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.
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.
Irish singer Gavin Friday releases his first three solo albums on Island records through iTunes on October 24th.
Gavin Friday is excited to announce the reissue of his first three solo albums by Island Records on iTunes on October 24th. It is the first time the Irish singer, songwriter and composer’s acclaimed albums Each Man Kills the Thing He Loves, Adam ‘n’ Eve and Shag Tobacco will be available digitally. The three albums document Gavin’s working relationship with writing partner Maurice Seezer.
Gavin Friday’s solo debut Each Man Kills the Thing He Loves was originally released in 1989. Produced by Hal Willner, it was recorded in New York with a stellar cast of musicians including Bill Frisell, Marc Ribot, Fernando Saunders, and Michael Blair. The NME wrote: “The cabaret waltzes and orchestrated vignettes pursue Friday’s grand tangle of themes with a singular vision.”
The 1992 eclectic follow up Adam ‘n’ Eve, produced by Flood, Dave Bascombe and Hal Willner, saw Gavin exploring the pop and glam obsessions of his youth, with guest performances by Maria McKee and backing vocals by U2’s The Edge and Bono. Q magazine praised its “cache of vignettes, crammed with opulent details like Saint Divine’s soul shimmer and flamenco flourishes.”
Shag Tobacco (1995) was produced by Bomb the Bass’s techno-wizard Tim Simenon. Q Magazine called its 21st century neon cabaret “a remarkable piece of work ” and the song Angel prominently featured in Baz Luhrmann’s film Romeo + Juliet and on its hugely succesful soundtrack.
(The albums are being reissued world wide, some stores still need to update)
From his early work with the incomparable Virgin Prunes, to his eclectic solo albums, his soundtrack scores, his work in theatre and film, Gavin Friday is an uncompromising maverick whose music and theatrics celebrate the world according to him. ‘catholic,’ Gavin Fridays fourth studio album, his first solo project in 16 years, was released in April. It received four star reviews from Q Magazine, Mojo and Uncut.
Gavin Friday live dates:
November 18 – Crossing Border festival, The Hague – The Netherlands
November 19 – Crossing Border festival, Antwerp – Belgium
November 26 – Dolan’s Warehouse, Limerick, Ireland
November 29 – The Olympia Theatre, Dublin, Ireland
Gavin Friday will play live at Dolan’s Warehouse on November 26th.
We’re pleased to announce that just a few days before the Olympia Theatre concert in his hometown Dublin, Gavin Friday will play an intimate show at Dolan’s Warehouse in Limerick, Ireland on Saturday, November 26th. Doors open at 8pm.
Tickets & Pricing
Tickets priced €20 plus booking fee will be on sale from Friday the 30th of September at 9am.from www.dolanspub.com and Ticketmaster outlets.
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.
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.
