NEWS
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Shadow Play: The Making of Anton Corbijn
Read more: Shadow Play: The Making of Anton CorbijnGavin Friday, Guggi, Bono, Michael Stipe, Brandon Flowers, Dave Gahan and others tell the story of Anton Corbijn, “the ultimate insider who now finds himself outside the Hollywood system” in Shadow Play: The Making of Anton Corbijn, a documentary by Josh Whiteman now making the rounds on the festival circuit.
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Gavin Friday tweets: “Something special, somewhere special…”
Read more: Gavin Friday tweets: “Something special, somewhere special…”Gavin has been dropping hints on his Twitter account about “something special”, to be held “somewhere special”. Further hints included the location: “Madhattan” and date: “Four days before I turn Fifty years of age..” Fans on our forum as well as those on Facebook, have been speculating about these hints. Join in the discussion there, or on the MySpace blog.
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“Accents and Prestige” radio documentary
Read more: “Accents and Prestige” radio documentary103.2 Dublin City FM is airing the radio documentary “Accents and Prestige”. Produced and presented by Heather MacLeod and Gerard Counihan with support of the BCI Sound and Vision Broadcasting Funding Scheme, “Accents and Prestige” discusses and explores how accent affects our everyday lives, what accent means to us and the psychology behind recognising, mimicking and developing accents. The programme includes insightful and interesting contributions from some of Ireland’s leading linguistic experts and personalities including Bertie Ahern, David Norris and Gavin Friday. The programme will be aired this Friday 21st August at 10am on 103.2 Dublin City FM and is…
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Friday and McCabe on Newstalk.ie
Read more: Friday and McCabe on Newstalk.ieGavin Friday and Patrick McCabe will be talking to Tom Dunne on Newstalk.ie on Friday morning July 31st at 11am GMT. Listen online at Newstalk.ie
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OX Magazine interview, June 2009
Read more: OX Magazine interview, June 2009PDF-file of an interview Gavin did with Markus Kolodziej for OX Magazine (German)
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‘Nothing Like The Sun’ reprises in Leeds and London
Read more: ‘Nothing Like The Sun’ reprises in Leeds and LondonGavin Friday will be joining the Gavin Bryars Ensemble this summer for two more performances of the Sonnet Project in Leeds and in London. Gavin Bryars’ through-composed score, ‘Nothing Like the Sun’, weaves together eight of Shakespeare’s sonnets on the subjects of time, memory and music. The project also features five sonnet settings by guest composers including Antony Heggarty (Antony and the Johnsons) and Mira Calix. Gavin will be performing his own setting of Sonnet 40 as well as narrating Bryars’ 40-minute composition. Nothing Like The Sun was commissioned by Opera North and the Royal Shakespeare Company. Leeds: The Howard…
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Video: When that great ship went down – Gavin Friday and Mary Margaret O’Hara
Read more: Video: When that great ship went down – Gavin Friday and Mary Margaret O’HaraGavin Friday, Mary Margaret O’Hara and Eric Mingus performing When that great ship went down at the Harry Smith Night in New York, November 1999
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Gavin Friday visits Guggi’s exhibition at the Kerlin Gallery
Read more: Gavin Friday visits Guggi’s exhibition at the Kerlin GalleryGavin Friday’s lifelong friend Guggi (Derek Rowan) is currently exhibiting work at the Kerlin Gallery in Dublin. It’s Guggi’s third solo exhibition with the gallery and it runs through April 25th. A catalogue featuring an introduction by the Irish-born American painter and Turner Prize nominee Sean Scully accompanies the exhibition. Scully writes: “In his beautiful small studio he shows me chairs that are the same as the ones he sat on as a child that he managed to find agin and buy as a man. He also shows me the enamelled metal jugs that inhabit his paintings. These are the…
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Edgar Allan Poe’s “For Annie” animated
Read more: Edgar Allan Poe’s “For Annie” animatedCheck out this animated video of Edgar Allan Poe’s For Annie as read by Gavin Friday on Hal Willner’s Poe tribute album “Closed on account of rabies“. The video was made by Jim Clark, “poetryanimations” on YouTube.