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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.

Gavin Friday and Maurice Seezer’s When That Great Ship Went Down, and Fatal Flower Garden performed live at Hal Willner’s Harry Smith Tribute nights in London, New York and Los Angeles between 1999 and 2001 are featured on a four-disc box set titled The Harry Smith Project: Anthology of American Folk Music Revisited, due October 24 on Shout! Factory.
Other artists on this two-CD and two-DVD collection are Elvis Costello, David Thomas, Beck, Lou Reed, Nick Cave, Beth Orton, Richard Thompson, David Johansen, Steve Earle, among others.
The first DVD, A Concert Film – The Harry Smith Project Live, will also be available separately.
Tracklist:
Disc One:
01 David Johansen – “Old Dog Blue”
02 Steve Earle – “Prison Cell Blues”
03 Wilco – “James Alley Blues”
04 Beth Orton – “Frankie”
05 Beck – “Last Fair Deal Gone Down”
06 Kate and Anna McGarrigle – “Sugar Baby”
07 Elvis Costello – “The Butcher’s Boy”
08 David Thomas – “Way Down the Old Plank Road”
09 Richard Thompson and Eliza Carthy – “The Coo Coo Bird”
10 Ed Sanders – “My Baby Done Left Me”
11 Nick Cave – “John the Revelator”
12 Eric Mingus and Gary Lucas – “Oh Death Where Is Thy Sting?”
13 Roswell Rudd and Sonic Youth – “Dry Bones”
14 Garth and Maud Hudson – “No Depression in Heaven”
15 Geoff Muldaur – “K.C. Moan”
16 Gavin Friday and Maurice Seezer – “When That Great Ship Went Down”
Disc Two:
01 Robin Holcomb – “A Lazy Farmer Boy”
02 Van Dyke Parks and Mondrian String Quartet – “Sail Away Lady”
03 Geoff Muldaur – “Poor Boy Blues”
04 Marianne Faithfull – “Spike Driver Blues”
05 Lou Reed – “See That My Grave Is Kept Clean”
06 Kate and Anna McGarrigle With Elvis Costello – “Ommie Wise Part 1 & 2 (What Lewis Did Last…)
07 Gavin Friday – “Fatal Flower Garden”
08 Bob Neuwirth and Eliza Carthy – “I Wish I Was a Mole in the Ground”
09 David Thomas – “Fishing Blues”
10 Mary Margaret O’Hara – “He Got Better Things for You”
11 Mocean Worker – “Harry Goes a Courtin”
12 Robin Holcomb and Todd Rundgren – “The House Carpenter”
13 Don Byron, Percy Heath and Bill Frisell – “This Song of Love”
14 Nick Cave – “Shine on Me”
15 David Johnansen – “James Alley Blues”
16 Petra Haden – “Single Girl Married Girl”
Disc Three (DVD):
01 Elvis Costello – “The Butcher’s Boy”
02 David Johansen – “Old Dog Blue”
03 Nick Cave – “John the Revelator”
04 Beck – “Last Faire Deal Gone Down”
05 Ed Sanders – “One Hot Summer Night With Harry Smith”
06 Kate and Anna McGarrigle – “Sugar Baby”
07 Lou Reed – “See That My Grave Is Kept Clean”
08 Beth Orton – “Frankie”
09 Rosewell Rudd and Sonic Youth – “Dry Bones”
10 The Folksmen – “Old Joe’s Place”
11 Robin Holcomb and Todd Rundgren – “The House Carpenter”
12 Gavin Friday and Maurice Seezer – “When That Great Ship Went Down”
13 Philip Glass – “Etude No. 10″
14 David Johansen – “James Alley Blues”
15 Eric Mingus and Gary Lucas – “Oh Death Where Is Thy Sting?”
16 Petra Haden – “Single Girl, Married Girl”
17 Richard Thompson and Eliza Carthy – “The Coo Coo Bird”
18 Bob Neuwirth and Eliza Carthy – “I Wish I Was a Mole in the Ground”
19 Geoff Muldaur – “Poor Boy Blues”
20 Don Byron, Percy Health and Bill Frisell – “This Song of Love”
21 Kate and Anna McGarrigle with Elvis Costello – “Ommie Wise Part 1 & 2 (What Lewis Did Last…)
22 Steve Earle – “Prison Cell Blues”
23 David Thomas – “Fishing Blues”
Bonus features: Three films by Harry Smith and interactive music selections: “Film #2″, “Film #7″, “Film #10″, Philip Glass – “Etude No. 10″, DJ Spooky – “HS Tone Poem”, Mocean Worker – “Harry Goes a Courtin’ (The Mowo! Live Hootenanny Throw-Down)
Disc Four:
The Old, Weird American: Harry Smith Anthology of American Folk Music

Hal Willner writes about recording Rogue’s Gallery on the Anti-website:
‘In London it started with Bryan Ferry & Nick Cave with Kate St. John and Warren Ellis wrangling the band together, Gavin Friday in Dublin, Joan as Policewoman in New York, & the great Jack Shit trio in Los Angeles.’
Anti also provided the liner notes and an MP3 (medley).

Billboard reports on Rogue’s Gallery:
Bono, Sting, Lou Reed Fill ‘Rogue’s Gallery’
Bono, Sting, Lou Reed and Nick Cave are just a handful of the artists who have lent their voices to “Rogue’s Gallery: Pirate Ballads, Sea Songs & Chanteys,” due Aug. 22 via Anti-. The double-disc, 43-song set was produced by Hal Willner, working from an idea hatched by director Gore Verbinski and actor Johnny Depp in the midst of shooting “Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest.”
“I slowly became fascinated by the idea of a contemporary reinterpretation of the sea chantey,” Verbinski says. “I imagined the artists that I listen to and respect doing their take on this age-old music: the song of the sea.”
Willner wrangled the talent for the project, which also features contributions from Richard Thompson, Bryan Ferry, Lucinda Williams, Rufus Wainwright, Joseph Arthur, Bill Frisell, Jarvis Cocker and actor John C. Reilly. Sessions took place in London, Dublin, New York, Los Angeles and Seattle.
“One day we did eight songs with eight different artists in one day,” Willner enthuses. “Two of those artists didn’t know they were going to be in the studio that day. I just loved working this way because you wouldn’t do that with an artist normally.”
Indeed, 17 additional songs were recorded for “Rogue’s Gallery” and will likely see the light of day on a future companion album. “Usually in the past I’ve always found that the secret weapons on these records are any new artists because you’re coming at it without expectations,” Willner says.
Gavin features on two songs (Bully in the Alley, Baltimore Whores) on this double album, which may spawn a companion disc with an extra 17 tracks next year.
Here is the track list for “Rogue’s Gallery”:
Disc one:
“Cape Cod Girls,” Baby Gramps
“Mingulay Boat Song,” Richard Thompson
“My Son John,” John C. Reilly
“Fire Down Below,” Nick Cave
“Turkish Revelry,” Loudon Wainwright III
“Bully In The Alley,” Three Pruned Men
“The Cruel Ship’s Captain,” Bryan Ferry
“Dead Horse,” Robin Holcomb
“Spanish Ladies,” Bill Frisell
“High Barbary,” Joseph Arthur
“Haul Away Joe,” Mark Anthony Thompson
“Dan Dan,” David Thomas
“Blood Red Roses,” Sting
“Sally Brown,” Teddy Thompson
“Lowlands Away,” Rufus Wainwright & Kate McGarrigle
“Baltimore Whores,” Gavin Friday
“Rolling Sea,” Eliza Carthy
“The Mermaid,” Martin Carthy & the UK Group
“Haul On The Bowline,” Bob Neuwirth
“Dying Sailor to His Shipmates,” Bono
“Bonnie Portmore,” Lucinda Williams
“Shenandoah,” Richard Greene & Jack Sh*t
“The Cry Of Man,” Mary Margaret O’Hara
Disc two:
“Boney,” Jack Sh*t
“Good Ship Venus,” Loudon Wainwright III
“Long Time Ago,” White Magic
“Pinery Boy,” Nick Cave
“Lowlands Low,” Bryan Ferry with Antony
“One Spring Morning,” Akron/Family
“Hog Eye Man,” Martin Carthy & family
“The Fiddler/A Drop of Nelson’s Blood,” Ricky Jay & Richard Greene
“Caroline and Her Young Sailor Bold,” Andrea Corr
“Fathom The Bowl,” John C. Reilly
“Drunken Sailor,” David Thomas
“Farewell Nancy,” Ed Harcourt
“Hanging Johnny,” Stan Ridgway
“Old Man of The Sea,” Baby Gramps
“Greenland Whale Fisheries,” Van Dyke Parks
“Shallow Brown,” Sting
“The Grey Funnel Line,” Jolie Holland
“A Drop of Nelson’s Blood,” Jarvis Cocker
“Leave Her Johnny,” Lou Reed
“Little Boy Billy,” Ralph Steadman
‘Rogue’s Gallery: Pirate Ballads, Sea Songs & Chanteys’ will be released on the Anti label on 22 August.

The recordings for the Hal Willner produced Chantey tribute album (see our previous report), entitled ‘Rogue’s Gallery’, will be released on two separate double CDs. The first is set for release later this Summer, the second is planned for Spring 2007. Gavin’s contributions will be divided between the two releases.

From MoviesOnline:
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment has officially announced the 2005 dramedy “Breakfast on Pluto”, which stars Liam Neeson, Stephen Rea, Brendan Gleeson and Cillian Murphy. The film will be presented in 1.85:1 Anamorphic Widescreen, along with an English Dolby Digital 5.1 track. Extras include an audio commentary, behind the scenes featurette and more. The disc will be available to own when it hits store shelves April 18, 2006.
DVD Details:
1.85:1 Anamorphic Widescreen
English Dolby Digital 5.1
Audio Commentary with Director Neil Jordan and Cillian Murphy
Behind the Scenes of “Breakfast on Pluto” featurette
Conversation with the Director Neil Jordan and Entertainment Weekly’s Lisa Schwarzbaum