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Meltdown festival ‘Forest of no return’
Read more: Meltdown festival ‘Forest of no return’Stuart Hardy reviews Hal Willner’s Forest of no return When you find yourself watching Nick Cave, Jarvis Cocker, Shane McGowan and Pete Doherty on stage together, howling like dogs, you might be forgiven for wondering whether things could get any stranger. Minutes later, Gavin Friday prowls into view like a feline agent provocateur, every inch the streetwise Siamese hissing at the competition. No, you’ve not fallen down the rabbit-hole or through the looking-glass, it’s just another Hal Willner concert.
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Hal Willner’s Forest of No Return, Disney tribute
Read more: Hal Willner’s Forest of No Return, Disney tributeGavin’s just been added to the bill of Hal Willner‘s Forest of no return, celebrating the Vintage Disney Songbook featuring Jarvis Cocker and very special guests at the Royal Festival Hall in London THIS Sunday, June 17th. Other artists set to appear are Pete Doherty, Beth Orton and Shane MacGowan. We have also heard the names of Bryan Ferry, Beth Gibbons and Grace Jones, but these have not been confirmed by the festival website. Tickets are available from the festival website.
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Friday and Macken compose Dreamland for McCabe play
Read more: Friday and Macken compose Dreamland for McCabe playGavin Friday and Herbie Macken have composed the music for the new Patrick McCabe play entitled ‘The Revenant’. The play’s main theme is entitled ‘Dreamland’. ‘The Revenant’ is set to open for the first time as part of the Galway Arts Festival on July 16th, 2007. This will be the first public airing of an original Friday/Macken composition. We expect to hear much more from Friday and Macken in the near future as they have been writing together prolificly over the last few months.
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Gala Benefit: Rogue’s Gallery at St Ann’s – photo
Read more: Gala Benefit: Rogue’s Gallery at St Ann’s – photoGavin Friday performing Baltimore Whores at St Ann’s, May 2, 2007. Photo by Monique Carboni.
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Gala Benefit: Rogue’s Gallery at St Ann’s
Read more: Gala Benefit: Rogue’s Gallery at St Ann’sCome celebrate another successful year at St. Ann’s Warehouse with the world premiere of Hal Willner’s Rogue’s Gallery Live, a concert of selected pirate ballads, sea songs, & chanteys. As a Benefit for Arts at St. Ann’s, music producer Hal Willner will bring his signature gift for matching maverick musicians with extraordinary material. These ancient tales of hardship, fate, lost love and lust scour the depths for the crystal allure that led men to the sea for hundreds of years. Rogue’s Gallery Live promises to be an ocean-rolling good time spent with a world class group of salty dogs, sea…
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‘The swooning romance of Gavin Friday’s Angel’
Read more: ‘The swooning romance of Gavin Friday’s Angel’DVD Times reviews the new ‘Music’ edition of the Romeo + Juliet DVD. Reviewer Eamonn McCusker writes: ‘And it is that score that one remembers most, in particular how well it fits the film and how, were it not for Gavin Friday, The Butthole Surfers and composers Nellee Hooper, Craig Armstrong and Marius De Vries, one wouldn’t be at all impressed by MTV-meets-Shakespeare logic of its making.’ Read the full review. Order the DVD from Amazon.com
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Gavin Friday covers Brian Eno’s By This River
Read more: Gavin Friday covers Brian Eno’s By This RiverGavin joined German musician Hans-Joachim Roedelius (Wikipedia), David Bickley and James O’Leary in RTE 2FM studio’s on March 29 to record a version of Brian Eno’s ‘By this river’. The session was organised by Psychonation Records (MySpace) and will be broadcast on the Den Hegarty show in the near future. Update: Mark your calendars, the Gavin Friday / Roedelius session recorded late last month will be broadcast on RTE’s Dan Hegarty show on April 23, between 12pm and 2am.
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Nothing Like The Sun newspaper reviews
Read more: Nothing Like The Sun newspaper reviewsAlfred Hickling reviews Nothing Like The Sun for The Guardian: “But the most charismatic moment occurs when Friday stalks on in gold jewellery and inch-high brothel-creepers to intone Sonnet 40 like a diabolical lounge entertainer.” Lynne Walker for The Independent: “The most extraordinary setting, however, is Gavin Friday’s take on No 40, which he intones in a kind of strangulated speech-song. While his words are often inaudible, as a piece of performance theatre it is astonishing. He swerves between Caliban and Puck and several characters in between so compellingly…” Terry Grimley reviews Nothing like the Sun for the Birmingham Post:…
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Nothing Like The Sun, Courtyard Theatre, Stratford-Upon-Avon
Read more: Nothing Like The Sun, Courtyard Theatre, Stratford-Upon-AvonThirteen sonnets scarcely represent Shakespeare’s 154 poems in a Complete Works season but Nothing Like the Sun is at least a nod in the right direction. Opera North and the Royal Shakespeare Company invited Gavin Bryars to curate an evening of musical settings, the centrepiece of which is his own sequence of eight sonnets for soprano, tenor, speaker and ensemble. The first half is made up of music by five musicians, each preceded by a slightly self-conscious and not always convincing reading of their sonnet. With the intrepid James Holmes as keyboard player/conductor, however, the music hangs together better than…
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Article: Nothing Like The Sun – Shakespeare for cool cats
Read more: Article: Nothing Like The Sun – Shakespeare for cool catsFrom the Telegraph.co.uk an article on Nothing like the Sun, which finally reveals more detailed information on what we can expect on stage: “This weekend, the RSC’s Complete Works of Shakespeare will present the first performances of a unique programme of new settings entitled Nothing like the Sun, co-commissioned and produced with Opera North. Six composers contribute, all of them left-field. In the first half, you can hear music by Alex Balanescu (“When most I wink”), Gavin Friday (“Take all my loves”), Mira Calix (“My mistress’ eyes”), Natalie Merchant (“That time of year”) and Nico Muhly and Antony Hegarty (“Weary…