NEWS

  • Fourth Irish Film and Television Awards

    Gavin Friday will attend the Irish Film and Television Awards today at Dublin’s RDS. ‘Breakfast on Pluto’ tops the list of nominees, having being shortlisted in ten categories. “IFTA lifetime member and Pierce Brosnan will be joined by fellow actors Gabriel Byrne, three-time IFTA nominee Liam Cunningham (‘The Wind that Shakes the Barley’, ‘Murphy’s Law’, ‘Showbands’), Stephen Rea and Gavin Friday along with directors Neil Jordan, Jim Sheridan and Ken Loach.” IFTA TV coverage is on at 9pm on RTÉ Two with Kathryn Thomas hosting the ‘RTÉ Guide Red Carpet Style Show’. It will be followed by the award ceremony…

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  • 10th-anniversary DVD re-release of Romeo + Juliet

    A new DVD re-release of Baz Luhrman’s film Romeo + Juliet – dubbed the “Music Edition” – highlights the music of the film. The Romeo + Juliet soundtrack including Gavin Friday’s Angel as well as songs by Radiohead, Garbage, Des’Ree and Stina Nordenstam was a huge hit in the 90’s, selling 8 million copies. Luhrman talks to TheStar.com about the new release. Order the DVD from Amazon.com.

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  • Gavin Friday contributes to Scott Walker tribute film

    Verve pictures are releasing Stephen Kijak’s ‘Scott Walker – 30 Century Man’ in April of this year, featuring exclusive behind-the-scenes footage of the making of Walker’s latest album ‘The Drift’, as well as interviews with friends, collaborators, and fans including, among others: David Bowie, Radiohead, Jarvis Cocker, Brian Eno, Damon Albarn, Neil Hannon, Alison Goldfrapp, Sting, Dot Allison, Simon Raymonde, Richard Hawley, Rob Ellis, Johnny Marr, Gavin Friday, Lulu, Peter Olliff, Angela Morley, Ute Lemper, Ed Bicknell, Evan Parker, Benjamin Biolay, Hector Zazou, Mo Foster, Phil Sheppard, Pete Walsh, and more. ‘Scott Walker – 30 Century Man’, executive-produced by David…

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  • Gavin Friday and Dave Ball: ‘In Strict Tempo’ encore

    Dave Ball (The Grid, Soft Cell) mentions on his MySpace profile that his solo album ‘In Strict Tempo‘ will be re-issued. The album features the song ‘Strict Tempo’ with vocals by Gavin Friday.

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  • Nothing like the Sun – The Sonnets performances added

    Gavin Friday will be touring with Gavin Bryars and the Royal Shakespeare Company to perform ‘Nothing Like The Sun – The Sonnets’. Four dates have been added to the original two Stratford-upon-Avon performances of Shakespeare’s sonnets. In the first half of the concerts, individual sonnets are set to music by guest composers, including Gavin, Liz Fraser, violinist Alexander Balanescu, Antony Hegarty and Natalie Merchant. The second half of the concert will see the premiere of Gavin Bryars’s own new work ‘Nothing Like the Sun’, composed for the Sonnets Project. In this new work Gavin Bryars’s music flows through and around…

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  • McCabe: ‘He instinctively understood the character.’

    Peter Murphy talks to author Pat McCabe in Hot Press magazine and asks: ‘How was it revisiting Breakfast On Pluto ten years after?’ “Like anything we’ve ever done, Neil does most of the architecture, he’s made so many movies, he knows instinctively what you shoot and what will work. I wouldn’t change a word of the book, it’s completely and utterly done, not a word I could add or take away that would improve it, and I know that for a fact ‘cos I spent so long on it. But that’s not true of a movie script, you’re always adding…

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  • Review: The Fortune Teller – ‘Nearly flawless’ narration

    “The narration, by Gavin Friday, is nearly flawless and pre-recorded along with the music, narration, and well-chosen sound effects. The lighting design by Andrew Hill is clear and unobtrusive, supporting the action quite well.” J. Jordan of NYtheatre.com/a> reviews The Fortune Teller.

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  • Backstage reviews The Fortune Teller

    From Backstage magazine (pdf): “This perfect pre-Halloween morality play, with a twist ending worthy of The Twilight Zone, features the voice of Gavin Friday, who reads Sanko’s words with eerie power.”

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  • Gothamist reviews Fortune Teller

    Praise for Erik Sanko’s The Fortune Teller from New York-centric blog ‘Gothamist‘: “The narration, intoned by a gravelly-voiced Gavin Friday, immediately mesmerizes. And Elfman invokes the perfect mood with a score that is as creaky and haunting as you’d expect.” The Fortune Teller continues through December 22nd. Get your tickets here.

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  • Bryars and Friday team up again

    Gavin will take part in the Sonnet Project curated by Gavin Bryars, jointly commissioned by Opera North Projects and the Royal Shakespeare Company. A chamber orchestra of eight musicians will share the stage with Gavin and RSC actors, to present the selected sonnets in speech and song. The second half of the performance will see the premiere of Gavin Bryar’s Nothing Like The Sun, a through-composed musical setting of a series of sonnets, accompanied by a specially commissioned film projection. The Sonnet Project will be performed live at the Courtyard Theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon as part of the RSC’s Complete Works…

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