We’ve added official Gavin Friday merchandise, T-shirts and signed prints, to our shop.
There are two different T-shirts to choose from. We have a ‘DOG’ T-shirt featuring a styled image of a Boxer dog on the front and cross on the back. The other T-shirt, ‘LIVE’, features the ‘dictator’ picture of Gavin Friday by photographer Maciej Pestka on the front, and ‘catholic’ lettering on the back. The signed print features the same ‘dictator’ image. Orders and delivery are handled by Firebrand Live.
Gavin Friday has been added to the bill of Electric Picnic 2012. The arts & music festival takes place on August 31 – September 2, in Stradbally, Ireland.
Other artists on the bill include Patti Smith, The Cure, The Killers, Elbow, Sigur Rós, Christy Moore, Orbital, Hot Chip, The xx, Richard Hawley, The Roots, Ed Sheeran, Bat for Lashes, The Horrors, Azealia Banks, Roots Manuva, Bell X1, Grizzly Bear and Glen Hansard.
Tickets
Weekend Ticket €230 / Family Camping Ticket EU230 per adult (2 kids U12 permitted per adult)
Sunday Day Tickets: EU99.50 (No camping permitted)
Campervan Tickets for access to Regular & Family Campervan Parks are €60
Tickets are available from www.ticketmaster.ie & usual outlets.
Gavin Friday will play live in Bruges, Belgium this summer as part of the Klinkers Intiem concert series. The show takes place on Wednesday, August 8.
The Klinkers concert is staged on the inner court of “Gruuthuse” city palace in the historical city centre of Bruges.
The last time Gavin Friday played Bruges was July 13, 1996 when he headlined the Cactus Festival. Festival director Patrick Keersebilck picked Gavin performance among his personal highlights and remembers it as follows: “One of the most beautiful concerts at Cactus, if you ask me. In a way Gavin Friday’s performance personified the identity of our festival.”
Tickets & Pricing
Tickets are € 12.00 + 1.50 (pre-sale) and € 15.00 (box office) and are on sale from Cactus Muziekcentrum.
Gavin Friday will play live at the OLT 2012 festival (Openluchttheater Rivierenhof) in Antwerp, Belgium on August 1st. Thurston Moore (Sonic Youth) is also on the bill.
Gavin is excited to return to Antwerp so soon after his triumphant show at the Crossing Border festival in 2011.
Located in Antwerp’s Rivierenhof park in the Deurne district, the annual Openluchttheater Festival is one of the city’s biggest summer draws.
Tickets & Pricing
Tickets priced €28 (presale), €32 (box office) and €15/€18 for the under 26s will be on sale from Wednesday the 28th of March at 10am from Arenbergschouwburg Ticketing.
Gavin Friday has composed music for a new documentary about Dutch photographer Anton Corbijn by director Klaartje Quirijns.
“Anton Corbijn Inside Out” is an intimate and revealing portrait of an influential artist and the result of almost four years of filming by Quirijns. The documentary features appearances by many of the artists Corbijn has worked with including Lou Reed, George Clooney, U2, Metallica and Depeche Mode.
Quirijns calls Corbijn “the kingmaker of the modern gods, the way he has defined the image of the likes of U2 and Depeche Mode and has given them the face that the public has come to know.”
The score for “Anton Corbijn Inside Out” was composed by by Gavin Friday, with Jolyon Vaughan Thomas and additional composition by Herbie Macken. Quirijns and Corbijn had approached Gavin when he played at the Crossing Border festival in The Hague late 2011 to request his involvement:
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.
Due to unforeseen circumstances the Gavin Friday concert scheduled to take place in Cork on Monday 13th February has been cancelled.
For more information please visit the Cork Opera House website. We apologise for any inconvenience caused.
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
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.
