Here’s a little gift from us to you. Gavin Friday’s new song ‘Able’ is available as a free download from today until the album release date, April 22.
Download ‘Able’ by Gavin Friday (mp3).
‘Able’ goes to radio in Ireland this week and got its first play last Friday on Today FM.
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“16 years since his last album, it’s time to salute anti-hero Gavin Friday, who returns fittingly, at a time of upheaval, of political chaos, and of spiritual, financial and moral bankruptcy. Ireland is a very different place to the country Shag Tobacco was recorded in, and the intervening decade and a half coincided with a prolific work period for the singer. From soundtracks for In America , The Boxer and Get Rich Die Tryin’ with Quincy Jones to collaborating on Nothing like the Sun with Gavin Bryars and the Royal Shakespeare Company, he moved away from the conventional parameters of the album. There was his acting debut (in Neil Jordan’s Breakfast on Pluto), Scott Walker collaborations and a Kurt Weill show at Dublin Theatre Festival. In personal terms, he endured illness, the end of his marriage and his father’s death. To some, the personal is political; but Gavin Friday is clear that this is “an emotional, not a political, album”. The singer likens catholic to “waking from a deep sleep, of letting go and coming to terms with loss”. And somewhere in the middle of all that, there are slivers of love, contentment and romance.”
Read the full press release and download a special message for you, from Gavin.
Gavin Friday will play the Electric Picnic Festival, Ireland on September 2nd, 2011. This year’s line up also includes Arcade Fire, Pulp, The Chemical Brothers, Interpol, PJ Harvey, Beirut, Mogwai, Underworld and Sinead O’Connor. See the full line up on the Electric Picnic website.
Electric Picnic is an annual arts-and-music festival which has been staged since 2004 in Stradbally Hall, Stradbally, County Laois in Ireland.