Gavin is currently rehearsing for Electric Picnic with his new band. As the show is just four days away we think it’s high time to introduce the band members to you. So here’s the official line up of the Gavin Friday band:
- Herbie Macken – Piano, keyboards
- Jolyon Vaughan Thomas – Guitar, electronics
- Kate Ellis – Cello
- Andre Antunes – Drums, percussion
- Robson Rocha – Guitar
- David Mooney – Bass
And of course, Mr Friday on vocals.
Gavin Friday will be playing the Cosby Stage at Electric Picnic at 9.40pm on Friday, September 2, 2011.
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 will be the featured DJ in the launch event for the Summer Fridays series on Turntable.FM, co-hosted by MB3 Records and Mashable this Friday, July 8.
Join Gavin Friday and friends for the Summer Fridays series from 4:00-6:00PM EST: http://turntable.fm/summer_fridays. Turntable access is currently restricted access to the United States only due to licensing constraints.
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Gavin Friday’s music video ‘Able’ premiers today, taken from his current album ‘catholic’.
Click to watch Gavin Friday – Able – the video
Gavin Friday enlisted the expertise of highly acclaimed and renowned director Kevin Godley and producer Ned O’Hanlon for its making. Both Godley and O’Hanlon have both worked on many creative projects in the art and entertainment medium with star artists such as U2, Paul McCartney, Blur, Rolling Stones, Oasis to name but a few.
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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 is on the judging panel of the Cork Opera House “Reich Remix Competition”. If you are a musician, DJ, music producer, remixer or Steve Reich aficionado and want to create your own original Reich Effect, then this is for you.
The Judging Panel will produce a shortlist of entries, and the final winning track will be selected by Steve Reich himself. Competition winners will be invited to perform at the Remix Club in the Pavilion on Friday 29th July 2011.
Competition open from Thurs 26 May – Fri 17 June
All submissions must be received by 5pm on Friday 17th of June.
To apply, download the application pack from the Cork Opera House website.
On Tuesday April 26th, The Gallery of Photography in Dublin’s Temple Bar will host a unique one-day event by Gavin Friday. Gavin and graphic designer Pete Reddy commissioned one writer and three photographers to work on the presentation of Gavin’s latest album ‘catholic’.
On display in this exposition:
- Requiem for the Fallen – a short story by Patrick Mc Cabe, inspired by the words, music and world of ‘catholic’.
- ‘catholic’ cover photograph shot by Perry Ogden.
- Inside layout photo works by Maciej Pestka.
- Documentation stills and short movie by Darragh Shanahan.
In recent years, Gavin Friday’s considerable energies have found expression in cinema, in soundtracks and in theatrical performance. With ‘catholic’ – An Exposition, Gavin Friday is making an art intervention, with a one day only gallery installation which will be punctuated by live performances at undisclosed times.
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“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.
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Gavin Friday has contributed a track to “The Devil in Love”, a soundtrack to the 1772 occult novel “Le Diable amoureux” by Jacques Cazotte.
Cazotte’s story follows the young nobleman Alvare as he summons Satan, who appears to him first in the shape of a dreadful camel, then as a spaniel dog and finally as a beautiful androgynous girl. Alvare wrestles with the temptation presented by this mysterious creature. Is the Evil One really as black as he is painted, and can Satan himself fall in love?
The contributing artists were handed “Le Diable amoureux” to read and then given free reign.
The double CD is released alongside the novel by Swedish publishers Malört Förlag and can be ordered through their website for €26 (including international postage).
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