Category — Releases

Gavin Friday’s song ‘Angel’ is featured on ‘Odyssey’, a 3-CD set of producer William Orbit’s work compiled for Ministry of Sound, due out on 25th January.

‘Odyssey’ is Orbit’s first compilation. It features 42 tracks divided into 3 discs (see tracklisting). Discs 1 and 2 are unmixed, with many tracks reinterpreted to a greater or lesser extent, and Disc 3 is a continuous mix. Orbit has written sleeve notes on each track and invites fans to add their own memories and information on the tracks through Twitter (@WilliamOrbit) and his blog.

• Odyssey on Amazon.com
• Odyssey on Amazon.co.uk

Gavin Friday and Dave Ball (Soft Cell) have recorded a version of the Suicide song ‘Ghost Rider’ as part of a 70th Birthday Limited Edition EP tribute series to the Suicide vocalist Alan Vega. The song will be released early 2009 on Blast First Petite. Artists taking part in the tribute are Bruce Springsteen, Grinderman (Nick Cave), Primal Scream and Peaches among others.
Read more about the project on Blast First’s website and alanvega.com.

Back in May, producer Howie B presented a podcast for Fabric. During the second part he played his remix of Gavin’s version of Singin’ in the Rain, originally recorded for Lemon Magazine.
Listen to Gavin Friday – Singin’ In The Rain (Mixed by Howie B) – Dub Plate and the entire podcast. Or download the full podcast mp3 from Odeo.

Gavin has contributed to a charity single, “The Ballad of Ronnie Drew” in honour of The Dubliner’s singer Ronnie Drew. The proceeds will benefit the Irish Cancer Society at Ronnie Drew’s request. The track will be available in Ireland only as a download on Friday, February 22 and week later on CD.

The song was written by Bono, The Edge, Simon Carmody and Grateful Dead lyricist Robert Hunter, and features appearances by Kila, the Pogues’ Shane MacGowan, the Frames’ Glen Hansard, Sinead O’Connor, Andrea Corr, Damien Dempsey, Ronan Keating, Chris de Burgh, members of the Dubliners, and Gavin Friday.

Gavin’s featured in an additional bonus clip on the latest DVD of RTE’s candid camera show ‘Naked Camera‘. In the clip you see Gavin being picked up by a rather odd taxi driver.

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Gavin Friday has recorded the classic Singing’ In The Rain for the ultra cool LEMON magazine, a twice yearly publication, ‘that stakes its claim at the intersection of 60s/70s Pop and 21st century hyper-culture.’
The song is available on a flexi disc that comes with the printed magazine (Lemon No. 3), out now and available at $8.95 from Borders, Barnes & Noble and finer newsstands nationwide (USA).
It will also be available as a download from the LEMON website, on August 28. Check out the artwork and further details on Lemonland.net.

Gavin Friday appears on the Harry Smith Project: Anthology American of Revisited 2-CD/2-DVD boxed set and the Harry Smith Project Live DVD, available separately. Both releases, in stores now, feature highlights from a series of Harry Smith tribute concerts staged in London, New York and Los Angeles by Hal Willner in 1999 and 2001. For more info, please check out this ecard.