Gavin Friday will perform at the Olympia Theatre on November 29th. Tickets go on sale this Friday.
Following Gavin Friday’s scintillating Electric Picnic performance last weekend we are pleased to announce a very special fully seated live show at the Olympia Theatre in Dublin, Ireland on Tuesday 29th November.
Tickets & Pricing
Tickets are available from www.ticketmaster.ie or +353 818 719300 from Friday 9th September at 9am.
- Ground floor seats: €27.90 inclusive of booking fee
- Circle (balcony) seats: €33.50 inclusive
The Olympia Theatre
Dating back to the 1800s, this Victorian music hall-style theatre puts on a schedule of rock music, variety shows, musicals, operettas, ballet, comedy, and drama. Generations have been entertained here by some of the world’s finest artists. As such, The Olympia Theatre is a perfect setting for Gavin Friday’s ‘catholic’ show. He last played the venue in 1996, when it hosted the final show of his eclectic Shag Tobacco tour.
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We are happy to confirm that Gavin Friday is booked for both the Dutch and Belgian editions of the 19th Crossing Border festival this year. He is set to appear and play live in The Hague (NL) on Friday 18th of November and Antwerp (BE) on Saturday 19th.
Tickets for The Hague (€37,50) are on sale now via the festival website www.crossingborder.nl and at the ticket box of the Royal Theatre (Koninklijke Schouwburg) in The Hague. Price excludes service costs.
Ticket sales for Antwerp start August 27th.
Since Crossing Border’s inception in 1993 it has sought to find a unique combination of the spoken word with music, film and visual art. November 2011 will bring the nineteenth edition of this festival that has evolved to become one of the foremost international, interdisciplinary literature and music festivals in Europe.
This is the 3rd time Gavin will play at Crossing Border. He appeared at both the 1994 and 1996 editions.
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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 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.
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‘Summer’s Wreath’, a month long celebration of the works of the Irish poet William Butler Yeats, will conclude on Wednesday, June 30th at 8pm with a performance by Gavin Friday. In this unique event, Gavin will present his selection of Yeats’s work and will be accompanied by the renowned fiddle player Martin Hayes and guitarist Dennis Cahill.
Leading names from the world of music, stage, screen, visual arts, politics, literature and academia are coming together at the National Library of Ireland this June for its annual month-long celebration of the life and works of William Butler Yeats. With the programme now in it’s 4th year, ‘Summer’s Wreath 2010‘ offers free public readings, reflections, lectures and performances and will feature many prominent female contributors this year echoing the passionate and complex relationship which Yeats had with women throughout his life.
Gavin Friday on Yeats
National Library of Ireland
Wednesday 30 June at 8.00pm
Admission is free but booking is essential. To reserve up to two places, please call +353 1 6030277
Gavin Friday will join Marianne Faithfull, David Johansen, Baby Gramps, David Thomas, Norma Waterson and others for Hal Willner’s Rogue’s Gallery at the Sydney Opera House – Forecourt as part of the Sydney Festival, Australia on January 28th, 2010 at 8.30pm (gates open at 7pm)
Rogue’s Gallery was conceived by actor Johnny Depp and director Gore Verbinski on the set of Pirates of the Caribbean. The result was a compilation CD featuring pirate ballads, sea songs and chanteys.
“[Gavin] Friday gave an inspired performance of “Baltimore Whores,” perhaps the first truly exciting performance of the evening.” –
Londonist reviewLive, Rogue’s Gallery was previously performed at St Ann’s in New York, at the Analog Festival in Dublin, The Sage in Gateshead and the Barbican in London.
Tickets for the 2-hour show are $145 or $135 and can be booked through the following:
Sydney Opera House
Book Online or phone
02 9250 7777
Sydney Festival
Book Online or phone
1300 668 812
Ticketmaster
Book Online or phone
1300 723 038
Gavin Friday will be joining the Gavin Bryars Ensemble for a performance of Nothing Like the Sun (The Shakespeare Sonnets) at Lancaster University (UK) at 7.30pm on November 26, 2009.
Gavin Bryars, beautiful through-composed score weaves together eight of Shakespeare’s sonnets on the subjects of time, memory and music. It features five sonnet settings by guest composers including Antony Heggarty (Antony and the Johnsons) and Mira Calix. With Anna Maria Friman, John Potter and Gavin Friday.
Tickets:
£15.50, £13 (£13, £10.50 concessions) £7 Young person
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This is the setlist of ‘Gavin Friday and Friends’ as performed at Carnegie Hall.
Act 1
- Apologia – Gavin
- Children Of the Revolution – Gavin, Flo & Eddie, Bono, The Edge, Herb Macken
- I Want To Live – Bono, The Edge, Larry Mullen, Adam Clayton, Flo & Eddie, Maurice Seezer
- He Got What He Wanted – Gavin, Antony, Maurice Seezer
- Paul McGuinness memories of the Virgin Prunes
- Courtney Love memories of the Virgin Prunes
- Sweethome Under White Clouds – Gavin, Guggi, Dik, JG Thirlwell, Herb Macken (piano), Maurice Seezer (on drums!)
- Caucasian Walk – Gavin, Guggi, Dik, JG Thirlwell, Herb Macken (piano), Maurice Seezer (drums)
- Thief Of Your Heart – Martha Wainwright, Maurice Seezer
- Ballad Of Immoral Earnings – Gavin & Maria McKee, Maurice Seezer
- The Light Pours Out Of Me – Gavin & Courtney Love
- Mr Pussy – Gavin, Scarlet Johansson & Rufus Wainwright
- Benares Song – Gavin & Rufus Wainwright
- A Rainy Night In Soho – Shane MacGowan, Maurice Seezer
- Falling Off The Edge Of The World – Gavin, Maria McKee, Joseph Arthur, Jenni Muldaur, Flo & Eddie
Act 2
- Cabaret / Money – Joel Grey
- Each Man Kills The Thing He Loves – Gavin & Joseph Arthur, Jenni Muldaur
- You Take Away The Sun – Gavin
- Patrick McCabe reading from first chapter of Breakfast On Pluto
- King Of Trash / 21st Century Boy – Bono, The Edge, Larry Mullen, Adam Clayton and Flo & Eddie
- Knives In The Drain – Lydia Lunch
- Caruso – Gavin & Eric Mingus, Maurice Seezer
- ‘Red’ ( a Poker Face improv) – Lady Gaga
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Angel – Gavin, Antony and Flo & Eddie
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Love Is Just A Word – Gavin, Chloe Webb and Flo & Eddie
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Another Blow On The Bruise – Gavin & Edge
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Time Enough For Tears – Andrea Corr, Gavin
- The Last Song I’ll Ever Sing – Bono, Maurice Seezer
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Improv – Lou Reed, Laurie Anderson, John Zorn
- Sonnet 40 – Gavin, Lou Reed, Laurie Anderson, John Zorn, Larry Mullen, Edge, Shane MacGowan
- Sweet Jane – Gavin, Lou Reed, Laurie Anderson, The Edge, John Zorn, Larry Mullen, Edge, Shane MacGowan, Bono, Flo & Eddie, Maurice Seezer
- Jean Genie – Gavin, The Edge, Bono, Adam Clayton, Larry Mullen, Eric Mingus, Courtney Love, Jenni Muldaur, Flo & Eddie, Andrea Corr, Herb Macken, Shane MacGowan (playing Bill Frisell’s guitar upside down) etc, etc
The band:
Doug Weiselman – musical director, arranger, clarinet, saxophone
Thomas Bartlett – keyboards
Steven Bernstein – trumpet, arranger
Knox Chandler – guitar
Bill Frisell – guitar
Hank Roberts – cello
Erik Sanko – bass
Jim White – drums
Gavin Friday will be joining the Gavin Bryars Ensemble this summer for two more performances of the Sonnet Project in Leeds and in London.
Gavin Bryars’ through-composed score, ‘Nothing Like the Sun’, weaves together eight of Shakespeare’s sonnets on the subjects of time, memory and music.
The project also features five sonnet settings by guest composers including Antony Heggarty (Antony and the Johnsons) and Mira Calix. Gavin will be performing his own setting of Sonnet 40 as well as narrating Bryars’ 40-minute composition.
Nothing Like The Sun was commissioned by Opera North and the Royal Shakespeare Company.
Leeds: The Howard Assembly Room at Opera North
7.30pm June 14th. Box office: 0844 848 2727
www.howardassemblyroom.co.uk
London: Purcell Room at South Bank
7.45pm July 4th
www.southbankcentre.co.uk
Gavin will be joining Republic of Loose on stage in Dublin on the 23rd of December (today). The band are set to play The Academy two times, with an all ages show at 2pm and an evening show at 8pm. At this point we are unsure whether Gavin will appear at both. Tickets are only available for the afternoon performance.
