Gavin Friday will be chatting with senator David Norris on Newstalk this weekend. Norris is a writer, historian, traveller and raconteur and one of Ireland’s most colourful characters, so he’s a good match for the equally eclectic Friday. Join Gavin and David on Ireland’s Newstalk this Sunday at 9am (GMT). The broadcast will be available from the website as a podcast (subscribe).
Yearly Archives: 2007
2007 Lunchbox Auction
For the 2007 Lunchbox Auction, 100+ iconic celebrities from the entertainment, fashion, art, music, literary and culinary worlds remind us that food matters by creating personalized lunchbox art for online auction. The auction, which goes live on Friday, December 7, 2007 at 12 a.m. EST, will benefit two hunger-relief organizations: Food Bank For New York City and The Lunchbox Fund of South Africa. Each lunchbox is signed and numbered and no two lunchboxes are alike. Bid on Gavin’s box.
Sonnets Project travels to Belgium
Gavin Friday will rejoin Gavin Bryars and Opera North to perform Shakespeare’s sonnets and Bryars’ original composition ‘Nothing like the sun’ in Belgium. The show is booked for December 12 and December 13 at the Handelsbeurs in Ghent.
Tickets (22/19 €) are available from the Handelsbeurs website.
The Handsomest Drowned Man in The World
Composed by Belfast-born Ian Wilson, ‘The Handsomest Drowned Man In The World’ features Gavin Friday, narrator collaborating with musicians Carol McGonnell, clarinet; Catherine Leonard, violin; Guy Johnston, cello and Finghin Collins, piano.
The world première of Wilson’s composition will be staged at the National Gallery of Ireland on October 4th, 2007, 6.30 pm.
Based on Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s short story of the same name, the Winter Festival’s first Arts Council funded commission, marks the 80th birthday of this Nobel prizewinning Colombian author.
Tickets (€20) are available from Tickets Ireland. (Telephone: 1890 305 305/053 913 0503, email: info@ticketsireland.ie)
Download Singin’ in the rain
Gavin Friday has recorded the classic Singing’ In The Rain for the ultra cool LEMON magazine, a twice yearly publication, ‘that stakes its claim at the intersection of 60s/70s Pop and 21st century hyper-culture.’
The song is available on a flexi disc that comes with the printed magazine (Lemon No. 3), out now and available at $8.95 from Borders, Barnes & Noble and finer newsstands nationwide (USA).
It will also be available as a download from the LEMON website, on August 28. Check out the artwork and further details on Lemonland.net.
Michael Stipe frames Mr Friday
Check out Michael Stipe’s new picture website, www.futurepicenter.com. Today and today only you can download a close up of Gavin – wearing Stipe’s specs – taken last week. There’s a new picture every day, once they are archived the high res version is no longer available, so get it while you can.
Please check their usage page for terms of use.
Messrs McCabe and Friday on Finucane show
Pat McCabe and Gavin Friday will both be on the Marian Finucane Show on RTE’s radio 1 on Saturday morning, July 21st between 11 and 12 GMT.
Listen to the interview.
The JK Ensemble on Lyric FM
‘From Bach to Eno, from Miles to Morricone’ and all points in between… that certainly includes Gavin Friday. He’ll be meeting his old friend John Kelly on The JK Ensemble on Lyric FM between 2.30 and 4.30pm, Monday, July 16th .
Update: Archived show available until July 22nd. 2007.
Friday and McCabe on The 11th Hour
There’s more Friday on RTE next week: Gavin will be interviewed about his working relationship with author Pat McCabe on RTÉ Radio 1′s late night arts and culture show ‘The 11th Hour‘.
You can now listen to this interview in the 11th Hour archive.
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