Cillian Murphy was interviewed on the Ian Dempsey show: Ian: And they’re all completely different, and they’re powerful performances… and Gavin Friday as well… I didn’t know he could act. Cillian: He certainly can. Ian: He’s a man for the future, I think. Cillian: Big time. He was in Disco Pigs, actually, had a small part and I remember saying ‘God, this guy is fantastic’ and then Neil thought of casting him in that role and he just… eats it up, you know, he’s wonderful. Ian: Ah, he’s out of this world, brilliant.

‘Gavin Friday gives an impressive and convincing performance as the tragi-comic singer Billy Hatchett.’ From the Irish Independent review of Breakfast on Pluto.

“With stellar turns by some of Ireland’s finest Liam Nelson, Stephen Rea and fittingly enough, the oh-so-watchable Virgin Prunes frontman, Gavin Friday and more ups and downs than The Giant Dipper, “Breakfast on Pluto” is engaging at every misstep along the way.” Santa Cruz Ssentinel

Pat McCabe and Neil Jordan talk to Ireland.com/The Irish Times about Breakfast on Pluto. Author McCabe says: “[…] I think more than anything else it was influenced by listening to the album Shag Tobacco by Gavin Friday. It has that louche thing all the way through it. The influence is not obvious, perhaps. It is subliminal. I wrote the sleeve notes for the LP. So it is almost perfect that he ended up in the film.” The erstwhile Virgin Prune turns out as the lead singer of the terrifying showband, Billy Hatchet and the Mohawks, who take on Kitten Braden,…

The Windy City Times single out Gavin in their Breakfast on Pluto review: Based on the Pat McCabe novel, Kitten’s delusions ( they serve as instinctive survival tactics for the character ) are so intense that nothing else seems to filter through–not her grim circumstances, not the grittiness around her, and certainly not the constant “interruptions” by those pesky IRA terrorists with their machine guns and bombs. No one has a more fabulous fantasy life than lonely misfit gay boys, it seems, and Jordan holds true to Kitten’s steel-under-velvet determination to let nothing knock off her rose-colored glasses. Murphy is…