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  • Shag Tobacco promo box fetches 256 dollars

    A Shag Tobacco promo box containing CD, cigar, matches, ashtray, video and sampler fetched US $256.00 in auction on E-bay today. Similar boxes (without ashtray and sampler) have previously sold for around 50 dollars.

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  • Ivor Novello Award Nominations announced

    As reported here earlier this year, Gavin and Maurice are nominated in the Ivor Novello Awards 2003 for the In America score. The nominations were officially announced this week. The 49th presentation of the Ivor Novello Awards for British songwriters, composers and music publishers presented by the British Academy of Composers and Songwriters in association with The Performing Right Society will be held at Grosvenor House, Park Lane, London W1 on Thursday 27th May 2004.

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  • Emm Gryner covers Bau Dachong

    Canadian indie singer songwriter Emm Gryner is said to have recorded a cover of the Virgin Prunes song Bau Dachong on an album of Irish songs. It features Kate McGarrigle on banjo. (source: Colm Walsh)

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  • Time Enough for Tears on Corrs album

    Time Enough for Tears, the Friday/Seezer/Bono/Andrea Corr collaboration will appear on The Corrs new album ‘Borrowed Heaven’ according to an RTE report. Time Enough for Tears originally appeared on the ‘In America’ soundtrack.

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  • Unique eBay lot includes Friday-related item

    A interesting collection has been put up for auction on eBay. Besides U2’s original first demo reel and other U2 related items, it includes a Virgin Prunes development agreement with World Showcase Music signed by Gavin and Guggi in 1979. The item can be yours now for… $35,000.00.

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  • ‘In America’ score nominated for Ivor Novello award

    Gavin and Maurice’s score for Jim Sheridan’s ‘In America’ has been nominated for an Ivor Novello award. The awards ceremony will take place in London in May this year. The IVORS are internationally respected as the premier award ceremony to reflect the talent of British songwriters and composers and their contribution as the creative source of the music industry’s prosperity. The event is presented by the British Academy of Composers and Songwriters in association with the Performing Right Society.

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  • ‘Charity tucks in for Gav’

    From the Sunday Mirror, March 21, 2004: RADAR: CHARITY TUCKS IN FOR GAV BY SUZANNE KERINS GAVIN FRIDAY was at a special dinner thrown in his honour by the Irish Hospice Foundation on Friday night at the Shelbourne Hotel. The special dinner was to thank Gavin for all his hard work on the Peter And The Wolf CD and book which was sold to raise money for the Foundation. My spy said: “Although Bono did the artwork, Gavin brought him on board after he decided to make the CD for the foundation. “Gavin was the major force behind the project…

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  • Perfect Partners: Nino Rota & Federico Fellini

    Gavin and Maurice will be appearing at Barbican Hall in London for Hal Willner’s Perfect Partners: Nino Rota & Federico Fellini on April 24th, 2004. 7.30 pm. Tickets (£12.50 / £15 / £20 / £25) can be booked online. Perfect Partners is part of the Only Connect series of Live events at the Barbican. Unfortunately, Gavin and Maurice had to pull out of this concert.

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  • Hollywoodwood Reporter meets Clan Sheridan

    In L.A., an Irish party toast to ‘In America’ Tamara Conniff, Hollywood Reporter Jan 29, 2004 Jim Sheridan is an intense man. His thoughts shift easily from the death of William Shakespeare’s son and the meaning of “Hamlet” to James Joyce’s obsession with death to the merits of schlepping a third-hand air conditioner through the streets of Manhattan on a very hot day, as seen in his Oscar-nominated film “In America.” Sitting in a garden restaurant on a mild and sunny Los Angeles afternoon, Sheridan joins U2’s Bono, songwriter and performer Gavin Friday, composer Maurice Seezer and singer Andrea Corr…

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  • Shock and Awe: The Songs of Randy Newman

    Shock and Awe: The Songs of Randy Newman, a tribute event was held at Royce Hall, UCLA Live, on January 24, 2004. Organised by Hal Willner, Gavin and Maurice performed three songs: “Pretty Boy”, “In Germany Before the War” and “You Can Keep Your Hat On”. One Elvis Costello fan reports Gavin was ‘beyond belief, just amazing’. Variety: “Gavin Friday’s “In Germany Before the War” was filled with a whispered theatrical menace, while his rendition of “You Can Leave Your Hat On” was an over-the-top cabaret seduction.” L.A. Times “Gavin Friday, for instance, found a strain of defiant affirmation amid…

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