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Friday Night Special
Read more: Friday Night SpecialGavin Friday will be a guest at Duke Special‘s show at the National Concert Hall in Dublin this Friday. The Northern Irish singer (bio) is performing with the RTÉ Concert Orchestra and has invited Gavin to join him on stage for the Kurt Weill song Apple Jack. National Concert Hall, Friday 22 August, 8pm. The show has already sold out, but perhaps you can get lucky at: – Box office: +353 (0)1 417 0000 – NCH website – RTE Website
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‘If Stanley Kubrick would be making albums…’
Read more: ‘If Stanley Kubrick would be making albums…’Gavin talks with Vincent Woods of RTE’s The Arts Show about the Rogue’s Gallery shows and his 20-year working relationship with show director Hal Willner (known for his tributes shows to Nino Rota, Kurt Weill and producer of Lian Lunson’s documentary Leonard Cohen – I’m Your Man). It’s a nice little interview interspersed with songs from the Rogue’s Gallery CDs and the Hal Willner produced Apologia from the album Each Man Kills The Thing He Loves, which Gavin recorded with Maurice Seezer in New York in July 1988. Listen to the interview with Gavin on the RTE website.
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Photo set: Rogue’s Gallery London 2008
Read more: Photo set: Rogue’s Gallery London 2008Taken at Rogue’s Gallery at the Barbican in London on July 28, 2008
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Rum, sodomy and the lash at The Barbican
Read more: Rum, sodomy and the lash at The Barbican(Ed Harcourt, Baby Gramps, Sandy Dillon and Gavin) A capacity crowd enjoyed Hal Willner’s epic 4-hour Rogue’s Gallery at the Barbican in London on Monday night. Gavin sang ‘Baltimore Whores’ and ‘Pinery Boy’ and provided backing vocals on ‘Bully in the Alley’, ‘Boney was a Warrior’ and an improvised ‘What Shall We Do With the Drunken Sailor’ together with David Thomas (Pere Ubu), Keith Moline and Shane McGowan. Read on for reviews, video and pictures.
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‘Friday gave an inspired performance’
Read more: ‘Friday gave an inspired performance’Londonist reviews the 4-hour Rogue’s Gallery show in London on July 28th, 2008 Other fixtures were Ed Harcourt and Gavin Friday. Harcourt’s heartbreaking “Farewell Nancy” sounded less mournful with the Langley Sisters leading the vocals. Friday gave an inspired performance of “Baltimore Whores,” perhaps the first truly exciting performance of the evening. The pair shared vocal duties on “Boney Was A Warrior” with a visibly unsteady Shane McGowan on harmonica and were joined by Baby Gramps in backing Sandy Dillon on “Bully In The Alley,” which was all too perfectly suited to Dillon’s cat-scratch vocals. As Wilner said, you couldn’t…
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Rogue’s Gallery: A smattering of highlights
Read more: Rogue’s Gallery: A smattering of highlightsJournalOnline.co.uk reviews Rogue’s Gallery in Gateshead: “A smattering of highlights (there were too many to mention) would be the aforementioned Oscar winner, Mr Robbins taking the lead mic for My Son John, Sandy Dillon (whose voice suggests a Macy Gray/Steve Tyler parentage) pleading Leave Her Johnny and Gavin Friday giving the Baltimore Whores food for thought.”
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Photo set: Rogue’s Gallery Dublin, 2008
Read more: Photo set: Rogue’s Gallery Dublin, 2008Taken at Rogue’s Gallery at the Analog Festival in Dublin on July 18, 2008
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Rogue’s Gallery at the Barbican
Read more: Rogue’s Gallery at the BarbicanPirate Ballads, Sea Songs and Chanteys Mon 28 Jul, 7.30pm at the Barbican in London Baby Gramps, Martha Wainwright, David Thomas, Gavin Friday, Ralph Steadman, Robyn Hitchcock, Norma Waterston, Teddy Thompson, Martin Carthy, Julie Fowlis, Eliza Carthy, Tim Robbins, Ed Harcourt, Neil Hannon, Pete Doherty & more Based on the extraordinary recent CD release produced by legendary Hal Willner, this concert features contemporary re-workings of traditional sea-songs and chanteys. A stellar line-up of artists take us on a trip like no other, exploring the hardships, the horrors, the lusts and lurid depths, and the crystal beauty that led men to…
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Kevin Shields on getting out of Dublin
Read more: Kevin Shields on getting out of DublinMy Bloody Valentine’s Kevin Shields mentions getting advice from Gavin.