will be interviewed by the show’s host Brendan O’ Connor and will perform a song from the new album ‘catholic’. You can now watch the The Saturday Night Show on the RTÉ player.
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Unique one-day event: ‘catholic’ – An Exposition
Read more: Unique one-day event: ‘catholic’ – An ExpositionOn Tuesday April 26th, The Gallery of Photography in Dublin’s Temple Bar will host a unique one-day event by Gavin Friday. Gavin and graphic designer Pete Reddy commissioned one writer and three photographers to work on the presentation of Gavin’s latest album ‘catholic’. On display in this exposition: Requiem for the Fallen – a short story by Patrick Mc Cabe, inspired by the words, music and world of ‘catholic’. ‘catholic’ cover photograph shot by Perry Ogden. Inside layout photo works by Maciej Pestka. Documentation stills and short movie by Darragh Shanahan. In recent years, Gavin Friday’s considerable energies have found…
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Download a ‘catholic’ surprise
Read more: Download a ‘catholic’ surpriseHere’s a little gift from us to you. Gavin Friday’s new song ‘Able’ is available as a free download from today until the album release date, April 22. Download ‘Able’ by Gavin Friday (mp3). ‘Able’ goes to radio in Ireland this week and got its first play last Friday on Today FM. Spread the love: Tell your friends on Twitter.
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“Anti-hero Gavin Friday returns fittingly”
Read more: “Anti-hero Gavin Friday returns fittingly”“16 years since his last album, it’s time to salute anti-hero Gavin Friday, who returns fittingly, at a time of upheaval, of political chaos, and of spiritual, financial and moral bankruptcy. Ireland is a very different place to the country Shag Tobacco was recorded in, and the intervening decade and a half coincided with a prolific work period for the singer. From soundtracks for In America , The Boxer and Get Rich Die Tryin’ with Quincy Jones to collaborating on Nothing like the Sun with Gavin Bryars and the Royal Shakespeare Company, he moved away from the conventional parameters of…