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Gavin Friday confirmed for Electric Picnic 2011
Read more: Gavin Friday confirmed for Electric Picnic 2011Gavin Friday will play the Electric Picnic Festival, Ireland on September 2nd, 2011. This year’s line up also includes Arcade Fire, Pulp, The Chemical Brothers, Interpol, PJ Harvey, Beirut, Mogwai, Underworld and Sinead O’Connor. See the full line up on the Electric Picnic website. Electric Picnic is an annual arts-and-music festival which has been staged since 2004 in Stradbally Hall, Stradbally, County Laois in Ireland.
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Gavin Friday on The Devil in Love (CD)
Read more: Gavin Friday on The Devil in Love (CD)Gavin Friday has contributed a track to “The Devil in Love”, a soundtrack to the 1772 occult novel “Le Diable amoureux” by Jacques Cazotte. Cazotte’s story follows the young nobleman Alvare as he summons Satan, who appears to him first in the shape of a dreadful camel, then as a spaniel dog and finally as a beautiful androgynous girl. Alvare wrestles with the temptation presented by this mysterious creature. Is the Evil One really as black as he is painted, and can Satan himself fall in love? The contributing artists were handed “Le Diable amoureux” to read and then given…
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The Return of the Fortune Teller
Read more: The Return of the Fortune TellerWatch The Fortune Teller online The Fortune Teller, the acclaimed creation of New York City puppet maker Erik Sanko and designer Jessica Grindstaff, returns to the stage by popular demand at the Here Theater in New York City, October 28th–December 4th, 2010. (Click here for tickets) The Fortune Teller features a grotesque array of 15 artfully handcrafted figures in a dark comic tale unfolding in a fantastic Victorian world. Seven characters representing the seven deadly sins convene at a dead millionaire’s estate to claim their inheritance as determined by a fortune teller. One by one, each is delivered what they…
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“Love Life and Limb” featuring “Lipstick” with Gavin Friday
Read more: “Love Life and Limb” featuring “Lipstick” with Gavin FridayDublin-based band Preachers Son (Brian Hogan of Kíla and Emmaline Duffy-Fallon previously of Engine Alley) released their debut album “Love Life and Limb” last Friday, October 15th. “Love Life and Limb” features the song “Lipstick” with Gavin Friday on vocals. The song, and the album, can now be downloaded from iTunes, Amazon and CD Baby. Lipstick (duet with Gavin Friday) by Preachers Son Download iTunes (Irl) CD Baby Reviews “With string arrangements over a languid rock rhythm, ‘Lipstick’ features an explosive Gavin Friday performance..” Hotpress Issue 20 – Oct 2010 Colm O’Hare “Gavin Friday lends his voice to snaky torch…
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Video: “All our troubles have flown away” in BBC trailer
Read more: Video: “All our troubles have flown away” in BBC trailerThis BBC Weather ‘Be One Step Ahead’ trailer which has been running on BBC television for the last couple of months features the track “All our troubles have flown away” from the Friday/Seezer soundtrack for Jim Sheridan’s movie ‘In America’. The soundtrack CD is available from: Amazon.co.uk Amazon.com MP3 downloads from: iTunes (USA) iTunes (UK) Amazon.co.uk Amazon.com
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John Hinde – Wish You Were Here
Read more: John Hinde – Wish You Were HereWritten by Gavin Friday for The Irish Times supplement “The Moderns”, on the Irish Museum of Modern Art’s exhibition “The Moderns: The arts in Ireland from the 1900s to the 1970s” “Having recently come across a book of photographs of John Hinde’s Ireland from the 1960s and 1970s, I was totally taken aback that after all these years they had such a poignant effect on me…Was this the Ireland I grew up in? An O Connell Street in the 1960s looking like an exotic boulevard from a Technicolor Hitchcock movie? The images of Butlins so overtly lush with surreal detail,…
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Review – Biorhythm Live: Emotion
Read more: Review – Biorhythm Live: EmotionBy Pat Lynch The 2nd of three events in the Bio Rhythm exhibition currently running at the Science Gallery, Trinity College, Dublin featured Gavin and BP Fallon amongst a cast of music psychologists, therapists and fellow musicians to explore and discuss the relations we have with music. And specifically for the first half of the evening, that effect of music on our emotions. Is music driven by emotion or is it emotion that creates the music? Scientists and musicians discuss!
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Gavin Friday & Maria McKee – Falling off the Edge of the World
Read more: Gavin Friday & Maria McKee – Falling off the Edge of the WorldIrish Radio DJ Tom Dunne has been playing Gavin Friday’s duet with Maria McKee ‘Falling off the Edge of the World’ (lyrics) on his radio show for this ‘vinyl only’ month. The song proves to be popular with the listeners as many are texting and tweeting Tom to ask where they can get a copy of the song. ‘Falling off the Edge of the World’ is on Gavin Friday’s album Adam ‘n’ Eve and was released by Island Records as a 7″ single, 12″ and CD single in 1992. The album and singles are unfortunately no longer distributed on…
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Gavin Friday on Radio Nova’s ‘In Conversation’
Read more: Gavin Friday on Radio Nova’s ‘In Conversation’Gavin Friday will be talking to Barry Egan on Radio Nova 100FM’s ‘In Conversation’ this Sunday (September 12th) from 6pm to 8pm GMT. Highlight of the 2-hour interview was Gavin’s recital of his classic song ‘Apologia’ at Egan’s request.
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Gavin Friday, Kate Ellis and BP Fallon – Biorhythm live: emotion
Read more: Gavin Friday, Kate Ellis and BP Fallon – Biorhythm live: emotion“How can your skin betray how you really feel about a song? Why is a minor chord sad? How is music linked with memory?” Gavin Friday, Kate Ellis – who is one of the lead instrumentalists on Gavin’s new album – and BP Fallon will appear at ‘Biorhythm Live: Emotion‘ on September 16th, as part of Dublin’s Science Gallery’s BIORHYTHM: Music and the Body festival to talk and improvise about the subject of music and emotion. September 16, 2010 19:00 – 22:00 Science Gallery Pearse Street, Dublin Tickets €28. Book now http://www.myspace.com/katecello http://www.bpfallon.com/