NEWS
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Fox has release date for ‘In America’
Read more: Fox has release date for ‘In America’The Fox Searchlight website states a May 14, 2003 USA release for Jim Sheridan’s film “In America”: “Academy Award®-winning Jim Sheridan (My Left Foot, In The Name of The Father) directs the semi-autobiographical EAST OF HARLEM (working title). With their two young daughters in tow, Johnny and Sarah emigrate from Ireland to New York City in pursuit of a dream. The family uses ingenuity and sheer strength of will to make the most of their new life. Ultimately it is their kindness to a stranger and that stranger’s response in return that builds their new home.”
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Friday and Seezer have Time enough for Tears
Read more: Friday and Seezer have Time enough for TearsGavin Friday, Maurice Seezer and Bono have written a song called “Time Enough for Tears” for the upcoming Jim Sheridan film “In America”. It will be sung by Andrea Corr. Says Friday: “Bono saw the film and was blown away by it. He wanted to work with us and something happened, organically.” The song has 40’s Cole Porter, Ella Fitzgerald feel to it and is likely to surprise anyone who expects something along the line of the previous collaboraton, “In the Name of the Father“. Friday: “It’s written from a girl’s perspective. It’s very poetic, very romantic. It’s got that…
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La Vie en Rose
Read more: La Vie en RoseGavin will be on Lyric fm radio (Ireland) next weekend, talking about Jacques Brel. The programme is called “La Vie en Rose” and is presented by Greg Delaney. Tune in next Saturday at 5pm GMT.
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Sinead O’Connor sings Thief of Your Heart
Read more: Sinead O’Connor sings Thief of Your HeartSinead O’Connor -You Made Me The Thief Of Your Heart, written by Friday/Seezer/Bono Live in Dublin – 2002.
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Sunday Times interviews Gavin, Guggi and Bono
Read more: Sunday Times interviews Gavin, Guggi and BonoGuggi, Gavin Friday and Bono have been interviewed by Michael Ross, culture editor of the Sunday Times (Irish edition). The article’s focus will be on the oddity of their very different personalities retaining a friendship for the better part of 30 years. The interviews were done separately, but a photo session was done with the three of them together. Whether the article will appear in the UK version of the Sunday Times is as yet unknown, as is the publishing date. An exhibition of Guggi’s paintings opens at the Solomon Gallery in Dublin on October 7.
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‘In America’ screening
Read more: ‘In America’ screeningJim Sheridan’s new film (score by Friday/Seezer) was shown at the Toronto International Film Festival with a new title: “In America”. Consolation Champs reviews the film.
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‘All three of us are reactions to our fathers’
Read more: ‘All three of us are reactions to our fathers’An excerpt from a September 2002 Sunday Times’ Culture Section interview with Gavin, Gavin and Bono – promoting Guggi’s art exhibition in the Solomon Galleries in Dublin: “To a large extent, all three of us are reactions to our fathers” says Gavin. “Bono has always spoken highly of his father, but he had the easiest time of the three of us when it came to fathers. In Guggi’s case, you don’t have to be Freud to see that the man with probably the longest hair in Dublin, who paints bowls, just might be a reaction to the father who inflicted…
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In the studio
Read more: In the studioGavin, Maurice and the Friday/Seezer ensemble are in the studio this week to record the ‘East of Harlem’ soundtrack. [source: GF] There’s a blurb at Fox Searchlight about the film: “Release: November 29, Director: Jim Sheridan, Written by: Jim Sheridan & Naomi Sheridan & Kirsten Sheridan, Producers: Jim Sheridan, Arthur Lappin, Cast: Samantha Morton, Paddy Considine, Sarah Bolger, Emma Bolger and Djimon Hounsou. Academy Award-winning Jim Sheridan (My Left Foot, In The Name of The Father) directs the semi-autobiographical EAST OF HARLEM (working title). With their two young daughters in tow, Johnny and Sarah emigrate from Ireland to New York…
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Carrie Crowley tackles Friday
Read more: Carrie Crowley tackles FridayGavin talked to Carrie Crowley on RTE’s ‘SNAPSHOTS’ on Sunday 28th July, at 10 AM GMT . Listen to the interview here. (Real audio)
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Bloomsday Breakfast 2002
Read more: Bloomsday Breakfast 2002Gavin’s been invited to speak at the James Joyce Centre’s Bloomsday event (‘Guinness Bloomsday Breakfast’) on Sunday June 16th, in Dublin: ‘….a variety of people distinguished in their fields of arts, academia, business, media and politics’. Other guests include Louis le Brocquay, Gay Byrne, Senator David Norris and the British Ambassador. Gavin will be reading an extract from The Jew’s Daughter, a 13th century ‘murder ballad’, one of the songs from Joyce’s Ulysses, and will then perform a 1920’s version of this song: ‘Fatal Flower Garden’. Venue/Time: North Great George’s Street, Dublin, from 8am to 11.30am. Breakfast will be served…