Major recording artists including Gavin Friday, The Edge (U2), Ron Wood (Rolling Stones), Gemma Hayes, Cathy Davey, Mik Pyro (Republic of Loose) and Liam O’Maonlai (Hot House Flowers) are creating performances for a new iPhone/iPad app called WholeWorldBand.
WholeWorldBand app is an interactive tool for iPhone 4/4s and iPad2 created by former 10CC man (and director of Gavin’s ‘Able’ video) Kevin Godley and Andy Wood of Hypergallery and Cubic Motion.
The app lets you create music with other musicians and music fans around the world in both sound and pictures. WholeWorldBand app will be available to download from the iTunes store from March 2012.
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Gavin Friday will play Cork, Ireland on Monday, February 13, 2012.
Just before crossing the waters to tour Belgium and The Netherlands, Gavin Friday will play his full ‘catholic’ show at Cork Opera House. Tickets cost 26 euro and are available from the Cork Opera House website:
Read what Marc O’Sullivan at The Examiner thought of Gavin’s recent show at the Olympia in Dublin: “At 51, Gavin Friday himself remains as fearless and engaging a performer as ever.”
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Gavin Friday will be showing and discussing his favourite tv and film clips in conversation with Dutch writer and comedian Raoul Heertje, host of VPRO’s Winter Guests (Wintergasten), on Dutch national television (Ned 2) at 8.25pm on Monday, January 2nd. The complete show will be repeated on Saturday, January 14th at 1.55pm.
Raoul Heertje: “Friday is a real artist in my opinion, someone who does what he thinks has to be done. He is completely autonomous and I get the impression he nurses his talent carefully. Woody Allen once said all his work is about love, sex and death. I think Friday’s the same. He deals with big, intense subjects. I dig that.”
Previous guests on the show include the director David Lynch, the economist Jeffrey Sachs, the writer Isabel Allende and musicians Iggy Pop and Antony.
Winter Guests (Wintergasten) is the international version of Dutch broadcaster VPRO’s successful format Summer Guests (Zomergasten). The program features a renowned guest who shows and talks about his or her favorite television and film clips, and about his or her work and life.
Wintergasten, VPRO (Dutch television)
Monday, January 2, 8.25-10pm on Ned 2.
Wintergasten official website
You can see Gavin Friday live at Paradiso in Amsterdam, The Netherlands on February 19th.
Kaleidoscope are delighted to add Gavin Friday to their 2nd Birthday Party line up at The Button Factory this Sunday 2011, as a guest of cellist Kate Ellis. The event is curated by Cliodhna Ryan and Kate Ellis and co-produced by pop – up productions.
The Kaleidoscope 2nd Birthday party includes a world premiere by acclaimed composer David Fennessy, New Dublin Voices, works by Brahms and Gershwin as well as the Pulitzer Prize winning “Different Trains” by Steve Reich. Come, celebrate and be part of the Kaleidoscope community. The musical programme begins at 9pm and is followed by a super special AFTER HOURS SHOW.
Event Details:
Sunday December 11 2011
The Button Factory, Curved Street, Temple Bar, Dublin 2
Drinks Reception: 7:30pm
Music: 9pm
After Hours Show: 11pm (until late)
Tickets €22.50 (including booking fee) from tickets.ie
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The video for Gavin Friday’s song Able, directed by Kevin Godley and produced by Ned O’Hanlon has been nominated for an Irish Music Television (IMTV) Video Music Award in the category ‘Best Male’.
Winners will be announced at the IMTV Awards 2011 on Wednesday, 30th November at the Sugar Club in Dublin, Ireland.
(Ǎhk-to͝ong Bāy-Bi) Covered, The Achtung Baby Covers Album featuring Gavin Friday doing U2′s The Fly is now available for download worldwide* on iTunes. All proceeds will benefit Concern Worldwide’s work in famine-stricken areas of East Africa.
The album was was conceived for Q Magazine to mark their 25th Anniversary issue and coincides with the 20th Anniversary re-release of U2′s Achtung Baby. Other artists on the album include Nine Inch Nails, Patti Smith, Depeche Mode, Garbage and more.
With the support of iTunes, the Independent Online Distribution Alliance (IODA) and all of the participating artists, managers & labels, all proceeds from the sale of (Ǎhk-to͝ong Bāy-Bi) Covered, will support Concern’s response to the East Africa crisis, where thousands of children have already died of hunger or related diseases and over 10 million people remain at risk.
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Gavin Friday will play live in Leuven, Belgium on February 17, 2012.
The concert takes place at Het Depot as part of the city’s Kulturama 2012 festival. Tickets cost 15/18 euro.
The show in Leuven is the fourth concert announced for Gavin’s February 2012 tour of Belgium and The Netherlands. Other shows take place in Ghent, Hasselt and Amsterdam.
Gavin Friday will play live at the Paradiso in Amsterdam, The Netherlands on February 19, 2012.
It has been sixteen years since the last time Gavin Friday graced the stage of this iconic venue in the Dutch capital, to promote his album Shag Tobacco on October 6, 1995. This time he will be touring The Netherlands and Belgium to showcase his new album ‘catholic’, released earlier this year.
Dutch fans will be getting a taster of Gavin Friday live at the Crossing Border festival in The Hague this month (18-11). Tickets for this festival have sold out.
Tickets for the Paradiso show go on sale at 10am this Saturday, November 12 and cost 25 euro (+ 3 euro membership).
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Gavin Friday will play live in Hasselt, Belgium on February 15, 2012.
The concert takes place at Muziekodroom. Tickets cost 25 euro (pre-sale) and 28 euro (door).
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Gavin Friday will play live at Handelsbeurs Concertzaal in Ghent on February 18, 2012.
The concert is a fully seated show and tickets cost 25 euro (pre-sale) and 28 euro (door). (Concert sold out on Dec 1st)
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