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.
Spread the love: Tell your friends on Twitter.
“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 and Dave Ball’s cover of Suicide’s ‘Ghostrider’ is now available on vinyl and for download from Blast First Petite.
The single was recorded as part of a 70th Birthday Limited Edition EP tribute series to the Suicide vocalist Alan Vega. The download comes in two formats: mp3 and high quality lossless FLAC file. It includes the single’s artwork.
Buy the vinyl 10″ or Download ‘ Ghostrider’ . The limited edition vinyl 10″ of the song contans additional tracks by Thomas Brinkmann (‘Diamonds, Furcoats and Champagne’ ) and Alan Vega (‘Puss On Tha Time Warp’). It is also available as Limited Edition Radio CD.
Gavin Friday sings the song ‘Lipstick’ on Irish band Preachers Son’s album ‘Life, Love and Limb’.
Preachers Son are Kila’s Brian Hogan, Engine Alley’s Emmaline Duffy-Fallon and José Carlos Anselmo Flores. They recorded their debut album with producer Ciaran Cahill and it was mixed by Dave Bascombe (who also worked on Gavin Friday’s own “Adam ‘n’ Eve”). Their first single ‘X For Sandra’ is being released on Reekus on April 16th. The album is currently being mastered and will be out later this year.
Listen to Gavin Friday sing Lipstick in full on the band’s website.
Readers based in the USA might be interested to learn that part of the Virgin Prunes back catalogue is available from Amazon MP3 service. Full albums available are: The Moon Looked Down and Laughed, Over the Rainbow, Heresie and A New Form of Beauty.
Songs can be purchased either individually from $0.99 or as traditional albums for $12.99 (prices correct at the time of writing). Longer songs cost slightly more, apparently rising in 99c increments for each additional 7 minutes.
At present, the Amazon MP3 store is open to customers in the USA only.
Gavin Friday – Singin’ In The Rain (Mixed by Howie B) – Dub Plate, from the Fabric podcast, May 2008. Download it as part of Howie B’s Fabric Podcast from iTunes (UK, but available to all). Gavin’s track appears in part 2 of the podcast, dated 27-05-08.
Singin’ in the Rain was originally recorded by Gavin Friday for Lemon Magazine (mp3 download).
Download a 1996 Kink FM interview in two parts from Toazted.com.
Poster promoting the 2004 Dublin Rejoyce festival, celebrating the Bloomsday centennial.
Click the image to download a pdf of the image.
A recording of Frederic Rzewski’s Coming Together, as performed live by the Crash Ensemble with Gavin Friday at the O’Reilly Theatre in Dublin on Thursday 10th november 2005. Rzewski has said it’s his favorite recording of the work.
Download mp3 from NonPop, a music podcast and blog
Gavin recorded the classic Singing’ In The Rain for LEMON magazine, in May 2008. The song is available on a flexi disc that came with the printed magazine (Lemon No. 3) and as a download from LEMON’s website.
Check out the artwork and download the mp3 of Gavin Friday’s Singin’ in the Rain from Lemonland.net. (mp3 only)
Also available – as part of a podcast – the Howie B – Dub Plate remix of this song.
