Industry magazine “Variety” reviews “The Boxer” and “Zesty score by Gavin Friday and Maurice Seezer contributes some agreeably unexpected textures”.
Yearly Archives: 1997
‘The Boxer’ up for Globes
Jim Sheridan’s film The Boxer and leading man Daniel Day-Lewis have been nominated for the Golden Globe Awards.
‘The Boxer’ soundtrack USA release date
MCA will be releasing the soundtrack to ‘The Boxer’ in the US on February 24, 1998.
‘The Boxer’ premiere dates
The movie ‘The Boxer’ for which Gavin and Maurice have written the score will open in the USA for December 31 at the Cineplex Odeon Beekman in New York, the General Cinema AVCO Westwood in Los Angeles and Cineplex Odeon Varsity in Toronto. Opens nationwide (in USA) in January.
Closed on Account of Rabies
A double spoken-word CD, “Closed on account of Rabies” – featuring the work of writer Edgar Allen Poe, read by Jeff Buckley, Iggy Pop, Christopher Walken, Gabriel Byrne, Marianne Faithful, Diamanda Galas, Deborah Harry Gavin Friday and others and produced by Hal Willner will be released next month. Gavin’s contribution is the poem ‘For Annie’.
‘The Boxer’ soundtrack in progress
Gavin Friday, Maurice Seezer and drummer / programmer Andrew Philpot are currently working on the soundtrack for Jim Sheridan’s upcoming film ‘The Boxer’, starring Daniel Day Lewis and Emily Watson (Breaking the Waves). The film is set in the present time, deals with boxing, a love triangle and the peace talks in Northern Ireland. The soundtrack is expected to be released some time between January and March 1998.
Friday/Seezer to record Sheridan score
Jim Sheridan has asked Gavin and Maurice to write the score for his upcoming film, for release in December this year.
‘Sugar Me’ on RTE
Gavin has been asked to perform at the Liss Ard festival in Skibbereen, West Cork, but he’s decided to decline the invitation to concentrate on recording.
He has recorded a TV appearance with Pat McCabe for RTE (Irish television) performing a cover version of Lynsey de Paul’s song ‘Sugar Me’ with the RTE orchestra.
Five stars for GavinFriday.com
GavinFriday.com gets a 5 star rating in Web Ireland Magazine’s June/July issue.
“Singing is like shitting… only the other way around” Enrico Caruso. These words of wisdom open the pages of Gavin Friday’s wonderful wicked world website. This packed site covers every aspect of the singer and his work, from biographical information to sound archives. News on the site appears to be well out of date, with the last entry dated February ’96. There are interview transcripts, a discography, pictures and a gallery of paintings by Gavin Friday. You can also join mailing lists and purchase CDs.
Visually arresting, this is a brilliantly designed site, which despite the quantity of graphics is very fast loading. As artists’ sites go, this is as good as it gets – and the music’s not half bad either!
Consultant Poptician
Gavin spent early April in America, accompanying U2 on the start of their ‘PopMart’ tour. Listed in the album as ‘Consultant Poptician’, the subsequent tourbook refers to him as ‘Consultant Popmartician’. Asked about Gavin’s influence on the current tour, Bono explained that Gavin had among other things helped with the visuals projected during the concerts.
Gavin has now returned to his newly refurbished studio ‘The Morgue’ where he and his writing partner Maurice Seezer will spend a lot of time writing and recording a new album. Gavin has not signed any new deals as yet.
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