Gavin Friday and Crash Ensemble will be performing together at Cork Opera House on July 31st, 2011. They will reprise their 2005 live performance of composer Frederic Rzewski‘s “Coming Together”. Crash Ensemble will also perform works by Steve Reich and Donnacha Dennehy (with Iarla Ó Lionáird).
Program:
REICH: 2 x 5
DENNEHY: Grá agus Bás (featuring Iarla Ó Lionáird)
RZEWSKI: Coming Together (featuring Gavin Friday)
REICH: Double Sextet
Book your tickets now from the Cork Opera House website.
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Gavin Friday is on the judging panel of the Cork Opera House “Reich Remix Competition”. If you are a musician, DJ, music producer, remixer or Steve Reich aficionado and want to create your own original Reich Effect, then this is for you.
The Judging Panel will produce a shortlist of entries, and the final winning track will be selected by Steve Reich himself. Competition winners will be invited to perform at the Remix Club in the Pavilion on Friday 29th July 2011.
Competition open from Thurs 26 May – Fri 17 June
All submissions must be received by 5pm on Friday 17th of June.
To apply, download the application pack from the Cork Opera House website.
Pat McCabe (Author of The Butcher Boy, The Dead School, Breakfast on Pluto) writes about his longtime friendship with Gavin Friday. He remembers Dublin in the 80s, collaborating on Emerald Germs of Ireland and Shag Tobacco, and shares his thoughts on the new album, ‘catholic’:
We started to spend some time together – a lot of time, actually. That he liked disco music I was pleasantly surprised to hear – and his Behanesque combination of sensitivity and pugnaciousness was something to which I found I willingly responded – in the same way as I would, later on, to Shane MacGowan’s Pogues – delighting in their appropriation of the builder’s labourer’s dark Sunday suit as a garb of defiance….
Read “Gavin and Me” by Pat McCabe
Gavin Friday will be on RTÉ’s The Saturday Night Show tomorrow evening. (RTÉ One, Saturday, May 7 at 9.45pm) He will be interviewed by the show’s host Brendan O’ Connor and will perform a song from the new album ‘catholic’.
You can now watch the The Saturday Night Show on the RTÉ player.
