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  • Interview: Gavin Friday – My Favourite Buy

    From the Evening Herald’s ‘Money and Business’ section What was your best buy? My house and home Going out and spending or a quiet night in saving? Both…going out and spending and a quiet night in – two of the most enjoyable things in life. Stockmarket or Piggybank? Piggybank. Rolls Royce or Mini Metro? Rolls Royce ’cause its good for my voice. Jacket and tie or jeans and t-shirt in the office? I don’t work in an office but if i did a jacket and tie…like a true gentleman. Are you sucked in by useless inventions? No, I’m a realist!…

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  • In concert: ‘Is That All There Is’

    LIVE: Gavin and Maurice will be playing ‘IS THAT ALL THERE IS’ (a live retrospective of their work from Each Man Kills to Disco Pigs) in Vicar Street in DUBLIN on Thursday November 29th. Tickets are on sale now from the usual Ticketmaster outlets and website.

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  • Paul Brady 25 years concert

    Gavin and Maurice are scheduled to appear alongside Paul Brady in Vicar Street in Dublin on Wednesday, October 24th. Brady has a month long residency in the venue, celebrating 25 years in the business. Gavin mentioned a couple of tracks he had in mind to play: Brady’s ‘Nobody Knows’, possibly Gav’s own ‘Rags to Riches’ and an old Virgin Prunes ditty called ‘Sweethomeunderwhiteclouds’. Check Paul Brady’s website for more info. Update: Songs played were ‘Nobody Knows’, ‘He got what he wanted’, and ‘Jean Genie’.

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  • Ich Liebe Dich: ‘Unsanitised account of the world of Kurt Weill’

    ‘I wanted a title that said everything and nothing at the same time,’ says Friday about ‘Ich Liebe Dich’, a musical theatre show based on the work of Kurt Weill, commisioned by the Dublin Theatre Festival. ‘They asked us to put together anything we wanted once it involved the music of Kurt Weill.’ For their first performances in Ireland since 1996, Gavin and Maurice were joined on stage by Renaud Pion (wind instruments), Michael Blair (drums/percussion), Julia Palmer (cello) and Des Moore (guitars/banjo). It is in some sense a return to their roots, as they have used Weill as a…

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  • Public interview hosted by John Kelly

    Reminder: Gavin Friday and Maurice Seezer are conducting a public interview with John Kelly (RTE) this Saturday 13 October at 5pm at the Tivoli Theatre, 8 Francis Street, Dublin 8. All are welcome to attend and tickets are free, but should be reserved by contacting Andrea on tel: 01 677 2601. On line booking for the shows has now ended. Tickets can still be bought from the Festival Box Office, in the Powerscourt Centre in Dublin.

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  • Ich Liebe Dich premiere

    On his 42nd birthday, Gavin Friday returned to the Dublin stage, pony-tailed and clad in hip hugging black slacks, black shirt and vest, playing an array of known and lesser known Kurt Weill material. Highlights of this first night of six were the venue itself (decorated a la Friday), the return of the Julia Palmer scream, the irrepressible ‘Pirate Jenny’, ‘Speak Low’ – a tender whisper of a lost love song, and the off kilter, eerie ‘The Drowned Girl’. Singing right into your face, Gavin defies the fourth wall, while Maurice Seezer’s arrangements always seek the road less travelled. Come…

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  • Gavin Friday: ‘I don’t eat children for breakfast’ – interview

    Walking around Dublin in their dresses and make-up in 1977, Gavin Friday and his pal Guggi were not so much Dressed to Kill as Dressed to Get Killed. “But you wouldn’t have wanted to start on us,” he laughs, 25 years later. In those dark days, wearing an earring was enough to be classified as a nancy boy by the bootboys. And Gavin Friday was wearing eyeliner, full make-up, Doc Martens, and a frock his mother Anne, a dressmaker, had secretly run up for him on her sewing machine. Friday was the heterosexual Quentin Crisp of Ballymun a Resident Alien…

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  • John Kelly’s Mystery Train

    Gavin will be on John Kelly’s Mystery Train, between 7 and 9 pm on RTE 1 on September 28, 2001. He’ll be spinning some Kurt Weill for you in the first hour, and who knows, perhaps some other stuff in the second. Playlist, Fri 28 Sep 2001 1. Berlin State Opera Orchestra – Mack The Knife Album: The Collector’s – The Threepenny Opera Label: VAI Cat No: MUSIC FOR TONIGHT’S PROGRAMME WAS SELECTED BY STUDIO GUEST: GAVIN FRIDAY 2. Frank Sinatra – September Song Album: Kurt Weill – from Berlin to Broadway ll Label: Pearl Cat No: 3. The Gil…

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  • Gavin Friday and Maurice Seezer create Kurt Weill Tribute

    Ich Liebe Dich Gavin Friday and Maurice Seezer’s tribute to the music of Kurt Weill Release date of article 2001-09-19 Eircom Dublin Theatre Festival Ich Liebe Dich conceived by Gavin Friday and Maurice Seezer Music adapted and arranged by Gavin Friday and Maurice Seezer Directed by John Comiskey OPENS MONDAY 8TH OCTOBER TIVOLI THEATRE Performances 8th, 9th, 11th, 12th and 13th October Gavin Friday and Maurice Seezer mark their first high profile return to the live stage since 1996 with Ich Liebe Dich (“I Love You”), a production based on the music of Kurt Weill. The show, which encompasses songs…

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  • Artists play cards for Irish Hospice Foundation

    Gavin, Bono and Guggi have contributed to Art:pack, a deck of playing cards in aid of the Irish Hospice Foundation with each card designed by a contemporary artist. Bono and Gavin designed the jokers. Other people involved in the project include Glen Dimplex winning artist Matthew Barney, Clea van der Grijn, Sean Hillen and Sibylle Ungers. The Irish Hospice foundation was founded by Dr Mary Redmond in 1986. Recognising the need to improve care services available to people suffering from terminal illness in Ireland, the IHF launched a special appeal with the aim of raising £1 million in one year.…

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