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  • Mr Pussy’s Cafe de Luxe

    ‘What do you think about the coffee pots?’ Gavin says pointing at the mural. Mr Pussy, long legs in suspenders, flanked by rows of phallic pots. We’re in Gavin’s new café, Mr Pussy’s Café de Luxe shortly before its opening. The vibe is designer kitsch, reds and golds and purples, trashy photos, kitschy pictures. There’s a stage: ‘I got my flying mickeys immortalised at last’. A ‘royal box’ for guests. ‘We’re making fun of all these VIP rooms you have in places here in Dublin. Anyone can sit in our royal box.’ Gavin and I are in Tosca’s where we’d…

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  • dSide magazine – Legends in their lunchtime

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  • Gavin Friday salutes ‘Ave Maria’ as performed by Alessandro Moreschi

    HIS is quite an old piece of music – it was recorded in 1902, in Vatican City, when the singer was 82. The fact that it’s the last person castrated for the Pope, pretty much at the end of his life, gives it a surreal edge for me. It sounds like what Tom Waits would want to be doing today. It’s very crackly, recorded into one mike, with piano and violin accompaniment. It’s like a cross between Aled Jones and Quentin Crisp. There’s a nervousness about him – the Pope was probably present – which means he bends notes and…

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  • Hot Press Magazine – Born Again Virgin

    With his work on the soundtrack to In The Name Of The Father bringing him into the full glare of media attention Gavin Friday takes this opportunity to put to rest any accusations of riding on U2’s coat-tails. Confident and brimming with ideas for his solo career, The Spotlight Kid gives the lowdown to an eager BILL GRAHAM. As someone who’s never been shy of the spotlight, you wouldn’t think Gavin Friday has a problem with profile. Yet he has. The musician and artist regularly get hidden behind the other roles the media has allotted him. Instead he’s The Guy…

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  • Sheridan film brought old gang together again after 20 years

    An old article (13/02/1994) From The Calgary Herald: Gavin Friday: Sheridan film brought old gang together again after 20 years By JAMES MURETICH What goes around comes around . . . and around and around and around in the world of Gavin Friday. In 1978, he was the lead singer of the Irish rock band Virgin Prunes. The older brother of U2’s The Edge was in his band and U2’s Bono was one of the Prunes’ biggest fans. In 1994, the soundtrack for the Oscar-nominated In The Name Of The Father features songs written and performed by Bono, Friday and…

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  • Soundtrack – In the Name of The Father – Lyrics

    In the name of the father Come to me Come lie beside me Oh don’t deny me Your love Make sense of me Walk through my doorway Don’t hide in the hallway Oh love…step over I’ll follow you down I’ll follow you down In the name of whiskey In the name of song You didn’t look back You didn’t belong In the name of reason In the name of hope In the name of religion In the name of dope In the name of freedom You drifted away To see the sun shining On someone else’s day In the name…

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  • Album – Adam n Eve – Lyrics

    I Want To Live When I look into your sad blue eyes, they whisper, love’s been and gone… it’s the end of the line, we’re wasting our time I kiss you goodbye, now I can’t believe I ever said that I would die for you, your eyes do more than kill… I want to live. All’s forgiven, so all’s forgotten, I’m empty inside, What I’m trying to say since you went away, I live a lie. I drink all day I’m never sober just to ease the pain, These lies do more than kill… I want to live… I want…

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  • Gavin Friday by Maarten Slagboom

    Photos © copyright Maarten Slagboom, 1992. Source: Interview (Dutch)

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  • Album – Adam ‘n’ Eve – Reviews

    Q Magazine (April 1992) “Echoes Bowie’s panoramic dazzle, filterend through the cheesier bump’n’grind of other ’74 icons like Jobriath, David Essex and Lou Reed’s Berlin with the suavity of Cole Porter. There’s no rehash of camp aesthetics here, but rather a cache of vignettes crammed with opulent details like Saint Divine’s soul shimmer and flamenco flourishes.” Allmusic – Ned Raggett “Adam ‘n’ Eve moves from one miniature masterpiece to another, Friday and Seezer the perfect pairing for witty lyrics, melodramatic romance, and much more. The great character portrait “Saint Divine” has an ear for late Roxy Music drama without simply…

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  • Gavin Friday on MTV 120 minutes

    Live at Ringsend Club, Dublin. March 5, 1992. Interview with Paul King.

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