Gavin 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 “You take away the sun” beauty and nakedness. It’s a beautiful song.”
Friday and Seezer have recently completed work on the score for “In America”. They previously collaborated with Sheridan on “In the Name of the Father” and “The Boxer”. “In America” is scheduled to premiere next year, April/May at the earliest.
Previous Bono/Friday/Seezer collaborations include their work on “In the name of the Father” and their cover of T-Rex’s “Children of the Revolution” for Baz Luhrman’s “Moulin Rouge”.
Gavin 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.
Guggi, 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.
Jim 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.
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 the bowl haircut on him as a child. His upbringing and his partner, Sibylle have been his biggest influences.”
“The most important thing about his painting is its religious quality, which can be traced back to his upbringing” says Bono. “There’s a religious intensity to it, a monastic quietness, even in the canvases that look the least religious: a bowl is never just a bowl with Guggi-it’s the most intense bowl you’ll ever see.”
Gavin regards Guggi’s bowls as the equivalent of pop singles and can see him moving into more abstract work. “The bowls are immediate, they’re easily digested. Guggi has done the pop thing: the concepts album awaits.”
Guggi is not so sure. “Bowls are my language,” he says. They are no more important to me than they are to anybody else. They’re just shapes. But I’ve no plans to move out of bowls. I’d change tomorrow if I felt I should. But I see endless possibilities for the bowl.”
Gavin, 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 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.”
The film’s title was later changed to ‘In America’.
Gavin’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 during the event. Admission: €12
Gavin will be DJing at DeathDiscoDublin#2 at Eamon Dorans, 3 Crow Street, Temple Bar, Dublin on Sunday June 2, joining DJs BP Fallon + Steve Rapid [Radiators From Space] for some maximum rock’n'roll + punk + thrash + glam + fun! Doors open 8pm, live bands Whiskey Or Blood and Rats Of The Shining Path until 10.30pm, then the DJs rockin’ your socks of until 3am!
Says BP Fallon: “It’s a special treat to have Gavin coming down and spinning – I know he’ll play some amazing records”. Further info: www.bpfallon.com
