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Tomorrow belongs to me: under the influence
Read more: Tomorrow belongs to me: under the influenceBewitched, bothered and bewildered by Gavin Friday’s recent ‘Tomorrow Belongs To Me’ shows? Not to worry, we’ve done the work for you. Read our primer on German culture, ‘Unter dem Einfluß’, custom made for Gavin Friday fans. “Billed as Gavin’s personal tribute to German culture, the recent Tomorrow Belongs To Me shows left several members of the audience scratching their heads. Those who recognised little of the performed material might have wondered exactly how such an apparently random collection of songs reflected Germany’s contribution to the world of the arts. Those more in the know might still have struggled to…
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Harry Smith Tribute four-disc box set
Read more: Harry Smith Tribute four-disc box setGavin Friday and Maurice Seezer’s When That Great Ship Went Down, and Fatal Flower Garden performed live at Hal Willner‘s Harry Smith Tribute nights in London, New York and Los Angeles between 1999 and 2001 are featured on a four-disc box set titled The Harry Smith Project: Anthology of American Folk Music Revisited, due October 24 on Shout! Factory. Other artists on this two-CD and two-DVD collection are Elvis Costello, David Thomas, Beck, Lou Reed, Nick Cave, Beth Orton, Richard Thompson, David Johansen, Steve Earle, among others. The first DVD, A Concert Film – The Harry Smith Project Live, will…
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Hitchcock at the IFI
Read more: Hitchcock at the IFIMusician & composer Gavin Friday will introduce Alfred Hitchcock’s The Birds at the Irish Film Institute on Sunday, August 20 at 2pm, as part of the ‘The film music of Bernard Hermann’ season. Read more.
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Tomorrow Belongs To Me – Unter dem Einfluß
Read more: Tomorrow Belongs To Me – Unter dem EinflußA German cultural primer for Gavin Friday fans Billed as Gavin’s personal tribute to German culture, the recent Tomorrow Belongs To Me shows left several members of the audience scratching their heads. Those who recognised little of the performed material might have wondered exactly how such an apparently random collection of songs reflected Germany’s contribution to the world of the arts. Those more in the know might still have struggled to locate Ave Maria, Bela Lugosi and Iggy Pop in a German context. As ever, there is method to Gavin’s madness. In this feature, we explore precisely how he mined…
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Tomorrow, tomorrow, I love ya, tomorrow!
Read more: Tomorrow, tomorrow, I love ya, tomorrow!Patrick Lynch sees Tomorrow Belongs to Me, July 27&28, 2006 If I Didn’t Come Up The Liffey In a Bubble (Gavin’s spoken word and autobiographical production at the 2003 Dublin Fringe Festival) was his ‘A Life Story of My Life’ show then ‘Tomorrow Belongs to Me’ certainly would seem to come from the same prized scrapbook, but marked more specifically under ‘My German Influences’. Despite the pre show press promotion little was actually given away as to what to expect from this two night residency at The Liberty Hall theatre. Gavin’s German obsessions have to these ears always sat loosely…
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Tomorrow belongs to me – setlist
Read more: Tomorrow belongs to me – setlistAs performed on July 28, 2006 ACT ONE Intro ….’i feel love’ [ Giorgio Moroder] 1. Ave Maria [Bach] 2. In Germany before the War [ Randy Newman] 3. Berlin [Lou Reed] 4. Falling in Love Again [Marlene Dietrich] 5. Lili Marlene [Marlene Dietrich] 6. The Tears of a Lady [Fassbinder / Peer Raben] ACT TWO 7. Installation No.1 [Einstuerzende Neubauten] 8. The Hall of Mirrors [Kraftwerk] 9 Showroom Dummies [ Kraftwerk] 10. I want More [Can] 11. ‘SPIN THE BOTTLE’ ACT THREE 12. Nosferatu [Popol Vuh] 13. Bela Lugosi is Dead [Bauhaus] 14. Metal Postcard [The Banshees] 15. Theme…
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Friday-show sold out
Read more: Friday-show sold outTickets for the Friday evening performance of Tomorrow belongs to me have sold out. There are still some tickets for the Thursday show available through www.centralticketbureau.com.
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Interview – Freedom of Expression
Read more: Interview – Freedom of ExpressionFrom the Irish Times: Gavin Friday has formulated his lifelong passion for German music, art, literature and film into a personal tribute show – with the help of a German beer, he tells Brian Boyd In a typically idiosyncratic reaction to the rise of punk rock, David Bowie moved to Berlin and recorded three albums that were, by his own standards, simple and stripped down. One half of one of the albums, Low, was entirely instrumental. One other gave birth to the song about two lovers meeting by the Berlin wall – Heroes. Musically, all Bowie’s work from this period…
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Dan Hegarty Show
Read more: Dan Hegarty ShowSleepless in Dublin? Then set your dial to 2FM’s Dan Hegarty show from midnight to 2am tonight. Gavin will drop in to talk about the upcoming Tomorrow Belongs To Me shows. To listen online, start the 2FM livestream. From the show’s website: “Gavin will be bringing in an assortment of his favourite music, and talking about his upcoming live performance ‘Tomorrow Belongs To Me’ (his personal ‘musical / visual’ tribute to 20th Century German Music, Art, Film and Literature covering a range of varied themes from German Expressionism to Electronica and the Gothic).”
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Gavin on NewsTalk 106
Read more: Gavin on NewsTalk 106The Arts and Entertainment show on Newstalk 106, Dublin’s Talk radio Station talked to Gavin at 11am on Saturday morning, about his upcoming show ‘Tomorrow belongs to me’. Listen to the interview (mp3)