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  • Documentary: New York Tumble – Gary Jermyn – Made in Manhattan

    ‘The Man who saved With or Without You’. That’s how Bono describes Gavin in “New York Tumble” a new documentary to be aired on RTE TV in Ireland. Film maker Gary Jermyn filmed Bono, Gavin and Guggi in New York in 2001, talking about their friendship. It features interviews with celebrities such as The Edge, Jim Sheridan and Michael Stipe. Gavin takes the film crew to his favourite place in New York… a meeting with Hal Willner in the Chelsea Hotel. The documentary was renamed ‘Made in Manhattan’ after the events of September 11, 2001. Synopsis: Presented by Gary Jermyn…

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  • The Revenant – Pat McCabe

    The Revenant is a play by Patrick McCabe, for which Gavin and Niall ‘Herbie’ Macken wrote the main theme, entitled ‘Dreamland’. The premiere of the play took place at the Arts Festival in Galway on July 16th, 2007. By PATRICK MCCABE Directed by Joe O’Byrne Music by Gavin Friday & Herbie Macken With Peter Trant The Oxford Dictionary defines the word as: a person who has returned, especially supposedly from the dead. Life’s but a walking shadow: if there is a world which defines him it is this one-of penumbra. Once he had a name: but its outline has blurred,…

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  • Gavin Friday performs at Pat McCabe book launch

    On February 8, 2001, Gavin performed a set at the Clarence Hotel in Dublin for a Pat McCabe book launch. Our man on the scene reported: “An hour and a half reading by Pat, followed later in the Clarence by a set by Gav that included various folk and parlour songs. Then a duet with himself and Pat of the The Stylistics ‘I can’t give you anything, but my love’ which got the whole room singing. Shane MCGowan sang ‘Grainne Bhuil’, Jack L had the whole room singing the hymn-like ‘Old Man River’. The set was finished with Gav singing…

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  • Gavin on RTE’s The View

    Gavin was on the panel of John Kelly’s arts show ‘The View’ on February 6, 2001. The panel consisting of Philip King, Allanah Gallagher and Gavin Friday, discuss Almost Famous, Popstars, Sex and the City and 4 Blondes. You can watch the entire show on demand on the RTE website. Direct link to stream.

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  • Gavin Friday talks Lypton Village

    1982 interview from U2 Info Service, by Geoff Parkyn Apart from the fact that Edge’s older brother Dik Evans plays guitar in The Virgin Prunes, there are links between the two bands that go back to their childhoods, and recently Gavin Friday of the Virgin Prunes shed some light on their names: “The U2 connections were very strong at an early stage because I grew up with Bono, he lived a few doors down from me”. The friends duly formed into two bands, sharing early gigs such as the Prunes’ 1980 UK debut at the Acklam Hall. Together, they invented…

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  • ‘ I was just trying to hang out with the Pope’

    Excerpts from an interview with Peter Murphy in the Sunday Independance, August 2000. ‘[ painting was ] the only thing I was good at in school – it was the only thing I got an Honour in, I did crap in my Leaving. But when we were on tour in our mad days of the Eighties, if we had a day off, we’d go to the Museum of Modern Art, the Tate. It was the first time I saw the galleries of the world.’ On Bacon’s Triptych, May-June 1973: [ It ] is probably the work I find the most…

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  • Dave Fanning show January 07, 2004

    RTE 2FM DJ Dave Fanning rang Gavin during his show devoted to ‘celebrity auctions’ on Wednesday. We caught the tail end of the interview, just after Gavin announced the Peter and the Wolf box set has already made 2 million Euro for the Irish Hospice. Listen to part of the interview (Windows Media) .

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  • Download: Frederic Rzewski’s Coming Together by Gavin Friday – mp3

    A recording of Frederic Rzewski’s Coming Together, as performed live by the Crash Ensemble with Gavin Friday at the O’Reilly Theatre in Dublin on Thursday 10th november 2005. Rzewski has said it’s his favorite recording of the work. Download mp3 from NonPop, a music podcast and blog

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  • Download: Gavin Friday – Singin’ in the rain – MP3

    Download: Gavin Friday – Singin’ in the rain – MP3

    Gavin recorded the classic Singing’ In The Rain for LEMON magazine, in May 2008. The song is available on a flexi disc that came with the printed magazine (Lemon No. 3) and as a download from LEMON’s website. Check out the artwork and download the mp3 of Gavin Friday’s Singin’ in the Rain from Lemonland.net. (mp3 only) Also available – as part of a podcast – the Howie B – Dub Plate remix of this song.

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  • Download: Apologia Regular – TrueType Font

    This typeface is derived from the handwriting of recording artist Gavin Friday, designed by Kiwi Media, Inc. (USA) exclusively for gavinfriday.com. Do not redistribute without the express consent of Caroline van Oosten de Boer at www.gavinfriday.com. For technical support or more information about Kiwi Media fonts, visit http://www.itis.com/kiwi/ This product is distributed as-is, without any warranties either expressed or implied. Neither Kiwi Media, Inc. nor Caroline van Oosten de Boer are liable for any damage incured through use or misuse of this product. TrueType font: mac / pc

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