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  • Gavin Friday on Other Voices

    Dingle, December 2004

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  • Happy birthday Oscar Wilde – the making of

    Footage from the Happy Birthday Oscar Wilde special

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  • Oscar Wilde tribute on RTE1

    RTE1 (Ireland) will be airing a Happy Birthday Oscar Wilde tribute that Gavin contributed to together with Bono this Monday 27th at 10.30 pm. 150 renowned public figures were filmed by director Bill Hughes, speaking 150 of Wilde’s finest lines, epigrams and verses. Proceeds will go to Amnesty International. A DVD release is expected.

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  • Friday stuns ‘Other Voices’ audience

    Gavin Friday, accompanied by Maurice Seezer, Des Moore and Gareth Hughes played to a captivated audience for RTE’s ‘Other Voices’ in St James Church, Dingle, Co. Kerry, Ireland on Wednesday. Starting the set with a stripped down version of ‘Shag Tobacco’ and the torch song turns vaudeville classic ‘Melancholy Baby’, Gavin belted out superb versions of Caruso, complete with a mock-Italian ‘Come Back to Sorrento’ ending. After the recorded set, the stunned audience were treated to an off-camera encore of Jacques Brel’s ‘Next’. This performance and the other bands recorded for this series of ‘Other Voices’, presented by John Kelly,…

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  • Other Voices in Dingle

    Gavin will be performing a 40 minute acoustic gig for RTE’s Other Voices, presented by John Kelly. The show will be recorded in St James’ Church in Dingle, County Kerry, on December 15th for later airing. For tickets see Irish Music Central, only 60 seats are available on the night.

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  • Hot Press magazine: The return of the slaughterhouse six

    By Peter Murphy Back in their terrifying heyday, they threw pigs’ heads around on stage, covered themselves in muck, provided Marilyn Manson with a career and wrote ‘Community Games’ for Aidan Walsh. Having escaped the clutches of a sinister born-again Christian turned transvestite, they’re now making movies with Neil Jordan, dining with Damien Hirst and consorting with Tony Blair. All in all, it’s been a long, strange trip for The Virgin Prunes Pigs. Swine. Muic. Stuck like a pig. Bleed like a pig. Squeal like a pig. Pighead. Piggyback. Piggytails. Pig’s puddens. Pigswill. Pigshit. Pigpen. Pigsty. Piggy in the middle.…

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  • That’s a wrap

    Gavin has completed his work on Neil Jordan’s Breakfast in Pluto and has returned from the set in Northern Ireland. There may still be some reshoots to do before the end of the year.

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  • What does Gavin Friday know?

    From ‘Dubliner’ magazine, October 2004 If I had to define fame, I’d say that’s it’s being fucked. Life on the road? When I am touring, I love performing, but I absolutely hate tour buses. The very first thing that I thought of when I woke up this morning was ‘oh no, not another early morning car horn’. My all-time greatest vices are cigarettes and eyeliner. I just can’t get enough of either. Do Aliens exist? Yes, absolutely, positively. In fact, I know quite a few. When I am drunk I talk, I smile, I laugh, I sing, I dance and…

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  • Mr Friday’s birthday

    Currently filming on location in Northern Ireland, Gavin celebrates his 45th birthday today. Send him your wishes here. RTE reports: Irish filmmaker Neil Jordan starts filming scenes from ‘Breakfast on Pluto’ in Northern Ireland today. The film began shooting last month in Callan, County Kilkenny and Jordan will now work in Glenavy and Belfast for the next three weeks. ‘Breakfast on Pluto’, which has been adapted from Patrick McCabe’s novel, stars up-and-coming Irish actor Cillian Murphy as Patrick Braden, a man who leaves Ireland to become a transvestite cabaret singer in 1970s London. The film also stars Liam Neeson, Brendan…

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  • ‘Take Me Back To ’72…’

    Gavin Friday remembers the Virgin Prunes From The Independent, October 7, 2004 Virgin Prunes – A Terrible Beauty Re-released Blame it on the Prods and the Plymouth Brethren… Blame it on the Christian Brothers and the GAA… Blame it on Georgie Best and the cider drinking Boot Boys…. Blame it on Sister Nora, my career guidance officer at St. Kevin’s C.B.S. Blame it on Oscar Wilde and David Bowie… Blame it on the Northside and Cederwood Rd… “Take me back to ’72, my Cooca Choo“ Caruso/Shag Tabacco The year was 1972 when I, Fionan Martin Hanvey, first befriended Derek Karl…

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