NEWS
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Rattlebag Spiegeltent Special
Read more: Rattlebag Spiegeltent SpecialA brief interview with Gavin can be heard in RTE’s September 26th Rattlebag ‘Spiegeltent’ special. Gavin’s the second guest in the show. Listen to it here.
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Gavin on Gerry Ryan show
Read more: Gavin on Gerry Ryan showGavin will be on the Gerry Ryan show on Wednesday October 1, at 11.30 am GMT. Peter and the Wolf is featured in this week’s Time Out London: “Back then I felt the whole business was going up its own arse, quick-time. Now I think I’m ready to make a record of songs again. I love the A to Z of music, from Prokofiev to a soundtrack for a Jim Sheridan movie. But if you ask me about marketing, I couldn’t give a fuck; there’s still a bit of that Virgin Prune punk in me.” Scan of the interview.
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Review: I didn’t come up the Liffey in a bubble
Read more: Review: I didn’t come up the Liffey in a bubbleGavin Friday, “I didn’t come up the Liffey in a bubble”, Spiegeltent 23rd Sept 2003 By Patrick Lynch The Boy in the Bubble If the best artists wear their hearts on their sleeves, then Gavin Friday laid his bare in his Dublin Fringe Festival show “I Didn’t Come Up The Liffey in A Bubble”. From the outset it was clear this was going to be no revelation of the chocolates and roses kind. Walking through the audience of the spectacular Spiegeltent in his green Ireland soccer jersey and shell suit pants, Gavin, the Dublin yob, verbally abused, not to mention…
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Losing his reli.. virginity
Read more: Losing his reli.. virginityGav’s recent Irish Independent interview, in which he says he lost his virginity to Oscar Wilde and was fucked by Bowie, (aesthetically, natch) can be read online (registration req.) “I am very straightforward – I swear and eat sausage sandwiches.” Though perhaps not at the same time.
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Interview – Gavin Friday: ‘I lost my virginity to Oscar Wilde’
Read more: Interview – Gavin Friday: ‘I lost my virginity to Oscar Wilde’By Beibhinn Byrne Sunday September 21 2003 GAVIN FRIDAY is a mass of contradictions. A self-confessed ‘moody bastard’, he is someone who can choose to be as obnoxious as he is gracious on a whim. Equal parts Wildean sophistication and Behanesque vulgarity, he seems to be a collage of disparate inspirations gathered over his colourful life. A riot of expletives pepper his sentences but underneath one senses insecurity. He’s difficult too. We have never met before. He excoriates me with a tirade against the Irish media and the Sunday Independent specifically. He is concerned I won’t tell it like it…
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Weekend press overload
Read more: Weekend press overloadThis weekend, the Times (U.K.), the Irish Times and the Sunday Independent (Ireland) will feature interviews with Gavin.
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Gavin at the Fringe sold out
Read more: Gavin at the Fringe sold outAll tickets for next Tuesday’s (23rd Sept) performance at the Fringe Festival have sold out.
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Late late wolf
Read more: Late late wolfGavin will be on RTE’s Late Late Show tonight to promote ‘Peter and the Wolf’.